Not-for-profit company Social Traders has opened applications for its startup accelerator program, Crunch to grow Australia’s social enterprise ecosystem. Social Traders aims to break the cycle of disadvantage and work with startups to build resilience in Australian communities.
The 2016 Telstra Northern Territory Women’s Awards has announced social influencer Andrea Mason as business woman of the year. Along with the title, Mason also won the For Purpose and Social Enterprise award for her social change work across 26 communities in Australia.
VidCorp is an online video communication platform allowing businesses to target their videos to a particular market, whether it be staff, customers, or stakeholders, and measure engagement.
Melbourne-based startup Hospital Glamour is an online fashion store for hospital gowns that provide hospital patients with style and practicality. The gowns revamp the old outdated hospital gown with fun and colourful prints, giving people more dignity upon their hospital stay.
Singapore-based data analytics startup Nugit, founded by Australian entrepreneur David Sanderson, has raised US$5.2 million ($6.8 million) in funding from Sequoia India.
Sydney startup Relax VR has announced it will be featured on Google’s new mobile virtual reality platform Daydream. Google’s new platform enters the next frontier in the VR space and will officially launch in November this year.
The Australian Everything IoT Summit, now in its second year, will give successful startups the opportunity to present their IoT solutions at the global summit in Tel Aviv.
Adelaide-founded, San Francisco-based startup HappyCo, which creates apps to help clients run smarter operations, has announced the closing of a US$7.5 million (around $9.8 million) Series A funding round.
Pollenizer has today announced the launch of Next Monday, a program in Geelong to help the hundreds of workers who will be finishing up at the Ford factory following its closure this Friday figure out their next steps.
Following a company re-brand and the launch of its service in Perth, Deliveroo Australia has today announced the launch of a new platform called Deliveroo for Business. The platform was created to target the increasing popularity of corporates ordering food at lunch.
Launched in 2014 by Australia’s now chief scientist Alan Finkel, Melbourne edutech startup Stile looks to replace textbooks with digital platforms for students to engage with content in a way that makes more sense to a tech-generation.
Rather than install EFTPOS terminals, the cash-only Gelato Messina has skipped that step altogether and worked with Melbourne startup LOKE to release its own digital wallet and loyalty app.
As part of the 2016 Spark Festival- a nine-day celebration of startup culture, the University of Sydney is set to host Australia’s first ever pitch event for medical cannabis technology. The pitch event, named Seedlings will discuss the combined regulatory, technological and logistical challenges the emerging cannabis industry faces in Australia.
Ten Australian social enterprises have been named finalists in the local Google Impact Challenge, showcasing innovations ranging from a series of community-driven apps to save Indigenous languages to a platform connecting people with pro bono legal services, and an autonomous robot protecting coral reef ecosystems.
US coworking giant WeWork has today opened its first Australian premises in Martin Place in Sydney, offering desks from $850 a month.
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