By Andrew Spence Riverland Wine has partnered with the University of Adelaide, Wine Australia and the South Australian Government to create a Digital Vineyard Guidance System – a platform to filter data collected from a suite of remote sensors to improve vineyard efficiency. Devices such as moisture monitors and evaporation sensors have been used in… Read more »
Microsoft has partnered with organisations including startup Indigital, Shared Path, and the Eastern Zone Gujaga Aboriginal Corporation to launch an initiative to teach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students about their local culture and language as they learn tech skills. The Njulgang Project first launched as a pilot program in June in partnership with the… Read more »
On this episode, Gina and Tricia chat about corporate venture capital. We sat down to chat with Melissa Widner, general partner at NAB Ventures, the venture capital arm of National Australia Bank. Launched in 2016 with $100 million committed through to 2020, NAB Ventures has invested in over a dozen startups both in Australia and… Read more »
Queensland’s Sunshine Coast is to become home to SunRamp, an accelerator program focused on the connectivity industry, backed by Boulder-based organisation CableLabs. CableLabs, an innovation lab for the cable and internet connectivity industry with over 60 global member companies, has created UpRamp, an initiative to work with startups in the sector. UpRamp will power SunRamp… Read more »
Emily Tuteur is director of product design at New York-based edutech startup littleBits. Founded in 2011, littleBits created the electronic building block, full of magnetic ‘bits’ that snap together to turn ideas into inventions. Along with Disney and education provider Pearson, the startup also has partnerships with over 20,000 schools, while there are more than… Read more »
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) is helping to prepare its members for the future by aligning with Australian startup communities Fishburners, Stone and Chalk, and New Zealand’s The Icehouse. The alignment will take the form of CA Catalyst, a program bringing together chartered accountants, startup community members, and tech providers for ‘mutually… Read more »
By Andrew Spence A light driven energy trap similar to tractor beams used to capture spaceships in science fiction movies such as Star Trek and Star Wars has been developed by researchers in South Australia. The discovery is opening the way for new quantum experiments that may lead to new secure communications or advanced sensing… Read more »
Adelaide startup Fleet Space Technologies is gearing up for takeoff, signing a deal with orbital launch provider Rocket Lab to launch two of its satellites next month. Fleet’s two Proxima satellites have been added to the manifest for It’s Business Time, a Rocket Lab mission scheduled for launch in November from the company’s complex on… Read more »
The NSW Government is calling for the state’s cybersecurity startups to explore opportunities in the Indian market. The government is running the NSW-India Cyber Security Exchange in collaboration with the Optus Macquarie Cyber Security Hub, giving 10 startups access to an intensive program of workshops, a 12-day trip to India, and a visit to Singtel… Read more »
By Andrew Spence Cohda Wireless has demonstrated the ability of its driverless car technology to see around corners and locate other vehicles in an ‘urban canyon’ as part of a world-first trial in South Australia. The trial, conducted in a two-block section in the centre of the Adelaide CBD, revealed how smart connected vehicles can… Read more »
On this episode, Gina and Tricia chat about women in tech and workplace transformation. We sat down to chat with Leigh Gibson, Tech Area Lead in the Customer Self Service tribe at ANZ. She’s had a long career in tech, having started out more than 20 years ago, but more recently she was responsible for… Read more »
Seven Australian companies have made this year’s Fintech100 list, with buy now, pay later service Afterpay the highest ranked at 26. The annual list, compiled by Australia’s H2 Ventures and KPMG, is divided into two: the Leading 50, featuring and ranking companies based on innovation, size, reach, and capital raising activity, and the Emerging 50,… Read more »
The number of early-stage startups in Australia has fallen over the last year, with the 2018 Startup Muster report finding the number of active startups fell 12.5 percent from 2017 to 2018. The finding comes with Startup Muster this year working with Data61 to produce this year’s report and create an estimate on the overall… Read more »
The short term rental management market is seeing some consolidation, with Sydney-based Hometime acquiring fellow Sydney player Hey Tom. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, however Hey Tom cofounders Joel Cacciotti, Phillip Rose, and Luke Baker will continue to work in the business as part of the Hometime management team. William Crock, cofounder… Read more »
Now managing director for OpenLearning in Australia, Cherie Diaz has had an interesting career trajectory: after starting out as a classroom teacher, she made the move to the corporate world with Ernst & Young, before progressing through a series of roles and then taking on the OpenLearning gig this past July. It’s an interesting one:… Read more »
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