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December 6, 2022 – Melbourne, Australia – Pause Awards, powered by VicGov, is building better ecosystems in Australia through their business awards programme that celebrates only the real winners, now in the 5th annual edition.

The annual business awards programme for the most ambitious and forward-thinking companies, Pause Awards has announced 50 bold winners for 2022, with the champions from: Great Wrap, Verve, Bare Cremation, Separation Guide, Wisr, Circle In, Pentanet, Evee, TernX and many more.

In 2022, Pause Awards upgraded to a lavishly designed BOND Melbourne bar, a local icon that gathered people from all over the country to attend the biggest night for the Australian innovation ecosystem. The awards were packed with sophistication, palpitating excitement, tears, silly industry hosts and finished off with clubbing to classics.

The Pause Awards are highly competitive! The entries are evaluated by 60 international and local judges, including founders, CEO’s, execs and entrepreneurs who are experts in their field. Judges ensure only the highest quality of winning entries is selected each year, on their merit and impact, not just growth.

"The 2022 entrants showed businesses have a key role to play in creating a more equitable and regenerative world. Submissions were authentic and bold in their approach to tackling some of society’s biggest challenges and delivering real and measurable change where it matters."

Lee Tonitto B. Com, MBA, GAICD and Chair at Pause Awards There are too many upgrades this year, but to mention only a few, from the complete website redesign, Entry Portal built from scratch, 14 new categories, entry questions to wearable trophy design!

Companies entered are mostly small businesses with less than ten employees, closely followed by medium size businesses of up to 100 employees, and there has been a significant growth of over 100 employees companies applying. The average founder age this year has dropped to 29, compared to 37 in a previous year.

The Education sector jumped one spot up to fourth place, remarkably the Food & Beverage industry has completely disappeared and Health entered the Top 5 industry charts this year. The ‘Defiant Ones’ category, for new tech breakthroughs, took over leadership from ‘I Wish I’d Done That’ for sheer brilliance.

"I’m honoured to be recognized. The Pause Awards build better ecosystems by recognizing real people who do real things, and I’m so proud to be one of those."

Fiona Wood AM FAHMS, Hall of Fame ‘22 winner for pioneering the innovative ‘spray-on skin’ technique (Recell) View Profile

Out of 50 winners, 7 double title winners went to Bare Cremation, The Separation Guide, Wisr, Circle In, Pentanet, Evee, TernX and 2 triple titles went to Great Wrap and Verve.

There were only 7x Grand Prix awards out of 32 categories, Grand Prix stands for best in category, and are awarded only if the Judging Board fully agrees, those went to Bare Cremation, Great Wrap, Music Health, The Separation Guide, Midnight Health, Vanessa Doake and Verve.

The ceremony was masterfully conducted by returning ecosystem champion and MC Garry Williams from Tractor Ventures who announced the awards are returning on 18 May 2023.

“This award programme is not just about recognising the real winners, through excellence, performance and effectiveness in the Australian marketplace, we’re celebrating ingenuity and total commitment to tackle serious problems in response to local and global challenges and unstable markets,”

George Hedon, Founder, Pause Awards

Pause Awards 2022 Winners CULTURE Diverse Co. – Wisr Work Sweet Work – Honeycomb Strategy Work Sweet Work – Wisr Work Sweet Work – PwC Australia EXCELLENCE Company of the Year – Bodd Defiant Ones – Great Wrap Defiant Ones – Switch4Schools Hammer – Marketplacer Hammer – Aussie Broadband Hammer – Pentanet Hammer – Aquarzon I Wish I’d Done That – Great Wrap I Wish I’d Done That – TernX I Wish I’d Done That – Labflow by Comply Group I Wish I’d Done That – Driveschool Enterprises I Wish I’d Done That – LunchFox On the rise – Music Health On the rise – Bare Cremation Women In Business – Christina Hobbs Women In Business – Kate Pollard Women In Business – Angela Harbinson GOOD B-Good – Linkmate Circular Pioneer – Goterra Circular Pioneer – Circle In Going Green – Verve Going Green – evee You’ve Got Ethics – The People Spot G ROWTH Design First – Quad Lock Design First – TernX Wildfire – Food Frontier Wildfire – Pentanet Wildfire – Linktree Out of the Garage – Matrak Out of the Garage – STEM Punks OPERATORS Do You Know Who I am – Mark Brownlee Future Builder – Slava Kozlovskii Future Builder – Jordan Shreeve Future Builder – Alex Goulios Hottest Hub – Hub Australia C-Suite – Dom Pym Launch Pad INCUBATE (University of Sydney) Super Connector Michelle Mannering HALL OF FAME Hall of Fame – Fiona Wood GRAND PRIX Defiant Ones – Bare Cremation Going Green – Great Wrap Hammer – Music Health On the rise – The Separation Guide Wildfire – Midnight Health Women In Business – Vanessa Doake You’ve Got Ethics – Verve DOUBLE X7 Circular Pioneer – Circle In Women In Business – Circle In On the rise – Bare Cremation Defiant Ones – Bare Cremation Diverse Co. – Wisr Work Sweet Work – Wisr Hammer – Pentanet Wildfire – Pentanet Going Green – evee Future Builder – Slava Kozlovskii I Wish I’d Done That – TernX Design First – TernX Women In Business – Angela Harbinson On the rise – The Separation Guide TRIPLE X2 Going Green – Verve Women In Business – Christina Hobbs You’ve Got Ethics – Verve Defiant Ones – Great Wrap I Wish I’d Done That – Great Wrap Going Green – Great Wrap

Originally published by Pause Awards on 6 December 2022 Winners '22

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