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What this legal team learned from the All Blacks
Organic growth and a raft of acquisitions have helped this professional services firm expand.
- Agnes King
- Opinion
- Fast Starters
How to raise capital in a tough funding market
Fast-growing companies need to follow these eight tips when looking to win over investors in a difficult economic environment.
- Xavier Keary
This fast-growing telco is the most trusted in Australia
Aussie Broadband has overtaken Vocus to become Australia’s fourth-biggest internet provider, and has the highest revenue of any company in the AFR Fast 100 in 2023.
- Christopher Niesche
On a mission to drive down EV charging costs
A Melbourne-based EV charging company will use its new charging-as-a-service offering, targeted at corporate fleets, to attract institutional investment.
- Agnes King
Tech wreck pessimism no match for AI and Australia’s pet obsession
Mad Paws is struggling to win over ASX investors despite robust growth, while Aussie firms making autonomous vehicles and AI road cameras are thriving.
- Paul Smith
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November 2023
- Opinion
- Opinion
Seven enduring lessons from 33 years of top start-ups
Over more than three decades, the Fast 100 has had its share of one-year wonders and flame-outs. But the success stories are staggering.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Opinion
Three pieces of advice for growth companies
Against a tough economic backdrop, high-growth companies may get limited help from external sources of capital.
- Mark Summerhayes
This company doubled its revenue on medicinal cannabis demand
Cannatrek has built a business with 130 people and annual revenues of $90 million, but boss Tommy Huppert says there’s much more to come.
- Simon Evans
This moonshot tech firm is Australia’s fastest growing company
Fleet Space Technologies, with a compound annual growth rate of 582 per cent over three years, is top of the Fast 100 class for 2023.
- Michael Bailey
Luxe-for-less beauty brand wins hearts and purses
The millennial and Gen Z thirst for instant gratification has made MCoBeauty eager to get its “dupe” products on shelves as fast as possible.
- Lauren Sams
- Opinion
- Fast Starters
The category killers that defy any slowdown
Technology innovations can catch on no matter the economic weather, as this year’s lists show.
- Michael Bailey
Fintechs among the fastest, but rising rates to dampen the party
The era of fast growth at all costs is over, with rising rates drying up the abundant liquidity that helped spur phase one of these companies’ successes.
- Ayesha de Kretser
How this travel company is weathering high airfares
Inspiring Vacations survived COVID to come out the other side stronger but is now facing the headwind of high airfares.
- Christopher Niesche
February 2023
From tin-shed gym to Fast 100 list. Next stop Fast Global?
The Australian Financial Review’s new list will celebrate companies such as Fitstop that aim to expand the revenue they earn overseas.
- Michael Bailey
December 2022
How fast companies plan to keep growth going
The top-ranked companies on the Australian Financial Review’s Fast 100 and Fats Starters lists shared their 2023 gameplan, at an event hosted by list presenters PwC and Pemba Capital Partners.
- Michael Bailey
November 2022
Medical services take a leap into remote areas
The pandemic spurred demand for unusual health services, such as those specialising in remote areas and hard-to-access populations.
- Sian Powell
Digital disruption takes hold in construction
Along with higher interest rates, tech disruption is impeding growth in the construction sector, forcing businesses such as Away Digital to look overseas.
- Agnes King
Cost-conscious consumers spell caution for luxury lifestyle products
Fast List companies offering products for a better lifestyle were buoyed by the pandemic, but staying ahead of the trends remains a challenge.
- Therese Raft
- Opinion
- Fast Starters
Three things help businesses achieve high growth
The composition of the Fast 100 and Fast Starters lists by the end of the decade may be different, but common value propositions will underpin all of them.
- Martina Crowley
Fast starters in property, infrastructure show how to build growth
A can-do approach has contributed to the growth of construction and property-related companies capitalising on the increasing activity in infrastructure.
- Robert Harley
- Opinion
- Fast Starters
Fast growth companies still insulated from global woes – so far
Getting access to capital and balancing pricing during tough economic times will test local SMEs in the next two years.
- Mark Summerhayes
Travel’s return drives leisure business success
A business selling organised group tours is now dreaming of becoming a billion-dollar company by 2025.
- Alexandra Cain
Marine science business expands its footprint with environmental work
Renewable energy push has boosted the bottom line for O2 Marine, a Fast 100 list company which has doubled its workforce in the past 12 months.
- Agnes King
Innovative ideas shake up the transport and logistics industry
Technological solutions and investing in people have boosted transport and logistics businesses during the pandemic years.
- Mark Eggleton
Cube Online, Signifi Media, Awaken thrive on digital marketing surge
Online marketing and media companies have grown as businesses refocus on their digital strategies.
- Nina Hendy