Over the last few years, universities around Australia have begun to see the value in investing in spaces and programs aimed at pushing innovation, both internally and outside the universities themselves. Among those that began investing early on is the University of New South Wales. As well as its Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and… Read more »
It’s a time-honoured tradition: the moment an international figure steps foot on Australian soil, the gathered media is almost required by law to ask them what they think about Australia. In classic little sibling fashion, we crave approval from the big kids. In most cases, the international figure doesn’t shed any light on interesting matters,… Read more »
Look at the leading and rapidly growing startup ecosystems around the world, and you will find that they have at least one key thing in common: government support. Routinely acknowledged as a leader around Australia is the Victorian Government, which has made good on its 2014 election promise to put $60 million towards the state’s… Read more »
Four months after appointing a new CEO, Sydney-based fintech company Tyro Payments has announced Kareem Al-Bassam as its Head of Product. The role has been newly created through the splitting of the Head of Product and Engineering position; Paul Peterson, Tyro’s current head of product and engineering, will head up the engineering function while Al-Bassam… Read more »
Sydney-founded, Reno-based drone startup Flirtey has raised a US$16 million ($21.3 million) Series A round led by existing backers Menlo Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures, with participation from Lowercase Capital, Y Combinator, and World Innovation Lab, reports TechCrunch. The funding comes after a strong 2016 for Flirtey. The startup last March completed the first fully autonomous… Read more »
The way company values come to be defined differs. A list of values can essentially be the feelings of two early-stage cofounders who have yet to hire a team, or can be found by making an effort to understand how hundreds or thousands of employees in a later-stage company work, what is important to them, and what the company… Read more »
After a bootcamp and input from the public through an open voting process, the 10 women-led startups taking part in the first SheStarts accelerator program have been revealed. With the six month program set to kick off in January next year, each startup will receive $100,000 in pre-seed funding in exchange for 15 percent equity.… Read more »
Almost 30 regional community groups have been awarded a combined $275,000 in grants through the ANZ Seeds of Renewal program to help execute programs and projects aiming to create education and employment opportunities within their communities.
It was a desire to find a way to stay in Wagga Wagga rather than having to move into the city to find work that led Peter Swan to launch web design agency Simple Pixels two years ago.
Two Australian companies and a Kiwi startup have made it into the top 10 of this year’s Tech Fast 500 Asia Pacific list from Deloitte. Cashrewards, last month named the winner of the Australian Tech Fast 50, came in at number four on the APAC list, followed by Property Exchange Australia in fifth. New Zealand’s… Read more »
This year, we aimed to refresh — and enhance — our in-depth snapshot of founders and startups across the entire tech ecosystem. We asked several of the same questions to track shifting sentiment and trends across years, but also delved into new areas such as how founders pick their lead investor and the perspectives they… Read more »
Ahead of the release of its 2016 Crossroads report later this week, advocacy body StartupAUS has announced the appointment of Topaz Conway to its board and existing board director Teresa Engelhard as chairman. Chair of women-focused accelerator program Springboard Enterprises and advisor for the federal government’s Accelerating Commercialisation initiative, Conway said she is “delighted” to… Read more »
Online shopping community Cashrewards, which connects shoppers through to ecommerce platforms and provides them with cashback on purchases, has been named top dog on this year’s Deloitte Tech Fast 50 list thanks to a growth rate of almost 12,500 percent over the last three years. Ranking the 50 fastest growing public and private tech companies… Read more »
As a high-growth startup, it’s likely that you will need more funds than you, or your family or friends, can provide. You’ll need to be as innovative about ‘fund hacking’ to raise funds as you are about growth hacking to grow your customer numbers. To be successful, you have to explore multiple funding sources to… Read more »
In the past, Australian startups working in the social enterprise space have chosen to go overseas to pursue growth, with the UK’s social enterprise sector, for example, far more advanced than Australia’s. However, this has begun to shift over the last year or so, with the pool of resources available to local entrepreneurs steadily growing.… Read more »
Daily startup news and insights, delivered to your inbox.
