Company
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Fintech Australia raised.
Companies Fintech Australia acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Alan Tsen | Deputy Chair | SmartCompany, Startup Daily |
| Carla Harris | Board Member | Startup Daily |
| Cathryn Lyall | Non-Executive Director (former) | Australian FinTech (Thu 3 Sep 2026), FinTech Australia (peak body), Australian FinTech (Fri 17 Dec 2021) |
| Lauren Capelin | Deputy Chair | Startup Daily |
| Lauren Caplin | Board Member | Startup Daily |
| Melissa Mack | Board Member | Startup Daily |
| Rebecca Schot-Guppy | CEO (former) | Startup Daily (Mon 28 Feb 2022), SmartCompany (Mon 2 Aug 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 16 Dec 2020), SmartCompany (Wed 29 Jul 2020), SmartCompany (Wed 13 May 2020), SmartCompany (Wed 29 Jan 2020), Startup Daily (Fri 7 Jun 2019), SmartCompany (Fri 7 Jun 2019) |
| Simone Joyce | Chair (former) | Startup Daily (Wed 26 Jul 2023), SmartCompany, Startup Daily (Sun 25 Oct 2020), Startup Daily (Fri 7 Jun 2019) |
| Stuart Stoyan | Chairman (former) | Australian FinTech |
| Tim Dean | WA Director | Startup Daily |
| Tim Dean | Board Member | Startup Daily |
Stories naming Fintech Australia. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Weekly people-moves column: new executives at allt, SQC, Redbelly Network, InDebted and Neara, including Clive Dickens joining allt's board and Chris McNamara becoming InDebted's CEO.
Swyftx has made Andrea Yuen permanent CEO and Cathryn Lyall Chair. Yuen moved up from CFO and interim Co-CEO; Lyall, a Seed Space Venture Capital partner, steps up from interim Chair.
Enterprize Tasmania has appointed Brian Collins, deputy chair of FinTech Australia and co-founder of fintech fund Triple Bubble, as CEO, with the ten-year-old organisation seeking national and global reach for the state's startup ecosystem.
Australian crypto brokerage Swyftx has made Cathryn Lyall its permanent Chair and Andrea Yuen its CEO, with co-founder Alex Harper stepping back from interim co-leadership to his board role.
JustFund, a Sydney lender covering legal costs in separations, has disclosed a $5.7 million seed round led by Xilium Capital, plus venture debt and mezzanine funding from family offices.
Fintech Superhero has brought back one of its earliest employees, Rachel Hopping, to serve as its first head of strategy, following her time at Fintech Australia. She reports to cofounder and CEO John Winters.
Online home loans marketplace Joust adds Virginia Marshall and Stuart Stoyan as non-executive directors, drawing on their banking and fintech backgrounds at Westpac, SocietyOne, MoneyPlace and Fintech Australia.
Square Peg's investment note explains its A$5.5m Series A backing of AgriDigital, a grain supply-chain platform, citing its blockchain first and a founding team with deep agriculture experience.
Also Techboard
IAG's venture arm Firemark Ventures has committed a $75 million second fund, already deployed into Texas 3D imaging startup Plnar; earlier backing included UpGuard, Myriota, Hyper Anna, Airtasker and Life360.
Also Startup Daily
Commonwealth Bank has bought a fifth of Australian payments fintech Paypa Plane to improve SME payments, while the article also notes MYOB's recent acquisitions of Nimbus and Tall Emu and partnerships with Butn and Valiant.
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ASX-listed lender Wisr has added Cathryn Lyall, a veteran of exchanges and Deutsche Bank's UK board, as a non-executive director from January 2022, its second board addition in months.
Australian buy-now-pay-later firm Afterpay has agreed to a US$29 billion acquisition by Square, with founders Nick Molnar and Anthony Eisen expected to join the payments company once the deal completes in early 2022.
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Neobank Xinja is shutting its Australian banking operations, handing back its ADI licence and returning deposits, blaming COVID-19 and difficult fundraising, while pivoting to its US share trading product.
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Ignition Lane's weekly roundup reports MyDeal and Adore Beauty listing on the ASX, Rokt's US$80 million Series D, several trans-Tasman raises, Quibi shutting down, Westpac trimming its Zip stake, and local executive appointments.
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Startmate appoints Lauren Capelin from Reinventure as its first Principal and Blackbird's Samantha Wong to its board, replacing Nick Crocker, as it launches its first New Zealand accelerator cohort.
Roundup of ten Australian fintechs that raised capital between March and July 2020, including Payright, Zeller, Judo Bank and Airwallex; PictureWealth raised $12 million and acquired NEO Financial Solutions.
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NAB is buying neobank 86 400 for roughly $220 million, folding it into UBank, shortly after rival Xinja said it would quit banking, leaving fewer independent Australian neobanks standing.
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Afterpay, Airwallex and Up Bank took major prizes at the 2019 Finnie awards in Melbourne; Airwallex's $141 million raise won biggest raise and Liberty's purchase of MoneyPlace took deal of the year.
FinTech Australia's 2019 Finnies awards recognised Airwallex with three trophies including Biggest Raise, Afterpay as FinTech Organisation of the Year, plus wins for Up, Zuper, Xinja, Athena and others.
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Perth-based lending platform Credi plans an equity crowdfunding campaign on Equitise, targeting up to $1.5 million, with founder Tim Dean citing strong interest from its user base.