Tractor Inventory Capital

For Founders Looking to Align Capital with the Heartbeat of Their Business

  • Non-Dilutive Loans
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  • Fast approval times
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Fund the Future with Confidence Capital

Unlock the possibilities to easily fund those capital intensive projects by accessing non-dilutive finance specifically designed for parts and inventory customer fulfilment.

$1

Million

Access multiple amounts of $$ (up to $1million at a time) in non-dilutive funding.

14

Days

Average 14 days length from application to approval to disbursal

130+

Investors

Access a pool of AU & NZ’s most reputable and well known investors

Why access Tractor Inventory Advance Funding?

Hardware startup founders shouldn’t have the hardest decisions to make when needing to access inventory and componentry.
We provide easy, transparent founder funding, courtesy of a team that understands the life of a founder.

  • No Dilution. Increase Future Valuations on your Terms
  • Pay back immediately or over time as part of a recurring payments model (anywhere from 3-24 months)
  • Easy, quick investment committee process
  • Access and additional Inventory Advance Capital via re-financing
  • Access a known cost of capital to factor into your future planning

Hardware? Hard Yeah

Inventory Advance is utilised by founders in the Tractor Village to pull forward guaranteed revenue for projects soon to be delivered

ChemCloud

Accelerating the positive impact of the chemical industry by digitising its ways of working.

Fellten

Design, Development and supply to the EV industry.

What Do Founders Require In Order to Qualify?

Inventory Advance is for founders that are eliminating the barriers to growth by building, testing and certifying products before delivering guaranteed orders.

  • AU/NZ Based
  • ~3 months runway in place
  • ~$50K predictable revenue per month
  • Technology focussed solutions

Founder Stories

Inventory Advance has fast emerged as a key funding option for companies focussed on Sustainability & Impact, and ecommerce. Read more about founders we've funded who focus on the same!

Why knowing your CAC inside out is key to growth

Why knowing your CAC inside out is key to growth

Optimising your Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is a key element of successfully growing a tech company. While strategies can differ between segments such as SaaS and e-commerce, what unites all founders is the need for a solid understanding of this metric when contemplating business strategy.

Growth Game: Electric-car sharing network evee is driving the shift towards sustainable travel

Growth Game: Electric-car sharing network evee is driving the shift towards sustainable travel

After first hitting the road in 2016, evee has grown to 10,000+ customers, with a fleet of more than 250 vehicles across Australia and New Zealand. We sit down with Slava Kozlovskii, Founder & CEO, to learn more about evee's growth journey to date, how Slava has used Tractor's bridge funding, as well as how the business is navigating growth whilst staying to its values.

Process

Save time making hard decisions. Utilise non-dilutive funding for CapEx fulfilment & generate increased customer commitment

Step 1

Apply Now for Inventory Advance

The team are in touch within 1 working day

Step 2

Knowledge Share, about the Hardware

We get you to fill in some due diligence paperwork

Step 3

An investment committee that understands founders

Average 2 week turnaround from application to approval

Step 4

Approval, Disbursal... You’re on your way

Funds distributed in 24 hours after approval

The Tractor Ventures Team

'We're here for a long time, not a loan term.'

Aprill Allen

Aprill Allen

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Aprill heads up the advisory service, ensuring portfolio companies can easily access Tractor’s network of experienced AU/NZ startup founders, operators and investors for help with achieving their growth objectives.

Jodie Imam

Jodie Imam

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Jodie runs the show at Tractor. She's an exited founder and experienced mentor, and you'll want to bring her in when you are building community, sales and teams.

Matt Allen

Matt Allen

Co-Founder - Head of Capital & New Markets

Matta is our ex tech geek, ex recruiter, ex Bus Dev person. Some say he's a walking LinkedIn, but not us. You'll want to talk to him for strategy, business modelling and the intricacies of capital-raising.

Darcy Naunton

Darcy Naunton

Chair

Darcy is our finance generalist- ex-institutional investments, VC and serial co-founder. You'll want to talk to him about everything from financial modelling to governance & more.

Kirsti Grant

Kirsti Grant

General Partner - NZ

Kirsti is our resident people geek. She's scaled up Auror from 10-75+ ppl (& Vend from 40-250 before that) and you'll want to engage her on creating amazing team & employee experiences.

Raj Bhat

Raj Bhat

General Partner, Capital Management

Raj brings a lot to the Tractor team growth in regards to his experience from roles in Capital Management Advisory at RTG Capital Partners, Prospa & as partner at KPMG Australia.

Lance Hodges

Lance Hodges

General Partner - NZ

Lance is our specialist/generalist. He's run product and ops at Vend, and has seen all kinds of stuff. You'll want to engage him when building & scaling products & everything in between.

Bhushan Kharwadkar

Bhushan Kharwadkar

Chief Credit & Risk Officer

Bhush is our FinOps specialist at Tractor- after roles in enterprise risk at Prospa and time at CapGemini, Bhush is heavily involved in our day to day investment committee decision making.

Matty Evans

Matty Evans

Director of Engineering

Matty has more than 15 years experience working in software development, in the UK, US, Australia, and New Zealand, & has held roles across different sized startups, corporates and agencies (whilst maintaining a strong caffeine dependent lifestyle)

Olivia Doherty

Olivia Doherty

Community Builder

Olivia is our Community Builder, working alongside all the Tractor portfolio companies, helping them scale up their capacity. She's a relationship builder, strategic program designer and European Handball representative for Australia!

Darragh McDonnell

Darragh McDonnell

Capital Growth Partner

Darragh works with founders and operators at growing technology companies to explore their finance options by utilising Tractor non-dilutive funding to scale a bit faster than what they are now. Financial storytelling, focussed on the cost of capital to a business, is where Darragh's focus lies.

Conor Sutherland

Conor Sutherland

Credit Analyst

Conor is an experienced investment analyst, having worked on mid-market IPOs, capital raises, commercial expansion projects and customer engagement strategies. He’s also increasing our quote of sports fanatics here at Tractor (taking over quickly)

Dan Siepen

Dan Siepen

Growth Marketing

Dan leads our growth marketing initiatives at Tractor, helping us scale our growth efforts across acquisition, sales ops, automation, analytics, content, and well, many other growth-related things. With over a decade of marketing experience working across a variety of industries and verticals, he brings a wealth of experience to the team to help us with scaling. Also another sports fanatic to add to the quota :).

Francine Hackett

Francine Hackett

Chief Financial Officer

Francine has a background leading APAC Finance Teams as part of Global companies, specialising in finance transformations and mergers post-acquisition, board partnerships and investor relations. We lean on Francine’s expertise in leading high-performing teams through dynamic business landscapes.

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Aprill Allen

Aprill Allen

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Aprill heads up the advisory service, ensuring portfolio companies can easily access Tractor’s network of experienced AU/NZ startup founders, operators and investors for help with achieving their growth objectives.

Jodie Imam

Jodie Imam

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Jodie runs the show at Tractor. She's an exited founder and experienced mentor, and you'll want to bring her in when you are building community, sales and teams.

Matt Allen

Matt Allen

Co-Founder - Head of Capital & New Markets

Matta is our ex tech geek, ex recruiter, ex Bus Dev person. Some say he's a walking LinkedIn, but not us. You'll want to talk to him for strategy, business modelling and the intricacies of capital-raising.

Darcy Naunton

Darcy Naunton

Chair

Darcy is our finance generalist- ex-institutional investments, VC and serial co-founder. You'll want to talk to him about everything from financial modelling to governance & more.

Kirsti Grant

Kirsti Grant

General Partner - NZ

Kirsti is our resident people geek. She's scaled up Auror from 10-75+ ppl (& Vend from 40-250 before that) and you'll want to engage her on creating amazing team & employee experiences.

Raj Bhat

Raj Bhat

General Partner, Capital Management

Raj brings a lot to the Tractor team growth in regards to his experience from roles in Capital Management Advisory at RTG Capital Partners, Prospa & as partner at KPMG Australia.

Lance Hodges

Lance Hodges

General Partner - NZ

Lance is our specialist/generalist. He's run product and ops at Vend, and has seen all kinds of stuff. You'll want to engage him when building & scaling products & everything in between.

Bhushan Kharwadkar

Bhushan Kharwadkar

Chief Credit & Risk Officer

Bhush is our FinOps specialist at Tractor- after roles in enterprise risk at Prospa and time at CapGemini, Bhush is heavily involved in our day to day investment committee decision making.

Matty Evans

Matty Evans

Director of Engineering

Matty has more than 15 years experience working in software development, in the UK, US, Australia, and New Zealand, & has held roles across different sized startups, corporates and agencies (whilst maintaining a strong caffeine dependent lifestyle)

Olivia Doherty

Olivia Doherty

Community Builder

Olivia is our Community Builder, working alongside all the Tractor portfolio companies, helping them scale up their capacity. She's a relationship builder, strategic program designer and European Handball representative for Australia!

Darragh McDonnell

Darragh McDonnell

Capital Growth Partner

Darragh works with founders and operators at growing technology companies to explore their finance options by utilising Tractor non-dilutive funding to scale a bit faster than what they are now. Financial storytelling, focussed on the cost of capital to a business, is where Darragh's focus lies.

Conor Sutherland

Conor Sutherland

Credit Analyst

Conor is an experienced investment analyst, having worked on mid-market IPOs, capital raises, commercial expansion projects and customer engagement strategies. He’s also increasing our quote of sports fanatics here at Tractor (taking over quickly)

Dan Siepen

Dan Siepen

Growth Marketing

Dan leads our growth marketing initiatives at Tractor, helping us scale our growth efforts across acquisition, sales ops, automation, analytics, content, and well, many other growth-related things. With over a decade of marketing experience working across a variety of industries and verticals, he brings a wealth of experience to the team to help us with scaling. Also another sports fanatic to add to the quota :).

Francine Hackett

Francine Hackett

Chief Financial Officer

Francine has a background leading APAC Finance Teams as part of Global companies, specialising in finance transformations and mergers post-acquisition, board partnerships and investor relations. We lean on Francine’s expertise in leading high-performing teams through dynamic business landscapes.

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