Yair Tzur

An Israeli expat and Aussie growth

Israel has an enviable track record in nurturing fast growth, high tech startups and the culture appears to transplant neatly to Australia where the Israeli expat founded Epicon is readying itself for explosive growth to Europe.

Canberra-based Epicon has grown quickly but without fanfare since its inception in 2008.

Epicon’s Integrated Performance Management System lets companies peer deep into their complex IT systems by pulling together a consolidated picture from existing internal and external monitoring tools. The process is underpinned by Epicon’s IT Integration Bus, which allows code-less integration of any monitoring tool, from any vendor.

The company believes its product is unique.

So far Epicon is popular with big government departments and large enterprises, which is not a bad place to start.

“We grew organically very quickly,” says Yair Tzur, co-founder and CEO of Epicon and an Israeli who says he loves Australia and its lifestyle.

From Canberra Epicon expanded to Sydney and Melbourne and the firm these days employs about 70 staff, a number set to more than double as expansion plans get rolled out.

Read the full article by Stuart Kennedy and James Riley at InnovationAus.com.