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20Four helps athletes create and monetise short form video content to distribute direct to fans
Focusing on short form video content from athletes, and helping athletes monetise it with partner brands, is Australian startup 20Four.
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Coworking community CreativeCubes invests $4.8 million to bring Orange Theory Fitness franchises to its Melbourne spaces
CreativeCubes is a coworking community whose workspaces look to “inspire left brain thinking for the right brainers [and] right brain thinking for everybody”.
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Melbourne-founded startup Arcade helps retailers keep sales staff engaged through gamification
Arcade helps retailers keep their sales staff engaged and motivated through gamification of employee goals, recognition, and rewards.
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How to survive a Startup Weekend
Startup Weekend events are now a staple of Australia’s startup ecosystem. There were over 20 last year, ranging from agtech through to female founder events.
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ASX-listed software company LiveTiles raises $20 million in share placement
With shares priced at $0.45 per share, LiveTiles is also set to launch a Share Purchase Plan to raise an additional $3 million from existing eligible shareholders.
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Rocket Seeder program partners with MLA Donor Company to explore innovation in red meat
Rocket Seeder will guide those working on ideas around personalised nutrition, snacking on the go, healthy ageing, and sustainable consumption & packaging.
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Microsoft to launch ScaleUp program out of Sydney Startup Hub
Microsoft has provided a boost to the Australian startup ecosystem, today announcing the launch of its ScaleUp program in Sydney.
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Unlockd CEO Matt Berriman steps down to deal with bipolar disorder
Matt Berriman, CEO of high-flying adtech startup Unlockd, has announced he is stepping down as chief of the company to look after his mental health.
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Ballarat real estate platform NextAddress wants to bring transparency to the process of buying and selling property
Looking to shift the status quo of the traditional property buying and selling process to benefit the customer is Ballarat startup NextAddress, founded by Julie O’Donohue.
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Arc, hub for hardware-focused startups to open in Brisbane
With almost $270,000 in funding from the Federal Government’s Incubator Support program, Brisbane is next week set to open a dedicated hub for hardware-focused startups, Arc.
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Telstra-backed accelerator muru-D unveils fifth Sydney program cohort
Now in its fifth year, Telstra-backed accelerator program muru-D is still going strong, today revealing the intake for its fifth Sydney program.
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Brisbane fintech Cohort Go facilitates cheaper cross-border payments for international students
Cohort Go enables students to pay in their own local currency, and offers them rates usually only available to large corporates.
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Open banking regime should be customer-focused and increase competition, review states
Open banking will “revolutionise” Australia’s financial services sector by giving consumers the right to share their data to get themselves a better deal, Treasurer Scott Morrison said.
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Small businesses not doing enough to leverage tech to keep up with consumer expectations, report finds
Only 50 percent of Australian SMBs have a website, while 48 percent of consumers stated they will stop considering a business if it doesn’t have a website.
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Melbourne startup Socialsuite helps organisations measure their social impact and secure further funding
Melbourne’s Socialsuite has developed a platform that works to help social organisations gather data around their work and in turn analyse it to measure impact.
