Brisbane mates raise the stakes along with $750k

"An Englishman, an Irishman and an Australian walk into a bar. They bet on horse racing, their billiards game and their beer sculling contest. One of them wins all three bets. The winner doesn’t get paid. Why not? No, this is not a pub joke, it’s the problem that Brisbane’s Jordan Oudejans set out to solve with his brother Damon and friend Nick Heaney in 2014, when Jordan saw his mates handshake betting on an AFL game but not paying up. “There’s got to be a better way,” former Ladbrokes trader, Jordan, pondered. Cue their Brisbane-based startup, Puntaa, which recently closed a $750,000 Seed round – led by Brisbane-based Altor Capital, who has also invested in local startups, Tappr and OneTab." Read more

Andrea Martins Tech Street Journal 26 July 2016