Sponsored by Aiven
This award recognises the achievements of high-growth startups.
This year’s Rising Star winner is Zero Co, an eco-friendly cleaning and body care brand that has an audacious mission to untrash the planet from single-use plastic. Sponsored by Aiven.
Learn moreAdatree is an award-winning Australian fintech at the forefront of Australia’s new regulated Open Data regime – the Consumer Data Right (CDR). Adatree was founded in 2019 by former Tyro Payments and Volt Bank employees, Jill Berry and Shane Doolan, who knew they could lead the way in CDR. Within months of establishing the business, Adatree became Australia’s first accredited and active CDR intermediary.
Referoo started when our co-founders Neil Rose and Chris Hunter were chatting about their frustrations with the lengthy referencechecking process. Referoo now also includes a range of other checks beyond the humble reference check, including police, background, and right to work checks. In September 2022, Referoo launched its first biometric solution, aimed at providing titanium level certainty of identity of our clients candidates and referees, which is crucial in an ever-increasing digital hiring world.
Zero Co is a purpose-driven company with an audacious mission to untrash the planet from singleuse plastic. Since first launching on Kickstarter, Zero Co has acquired more than 70,000 Aussie households, expanded its range to 14 products and broken three records in crowdfunding history, including Australia’s largest and fastest crowd-sourced funding of all time — raising $5 million in under seven hours. The business has now removed the equivalent of 1,136,428 water bottles worth of rubbish from oceans and beaches, and stopped the equivalent of 1,561,881 water bottles worth of rubbish from ending up in landfill.
