Promising Technology Companies in Australia- 2017
Technology is one of the fastest-growing sectors of our economy. Brilliant minds are ever working on ways to better our lives. But as technology grows, the pioneer technology companies equally have a reason to smile.
A late 2016 report by capital firm H2 Ventures places Atlassian as the top pioneer tech firm in Australia and New Zealand.
The ranking of Australia’s technology companies is based on the amount of capital generated in addition to other factors like product or customer service.
The following are the top technology companies to work for in Australia.
Atlassian
This is a software company that develops products useful in all fields including medicine, disaster response robots and space travel.
The tech firm was founded in 2002 by Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes who released into the market the very first product, JIRA, proving their expertise. Today the company has grown and has an employment base of 1,700 in six different locations.
Talk of a company that pampers its employees and Atlassian will without doubt dominate the conversation. It is based on the culture of openness and being straight to the point. What’s, the firm lets you bring your life at work.
The only demerit could be linked to its growth strategy with some employees complaining that at times they feel the company’s direction is not clearly indicated.
Xero
Xero was founded in New Zealand and has grown to penetrate through the Australian, and United Kingdom cloud accounting markets. Its current employee base is 1,400 people across its 20 offices worldwide. During the 2014 and 2015 report, Forbes termed Xero to be one of the most Innovative Growth Companies.
Its pioneer product Xero was started with the small businesses in mind. This is a cloud-based accounting software that connects people working as a group from any location across multiple devices.
Accountants and book keepers are well taken care of with the software currently helping over 700,000 subscribers throughout the world.
The tech firm focuses solely on small businesses as it believes that they make the world go round. But its innovation drive is not self-centered as they incorporate the help of partners, customers and friends to ensure its online business platform grows.
Envato
Envato is the leading marketplace for creative assets and creative people. Its digital marketplaces sell creative assets to help web designers including photography, audio, video, graphics, themes and 3D models.
Its community has a membership of about 6 million people, of whom 1.5 million are active buyers and sellers. This marketplace has a huge traffic, having been ranked the 204th most visited site worldwide by Alexa.
The tech firm was co-founded by Collis Ta’eed, Cyan Claire, and Jun Rung in 2006 and has its headquarters in in Melbourne, Australia.
Some of the company’s believes is that good ideas ought to grow and is passionate about making it easy to get things done.
Envato has made several high profile financial contributions to both open and closed source software projects, including Glotpress, Ghost, Macaw, Rails.app, Pressgram, and Aesop.
Campaign Monitor
Just as the name suggests, Campaign Monitor is all about online surveys, email marketing and automation so as to give a leap to small businesses. It is their job to deliver technology that tackles complex problems in the simplest way possible.
The company’s headquarter is in Sydney, but they have offices in more than 20 cities including San Francisco and London.
The Sydney office is home to engineering, product and finance while the San Francisco one tackles sales, global marketing, GetFeedback and executive leadership.
Campaign Monitor believes in the power of email marketing and has worked with nonprofits, tech giants, media moguls and many other industries. Businesses get all they need using its drag-and-drop builder and the creative marketing strategies.
Canva
This is a free graphic design tool website that was established in 2012. It has a drag-and-drop interface and also offers access to millions of photographs, fonts and graphics. Both professionals and non-designers have found it to be helpful.
Canva is used by people worldwide.
Within a year after launching, the site quickly became popular with over 750,000 subscribers. Currently it boasts of more than 15 million users and over 100 million designs. Social-media and technology expert Guy Kawasaki joined the company as chief evangelist in April 2014.
OFX
Previously referred to as OzForex, OFX is a Sydney-based online foreign exchange and payments firm. It offers money transfer services to ING Direct, MoneyGram, Travelex, Macquarie and Xero. It also extends the same services at an individual level to small businesses, expatriates and migrants.
OzForex was started in 1998 by Matthew Gilmour, who was at that time the head of foreign exchange at Bankers Trust. The company’s controlling shares were purchased by Australian investment bank Macquarie Group in 2007 while the rest was bought in bits by other investors in 2010. It was then rebrabded to OFX in 2015 after having operated various brands including CanadianForex, UKForex, USForex, NZForex, Tranzfers and ClearFX.
Freelancer
This is one of the World’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace. The site provides a way for employers to post a project and employees to bid on it. Once the potential employer reviews the many bids and is pleased, he/she can award the work.
It currently has over 22 million employers and freelancers worldwide. Employers can visit the site’s marketplace to hire freelancers to handle numerous tasks such as data entry, writing, design and software development. You can also get services in the engineering, sales, marketing and legal fields. The top three job categories are in IT, design, media and architecture and writing & content.
The company was started in 2009, Sydney, but has now grown to establish offices in London, Jakarta, Manila, Aires, Buenos, South California and Vancouver.
Invoice2go
This is a mobile and web app that was designed to offer easy invoicing service and tracking for small business persons. This service is based on cloud and is sold on the basis of invoice quantity, number of clients as well as account managers. You can get the services at the Starter, Pro and Enterprise level.
Invoice2go was started by Chris Strode who used his past experience as a business owner. Its headquarters are in Sydney, Australia and Redwood City, CA, USA.
WiseTech Global
This is a global company that develops cloud-based software solutions to facilitate both international and local logistics industries. Having been established in 1994, WiseTech Global has continuously helped the logistics businesses to better manage the movement of goods and information.
Its offices are found in over 125 countries serving more than 6,000 customers in its 7,000 sites.
Its pioneer product is CargoWise One and has greatkly helped boost the company’s image by offering a sophisticated logistics solution. Clients use the software to improve on efficiency, visibility, profitability and quality of service.
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