As a Bondi resident for almost 10 years, the past few days have been hard to process. The terrorist attack that rocked Bondi last Sunday has left many of us struggling, still processing the horror and the impact on our community. My heart goes out to the victims, their families, the survivors, the Jewish community,… Read more »
Much like the past two years, December is proving to be popular for VC funding. This week saw $93.1 million spread across energy infrastructure, agtech, legal AI and more. IND Technology: $50 million IND Technology founder Alan Wong. Source: IND Technology Leading this week’s funding round-up is energy technology startup IND Technology, which has raised… 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 »
In the wake of Sunday’s tragic Bondi shooting, conspiracy theories and deliberate misinformation have spread on social media. Many social media posts suggested the name Naveed Akram was searched before the Bondi attacks. Facebook One thing some people have latched onto is the idea Google Trends data show a spike in searches for “Naveed Akram”… Read more »
The full program for the 2026 Growth Summit in Melbourne is now live, promising expert insights, powerful leadership lessons, and fearless conversations tailored to Australian startups, scaleups, and SMEs. Presented by SmartCompany and Startup Daily, in partnership with Xero, the Growth Summit will see the nation’s brightest entrepreneurs and innovators inspire a new generation of ambitious business leaders. Leigh… 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 »
Every founder I meet these days, looking for PR, begins with the same line: “We’ve built something great.” Yet the question that matters most is often overlooked: will that “something” become a story worth telling? This is especially true in tech, where AI is reshaping the landscape so quickly that nearly every startup is launching… 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 »
Disconnection is a problem that quietly accumulates beneath the surface of modern entrepreneurship. It rarely presents as a single dramatic moment. Instead, it lingers in the background, creating a chain of secondary symptoms that eventually shape how leaders think, decide, and build. For founders and business builders, disconnection often appears as loneliness at the top,… Read more »
Build Club, the US-based, Australian-born AI learning community, has launched Solaris AI, an AI accelerator for companies to reduce the time taken for organisational AI transformation from a year to a month. Founder Annie Liao said Solaris AI delivers fundamentally different approach to enterprise AI adoption, eschewing training programs that rely on generic use cases requiring… Read more »
Most of this year’s Game of the Year nominees are missing basic accessibility features, exposing how industry layoffs and budget cuts are pushing inclusion to the sidelines. Five years ago, former Nintendo of America CEO Reggie Fils-Aimé’s smiling face was projected onto a large screen at The Game Awards as he presented their very first… Read more »
After mass violence such as the Bondi beach terrorist attack on Sunday, distress does not stop with those directly affected. Fear, anger and uncertainty spread through media and social networks. This can intensify harm for survivors and targeted communities. People closest to an event are often supported by services and community. But the wider public… Read more »
More Australian founders turn to Startup Daily when they want to know what’s going on than any other news site in Australia. The site, founded in 2012 and now in its sixth year under editor Simon Thomsen, has seen its readership grow steadily over the past three years to become number one in the annual… Read more »
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