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Darren McMurtrie
Member #76FounderBetaL1Cofounder, Ensurva
Cofounder @ Ensurva.com - Vendor spend intelligence
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About
Darren McMurtrie is cofounder of Ensurva, a vendor spend intelligence platform that helps growing businesses across Asia Pacific find waste in their software, service providers and suppliers through spend analysis, vendor management, and contract and renewal tracking. Darren is a two-time founder with one exit and has been Chief Operating Officer of Hapana, which makes business management software for fitness studios and clubs, since 2023. He also works as a startup advisor and investor.
Stack
Raises & exits
Member RaisesCapital raised
Assembly Payments
Undisclosed
PromisePay
$10M
PromisePay
$2M
Exits
Hall of Fame →Undisclosed
Assembly Payments, which he co-founded as PromisePay, merged with CurrencyFair in 2021 and became Zai.
Undisclosed
PromisePay, founded in Melbourne in 2013 by Darren McMurtrie and two others, combined with Irish payments firm CurrencyFair in 2021 under a deal with no disclosed value.
Experience
2x Founder (1 Exit) | COO & CMO | Advisor & Investor
Chief Operating Officer (COO) · Hapana
Advisor (Capital Raising, GTM Strategy, Operations) · Tango
Strategic Advisor (Capital Raising) · Hapana
Founding Shareholder · mx51
Co-Founder · Assembly Payments
Creative & Strategy Director · Brand New Day Asia
Design Director · bluemarlin
Senior Designer · Elmwood
Education
SA
Superhuman Ai
Product Marketing Alliance
General Assembly
Stanford University
Hyper Island
Sae University College Aus
Billy Blue College of Design
St Paul's College
