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Accelerator

The Founder Institute ANZ accelerator reveals the 8 startups it just backed

- December 4, 2025 2 MIN READ

Founder Institute ANZ, the local chapter of the world’s largest startup accelerator, has selected eight new startups to back from its Spring accelerator. The Founder Institute’s pre-seed accelerator helps early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process… Read more »

Accelerator

Specialist venture studio Paperbacked is helping edtech founders get top marks for building

- December 3, 2025 2 MIN READ

Paperbacked, a specialist venture studio for education founders, has launched to tackle a persistent gap in the Australian education sector: businesses that fall between under-resourced small operators and VC-backed scale-ups. Lindsey Dang, who built a seven-figure English iterature specialist tutoring business while completing dual law and arts degrees at Monash University (and is now on… Read more »

Accelerator

Team Techstars Sydney: Meet Sedso AI, which is optimising brand perception for business using AI

- December 2, 2025 4 MIN READ

Ahead of the TechStars Sydney ‘Demo the Future’ evening on December 8, Startup Daily is profiling the 12 startups and their founders in the 2025 cohort. Our next profile is Sedso AI – helping brands to shape their own story with AI. Sedso AI Founders: David Sta.Maria & Silven Epistola One-liner: Sedso is an AI visibility platform… Read more »

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Business

Victorian startup legend Leigh Jasper headlines the 2026 Growth Summit Melbourne

- December 2, 2025 2 MIN READ

Leigh Jasper, the serial founder who built construction software platform Aconex into one of Australia’s first tech unicorns, will deliver the keynote opening address at the Growth Summit in Melbourne in February 2026. Presented by SmartCompany and Startup Daily, in partnership with Xero, the Growth Summit is Australia’s premier event for ambitious startup and SME founders and leaders.… Read more »

Accelerator

Team Techstars Sydney: Check out Crystal aOS – creating a crypto compliant world

- November 25, 2025 3 MIN READ

Ahead of the TechStars Sydney ‘Demo the Future’ on December 8, Startup Daily is profiling the 12 startups and their founders in the 2025 cohort. Our next profile is Crystal aOS – setting up the future for crypto compliance. Crystal aOS Founder: Joni Pirovich One-liner: Crystal aOS is the governance, risk and compliance management system… Read more »

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Funding

A $60 million tech fund is backing startups speeding up housing construction

- November 24, 2025 2 MIN READ

A $60 million investment fund backing construction tech to tackle housing development in Australia has been launched by Boman Group. The fund, in partnership with JPCX, the investment arm of logistics and building supplies company JPC, has already completed its first investment in an Australian modular housing company to help it scale. Boman Group founder… Read more »

Business strategy

Startup 360: Kiki’s NYC red card, CSIRO cuts, finding your next startup in your current one

- November 21, 2025 2 MIN READ

Alex Miller was having rapid success with his subscription management platform Hudled when he spotted a nugget of insight in that startup and launched a second, Rechargly. Like a Marvel movie spinoff, he’s now enjoying even more success, as Alex explains on episode 39 of Startup 360. Listen here Cohosts Simon Thomsen and Majella Campbell… Read more »

Accelerator

Tech accelerator Founders Factory is backing WA startups helping people living with diseases like MS, MND and Parkinson’s

- November 21, 2025 2 MIN READ

Tech accelerator Founders Factory is launching a third startup program in Western Australia after forging a partnership with local multiple sclerosis non-profit, MSWA. The $1.75 million joint venture will fund and scale startups building technologies to help people living with neurological conditions such as MS, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, motor neuron disease (MND) and… Read more »

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Funding

Western Australia backs 12 medtech startup ideas with $5 million in Seed funding

- November 19, 2025 2 MIN READ

Nearly $5 million in funding has been awarded to 12 Western Australian innovators and startups working on local health and medical innovation projects The ideas, many from academics and WA’s universities span tests for liver cancer to heart monitoring, endometriosis diagnosis, asthma treatment and more, were funded from the Innovation Seed Fund 2024-25 Program. The state… Read more »

Accelerator

Team Techstars Sydney: Discover the startup making cancer detectable through blood tests

- November 19, 2025 4 MIN READ

Ahead of the TechStars Sydney ‘Demo the Future’ evening on December 8, Startup Daily is profiling the 12 startups and their founders in the 2025 cohort. Our next profile is OncoRevive – a health-tech startup which detects cancer early, leading to vastly improved patient outcomes. OncoRevive Founders: Dr. Mohammad Tavakkoli and Dr. Samira Sadeghi One-liner: Detect… Read more »

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Data

Equity Clear launches Show Us the Data roundtables to create a national standard for investor diversity reporting

- November 18, 2025 3 MIN READ

Show Us the Data, a national initiative led by Equity Clear, kicked off in Sydney last week looking to develop a Australia’s first Common Data Standard for Investor Diversity Reporting. Equity Clear, led by Noga Edelstein, is hosting a series of roundtables in Australia’s capital cities to create an industry-led framework for data standards that… Read more »