Square Peg Founder Stories

On today’s episode, we hear from Akshay Garg, the founder and CEO at FinAccel/Kredivo. Kredivo has over 1 million customers and provides a vital component of financial services in Indonesia: credit.Hear Akshay share some of his greatest lessons: why opening a kebab shop taught him the foundational skills of being an entrepreneur, how to weaponise curiosity to build partnerships, how Komli Media taught him the important of balancing fundraising with growth and the advice he’d give to new founders.Learn more about Kredivo at: https://www.kredivo.com/

Ashik Ahmed, founder and CEO at Deputy, shares his journey as an immigrant and the advantages it brings in entrepreneurship. He discusses the challenges faced by shift workers and introduces Deputy, an app simplifying shift work. He also talks about his experience with venture capital partners, emphasizing the importance of finding alignment with investors who care about the company's mission.

On today's episode, Emma Weston, the founder and CEO at AgriDigital take us through their greatest life lessons:Empathy as the foundation of customer success; Where your avocado on toast comes from; How you digitise the least digitised industry in the world, agriculture; The impact of COVID on startup planning and growth; How to adapt to farm life.Find out more about AgriDigital and Emma at https://www.agridigital.io/

Katie's career is extraordinary. She was the founding CMO at SEEK, founded the national publishing powerhouse Kidspot, before turning around a failed product in Shipping Easy. She's now a globally respected Board Director with startup experiences you just can't buy.You'll hear: What she learned leading marketing, product and inside Sales from idea to IPO at SEEK; Her transition from operator to founder (and selling 50% of her company); What it was like to invest in a company before realising the product was broken; Her best advice for new founders.Learn more: https://www.kidspot.com.au/ and https://shippingeasy.com/ and https://rokt.com/

If you're a hospital that uses AIDOC's software, less people will die. That's the impact that medical-grade AI imaging software can have when built by the likes of Elad and his co-founders, Michael and Guy.About AIDOC: AI software that helps radiologists prioritise sick patients by flagging acute injuries. Scanned over 3.5m images in the world's best hospitals such as Cedar Sinai in LA. Square Peg led their US $26m Series B in 2019.On today's episode, you'll here: About Talpiot. The best founder training program you've never heard of; What it was like to be the Head of AI + Algorithms for the Israeli Airforce; How a big misunderstanding helped sell them sell into hospitals; About product-market-regulation fit.Learn more about AIDOC: https://www.aidoc.com/

On today's episode, Nathan and Michael takes us through some of their greatest life lessons:Their early experiences founding iSelect and NABTrade; Why they hired their entire executive team before building a single product; Why startups should be happy to dance with the hippos; Why Australia is a phenomenal place to build a FinTech startup.Find out more about Athena, Michael and Nathan at https://www.athena.com.au/

On this week's episode, Lucy Liu, Founder and President at Airwallex, shares her extraordinary journey building Airwallex, Australia's fastest anointed unicorn that helps businesses manage their international payments.You'll hear: Why Melbourne's coffee scene is partly-responsible for Airwallex's existence; how Lucy has grown as a founder over the last five years; why Airwallex focus on recruitment, hiring and culture.Learn more: https://www.airwallex.com/

On this week's episode, Micha Kaufman, Founder and CEO at Fiverr, shares his extraordinary journey building Fiverr, a NYSE-listed US$2.5B platform that helps freelancers and companies do business.You'll hear: Micha's best advice for building marketplaces that succeed; The role his family played in shaping him as an entrepreneur; The benefits of focusing on culture and more.Learn more about Fiverr: https://www.fiverr.com/Get in touch with Imogen: imogen@spc.vc

On this week's episode, Micha Kaufman, Founder and CEO at Fiverr, shares his extraordinary journey building Fiverr, a NYSE-listed US$2.5B platform that helps freelancers and companies do business.You'll hear: Micha's best advice for building marketplaces that succeed; The role his family played in shaping him as an entrepreneur; The benefits of focusing on culture and more.Learn more about Fiverr: https://www.fiverr.com/Get in touch with Imogen: imogen@spc.vc

Manuri Gunawardena, Founder of HealthMatch, shares her experience building a platform to accelerate new treatments. Topics include her childhood fascination with neuroscience, raising money for a startup, the importance of clinical trials, and scaling operations in a startup.