BIRCHAL COFOUNDER & CEO MATT VITALE
Crowd-sourced funding markets - June 2023
Birchal Cofounder and CEO Matt Vitale explains how Australia has become the second largest market of its kind worldwide, but how much more opportunity there is left to realise to unlock the full potential of the industry.
He also share his view as quality businesses continuing to be funded, and an influx of new deals enter the pipeline.
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BOTANIC BIOPLASTICS CEO CARY STYNES
Botanic Bioplastics using hemp waste to create smarter single use products
Using the left-over hemp from medical cannabis production, Botanic Bioplastics is creating low impact single use items to replace traditional plastics. Hemp grows in 3-4 months, uses less water, few pesticides and captures 3 X the CO2 of trees and is 100% biodegradable.
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RECYCLESMART CO-FOUNDER AND CEO GIORGIO BARACCHI
RecycleSmart front door pick up on hard-to-recycle items, made as easy as ordering pizza!
The business is making recycling hard-to-recycle items like soft plastics, as easy as ordering pizza! Its doorfront pick up service and proprietary tech is changing the landscape on landfill - literally - with 450,000 kilograms of soft plastics, e-waste, textile, polystyrene, batteries and more, already saved from landfill.
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CROWDPROPERTY CEO AND CO-FOUNDER DAVID INGRAM
CrowdProperty building more Australian housing backed by crowd investors!
CrowdProperty is tackling the housing supply crisis by connecting small-scale developers with a crowd of investors, looking to back short-term property projects - to provide funding with speed and certainty. It's property finance by property people.
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NAKED LIFE FOUNDER & MD DAVID ANDREW
Australia’s fastest growing company is leading in non-alc cocktails with 81% share
Naked Life took out Number 1 on AFR Fast 100, growing from $400k to $13m in just 3yrs. Today Naked Life Non-Alc Spirits is also Australia's #1 Non-Alc Cocktail, dominating with 81% grocery market share, with over 30,000 distribution points and growing.
