Nathan Croxton
Accelerator

Team Techstars Sydney: Meet Onsite, the all-in-one building and strata management platform

- November 17, 2025 3 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 fourth profile is Onsite – a startup dealing one of the most painful parts of apartment living, strata management. Onsite  Founder: Nathan Croxton  One-liner: Onsite makes it easy for everyone… Read more »

Food and drink

Startup 360: StrongRoom liquidation latest, Warren Buffett’s final thoughts, Australian-grown coffee ambitions

- November 14, 2025 2 MIN READ

This week’s Startup 360 kicks off with cohost Simon Thomsen recounting the two days spent in the NSW Supreme Court this week as senior council for the liquidators of failed medtech StrongRoom AI probed cofounder and former CEO Max Mito, and director Divesh Sangvhi, about the potential insolvency of the business. Sangvhi sold his company,… Read more »

Accelerator

Team Techstars Sydney: Why Zipline AI is the future of customer collaboration

- November 6, 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. Next we are featuring, Zipline – AI, which allows customers to become collaborators. Zipline AI Founder: Michelle Reeves One-liner: Zipline AI gives consumer brands their own brand-safe generative AI –… Read more »

QuintessenceLabs Vikram Sharma
Events

QuintessenceLabs founder Vikram Sharma wins Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation

- November 4, 2025 2 MIN READ

The founder of 20-year-old Canberra cybersecurity firm QuintessenceLabs, Dr Vikram Sharma, is among eight of the nation’s top scientists, innovators and educators recognised in the 2025 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science. The annual awards recognise outstanding achievements in scientific research, innovation, and teaching Queensland University of Technology physicist and air quality expert professor Lidia Morawska won… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

Paperform launches an AI-native workflow builder to automate small business

- November 3, 2025 2 MIN READ

Form-building startup Paperform has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) platform, called Stepper, to help small businesspeople automate workflows. Paperform, which founders Dean and Diony McPherson bootstrapped for the past decade, now has more than 23,000 subscription users globally. Stepper is the next logical step: automation for business people to scale without adding complexity or cost, Dean,… Read more »

Accelerator

Here are the startups in the 2025 University of Newcastle I2N accelerator

- October 28, 2025 3 MIN READ

Twelve standout teams from the Hunter and Central Coast have made it to the final stage of this year’s I2N accelerator program, including several ventures led by University of Newcastle students and alumni. The 2025 cohort is tackling mental health breakthroughs, menopause support, smarter job platforms for international students, next-gen loan tech, foolproof plant care… Read more »

Accelerator

DDLoop wins 2025 Legal Pitch Night with AI due diligence platform 

- October 27, 2025 2 MIN READ

DDLoop, a Sydney-based startup, has taken first place at the 2025 Legal Pitch Night, impressing judges with its AI-powered platform that has the potential to automate due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, financing, and investment deals. 

Amender was first runner-up with Clearly by Lext closely following. AIOrdinate took home the People’s Choice Award.

Microsoft
AI/Machine Learning

ACCC sues Microsoft, alleging it misled 2.7 million Australians on Microsoft 365 plans

- October 27, 2025 2 MIN READ

The competition regulator alleged Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plan subscribers were told to either pay higher prices for Copilot or cancel.

This was false or misleading, the ACCC claims, because there was an undisclosed third option for subscribers to keep their existing ‘classic’ plan, without Copilot or the markup in price.

The only way customers could find out about the ‘classic’ plans was when they opted to cancel their subscription because that was when a new page appeared offering the option to switch to the ‘classic’ plan instead.

Michael Batko
Accelerator

Startmate launches AI, hardware, B2B & consumer accelerator streams

- October 20, 2025 2 MIN READ

Startmate is getting into the streaming business with the next evolution of its Accelerator program – dedicated Founder Streams. Streams is designed to deliver more focused, hands-on support for founders across key startup sectors. It also features Stream Leads, experienced founders who’ve lived the journey themselves, to guide startups through tailored 12-week programs focused on… Read more »