Our story
Parpera - par  / pa: / pera / ËpÉŞÉrÉ / Latin noun, translates to "fair wallet"
Parpera makes it easy for you to do business so you can focus more on what you love.
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We're an Australian fintech that's building an ecosystem of fair and transparent solutions to make it easier for people to set up, manage, and grow their business.
Founded in April 2020, we've raised AUD3.7m in equity funding and have a high-performing and experienced team across Australia to deliver on our purpose.
We partnered with Wise to launch our Parpera App on 29 June 2023 to better serve hundreds of Aussie businesses (read more) through providing easy, fast, and secure access to a digital business account, business debit Mastercard, earn-returning and saver wallets, invoicing, payments, cash flow, and tax management capabilities, all in the one app.
Want to make business easy do more of what you love? Join us.
Team
DANIELÂ CANNIZZARO
Founder and CEO
Daniel is driven by the belief that innovative, fairer and transparent financial services can help people build better businesses, and ultimately lead to stronger communities and living better lives.
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Daniel has global financial services and management consulting experience and holds an MBA from London Business School, with executive level education from Columbia Business School, and a Bachelor of Information Systems from the University of Melbourne.
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Daniel loves skiing, adventure, and all things business and fintech!
Cindy Cui
Product
Cindy has 6+ years of financial services experience, holding product and software engineering roles across several industries.
Before Parpera, Cindy worked as a Technical Project Manager at Funraisin and Full Stack Engineer and Client Relationship Manager within the Commodities and Global Markets division at Macquarie Bank. Cindy holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of New South Wales.
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Cindy loves bonsais (she runs a community for bonsai lovers!), birds, playing tennis, and enjoys coding on the weekends.
Awon Thapaliya
Engineering
Awon has 7+ years of software engineering experience across startups and SMEs, solving challenging and complex problems and specialising in systems architecture, big data, and conversational Artificial Intelligence.
Before Parpera, Awon was at Fusemachines, a New York based software engineering firm specialising in democratising access to AI. Awon holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the NITTE University, Karnataka, India.
Awon loves hiking, playing table tennis with friends and is now located Sydney, Australia!
Strategic advisors
Andrew Davis
Non-Executive Director and advisor
Andrew is a globally recoginised fintech expert and serves as a digital financial services advisor to the World Bank and is a key supporter of Australiaâs fintech ecosystem development.
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Andrew loves spending time with his family and relaxing by the pool.
Create value for our members
people, businesses and communities
People first
our members are people first, businesses second
Honesty and integrity
do the right thing,
be open and transparent
Challenge the impossible
itâs only impossible until itâs done
Focus on quality
go above and beyond expectations to execute quickly but diligently
Deliver win-win outcomes
fair is fair, everyone needs some margin of gain
We're hiring! - if youâre inspired by our mission, get in touch, weâd love to hear from you!
Be part of our mission
Download our App to make business easy, today!
