Monday, August 25, 2025

Startup 360: New Fishburners plan, pets & management, staying motivated remotely

Startup 360 cohost Majella Campbell is making her personal information, with the Fishburners CEO releasing a manifesto on new methods of nurturing early-stage startups.

“We’re noticing a little bit of a spot between what the outdated methods of supporting startups are and the ways in which match the brand new methods of constructing,” she explains on episode 26.

“In our manifesto, we’ve mapped out what we predict the largest issues are, and placing our line within the sand to say that is the place we’re going to be focusing.”

It comes as Fishburners prepares to maneuver out of the Sydney Startup Hub after seven years because the NSW authorities shuts it down.

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This week’s company are Paloma Newtown, cofounder of Elita, a pet genetics and stem cell remedy startup; and Aakash Gupta, cofounder of boostrapped distant work crew constructing and wellness startup Hooray Groups.

Motivated to by the well being points her personal canine, Edgar Allen Paws, faces, she launched Elita (which raised $1.1m, pre-Seed) together with her partner-in-life, biomedical engineer and canine coparent Jackson Gritching.

Paloma talks about her various profession – from hospitality to deep tech navigation startup Baraja, and cofounding the office recommendation web site Grapevine – the management challenges of going from supervisor to founder, and get on together with your cofounder if you additionally go residence with them on the finish of the day.

She’s a powerhouse of concepts, however as a proud and targeted feminist, reveals some telling moments in what she’s skilled as a feminine founder, and cope on these days if you “really feel like a real failure”.

In the meantime, Aakash is coping with one of many nice points of contemporary workplaces – managing distant groups and conserving everybody impressed.

He launched Hooray Groups, which runs digital team-building occasions for distant, distributed and hybrid groups two years in the past, as everybody emerged from Covid within the wake of a well-liked weblog referred to as “Sorry, I used to be on mute”.

His international buyer base contains one firm with individuals in 23 areas, and Aakash shares his tips about get everybody getting alongside – trivia is fashionable – and the challenges of coping with numerous cultures.

Startup 360 is extra founder fund than founder mode. It’s all about discovering out what makes individuals tick and staying human.

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