Are Australian startups prepared for data breach notification changes?
If you are a startup founder or small business owner, February 22 is an important date: it is the date that the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017 comes into full effect. These new...
View ArticleGovernment responds to recommendations on future of Australian video games...
Almost two years since the Senate’s Environment and Communications References Committee published its report and recommendations on the future of the Australian video games development industry, the...
View ArticleQUT Creative Enterprise Australia makes investment term sheet public
Though there may be more funding than ever before available to Australian startups, murmurs within the industry about founder-friendly investment terms – or lack thereof – have been relatively constant...
View ArticleAdelaide partners with Cisco to launch Internet of Things traffic project
Adelaide is pushing ahead in developing its smart city credentials, with tech giant Cisco announcing a partnership with the South Australian government and the City of Adelaide that will see $1 million...
View ArticleMelbourne hub Hatch Quarter developing ‘playbook’ to help migrant and refugee...
With the latest Startup Muster report finding 35.7 percent of startup founders and 37.7 percent of future founders were born outside Australia, with just over 46 percent of existing founders having...
View ArticleCredit Union Australia partners with FlamingoAI to pilot chatbot for health...
Member-owned credit union Credit Union Australia (CUA) has partnered with Sydney-based Flamingo AI to conduct a pilot of a new chatbot across its health insurance arm. The partnership comes after the...
View ArticleLendMyTrend is a peer-to-peer garment rental service targeting cash-strapped...
Maybe it’s because we’ve spent all our money on smashed avocado toast, but if the number of clothing rental startups out there are anything to go by, millennials are loving the idea of renting or...
View ArticleUno Home Loans raises $25 million from Westpac and launches search for new CEO
Fintech company Uno Home Loans has announced the raising of $25 million in funding from strategic backer Westpac, and kicked off the search for a new CEO. Bringing Westpac’s total investment in the...
View ArticleData and analytics startup Nuonic raises strategic funding from KPMG Australia
Northern NSW startup Nuonic has today announced it has received strategic investment from, and launched an alliance with, KPMG Australia. The amount invested by the consulting giant was not disclosed,...
View ArticleREA Group appoints Startup Victoria chief Georgia Beattie as executive...
Almost a year after launching the platform into beta, ASX-listed REA Group has appointed Startup Victoria chief Georgia Beattie as executive manager of Spacely. Beattie will move into the role at the...
View ArticleAustralian VCs come together to support women-led startups with office hours...
Though they may be well known, the poor statistics around women-led startups raising venture capital always make for sobering reading each time a new report on the industry emerges. The latest Women in...
View ArticleBicycle Queensland partners with peer-to-peer rental startup Quipmo to get...
As various dockless bike sharing startups take over the streets of Australia’s cities, non-profit community and advocacy organisation Bicycle Queensland has taken a different approach, partnering with...
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YGAP opens applications for First Gens accelerator program for migrant and...
Not-for-profit YGAP has opened applications for its 2018 intakes of First Gens, an accelerator program aimed at providing support to early-stage social impact companies led by migrants and refugees in...
View ArticleReal estate startup ActivePipe raises $5.9 million Series A round led by NAB...
Melbourne real estate startup ActivePipe has raised $5.9 million in a Series A round led by NAB Ventures, the venture capital outfit of National Australia Bank (NAB), with participation from PieLab...
View ArticleThe six top mistakes startups make when hiring tech talent
By Anthony Sochan The global war for tech talent still rages, and it can lead companies to panic and grab candidates who aren’t a good fit. Startups in particular tend to make several key mistakes when...
View ArticleTech Ready Women incubator launches online program to help non-tech founders...
Almost a year after first launching the Tech Ready Women incubator program out of Tank Stream Labs, Christie Whitehill is taking it online to help women across regional Australia get their startup...
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Meet Richard Pearson – Executive General Manager, Convenience Retail
Richard is accountable for leading the transformation of Caltex’s retail and consumer fuel business. Richard has worked in retail and consumer goods for twenty years in Australia and the UK with a...
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Meet Louise Warner – Executive General Manager, Fuels and Infrastructure
Louise is responsible for ensuring competitive reliable fuel supply for our customers. Louise’s career has spanned a range of roles within the company, starting as a process engineer at the Kurnell...
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Mentor Will Davies, CEO of Car Next Door, on working with Caltex
The old adage that it’s not what you know but who you know may be a cliché, but like many a cliché it’s grounded in truth – particularly for Startups, where the power of relationships and networks can...
View ArticleHCF Catalyst reveals healthtech startups taking part in its third program intake
Corporate accelerator Slingshot has revealed the 10 startups taking part in this year’s HCF Catalyst program, the program’s third intake. With the startups working on technology as varied as virtual...
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