This year marks 60 years since a WWII bomber pilot began filming a science fiction series he wrote that would boldly go where TV had not gone before, changing the face of popular culture with Star Trek. Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, but his legacy and imaginings live on through the Roddenberry Foundation, which has… Read more »
Online share trading platform Superhero has cut its brokerage fee on ASX trades up to $20,000 from $5 to just $2. The 60% reduction in the digital trading platform’s brokerage fee undercuts rival Stake, which charges $3 for ASX trades up to $30,000. Superhero charges a 0.01% fee for trades over $20,000. The Superhero-branded app… Read more »
A Melbourne small business invoice payment platform built with a venture studio has raised $16 million. The round for Marmalade was led by Blue Stamp Company, supported by existing backer Paloma Capital and several family offices. The capital will be used to fund new customer growth and product development. The fintech was built in partnership… Read more »
The University of South Australia’s Innovation & Collaboration Centre (ICC) and Australian Centre for Business Growth (AuCBG) are collaborating to offer space startups a fully funded scaleup program that includes $10,000 in equity-free funding The six-month Growth Ramp scaleup program is being backed by the South Australian government and will support later-stage startups that have… Read more »
Dispelling the myths that sustainability is too pricey or difficult for small businesses to implement, a free digital masterclass next week will sort fact from fiction. Startup Daily’s sister publication Kochie’s Business Builders and cleantech startup Greener for Business are inviting startups to join the charge and discover how to tackle your net zero emissions… Read more »
ASX-listed Earlypay is acquiring invoice financing fintech Timelio in a deal that delivers a major haircut for the startup’s investors. The Melbourne fintech provides invoice and trade financing to Australian SMEs, but appears to have been on a downward trajectory for more than 12 months. Cofounders Charlotte and Andrew Petris left Timelio in mid-2022. Charlotte… Read more »
UNSW Founders held its annual 10x Demo Day this week with 25 startups taking part, spanning programs focused on synthetic biology (synbio), climate, health, defence and an all-industries cohort that includes the crowd-lending impact platform LendForGood. The Climate 10x Accelerator was set up as part of the $280 million Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy (TraCE)… Read more »
Getting the right technology and expert advice has brewed success for Perth-based coffee roasting company and online retailer Grouch & Co. Renata Taylor’s grandma was quite the legend. Picture this: a Croatian immigrant in Australia, roasting coffee beans over a stovetop in her kitchen, and then throwing them across a table with newspapers to cool… Read more »
Biotech incubator CUREator has allocated $12 million in venture funding to 19 projects focused on a range of global health issues, ranging from treatments for lupus, motor neurone disease, brain and ovarian cancer, and inflammatory bowel disease, as part of its second cohort. Backed by the federal government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), which invested… Read more »
Electric vehicle sales are surging. Australian sales doubled in 2022 to 3.8% of all new vehicle purchases, and were up 780% in the first two months of 2023 compared to a year ago. In the United States, Europe and China, the market share of electric vehicles is much higher, helped by greater government support. As… Read more »
ASX-listed regional airline REX has taken a 20% stake in electric passenger planes startup Dovetail Electric Aviation. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. A REX board member will join the Dovetail board. The investment follows a collaboration partnership struck last year with REX, which provided Dovetail with a Beechcraft King Air as flying… Read more »
New NSW Labor premier Chris Minns has deleted his TikTok account as the state follows in the footsteps of federal Labor in banning the Chinese-owned social media app on government-issued devices. Minns said the decision follows advice from the Commonwealth. On Tuesday federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus issued a directive to remove the TikTok app from… Read more »
Startup Daily and AWS invite you to a unique panel and networking event to lift your founder spirit: AWS Think Big. In a series of short, sharp chats, Startup Daily Editor and Host Simon Thomsen will talk to leading founders, VCs, and tech leaders who’ve been through scaling up. As the adage goes… “a problem… Read more »
Co-working startup space operator Tank Stream Labs is preparing to open a new premium office in Sydney’s Barangaroo later this year. Tank Stream Labs has pre-committed to 4,400 square metres across two levels in International Tower Three, part of Lendlease’s carbon neutral Barangaroo precinct. “It’s very exciting,” Tank Stream Labs CEO Bradley Delamere told Startup… Read more »
From an Aussie unicorn with an award-winning culture that 97 per cent of its employees rate as ‘great’, to a rising fintech star building staff loyalty as its teams grow, we’re unpacking the secrets of employee engagement, company culture and talent retention with the best of the best. Startup Daily, in partnership with modern HR… Read more »
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