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Coboat is a floating coworking space set to circumnavigate the world
There’s no shortage of coworking spaces in pretty locations around the world. However, a group of entrepreneurs from around the world have come up with a location that offers perhaps the best view -...
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Citizen journalism startup The Typewriter needs to decide on a revenue...
Journalism focused ventures are always fraught with tough times. In addition to being a highly competitive space dominated by two main players in Australia - that is, News Corp and Fairfax - reaching...
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Brisbane startup dfinanz wants to help users understand their banking data
There are many startups in Australia trying to change the way big institutions work. The latest to hop on the bandwagon is Brisbane-based startup dfinanz. Founded by Peter Coco and Tim Blomfield, both...
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Bidz Direct ended up raising $400,000 in seed funding despite bad taste left...
Bidz Direct's platform allows users to browse products listed by sellers - namely, retailers - and purchase those items, or set a price that they are willing to pay for a particular item. If a seller...
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Spotify acquires Seed Scientific; PromisePay raises $2 million; Postmates...
It was another busy week for startups around the world, with companies including Spotify and Verizon making acquisitions, and Envoy, Curbside, and Postmates closing investment rounds. Australian...
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Gym Click is the latest Australian startup attempting to crack the two-sided...
I have mentioned a number of times before that FitTech is starting to become a crowded marketplace in Australia; it feels very similar to the the group buying trend of 2011, which ended in a handful of...
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Adelaide’s Majoran coworking space appoints Aainaa Rahman as new managing...
Aainaa Rahman has been appointed the new managing director of Adelaide coworking space Majoran Distillery. Rahman is taking over from Michael Reid, co-founder of the space. Rahman has been project...
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Founder of Adelaide startup Sine says Australia’s tech talent is as good as...
If technology has its way, a teacher calling the roll at school could very well become a thing of the past, with students checked in via their smartphone as soon as they enter the school gate. This is...
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Third Party Trade allows FinTech startups to use its API to gain easy access...
FinTech is fast becoming one of the most popular sectors in Australia to launch a business in. Stockspot, which announced a $1.25 million funding round last week for its automated investment advisory...
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HidrateMe is a smart water bottle that will remind you to get through your...
Most of us know we should drink eight glasses of water a day, so we go out to buy a nice water bottle because we think that will encourage us to drink. Of course, after a day or two of devoted sipping,...
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Melbourne roadside assistance startup Road Angels pivoted after failing to...
Two years ago, Startup Daily wrote about a new Melbourne startup that was described as the ‘Airtasker of roadside assistance’. Road Angels was a two sided marketplace that connected people who needed...
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A fireside chat with Dropbox COO Dennis Woodside
Startup Daily founder Mat Beeche sat down with International Chief Operating Officer for Dropbox, Dennis Woodside recently for a fireside chat about the company, its new partnerships within the...
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Give Me Human uses robot callers to shame organisations over how long...
Waiting on hold after calling a customer service centre has long been a part of everyday life, but Sydney-based startup Give Me Human doesn’t think it has to be. At the very least, it believes...
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Melbourne startup MyEndNotes wants to help people plan their own funeral
No matter how funny Six Feet Under may have made planning funerals look like, the reality is that funerals are sad and painful. Families often end up squabbling over the finer details, each person...
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PayPal acquires Xoom for $890 million; AffinityLive raises $2 million;...
It's been a busy week for startups around the world, with PayPal acquiring money transfer provider Xoom and Uber acquiring assets from Bing to boost its mapping capabilities. A number of Australian...
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Will German restaurant booking startup Quandoo be able to compete with...
The Australian online restaurant booking market is set to heat up, with Quandoo launching in Sydney this month. Founded in Germany in 2012, the startup expanded around Europe before identifying...
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HealthXL partners with IBM to host hackathon to tackle problems facing our...
With almost 15 percent of Australian's population expected to be aged 75 or over by 2060, HealthXL, the global marketplace for healthcare innovations, is partnering with IBM to host a hackathon aimed...
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River City Labs and CUA call for startups to apply to Sponsored Entrepreneur...
Financial services provider CUA and Brisbane coworking space River City Labs are calling on startups to apply to their next Sponsored Entrepreneur Program, which will give five entrepreneurs or startup...
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Madman Entertainment’s streaming platform AnimeLab shows users are willing to...
With recent figures from Roy Morgan finding that Netflix has already notched up over a million users in more than 400,000 households since its Australian launch a few months ago, you could be forgiven...
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The rise of API-ification within the Australian and New Zealand startup...
There are many companies around the globe that attribute some of their growth and success to having a public Application Programming Interface (API). Companies like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare...
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