Melbourne university RMIT has partnered with fintech hub Stone and Chalk and Accenture to develop an eight week course on blockchain strategy. Developed in partnership with the university’s Blockchain Innovation Hub, the course will cost $1,600 – or $1,300 for early bird sign ups – and run through the university’s RMIT Online hub, kicking off… Read more »
Real estate startup Soho has raised $1.65 million from BridgeLane Group as it looks to compete against the major players in the property listings space. This brings the total raised by the startup to date to $2.65 million. Soho was founded by Jonathan Lui, cofounder of Airtasker, and launched last year. The startup bills itself as… Read more »
Having worked together on various projects for a few years, Bank of Queensland (BOQ) and Brisbane coworking community River City Labs have made their relationship official, announcing a two year corporate partnership. With the partnership, or sponsorship, to see BOQ take up residential space at the hub, Donna-Maree Vinci, group executive and chief operations,… Read more »
Canberra cybersecurity startup Penten has nabbed a $1.3 million innovation contract to develop a cryptography solution for the Australian Army. According to Minister for Defence Industry, Christopher Pyne, the project was chosen as part of the Special Notice platform being trialled by the Defence Innovation Hub, which allows industry and research organisations to submit proposals… Read more »
Following in the footsteps of the state government, which appointed Mark Sowerby as its inaugural Chief Entrepreneur a year ago and recently passed the title onto Steve Baxter, the University of Queensland has appointed a Chief Student Entrepreneur. Taking on the role is Ben Coughlin, a third year economics student and founder of Backyard Coach,… Read more »
By Gerard Holland There is a stigma about having an unsuccessful startup, as it can quickly go from excitedly telling others about your idea to explaining why you have moved back in with your parents. But a failed startup shouldn’t be viewed so negatively by those in the business world, or by others. Many budding… Read more »
By Dr Jeffrey Tobias The statistics can be very discouraging to aspiring entrepreneurs, but here it is: around never make it to a successful exit, despite the entry-level barriers to starting a business coming down further than ever before. At some point we had to sit back and ask ourselves, why is the mortality rate… Read more »
Bo Ji is the Assistant Dean of the Cheung Kung Graduate School of Business. He is an inspiring speaker and entrepreneur well versed in the economics of China’s market and how to expand in the startup game. He has a strong background in international business and education, leading divisions at Fortune 500 companies including Pfizer,… Read more »
Corporate accelerator Slingshot has revealed the 10 startups taking part in this year’s HCF Catalyst program, the program’s third intake. With the startups working on technology as varied as virtual reality to telehealth for midwifery services, education for trainees and junior doctors, and artificial intelligence, the launch of the program comes after KPMG Australia this… Read more »
The old adage that it’s not what you know but who you know may be a cliché, but like many a cliché it’s grounded in truth – particularly for Startups, where the power of relationships and networks can be key to winning a key client, brokering a partnership, or raising funding. So it was for… Read more »
For Cate Hull, Cofounder of FreightExchange, the chance to work with food and beverage giant Lion through the Lion Unleashed accelerator program, powered by Slingshot Accelerator, was a dream. “Lion is one of Australasia’s biggest manufacturers of food and beverages, and our application helps to optimise industrial freight movement, so they were a dream customer… Read more »
Almost a year after first launching the Tech Ready Women incubator program out of Tank Stream Labs, Christie Whitehill is taking it online to help women across regional Australia get their startup ideas going. First launched last May as an eight week program designed for non-tech female founders, the idea for it came from Whitehill’s own… Read more »
By Anthony Sochan The global war for tech talent still rages, and it can lead companies to panic and grab candidates who aren’t a good fit. Startups in particular tend to make several key mistakes when hiring. In a small team, it can be all the more disastrous if you’ve hired the wrong person. Here… Read more »
Northern NSW startup Nuonic has today announced it has received strategic investment from, and launched an alliance with, KPMG Australia. The amount invested by the consulting giant was not disclosed, but it brings the total raised by the startup to date to $1.3 million, with KPMG Australia joining fintech company InLoop as a backer. The… Read more »
Fintech company Uno Home Loans has announced the raising of $25 million in funding from strategic backer Westpac, and kicked off the search for a new CEO. Bringing Westpac’s total investment in the startup to $51.5 million, with $16.5 million coming in mid-2016 and a further $5 million last October, the funding will go furthering… Read more »
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