Today, we continue the conversation with an Australian serial entrepreneur. Best known for co-founding the start-up Temando where he layered a level of technical intelligence over the entire fulfillment process of goods -\xa0 It became one of the biggest technology companies in Australia \u2013 raising $56M in funding, and establishing 5 major global offices which was recently sold to a $1.5B Revenue French Listed Company!
In many ways, he is living every Start Ups dream, and yet, I\u2019m sure we will hear about the hurdles he had to jump to make it a success.\xa0 Carl Hartmann has since co-founded Shortlyster as a response to the recruitment challenge he faced in growing his own tech business so quickly.\xa0 Most recently, he is a co-founder of Lyre Spirit Co which has recreated the major alcoholic beverages in \u2018non-alcoholic\u2019 form. Lyre has quickly become one of the fastest growing new consumer products in the world!
\u201cMidas Touch\u201d is what I keep thinking.\xa0 Winning multiple awards like the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year Australia and being an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, we clearly can learn a lot about \u201ctaking an idea and creating it into a living, breathing entity in the world!
Thanks Carl for spending time sharing your journey with us\u2026
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The Goods on Carl:
Carl Hartmann is a prominent, multi-award winning Australian serial entrepreneur, who is best known for his work in co-founding Temando, Shortlyster and Lyre\u2019s Spirit Co, and his involvement as an investor & board member/advisor to a range of leading technology companies around the world, including AI cross border compliance platform Hurricane (UK), electric Jetboard manufacturer Radinn (Sweden), drone delivery company Flirtey (USA), leading LATAM shipping platform Intelipost (Brazil) and FMCG solutions platform Brandlink (Australia).
Carl Co-Founded his first start up Temando in response to the disconnect between the delivery experience consumers were receiving and the fulfillment capability of today\u2019s merchants. Carl realized the need for a layer of technical intelligence over the entire fulfillment process - from wherever goods are, to wherever they need to be, no matter how they need to get there. Carl took Temando from an idea to one of the largest Australian technology companies, having raised over $56M in funding, established 5 major global offices and established many global strategic partnerships with both carriers and technology partners, and was successfully acquired in a trade sale by Neopost S.A. ($1.5B Revenue French Listed Company) in 2017.
Having experience firsthand the challenges of recruitment in a fast-growing technology company, after exiting Temando, Carl co-founded Shortlyster, an intelligent recruitment platform that solves the problem of matching candidates to job roles with specific skill sets, and helps ensure candidates are the right fit for organisational cultures. The platform uses a big data approach and applies its unique algorithms to match candidates to role requirements. It actively compares and contrasts candidates and rank orders them according to suitability. Shortlyster helps companies save time and money in their recruitment process and more importantly, help them get the right candidates with the right skills, the right qualifications, and right person-fit characteristics. Shortlyster has raised $5M in funding to date, and is now going through tremendous growth across Australia, the UK and USA.
Most recently, Carl also co-founded Lyre\u2019s Spirit Co \u2013 an innovative beverage company using cutting edge food science, that has recreated all the major alcoholic spirits in non-alcoholic format, in response to growing segments of the population who either do not drink alcohol or choose to drink less \u2013 but still want an the taste of an adult drink.\xa0