Victorian government-backed startup authority LaunchVic has two new grant rounds, worth up to $1.5 million, to support the local ecosystem through accelerator programs and investor education. Grants of up to $1.5 million are available for accelerator programs requiring ongoing funding to maintain their operations in the state, while a separate grant of up to $1… Read more »
The 2024 Remarkable Accelerator Global Cohort took the stage at the Salesforce Tower Auditorium recently, showcasing their groundbreaking innovations to a packed audience of investors, partners, and industry leaders. The Demo Day highlighted five incredible startups, focused on harnessing the power of technology to remove barriers and amplify the lives of people with disability. Remarkable… Read more »
Five digital health tech startups are sharing in $3.25 million from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), receiving stage-two funding from the digital and connected health accelerator program, ANDHealth+. The investments in Eugene, Atmo Biosciences, Immunosis, Metabolic Health Solutions and Humanetix will fund further studies and scaling to tackle health issues spanning genomics and genetic… Read more »
Eight women founders transforming sport will showcase their ideas as part of Australia Sports Innovation Week in Melbourne. ‘Women-Led Design’, presented by the Australian Sports Technologies Network (ASTN), is on Wednesday, October 23, 10am-12:30pm at Launchpad, in Cremorne, Melbourne. The founders involved span apparel, wellness, sporting goods, youth sports, digital, entertainment, health and fitness, data… Read more »
A new book offering a comprehensive go-to guide on product marketing has been written by expert Kayla Medica. The Mehdeeka Method aims at demystify product marketing for companies of all stages of growth, providing a bridge between traditional brand marketing and emerging product marketing schools of thought, to build a brand from scratch. Kayla Medica… Read more »
Global payments platform Banked has tapped into Australian real-time payments with the acquisition of Waave, a fintech using the consumer data right (CDR) to offer a lower cost direct debit alternative to card payments. The sale, for an undisclosed sum, comes less than 18 months after Waave launched following a $4.7 million Seed round in April… Read more »
SXSW Sydney is less than a week away, kicking off on Monday, October 14, and once again startup and tech fans are faced with a mind-blowing array of options across the week. Things kick off on Monday with Canva’s Melanie Perkins talking to legendary US investor Mary Meeker (see below) and we’d be remiss to… Read more »
Serial entrepreneur, investor and LaunchVic chair Leigh Jasper is among the founders who’ll share their insights on what it takes to build a billion-dollar startup at AWS Unicorn Day in Melbourne on Thursday, October 24. Jasper cofounded Aconex, the world’s most widely used cloud collaboration platform for managing construction projects, and as CEO, led the… Read more »
A B2B marketplace that speeds up cosmetics launch times has raised $10 million in a Series A led by Macquarie Capital. Sydney-headquartered Atelier streamlines and manages manufacturing, logistics and packaging for beauty, health or wellness brands to cut time-to-market by two-thirds. Founded in 2018, cofounder Nick Benson bills Atelier as “the future of manufacturing” and… Read more »
AI-focused e-learning platform Build Club has raised $1.75 million in a pre-Seed round led by Airtree and Blackbird. Also hitting the PayTo button for the round were Archangel Ventures, Co Ventures and Treble VC, and angel investors including Startmate’s Small Bets Fund, Curious Thing founder Sam Zheng, Superpower’s Max Marchione, Eric Chan from Aura Ventures… Read more »
Sydney martech startup Mutinex has raised $17.5 million in a deal that’s nearly doubled the marketing spend analytics platform’s valuation in 12 months. The round was led by new backer Marbruck Investments, with support from EVP and Archangel Ventures, and ups Mutinex’s valuation to $132.5 million from $75 million 12 months ago when EVP led… Read more »
Former political advisor and Spark Festival creative director Harry Godber has signed on with the Tech Council of Australia as its new head of policy and strategy. The technology executive and senior policy adviser in the Turnbull and Morrison governments most recently oversaw the sale of fintech unicorn Flare to KKR as general counsel and… Read more »
Investor sentiment and founder optimism appear misaligned with the total amount of venture capital flowing to startups in the first quarter of the 2025 financial year, falling to a multi-quarter low of $695 million, driven primarily by a drop in mega-rounds. The latest quarterly figures from Cut Through Venture (CVT) show that the Q3 (calendar… Read more »
You may remember the Nicole Kidman thriller The Interpreter, where she’s working as a translator at the UN and overhears something she shouldn’t, spoken in an obscure language. Real-time translation has been the skill exceptional people have managed for centuries, but now artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming what’s possible and Sydney social impact startup Sunflower AI… Read more »
Monique Woodard, founding partner of US-based Cake Ventures, will headline the annual West Tech Fest in Perth this December. Known for championing inclusive innovation, Woodard joins One Earth founder Linzi Boyd and Steve Killelea, founder of the Global Institute for Economics and Peace, among the first round keynote speakers unveiled for the annual event. West… Read more »
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