Sydney startup Chester has created an outdoor storage chest for secure...
There’s a particular brand of sadness that comes with getting home to find a little card in your mailbox telling you that you missed the postie or courier with your package that day and that it’s...
View ArticleDigital greeting card startup Cardly raises $230,000 from QUT Creative...
Having last year walked away from a $250,000 deal with Naomi Simson brokered on the set of Shark Tank, Melbourne-founded digital greeting card startup Cardly has raised $230,000 in a seed funding round...
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Fantasy gaming and media are the most popular vertical for Australian...
The Australian e-sports industry, already worth around $1.2 billion, is going to experience unprecedented growth in 2018. Organisations like the AFL and NRL are rumoured to be getting onboard the...
View Article[PODCAST] Glass Ceiling – Episode 6: Kate Morris, founder and CEO of Adore...
“It was a process of winning hearts and minds one by one…” Kate Morris is the founder and CEO of Adore Beauty, an online cosmetics retailer. The business was founded in 1999, when Morris was working on...
View ArticleASIC grants first intermediaries licenses to open up equity crowdfunding to...
After years of lobbying from the startup sector, it’s done: retail, or mum and dad, investors now have access to equity crowdfunding opportunities through the seven intermediaries this week granted...
View ArticleSydney startup Kindershare is a peer-to-peer network facilitating the rental...
The sharing economy has given us peer-to-peer networks for everything from empty space in the closet to cars to entire French chateaus. Not quite as sexy but just as useful are peer-to-peer networks...
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Winning a Talent Unleashed Award provided medical technology startup Life...
The Talent Unleashed Awards have uncovered a wide variety of innovative companies over the years, with more than a few working to save or make lives better from the medical or health technology sector....
View ArticleWinning a Talent Unleashed Award provided medical technology startup Life...
The Talent Unleashed Awards have uncovered a wide variety of innovative companies over the years, with more than a few working to save or make lives better from the medical or health technology sector....
View ArticleDunedin startup CodeLingo raises NZ$540,000 from Reinventure and Right Click...
Dunedin startup CodeLingo has raised NZ$540,000 ($494,000) in seed funding from Australian venture capital firms Right Click Capital and Reinventure. The funding will go towards further development of...
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A lesson about self awareness from PagerDuty cofounder Alex Solomon
Before launching IT operations management platform PagerDuty with his cofounders in 2009, Alex Solomon had earned his street cred as a software engineer for Amazon. The time he spent there, and in...
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Government looking to find four regional incubator facilitators across Australia
The Federal Government is seeking applications for those interested in becoming a regional incubator facilitator, with the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science putting out a request for...
View ArticleSydney tourism software startup Booking Boss announces acquisition by Helix...
Helix Leisure, a company working in the out-of-home entertainment industry, has today announced its acquisition of Sydney startup Booking Boss, a deal which was completed last July. The terms of the...
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Hype UQ Spin Lab program announces first sportstech accelerator cohort
It was announced last November that HYPE Foundation, the fastest growing community for sports innovation globally and the University of Queensland, were partnering to form Australia’s first sports...
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Venture capital investment into Australian startups hit US$555 million in 2017
Venture capital investment into Australian startups grew 1.4 percent in 2017 to hit US$555.63 million ($698 million), though the number of deals fell from 185 in 2016 to 135. However, the latest...
View ArticleTelco startup OVO Mobile raises $5 million from Southern Cross Austereo to...
Media group Southern Cross Austereo (SCA), whose properties include the Hit and Triple M radio networks and the Southern Cross television stations across regional Australia, has invested $5 million in...
View ArticleNew Zealand startup Flossie helps beauty salons avoid empty appointment slots
For service businesses working around appointment slots, such as beauty salons, empty slots cost money, as do no-shows and last minute cancellations which, unlike the dentist, can’t be charged. On the...
View ArticleMelbourne’s Career Money Life is a marketplace platform helping companies...
Given the adage that a business is only as good as its best employees, it’s no wonder that a range of Australian startups have emerged over the years to help employers in finding and retaining them,...
View ArticleData and analytics firm Illion acquires Adelaide fintech startup Proviso
Data registries and analytics business Illion, formerly Dun & Bradstreet, has acquired Adelaide fintech startup Proviso as it gears up for the arrival of Australia’s open banking regime. Founded by...
View ArticleAustralian games development industry generated $118.5 million in the last...
While it waits for the Federal Government to follow up on the Future of Australian Video Games Development Industry Inquiry, a survey of Australian game developers found the industry generated $118.5...
View ArticleWith a focus on regional areas, telehealth startup Lysn connects people to...
The concept of telehealth – connecting with a doctor for an online video consultation – is making its way into the mainstream, if slowly but surely: a colleague’s friend was this week surprised to find...
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