The latest round of the NSW Government’s EV fleets incentive program has opened with $5 million in co-funding up for grabs for businesses and organisations making the shift to electric vehicles. The provides support for the purchase or lease of up to 15 battery EVs (BEVs) and the installation of smart charging infrastructure. The latest… Read more »
Over the summer break, Startup daily is republishing some of its most read and favourite stories from 2025. Today it’s about Canva’s profitabilty, published in September. It’s just shy of 20 years since US political satirist Stephen Colbert coined the term ‘truthiness’. He described it as “something that seems like truth – the truth we… Read more »
Over the Summer break, Startup Daily is republishing key stories from 2025. This analysis by QUT’s Cameron Shackell, compares the introduction and hype around electricity in the 1920s – and those who profiting from it with AI today, and the lessons to learn, and was popular with readers when it came out in October. The… Read more »
Savic Motorcycles has raised $2 million in a convertible note amid a changing of the guard at the decade-old Melbourne startup. Founder Denis Savic has moved to a strategic role, with Marc Alexander, a 25-year veteran of EV systems, autonomous platforms, IoT, consumer and automotive tech taking on the CEO role. The raise, finalised in… Read more »
Over the Summer break, Startup Daily is republishing key stories from 2025. This opinion piece from editor Simon Thomsen first appeared in February amid news that the NSW that the NSW government and UFC fan premier Chris Minns, paid $16 million to the US cage fighting company to stage 3 events in Sydney at a… Read more »
Sydney startup Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), which builds its own quantum chips (QPUs) for commercial-scale quantum systems, has achieved a breakthrough in scaling processors. The company’s manufacturing process, developed over 25 years, patterns chips with 0.13 nanometer (atom level) precision to create the most accurate semiconductor manufacturing process in the world. Details of the latest… Read more »
There’s a terrible paradox in the festive season. While Christmas Day is generally quiet when it comes to domestic violence, December 26 is one of the worst days in the year. An app called Heard launched recently to fill a critical gap in how survivors of abuse begin their journey toward understanding, healing and support… Read more »
Canberra startup Aristotle Metadata has secured a $400,000 loan from Tractor Ventures in a capital raising exercise that shows the importance of venture debt as an option for startups. The Aristotle Metadata Registry is a data governance platform that helps organisations improve the quality, compliance and accessibility of their data; a growing challenge amid the… Read more »
Melbourne-based women founders community One Roof, has appointed Frances Goh as CEO, replacing her cofounder Sheree Rubinstein. Rubinstein said the transition, after nearly a decade at the helm, follows months of deliberation on the company’s future after it evolved from a women-focused co-working space into a national digital membership community for women entrepreneurs and business… Read more »
When Jen Clark launched Heartful, the online accommodation marketplace for sustainable and inclusive travel, just over 12 months ago, the last thing she predicted as a founder was that AI bot attacks could lead to its potential demise. It wasn’t even an attack on Heartful, which has more than 550 high-quality property listings nationally. They came… Read more »
ASX-listed venture fund Bailador Technology Investments has increased the valuations on stakes in two key portfolio companies, Updoc and PropHero, with the latter rising 45.6% in just 10 months. Bailador (ASX:BTI) tipped $12.5 million into real estate investment proptech PropHero in February as part of a $25 million Series A. The investor told the market… Read more »
The federal government will tip an additional $233 million into the national science agency the CSIRO over two years in response to budget shortfalls that have forced it to cut hundreds of research jobs, but the startup sector will pay for it with further cuts to commercialisation funding programs. And CSIRO still plans to cut… Read more »
Medical startup Ferronova has raised $6 million in a top up of its five-year-old Series A to $17.5 million. The fresh funding was led by existing investors Uniseed/UniSuper, South Australian Venture Capital Fund, Artesian Venture Partners and Renew Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Singapore- based Ultragreen.ai. The Adelaide biotech, founded in 2016 a spin-out from the… Read more »
ASX-listed Tyro Payments (ASX: TYR) is acquiring small business “CFO in your pocket” startup Thriday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, with the acquisition expected to complete in January 2026. Thriday is an AI-powered financial management platform for SMEs that automates invoicing, expense management, accounting and banking workflows. CEO Michael Nuciforo, a former… Read more »
Red meat analysis and verification platform MEQ Solutions has raised US$15 million (A$23m) in a Series A from New York software VC Insight Partners. The agtech startup began life in Adelaide in 2016, with its first product, MEQ Probe, going on to raise $500,000 in late 2018 for industry trials. MEQ has built the world’s… Read more »
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