By Benito Carbone Developed by South Australian enterprise 3 Chiefs, the ourValues app has been downloaded more than a thousand times since its soft launch in June. Currently sitting at number eight on Google Play’s parenting app list, the ourValues Smarter Screen Time & Parental Control helps families address technology addiction by setting up weekly… Read more »
Sydney-founded recruitment startup myInterview has raised $1.6 million from a group of investors led by Entrée Capital and Cliff Rosenberg, former managing director of LinkedIn in Southeast Asia and Australia and New Zealand. Launched in 2014 by Guy Abelsohn and Benjamin Gillman, who is now based in Tel Aviv, the startup aims to help jobseekers… Read more »
By Benito Carbone The South Australian government has issued an Expression of Interest to find companies to take up more than 23,000m2 of space available at its Lot Fourteen innovation hub, a former hospital site bordering the parklands that surround the capital city. The state’s Minister for Industry and Skills, David Pisoni, said they are looking… Read more »
BetterLabs, the innovation arm of Western Australian motoring club and mutual organisation RAC, has launched a $3 million seed fund to invest in early-stage startups. As well as the mobility and insurance spaces, the BetterLabs Venture Fund aims to invest in around 10 companies. It is looking for opportunities in areas including cleantech; community; life,… Read more »
Employment startup WORK180, which looks to connect women with roles at organisations that have a focus on gender equality, has raised $1 million in a Series A round led by Skip Capital to help pursue expansion in the US. With participation from investors including the cofounders of Lux Group and the Startmate accelerator, the funding… Read more »
On this episode, Gina and Tricia chat about card payments. We sat down to talk with Ben Pfisterer, country manager for Square Australia. Ben has been with Square since its local launch, when it brought its original card reader down under in 2016. Having started out targeting the likes of market stalls, Square revealed last year… Read more »
Small business lending fintech Prospa has amended its loan terms following a review by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Prospa had delayed its planned ASX listing in June in order to respond to queries from ASIC; the listing was originally postponed for 48 hours before being delayed indefinitely as Prospa underwent the review.… Read more »
Maria Halasz is the managing director and CEO of the ASX-listed life sciences & biotech company, Cellmid Limited. She has a fascinating background: she originally started in the science, working in executive positions in biotechnology firms, before moving to corporate finance and managing investment funds. Maria joined Cellmid in 2007 – and since her appointment,… Read more »
Accounting software provider Xero has unveiled Xero Learn, an educational platform looking to help everyone from university students through to small business owners develop their financial literacy. The platform is populated with more than 100 courses taking students through core and advanced accounting and financial literacy skills. The platform allows users to set up dummy… Read more »
Adelaide-based internet service provider Uniti Wireless has received a $5 million grant from the South Australian government’s Future Jobs Fund to help push its expansion around Australia. Founded by Che Metcalfe and Sasha Baranikov in 2014, Uniti states it was launched to provide an alternative to the NBN. With a mix of fibre and fixed… Read more »
Sydney’s Liverpool City Council has signed an agreement with Mastercard to collaborate on the company’s City Possible program, an initiative bringing the public and private sectors together to solve issues facing cities. With the area home to more than 215,000 residents and growing by 100 each week, the agreement will see Liverpool City Council… Read more »
By Andrew Spence South Australian company Life Whisperer entered into a collaboration with leading United States IVF laboratory Ovation Fertility to test its AI technology to evaluate thousands of 2D static images of embryos created through past IVF cycles. Life Whisperer is a non-invasive, scalable and secure web-based tool that can be utilized by IVF… Read more »
Charles Sturt University (CSU), coworking community Working Spaces HQ, and Wagga Wagga City Council have received a $300,000 grant to help boost innovation in the Riverina region. The funding is part of the NSW Government’s Local Innovation Network Program, a $2.1 million initiative looking to leverage the existing startup communities and infrastructure of seven regions… Read more »
IBM, the CSIRO’s Data61, and law firm Herbert Smith Freehills have teamed up to develop the Australian National Blockchain (ANB), a large-scale, publicly available blockchain solution designed for Australian legal compliance. The ANB will enable organisations to digitally manage the lifecycle of a contract, from negotiation to signing and onwards over the term of the… Read more »
Custom footwear startup Shoes of Prey has stopped taking orders as it looks to “actively assess” its options. With the Shoes of Prey website telling customers it will refund them if it is unable to produce standing orders, cofounder Jodie Fox wrote in a statement posted to her Instagram that the business is pausing to… Read more »
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