StartupSmart Awards 2012 – The companies to watch – Page 2 of 2 – StartupSmart
Company Name: Autodose Australia
Founders: Patrick Reid, Craig Thiesen and Jim Jone
“Our system provides precision opiate dispensing that increases the safety and efficiency for both patients and health professionals – primarily pharmacists – allowing the cost effective management of this service.”
Website: www.methasoft.com.au
Company Name: HosPortal
Founders: Chris Jones, Sek-Mun Wong and Douglas Ross
“We provide rostering management for on-call doctors, enabling hospital administration to administer the on-call roster online rather than on a spreadsheet stuck to the notice board or toilet door. It also enables doctors to see their on-call schedule online, and swap shifts online.”
Website: www.hosportal.com
Company Name: We Are ULTRA
Founders: Anita Hawkins and Tengku Chanela Jamidah
“We Are ULTRA is as sustainable design collective that facilitates sustainable action and awareness through creative project development and collaboration. We create products and experiences that are innovative and design-focused so as to capture the market of those not yet interested in sustainability.”
Company Name: Major Domo Australia
Founder: Wade Martin
“Major Domo provides an elite butlering service that performs its professional private service duties with honesty, integrity, and efficiency, while protecting the privacy and reputation of its clients.”
Website: www.majordomo.com.au
Company Name: ReGadget
Founder: Owen McCrink
“We offer instant prices for old gadgets on our website. You answer a few simple questions about your gadget, and an instant price is calculated. Gadgets that can be traded-in include mobile phones, consoles, tablets, laptops and many more.”
Website: www.regadget.com.au
Company Name: Wh Mobile
Founders: Jonathan Williams and James Harrison
“We have built a smartphone app (iOS, Android, Nokia, WP7) to allow hospitality businesses to promote offers to customers in their local area. Our system is self-service and allows merchants to post, amend or remove offers in real time as well as track their effectiveness through our reporting system.”
Website: www.thespecialsboard.com.au
Company Name: Timewise Business Solutions
Founder: Andrew Collins
“The business provides bookkeeping and business support services for small to medium businesses in the north and western suburbs of Melbourne. We also provide a consulting service for small to medium businesses to setup and support their accounting systems.”
Website: www.timewise.com.au
Company Name: The Psychic Institute of Australia
Founder: Kristy Vickery
“The Psychic Institute of Australia is Australia’s first and only comprehensive online psychic services institute, serving the public and representing professionals. Our products and services include psychic coaching, psychic counselling, online psychic development in complete course format as well as individual modules, and memberships for public and profeesionals.”
Website: www.thepsychicinstitute.com.au
Company Name: Move-Meant Pilates Studio
Founder: Kim Paxton
“We are a fully-equipped Pilates Studio offering the traditional Pilates Method. We offer mat, apparatus and pilates-stick classes.”
Website: www.movemeantpilates.com.au
Company Name: Mi Goals
Founder: Adam Jelic
“Mi Goals is a lifestyle brand which creates urban-savvy and visually appealing products that help individuals achieve their goals and live inspired lives. Our products include: Mi Goals Diary, Mi Goals Notes book, Mi Goals Book, Mi Goals Inspire Book and Mi Goals Desk calendar.”
Website: www.migoals.com.au
Company Name: Cashflowbuilder
Founder: Adrian Pin
“Cashflowbuilder is an online software program which acts as your business’s collections and credit controller and automates your entire collections and payment process.”
Website: www.cashflowbuilder.com
Company Name: Cleaning Maid Easy
Founders: Jo Burston and Melanie Hobson
“The idea for the business started after hearing some of my friends talking about the grievances they were having over their cleaners. Our concept is to create a company that employs cleaning staff legitimately, so they pay tax and superannuation, work a maximum of 40 hours per week (20 hours if they are students), are covered by insurance and are looked after by people that care about their welfare.”
Website: www.cleaningmaideasy.com.au
Company Name: Hospital Healing Hampers
Founder: Jennifer Holdsworth
Having a child (our fourth) with Kabuki Syndrome, we have had to have many surgeries and visits to Hospitals within Tasmania and Victoria. During these visits we have recognised the need for quality 100% Australian gifts, that help people to feel good about themselves during illness, or surgery, plus the need to help familiy members also feel good whilst dealing with the process of healing.”
Website: www.hospitalhealinghampers.com.au
Company Name: WeTeachMe
Founders: Martin Kemka, Demi Markogiannaki, Kym Huynh and Cheng Zhu
“WeTeachMe handles every part of the transaction so that passionate people can focus purely on what they already know – teachng a group class in a way which makes their passion a financially viable business venture.”
Website: http://weteachme.com/
Company Name: Native Tongue
Founders: Matthew Ho, James Drucza and Kym Huynh
“Native Tongue creates mobile games that removes the pain of learning a language. Most products available today are language-learning products that are not engaging and contain a clumsy gaming layer on top. Native Tongue’s products are rooted in a game first and foremost, with the language learning a by-product of playing the game. Our first two products are for Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. French, Japanese and English to quickly follow suit.”
Website: http://nativetongue.com/
Company Name: eBooks International
Founder: David Horne
“eBooks International is a global eBook and digital publishing company that is focused on empowering authors to write, promote, publish, sell, and profit from their eBooks. eBooks International provides authors with all the required tools to publish their eBooks with complete control over their editorial content, copyright, and distribution.”
Website: www.ebooksinternational.co
Company Name: Emergency Warning Systems
Founders: Geoff Drucker, Domenic Luppino and Kostantino Papafoyiou
“EWS offers its technology to emergency services organisations globally to manage people in an emergey via a radio broadcast on their AM/FM radio advising what to do in an emergency.”
Website: www.ewsp.com.au
Company Name: Allegiance Accounting
Founder: George Germanos
“Allegiance Accounting are professional Chartered Accountants providing business, taxation and accounting advice with service and quality that is second to none.”
Website: www.AllegianceAccounting.com.au
Company Name: Fresh Designs
Founder: Lauren Harris
“Fresh Designs specialises in beautiful items for the treasured little people in your life, all hand crafted with love. With an emphasis on quality and attention to detail, Fresh Designs takes classic styles and adds a ‘fresh’ twist. From sweet vintage smocks to bright funky playsuits and everything in between.”
Website: www.fresh-designs.com.au
Company Name: Virtual Assistant Star
Founder: Danielle Turiello
“Virtual Assistant Star provides administrative support to businesses and busy people all over Australia from a home office in Melbourne, Victoria.”
Website: www.virtualassistantstar.com.au
Company Name: 15 Second Software
Founder: Ken Longshaw
“We sell a smart phone app called Tax Receipt Log (TRL) in iTunes and Google Marketplace. The app allows users to photograph a receipt at the checkout, enter the amount and a category then it sends the data to your laptop. At the end of a period it can send a completed spreadsheet with all expenses totalled and categorised.”
Website: www.taxreceiptlog.com
Company Name: Eat With Me
Founders: Liisa Vurma, Bethany Jones and Thomas Vaht
“A social networking service where people can meet other people to share a meal together.”
Website: www.eatwithme.net
Company Name: Ebony Jayne Photography
Founder: Ebony Preece
“Ebony Jayne Photography specialises in corporate, wedding and portraiture photography. I also sell stock and custom framed images of Africa”
Website: www.ebonyjayne.com.au
Company Name: Poppet Pieces
Founders: Sherelyn Hallam and David Hallam
“Poppet Pieces is a small, family run online retail store selling our own range of modern cloth nappies and accessories.”
Website: www.poppetpieces.com.au
Company Name: Women as Entrepreneurs
Founders: Orsi Parkanyi and Greg Czako
“Providing networking and learning opportunities to accomplished female entrepreneurs via events (trainings and mentoring in the future) and a website with inspiring video interviews and useful content that the members of the community build.”
Website: http://womenasentrepreneurs.com.au/