Call it a bounceback: inside CriqHQ's revival

Call it a bounceback: inside CriqHQ's revival
CricHQ's Grant Elliott and Erin Walshe. (Image: supplied)
Rebecca Stevenson
The first year was a wrestle, Playmaker Labs chief executive Erin Walshe says.As one of the new owners of cloud cricket scoring tech firm CricHQ, in 2018 Walshe got an inside look at a company that had burned through about $7 million in the year leading up to its implosion, had soured relationships with some of its biggest customers – and had left high-profile investors including many of crickets best players out of pocket.CricHQ’s final receivers report, published in 2021, showed Singaporean investor Tembusu Partners was still owed...

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