17. Fullstack Advisory

Revenue: $2.13 million
Growth: 38.97%
Founders: Stuart Reynolds
Head office: Sydney, NSW
Year founded: 2016
Employees: 31
Industry: Financial services
Website: fullstack.com.au

How Fullstack Advisory started

Stuart Reynolds entered the accounting world as a means to work with entrepreneurs creating positive change in the community, and worked with companies of all sizes while serving in large accounting firms.

What he saw was a lack of tailored services offered to firms in the research and development phase, a reluctance to push boundaries, and few prepared to take a different approach to risk.

As he embedded himself in the innovation community more, he wrapped himself in the pitch nights, demo days, and laid the foundations for Fullstack Advisory.

Even the company’s name is a nod to the move-fast-break-things generation of tech entrepreneurs, speaking their language.

Growth

Offering a ‘full finance stack’ covering day-to-day, accounting and tax needs, the company also helps its clients secure research and development grants, and in the scale-up phase with full-time staff.

Going ‘fully remote, forever’ at the onset of Covid-19 lockdowns, the company has since grown its team by more than 250%, slowly perfecting the challenges of a remote office, and offering what others would not. 

The freedom to work in your own timezone opened up regions like South Africa and Japan, and gave Fullstack Advisory access to top talent without location restrictions.

In the last year alone it has added 17 new employees, increasing the company’s full-time head count to 31.

Where to next

Exclusively revealing the information as part of its Smart50 application, Fullstack Advisory is next set to launch in the US and UK: “This may be the first time we’re saying this publicly.”

Fullstack Advisory was shortlisted for the Innovation Award at The Smart50 Awards 2023.

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