The Envato Foundation has pledged to match donations up to a total of $25,000 as part of Smiling Mind’s annual giving campaign. Smiling Mind is a non-for-profit app-based meditation program developed by psychologists and educators to help make mindfulness and mental health support more accessible for Australians of all ages. The Envato Foundation had previously… Read more »
MicroAcquire, a marketplace for selling startups, is now valued at over $110 million after a nearly $7 million capital raise. The US platform’s founder Andrew Gazdecki wants to simplify the process of selling startups and early stage businesses by listing them on a marketplace to give them more visibility to investors and potential buyers. Posting… Read more »
Brisbane fintech YouPay launched this week with online retailer Culture Kings integrating it into its shopping cart straight away. The service has a new take on payments innovation by letting users fill up an online shopping cart then and getting someone else to pay for it. YouPay just finished a $4 million seed round with… Read more »
Short-form video content platform TikTok has overtaken Google as the world’s most visited domain of 2021, according to internet infrastructure company Cloudflare. It has been a meteoric rise to the top of the charts for TikTok which was among the top 10 most popular domains in late 2020. But by the middle of 2021 TikTok.com… Read more »
Australian-based education platform Vivi has raised $26.5 million (US$20 million) with US investors Quad Partners as it looks to accelerate its overseas expansion. The company already has a presence in the US where its team has recently grown from just two members to 18. But Vivi CEO Natalie Mactier said now was the perfect time… Read more »
Buy-now-pay-later pioneer Afterpay is the latest big name to join NSW’s Tech Central precinct with new offices that will more than double its current office space. Afterpay co-founder and co-CEO Anthony Eisen said he was keen to keep his company based in its hometown of Sydney. “Born out of Bondi seven years ago, Afterpay is… Read more »
Future First Technologies has completed a $2.35 million call-out to investors to improve its AI-powered road maintenance systems. The company reached out to sophisticated and institutional investors for the capital raise in order to further integrate technology from Australian AI firm EagleSoft into its Asset Vision business while also expanding its sales capacity. Future First… Read more »
High school students from Victoria will this week watch on while a SpaceX rocket carries vials of bacteria to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of an experiment to learn more about growing yoghurt in space. Students were tasked with designing an experiment to improve astronaut health and wellbeing through Swinburne University’s Space Youth… Read more »
Australian media monitoring company Streem is being bought by media and PR company Cision in a deal that will see the US firm gain 100 per cent of Streem’s shares. Streem will keep its own branding and local staff through the acquisition. Its leadership team, including the company’s co-founders CEO Elgar Welch and CTO Antoine… Read more »
Danish Chan is co-founder and strategy director at research design and strategic development firm Untangld. He is one of the most awarded creative and brand strategists in the world, having worked with the likes of Virgin Atlantic, Fedex, and Coca Cola. We asked him about what chief marketing officers will be thinking about in 2022.… Read more »
iHunt4 is gearing up for a big 2022 after being picked as one of the US National Retail Federation’s top 50 retail startups. Sydney-based augmented reality treasure hunt company iHunt4 is ready to crack the lucrative US market after being selected to host a prominent display at the US National Retail Federation’s Big Show in… Read more »
A wealth of continuous data, and the networked expertise to crunch it, has enabled South Australia to be at the forefront of AI research in preventative health. A group of research labs in Adelaide, South Australia has recently begun using a wealth of health data provided by SA Pathology to determine ways to use Artificial… Read more »
Join us for a live online special panel discussion thinking about the future at 11am on Thursday, November 25. Our 45-minute ‘Microthetical’, in partnership with Microsoft Australia, is a hypothetical set 10 years into the future, with leading tech experts exploring the possibilities, perils and power of tech to shape our lives. Hosted by Startup… Read more »
Medical cannabis tech platform Montu has launched its second capital raise via the Birchal crowdfunding platform. With less than a week to go in the expression of interest phase of the campaign, the Australian company plans to use the funds to consolidate its market leading position as a medical cannabis prescriber, add to its technological… Read more »
A med startup co-founded by a doctor frustrated that his industry still sends information by fax has won the inaugural Pitch Perfect competition, hosted by Startup Daily and Microsoft Australia. Consultmed is a digital referral and workflow automation platform that directly connects primary healthcare providers, such as GPs, with specialist clinics and hospitals networks. Co-founded by… Read more »
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