Ahead of the TechStars Sydney ‘Demo the Future’ evening, tonight, December 8, Startup Daily is profiling the 12 startups and their founders in the 2025 cohort. Our next profile is MuseAI – empowering music creators and harnessing human artistry. MuseAI Founder: Jad Al Masri One-liner: MuseAI is the AI-musepowered workspace empowering music creators to capture, organise,… Read more »
Threats relating to technology, disinformation, economic security and foreign interference are overshadowing traditional security concerns in Australians’ minds, according to data released by the Australian National University National Security College. More than 12,000 people were asked across two surveys, in November last year and July this year, to rate the seriousness of 15 potential threats… Read more »
Perth fintech Bless Payments raised $3.75 million in Seed funding in mid-2025. The round, completed in July, was backed by billionaire Khalil (Charlie) Shahin and London’s Forte Securities, and was finally revealed as the global payments platform, which is hoping to take on incumbents such as Airwallex, Wise, Revolut and Monzo, looks to raise a… Read more »
Australia’s startup landscape is undergoing its most dramatic shift in a decade, with data from the annual Startup Muster report revealing that founders are investing in artificial intelligence rather than headcount. The 2025 edition of the nation’s largest startup survey, released in Sydney on Friday night, reveals a sharp fall in employment as more than… Read more »
The Victorian government will wind down startup support agency LaunchVic and rework technology investment fund Breakthrough Victoria as part of broader public sector reforms set to save the state $4 billion. The decision has rattled the state’s startup sector, and spells an uncertain future for state-backed accelerators, grants, and investment funds tailored to local talent.… Read more »
This week saw more $24 million in VC funding go towards AI onboarding tools, seaweed tech and more. Keep reading to learn more about the six Australian startups with fresh capital to deploy. Bodd: $15 million 3D body scanning platform Bodd has raised $15 million as it looks to expand globally. The round was led… Read more »
If there’s one thing PlayStation exclusives tend to nail it’s a game about revenge. Some of the console’s greatest hits — God of War, The Last of Us Part II, even the original Ghost of Tsushima — focus squarely on this theme. In games, this generally sets up a final boss fight, and then the… Read more »
When Jim Cooper, CEO of Blue-X, a California-based innovation services company for startups, moved to the US three decades ago, he had some trepidations. Now he loves it, but the former Sydneysider is back “home” for Christmas and in his shorts, to share his experiences on the final Startup 360 episode for 2025. Jim, who… Read more »
Ahead of the TechStars Sydney ‘Demo the Future’ evening on December 8, Startup Daily is profiling the 12 startups and their founders in the 2025 cohort. Our next profile is SurfLab – the platform elevating surfer skills and enjoyment, while also enhancing their community connection. SurfLab Founder: Ant Arena One-liner: SurfLab is the world’s first AI-powered surf… Read more »
The largest data centre in the southern hemisphere will be built in New South Wales after local provider CDC Data Centres’s proposal received approval. The NSW government last week approved the plan for a $3.1 billion hyperscale data centre at Marsden Park, about 36km north-west of the Sydney CBD. First announced in October last year,… Read more »
Remember when Twitter used to be good? I reckon it peaked somewhere around the first COVID lockdowns. In those days, there was a running gag on the site where everyone would refer to it as a “hellscape”. And it did invite some of the worst that humanity has to offer. Opinions, as the old joke… Read more »
Tech Council of Australia founding director and former chair Robyn Denholm will depart the board in February after five years. Her departure comes amid two other changes to the 10-member board, which features several tech billionaires, with its two ex-politician directors also logging off, replaced by two more. Former NSW Liberal minister Victor Dominello departed… Read more »
Founder Institute ANZ, the local chapter of the world’s largest startup accelerator, has selected eight new startups to back from its Spring accelerator. The Founder Institute’s pre-seed accelerator helps early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process… Read more »
If the $467 million Airwallex raise and secondary share sale told us anything, it is that Australian venture capitalists are increasingly less venture and a lot more capital with a spreadsheet. When Blackbird and Airtree, two of the country’s flagship VC firms, finally joined a Series F round for a company they had previously passed… Read more »
Hachiko, an optimisation software startup for industrial battery energy storage systems (BESS), has raised $2.5m in a Seed round. The round was led by Archangel Ventures, with support from Twynam, Investible, Motion Capital, Electrifi Ventures, and Wattle Hill Capital. The funding will help build technical and go-to-market teams as well as deepening and expanding platform… Read more »
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