Nicolas Chu

At Moonoa, we want to empower everyone to durably change their sleep & mental health habits, by delivering affordable, enjoyable and accessible products and experiences that finally work.

Piloroo.com, a B2B marketplace for the hairdressing industry connecting hair professionals and hair salons. Piloroo aims to solve the global staffing and skills shortage within the hair industry, by providing flexible staffing solutions to hair-salons and introducing new demographics to the industry. We have been live in Australia for the past 12 months and have been growing month over month at a healthy pace. We are now in the process of raising our seed round so that we can continue expanding in Australia and enter the USA market. Piloroo started out as an online booking platform to help hair salons find salon staff. We initially focused on the education side of the industry, enabling salons to access the full breadth and depth of education talent available in Australia. However, things move quickly and we’ve discovered a huge problem in the industry - a lack of trained salon assistants. The role these staff play in the profitable and sustainable management of a salon is grossly understated. Successful salons employ salon assistants to clean, tidy, organise consumables, make coffee, greet clients and shampoo and massage. The bottom line is this: if a salon assistant doesn’t handle these tasks, a stylist must. If a stylist is stacking the towels, they’re not servicing clients. In this sense, a salon assistant can directly improve salon profits. Piloroo are tackling the supply shortage of skilled salon assistants in Australia by developing a salon assistant training course. With support from industry partners, we hope to nationalise the course and the flood the market with affordable assistants, so that more salons can increase profits and deliver the salon experience their clients expect.

We are passionate about investing in companies and organisations and helping them grow. At Alpure, we’re driven by innovation. Our attention is focused on new ideas and technology in the high growth markets of online media, e-Commerce, digital marketing and mobile applications. For companies within these industries in the Asia Pacific and European Regions, we provide funding, board advisory and consulting services in an effort to help them achieve their goals.

At Moonoa, we want to empower everyone to durably change their sleep & mental health habits, by delivering affordable, enjoyable and accessible products and experiences that finally work.

Piloroo.com, a B2B marketplace for the hairdressing industry connecting hair professionals and hair salons. Piloroo aims to solve the global staffing and skills shortage within the hair industry, by providing flexible staffing solutions to hair-salons and introducing new demographics to the industry. We have been live in Australia for the past 12 months and have been growing month over month at a healthy pace. We are now in the process of raising our seed round so that we can continue expanding in Australia and enter the USA market. Piloroo started out as an online booking platform to help hair salons find salon staff. We initially focused on the education side of the industry, enabling salons to access the full breadth and depth of education talent available in Australia. However, things move quickly and we’ve discovered a huge problem in the industry - a lack of trained salon assistants. The role these staff play in the profitable and sustainable management of a salon is grossly understated. Successful salons employ salon assistants to clean, tidy, organise consumables, make coffee, greet clients and shampoo and massage. The bottom line is this: if a salon assistant doesn’t handle these tasks, a stylist must. If a stylist is stacking the towels, they’re not servicing clients. In this sense, a salon assistant can directly improve salon profits. Piloroo are tackling the supply shortage of skilled salon assistants in Australia by developing a salon assistant training course. With support from industry partners, we hope to nationalise the course and the flood the market with affordable assistants, so that more salons can increase profits and deliver the salon experience their clients expect.

Sinorbis is a Digital Experience Platform that is revolutionising the way Western organisations do digital marketing in Asia. We have been ranked by the Financial times as one of the fastest growing companies in Australia and Asia 3 years in a row (2021, 2022, 2023). Our all-in-one marketing platform has been developed with the unique needs of the Asian digital ecosystem in mind. It allows businesses and Higher Education organisations to realise their full potential in the APAC region. Our clients are leading B2B organizations and Higher Education institutions in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada and Europe. 

Founded in 1951, the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is a not-for profit association that is internationally acclaimed for acting as a catalyst for the responsible development of travel and tourism to, from and within the Asia Pacific region. The Association provides aligned advocacy, insightful research and innovative events to its member organisations, comprising 95 government, state and city tourism bodies, 25 international airlines and airports, 108 hospitality organisations, 72 educational institutions, and hundreds of travel industry companies in Asia Pacific and beyond.

We are passionate about investing in companies and organisations and helping them grow. At Alpure, we’re driven by innovation. Our attention is focused on new ideas and technology in the high growth markets of online media, e-Commerce, digital marketing and mobile applications. For companies within these industries in the Asia Pacific and European Regions, we provide funding, board advisory and consulting services in an effort to help them achieve their goals.