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Demand for offshore white-collar workers triples firm’s revenue
ConnectOS specialises in hiring and managing low-cost staff in the Philippines on behalf of other companies.
- Edmund Tadros
Revealed: Australia’s fastest-growing companies in 2024
In a tough consumer environment, this year’s Fast 100 and Fast Starters finalists have managed to find their niche.
- Victoria Thieberger
- Opinion
- Fast Starters
The fast movers’ secret to beating their rivals
The best of the nation’s small companies love their customers and know them well.
- Victoria Thieberger
- Overall Winner
- Aviation
This is the fastest-growing company in Australia
Founded by an ex-banker, this air ambulance start-up has achieved 700 per cent revenue growth thanks to business from the cruise industry.
- Primrose Riordan
How a mother-in-law helped keep this ASX miner afloat
Nickel Industries revenues have topped $2.7 billion, but early on some family help was needed to finance this Fast 100 company.
- Prashant Mehra
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A one-woman firm becomes a $29m national recruiter
Kay Reynoldson says loyalty underpins healthy growth for this nursing recruiter where revenues have tripled.
- Michael Smith
How a yearning for travel grew a 35-year-old overnight success
Diversification has been key to the success of these three fast-growing retail and travel businesses.
- Sue Mitchell
Why this FIFO construction firm ‘never loses a client’
Fostering long-term relationships with clients such as gold miner Newmont has helped this business more than double revenue to $80m in a year.
- Larry Schlesinger
Meet the frequent flyer fintech targeting a $2.6 trillion market
The fastest growing fintechs in this year’s Fast 100 are an eclectic mix with a common trait: they’ve carved out niches for uniquely Australian audiences.
- Ayesha de Kretser
‘Find your niche’: The hard lessons of building tech companies
IND Technology has made the rare leap from academia to commercial success, while legal tech start-up Nexl nearly failed but is now growing rapidly in the US.
- Paul Smith
- Opinion
- AFR Reports
Three challenges that fast-growing companies need to meet
Staying on an accelerated growth curve will come down to fostering a culture of restless innovation and agility.
- Mark Summerhayes
Meet the skincare company with 460pc growth
Identifying a niche is easy. Filling it – at scale – is the challenge, as these successful founders discovered.
- Lauren Sams
Brisbane military supplier sailing with a tailwind
Being portside ready to stock military ships is a niche sector that takes strategy and sharp negotiation skills to win the race.
- Nina Hendy
Fewer super funds means more business for this tech consultancy
The ongoing merger activity in the superannuation sector has supercharged growth at Wollongong-headquartered IT services company Novigi.
- Edmund Tadros
- Opinion
- Opinion
Is the IPO route right for your business?
While sharemarket floats can access deep capital for growing businesses, it’s essential to explore all available options to determine the right investment path.
- Gavan Carroll
November 2023
What this legal team learnt from the All Blacks
Organic growth and a raft of acquisitions have helped this professional services firm expand.
- Agnes King
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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
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
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