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Sydney startup GoFar launches Kickstarter to help drivers save money on petrol
If there’s one thing Australians love to complain about when it comes to driving, it’s the price of petrol - and for good reason. In spite of proposed initiatives like the Rudd Government’s fuel watch...
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Airtasker’s $6.5 million capital raise shows that Chinese VCs have a taste...
Sydney based startup Airtasker announced today that it has raised a further AU$6.5 million in capital in order to ramp up its product development, engineering efforts and customer support services, as...
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Startup CasaStudent wants to help international students find accommodation...
As an international student, finding suitable accommodation can be one of the most difficult parts of starting life in a new country. Trawling through real estate sites from the other side of the world...
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Drone delivery startup Flirtey begins to commercialise its offering as it...
Drone technology startup Flirtey was the world's first 'drone delivery service' to ever launch. In 2013, the startup was met with scepticism and ridicule by a pretty large portion of the media -...
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Zenefits raises $500 million for its HR software and insurance hybrid,...
Zenefits, an all-in-one HR software service which only launched two years ago, announced today that it has raised $500 million in new funding led by Fidelity Management and TPG, valuing the company in...
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Chinese online sanitary pad startup Honeymate raises million-dollar pre-A round
Chinese startup Honeymate announced this week that it has raised a pre-A funding round of more than RMB 10 million (US$1.6 million). [Source:TechInAsia] Related posts: When your Indie Venture goes...
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muru-D Class Two Demo Night: Over $2.6 million in revenue generated by the...
On Wednesday and Thursday evenings this week, Telstra backed accelerator program muru-D presented its Demo Night to stakeholders within the Telstra organisation, potential investors, advisors and other...
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Melbourne startup creates compact shelters to help house people affected by...
One of the most difficult parts of dealing with the aftermath of a natural disaster is finding and providing durable shelter for large numbers of people who have lost their homes. A Melbourne...
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Competition in Australian online food delivery space heats up as UK giant...
UK online food delivery startup Just Eat has agreed to acquire Australian startup Menulog for a reported AUD$865 million. The deal, which is subject to approval from the Foreign Investment Review...
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Hutbitat is taking on two of the biggest companies in Australia; and based in...
In Australia, real estate is a crowded space. Locally, although there are a myriad of online players trying to make it easier for users to find property to buy or lease, the market is largely dominated...
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Sydney startup wants to provide mentorship to entrepreneurs who can’t afford...
Ask nearly any business leader how they came to be successful and they will tell you that they had a lot of help and advice from mentors along the way. Now, mentoring - or the facilitation of it - has...
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The unfortunate demise of Ninja Blocks highlights an important issue that...
Yesterday, there was one story that dominated the Australian startup ecosystem: Ninja Blocks, a local pioneer in the Internet of Things space, would be closing its doors. According to all reports and...
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Embark.org allows individuals to host and book personalised adventure travel...
Group holiday tours can be exhausting: weeks spent in a bus with the same people, hurtling from destination to destination, stopping only to take a handful of pictures in front of famous landmarks and...
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Bigcommerce launches enterprise-grade platform for high-volume retailers
Australian ecommerce startup Bigcommerce is moving into the enterprise space with the launch of a new platform aimed at high-volume retailers processing millions of dollars in payments. The platform,...
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Melbourne startup Shopping Links wants to facilitate ‘genuine’ relationships...
Once upon a time, in the dark, early days of the internet, bloggers wrote to miniscule audiences for the love of it. Now, blogging has become business, with bloggers who may have audiences of millions...
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Community social network platform Nabo.com acquires event listing site AroundYou
Just six months after its launch, Australian community social network Nabo.com has acquired event listing website AroundYou. AroundYou, which partnered with News Limited to promote events in local...
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Startups seem to be a prominent theme at Sydney’s Vivid Festival this year
The Vivid Festival has fast become one of the most popular annual events in Sydney. The 18-day festival of light, music and ideas usually has something to pique everyone's interests. It acts as a time...
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Mergers and acquisitions round up
It's Friday again, which means another mergers and acquisitions round up. Catch up on the deals that were made this week: Verizon acquires AOL for $4.4 billion American telecommunications company...
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Uber hit with billion dollar lawsuit by man who claims Travis Kalanick stole...
Ok, we haven’t seen this before. We saw the case between the Winklevosses and Mark Zuckerberg turned into a film, but a trailer to an actual lawsuit? [Source: Pando.com] Related posts: When your Indie...
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Percolate just raised a $40 million funding round and now it believes it can...
Percolate, a four-year-old enterprise that creates software for marketers to manage their campaigns and departments, just raised $US40 million in series C financing. Now Percolate thinks it has the...
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