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Sydney startup FraudSec is a whistleblowing platform that guarantees anonymity
Movies often make whistleblowing look glamorous, with the whistleblowers taking down corrupt corporates James Bond-style. Sylvain Mansotte knows that, in reality, this isn’t quite the case. He had only...
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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten announces $4.5 million funding program to help...
StartupAUS and the Australian Computer Society are among the organisations who have welcomed Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's announcement yesterday of Girls into Code, a $4.5 million funding program...
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Red Carpet wants to allow users to connect with celebrities in the name of a...
Even though millions of us follow celebrities on social media, for the most part they are not really responsive on an individual level. To be fair, statistically it would be impossible when you have...
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Melbourne startup Real First Aid teaches first aid through stressful...
While I know that I sat through a number of first aid lessons in high school, learning how to give CPR to a dummy and what to do while waiting for an ambulance, I can’t actually remember any of it....
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With an additional $3 million in seed funding Redzy is shaping up to be one...
Independent TravelTech platform Redzy announced yesterday that it had closed a $3 million round in funding, led by Bailador Technology Investments, that will be used to expand its operations into the...
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Tech and internet industries dominate this year’s BRW Young Rich List
Big names from the Australian tech scene have dominated this year's BRW Young Rich list. Atlassian founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, top of the list with their combined wealth of $2.3...
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Victorian government lures SydStart to Melbourne with $1 million in funding,...
In news that's sure to make the old Melbourne vs Sydney rivalry flare up once more, Freelancer has announced this afternoon that its SydStart conference is rebranding to StartCon and moving to...
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Slingshot and HCF partner to launch health tech-focused accelerator program
Slingshot, a company that runs accelerator programs for corporate clients, has partnered with health fund HCF to launch Catalyst, an accelerator program focused on health tech startups. The six month...
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New Zealand startup MyWave’s intelligent assistant allows users to better...
The average internet user accepted long ago that, by being online, they were giving up their privacy in one way or another; iTunes’ terms and conditions could have been asking for first born children,...
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Australian Prime Minister’s Office partners with Pollenizer to launch...
In the six weeks since Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister, boosting the Australian startup ecosystem has seemingly risen to the top of the government's agenda. Only a couple of weeks after...
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Sydney FoodTech startup HowAboutEat wants to stop office workers from...
The thing about working in an office is that you can spend all morning daydreaming about what you’re going to eat for lunch, only to then get swept up in work and forget to eat until 3pm and then just...
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NAB to hold FinTech-focused hackathon at Sydney coworking space Fishburners
A month after announcing its partnership with Sydney coworking community Fishburners, National Australia Bank has launched its NAB Hackathon Challenge, to be held at the Harris St space on the weekend...
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Three $200 million Aussie funds have launched so far this year. Is this a...
The announcement that Blackbird Ventures had raised $200 million for its second fund was big news on September 15. For a brief couple of weeks or so it was the largest tech startup-focused VC firm in...
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Invoice2go raises $15 million as it launches a new mobile payments feature...
Australian startup Invoice2go today announced that it has raised a further round of funding, closing a $15 million Series C capital raise. The application is the number one mobile invoicing app on the...
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Brisbane startup Daily Crow News is another startup looking to take on the...
Making it in the media market is tough. Traditional media outlets with centuries of history behind them and hundreds of millions of dollars in backing are downsizing, while many a startup trying to...
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Melbourne FinTech startup MoneyPlace launches offering consumers up to...
Melbourne FinTech startup MoneyPlace has launched after becoming just the second peer-to-peer money lender to attain a full retail and wholesale financial services licence from the Australian...
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Restaurant booking platform Dimmi partners with iVvy to help restaurants...
Online restaurant booking startup Dimmi has today announced a new partnership with iVvy, a platform that allows users to search and book function space and helps these spaces manage their bookings. The...
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1 in 4 Australians have been discriminated against at work on the basis of...
The level of discrimination in Australian workplaces is higher than the global average, according to a new report from HR firm Randstad. The latest Randstad Workmonitor report, published quarterly,...
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Melbourne startup Point & Claim has developed advanced optical character...
Congratulations to everyone for making it through the tax deadline last week. If you spent hours poring over hundreds of receipts that you had hastily 'filed' throughout the year, don't worry, you...
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Dropbox announces its new Enterprise product with frictionless scalability...
Dropbox held its annual Dropbox Open event in San Francisco this week. It was a chance for the company to celebrate its business customers and the future of work. In attendance were key leaders of the...
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