Canberra’s InnovationACT this week announced the six winning startup teams that will share a $50,000 seed funding pool to help kickstart their ideas. InnovationsACT is an initiative of the Australian National University and is Canberra’s largest innovation program, running over an intensive 10 weeks.
AirTree Ventures has participated in a US$33.5 million investment round for US data startup Paxata. Australia’s largest venture capital firm has joined Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures and Cisco Investments among others in Paxata’s fourth round of investment.
Christchurch-born AgriTech startup CropLogic was named one of the most promising early stage ventures earlier this month at the annual Tech Investment 100 Awards (TN100 Awards), held in Auckland.
At the first sitting of the newly formed City of Sydney Council on Monday night, a motion was passed that will allow regional communities throughout New South Wales to benefit from a knowledge sharing initiative when it comes to tech startups.
Better Caring, a peer-to-peer marketplace for aged care and disability support services has today announced a raise of $3 million from Ellerston Ventures.
More than 100 entrepreneurs participated in this year’s Energy Hack event, a joint initiative between the Melbourne Energy Institute and Powershop Australia.
A joint venture between FairFax and Channel Nine injected $100 million into Stan, an Aussie streaming service that was only just an idea, not one piece of tech had been created.
Today Brisbane’s new $5 million innovation hub, The Capital has opened its doors to 200 of the state’s startups. The investment into the hub looks to create hundreds of new jobs in Queensland and aims to boost its startup ecosystem.
Techfugees Australia has announced its third hackathon, bringing together refugees and the tech community to find solutions to the refugee crisis. To be held in Sydney from November 5-6, Techfugees will facilitate the development of solutions aimed at helping refugees settle into the Australian community.
Hungry Jacks has today launched a new way for customers to order their breakfast and they don’t even have to utter a word. The new ordering system is called the Brekk-e-Tag, a device that works the same as the e-tag and is currently trialling in the NSW town of Tumbi Umbi.
To create a world first marketplace for last mile tracking, Sherpa has recently launched a new platform called Sherpa Fleet. The platform is a management service for a company’s existing fleet, but also has the capacity for third parties to tap into that fleet.
Townsville startup SafetyCulture has today announced a $30 million Series B round led by international venture capital firm Index Ventures. The investment comes as the second largest funding round secured by an Australian tech startup this year, following a $41 million raise by BigCommerce in June.
Australia is set to welcome its first ever international B2B and SaaS conference, B2B Rocks. After three successful events in Europe, B2B Rocks will join Sydney’s Spark Festival at The Australian Technology Park at the end of this month.
Sydney startup Hyper Anna has today announced it has raised $1.25 million in funding from Westpac’s VC arm, Reinventure and AirTree Ventures. The investment will help the startup launch its product in the US next year.
The Queensland Government has announced the opening of the first round of applications for its Commercialisation Partnership Program [CPP]. The program will provide researchers and entrepreneurs access to expertise and investment opportunities in China.
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