Startups with agritech solutions they’re hoping to take global have until this Sunday, September 15, to apply for the India Australia Rapid Innovation Startup Expansion (RISE) Accelerator run by national science agency, CSIRO Kicking off next month, the Climate Smart Agritech cohort of the RISE Accelerator program will focus on businesses with technologies and solutions… Read more »
Twelve startups – with 10 having female founders – have been selected for the NSW government-backed Techstars Sydney accelerator. Artificial intelligence features heavily in the cohort, which spans health to sustainable fashion, parenting and support for women entrepreneurs, including Jamie, led by two female founders, which is developing an AI companion for women to assist… Read more »
Journalists and commentators Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones, cofounders of the Queens of the Drone Age podcast, are back together for a new look at the state of the industry, titled Weird Tech. The duo have signed on with ARN’s iHeart for their new podcast, which aims to dig down the back of the couch… Read more »
A Newcastle-based battery storage startup backed by energy giant Origin has raised $17.5 million in a Series A. Allegro Energy has developed water-based Redox Flow Batteries (RFB) to store renewable energy and plans to build an 800 kWh pilot storage plant at Origin’s Eraring site later this year. The round was led by US climate change… Read more »
The remarkable success of employee management platform Deputy, which became Australia’s first tech unicorn in two years in March, has seen the 15-year-old tech company named Scaleup of the Year at the 2024 Startup Daily Best in Tech awards. The recognition, at a gala dinner with 270 guests at Sydney’s Ivy Ballroom had a certain… Read more »
Autonomous navigation scaleup Advanced Navigation has new US-based Global Head of Defence, recruiting former US Army platoon leader and intelligence officer Wayne Prender to the role. The 12-year-old deep tech hardware venture, chaired by former PM Malcolm Turnbull, with legendary US Army general David Petraeus chairing its defence advisory board, is a world leader in… Read more »
The Indigenous Australian Datathon (IAD), which combines with knowledge of traditional owners with the cutting edge of tech, returns to Cairns in November The IAD is an annual community and technology workshop, hosted at James Cook University’s Ideas Lab and spearheaded by software quality engineering consultancy, KJR, now in its fourth year. Ambitious startups, creative… Read more »
Life sciences accelerator MTPConnect has teamed up with health tech industry giants CSL and Roche Diagnostics to launch a new program backing startups tackling cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes. The $28.5 million Targeted Translation Research Accelerator (TTRA) is backed by the federal government’s $22 billion Medical Research Future Fund and will look to back promising drugs… Read more »
Murdoch University and national science agency CSIRO have partnered to launch the $8 million The Bioplastics Innovation Hub in Perth to develop a new generation of 100% compostable plastic. CSIRO research program director Dr Andy Whiteley, said the Hub aims to bring together experts in microbiology, molecular genetics, synthetic biology, biochemical engineering, advanced manufacturing and circular… Read more »
NSW startups looking to break into the Vietnamese, Indonesian and Malaysian markets have the support of the state government thanks to deals that will launch coworking sites as bases in the three countries. The International Landing Pads program will give nine startups access to workspace, networks and services to scale in SouthEast Asia. In return NSW… Read more »
NSW Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology, Anoulack Chanthivong, will open the ninth annual Spark Festival in Sydney today– bringing together a network of over 40,000 tech sector leaders from across Australia. “Spark Festival is created by startups, for startups – sparking engagement across a community that shares knowledge and finds ways through challenges that… Read more »
The amount of capital flowing into local fintechs is nearly double the known figures according to estimates from funding analytics firm Techboard, which has launched a new report into investment in the sector. Some of that funding includes millions into VC-backed startups with around $684 million in unannounced funding discovered alongside $769m in announced deals… Read more »
Everyone in tech has a Maria MacNamara story. Or if you don’t have one, you soon will. MacNamara has a knack for bringing people together, and has spent the past decade helping Australia’s startup ecosystem succeed in a storied career advising government on policy as well as the private sector. She was most recently CEO… Read more »
Artificial intelligence startup Curious Thing AI, which is at the forefront of AI-powered voice responses to phone calls, now has a solution for annoying spam and robocalls. The Sydney-based voice communication platform’s flagship product for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs), Lucy, is an AI phone agent designed to replace traditional voicemail systems to help companies and people… Read more »
Victoria’s Walter & Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) for medical research as built a $66 million venture capital war chest to back medtech startups over the next decade, turning the institute’s work into commercial biotech companies. The strategic investment fund, 66ten, managed by WEHI Ventures, will back pre-Seed and Seed rounds in the hope of bridging… Read more »
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