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Growing up in Australia's mining industry, SprintSuite founder Fredy Galindo Jr. gained first-hand exposure to the sector's unique challenges. Fredy learnt from an early age that details were everything. In his family’s mining services business, Fredy managed the operations and deployed technology involved in running their projects. Their 200 person firm serviced a range of clients across Australia in industries like mining, manufacturing and infrastructure. These were critical projects that kept the local economy turning by employing hundreds of contractors. Envisage this:
All of these projects required meticulous planning and coordination of people on location with the correct assets at the right time under tight budgets. Being in a high stakes environment also meant that customers enforced strict policies around rest and compliance which further complicates matters.
This is the context in which SprintSuite was born. Fredy spearheaded the development of a custom software solution to manage the growing complexity of his family business.
“Only in mining…” are there multi-million dollar revenue businesses that service hundreds of millions in project value still operating manual processes on paper and spreadsheets. Digital adoption in this industry continues to be very slow.
It became clear to Fredy that his software product would address a significant market opportunity. With the help of Co-founder Sandra Harris, SprintSuite took their product to market and started to service other similar companies.
Word spread quickly through the tight-knit mining and engineering services community, companies signed up as they witnessed peers transforming operations from spreadsheets to an integrated platform built specifically for their workflows.
Today, SprintSuite addresses the full business requirements of mid-market mining and engineering service providers. The platform covers everything from quoting and invoicing to project management, scheduling, procurement, asset management, and health & safety modules - becoming these businesses' operational backbone and a mission-critical tool that simultaneously drives revenue through efficient job management.
The SprintSuite story exemplifies EVP’s strong bias towards "industry insider” founders. Here, this translates to platform insights that deliver a tailored product and brings the credibility needed to gain traction in this conservative sector.
We've seen this pattern before in other successful vertical software companies: Ignition was developed by a chartered accountant who understood the operating challenges of a mid-market accounting firm; CorePlan was created by a WA based mining consultant who built internal technology; and Nexl, the CRM for lawyers, was born from inside a large corporate law firm.
“The mining sector speaks its own language,” Fredy explains. “When we talk to potential customers, we don't need to learn their terminology or understand their challenges - we've lived them. That builds trust and earns us a foot in the door.”
SprintSuite has translated this tailored product and industry knowledge into strong performance. The business was delivering over 100% year-over-year growth at time of our investment, serving over 80 mining and engineering businesses and processing over $1 billion in annualised customer invoicing.
Its customer book includes significant market players like KBSS, Richglen, Chauvel Industrial Services and Vex Engineering. These businesses manage critical infrastructure assets for the likes of Rio Tinto, Woodside Energy, Sojitz and BHP. The business has achieved this with less than a dozen team members on a limited budget.
This impressive early growth stems from SprintSuite's unique origin and deep understanding of their customer needs.
With 2,600+ relevant services businesses in Australia and a further 32,000+ similar businesses across North America, Europe, APAC and South America, SprintSuite has captured just a small fraction of its serviceable market, and momentum is building.
"We're just at the beginning of the digitisation journey for many of these companies," Fredy observes. "As they become more comfortable with technology, we see opportunities to introduce advanced capabilities like AI scheduling, predictive maintenance, and deeper financial integrations."
We look forward to supporting Fredy and the SprintSuite team.
