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Brisbane start-up banks $100m, after running race to vaccinate America

Jessica Sier
Jessica SierNorth Asia correspondent

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It took 65 Zoom meetings with different venture capital firms every night for three weeks from his Brisbane home for Matt Fairhurst to secure a $100 million funding round led by Softbank.

The founder and chief executive of Skedulo had just been through a gruelling COVID-19 pandemic, where his scheduling platform became the go-to technology for governments rapidly rolling out testing sites, then vaccination clinics across the United States.

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Jessica Sier is the North Asia Correspondent for The Australian Financial Review. She is based in Tokyo, Japan. Jessica has previously written on technology, global capital markets and economics. Connect with Jessica on Twitter. Email Jessica at jessica.sier@afr.com

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