Perth startup Coursebox raises $750K from Purpose Ventures to scale its AI-powered platform that lets organisations create engaging, compliant training courses in minutes—already boasting users across 180+ countries and strong organic traction.
Auckland startup Nurox Hydrothermal has partnered with Interwaste to deploy its hydrothermal hazardous-waste processing technology—using heat, water, and air to convert dangerous waste into useful by-products without harmful emissions.
ResetData has put its $1 million AI innovation competition in the spotlight – paired with its Melbourne AI-F1 supercomputer launch – to drive ideas in health, housing, sustainability, and tech.
Clean energy and climate tech startup accelerator, EnergyLab, has selected 10 startups for its 2025 Climate Solutions Accelerator This is the 12th cohort since launching in 2017, helping develop ideas ranging from breakthroughs in energy storage, grid optimisation and dynamic retail, to critical minerals recovery, carbon utilisation, and circular manufacturing. Earlier this month, alumni startup… Read more »
South West Sydney’s brightest innovators were given a chance to tell their stories at Pitch Night South West at the Liverpool Powerhouse. The initiative was led by UNSW Founders and featured eight finalists who pitched their business and social change ideas tackling key societal challenges. They ranged from harnessing the benefits of AI and giving… Read more »
In less than four months, world-first legislation will ban Australian under-16s from certain social media platforms. Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram, X, Reddit and YouTube will all be off limits for children and teens. It’s still not clear exactly how the restrictions will be implemented. But the federal government says social media platforms must take “reasonable… Read more »
Needle-free vaccination delivery scaleup Vaxxas has raised $49.2 million in a Series D, but cut 10% of its workforce, including a clear out of its executives. The University of Queensland spin out has moved founding CEO David Hoey, who’s been on leave for the past three months, into a strategic adviser role after 13 years… Read more »
Cyber-intelligence startup Apate.ai, a countermeasure to Australia’s $2 billion scam industry, has raised $2.5 million in Seed funding. The round was led by OIF Ventures with participation from Investible. The funds are for product development and international expansion, including hiring engineering and go-to-market teams, as well as expanding its partnerships with financial institutions, telcos, and governments… Read more »
A pioneering collaboration between two medical startups tackling respiratory diseases with artificial intelligences has scored $3 million in federal government funding from Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) program. Diag-Nose.io and Human Health are working on RhinoMAP – an AI-enabled platform they hope will transform how respiratory diseases such as asthma, sinusitis, and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary… Read more »
ASX-listed online retailer Kogan.com is back in the red following its write-down of New Zealand acquisition Mighty Ape. Shares in Kogan.com (ASX: KGN) were placed in a trading halt briefly on Monday morning ahead of the results release and news of board changes. The $46.3 million on-cash impairment to goodwill from its $122m Mighty Ape… Read more »
Cross-border payments fintech Send Payments, has raised $5 million as cofounder Paul Billing steps down as CEO. Existing backers Regal Funds Management and Kelly+Partners Investment Office once again invested with iPartners joining the cap table. The new funding is for continued development of the platform and its ability to turn cross-border payments into new revenue streams… Read more »
So your boss wants you in the office more? If this makes you anxious, you’re not alone. Return-to-work tensions aren’t simply resistance to change. They reflect deeper questions about how different people work best and what modern organisations actually need to succeed. After COVID, return-to-office rates stabilised by around June 2023, without much movement since.… Read more »
Queensland biotech Lucia Bio has topped up its Seed round with an additional $2 million to take the total raised to $3m. The startup, launched last year, is a joint venture between UK commercialisation firm Molecule to Medicine (MTM) and investor UniQuest’s QEDDI (Queensland Emory Drug Discovery Initiative) team at the University of Queensland (UQ).… Read more »
An ecommerce fulfilment business has raised $38 million as it hopes to take on Amazon with same-day delivery for retailers. The raise for Skutopia led by Pemba Capital, with support from MA Financial and Blackpeak Growth Partners, and also includes debt. Skutopia began life in 2018 as Sydney-based Workit Spaces – a coworking hub for… Read more »
Nicole Gibson is a remarkable founder who thinks deeply about what it means to be human in the world of tech. The CEO of inTruth Technologies, the world’s first emotion bio-tech, is a very special guest on Startup 360 this week, sharing her journey from teenage student struggling with serious health issues and the profound… Read more »
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