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[VIDEO] Silicon Paddock Profiles: Fiona Whatley, Springhill Farm
A few decades on, the paddock to plate concept has truly taken hold and Springhill Farm is serving up delicious baked treats to customers around the country.
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Robot Circus develops mobile games aimed at educating primary school kids
For Robot Circus, innovating in the mobile space meant looking towards developing engaging titles that would serve as a social enterprise.
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Reposit Power helps homeowners optimise when to sell energy back to the grid
Reposit Power is offering a device where homeowners store energy from their solar panels and sell it back to their electricity provider for “GridCredits”.
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Agersens is an app looking to help farmers manage livestock through a “virtual fence”
Agersens has developed eShepherd, a virtual shepherding platform for managing livestock through GPS-based collars attached to each animal.
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[VIDEO] Audible’s Matthew Gain on the company’s journey and rise of the audiobook industry in Australia
Audible is a streaming platform allowing users to purchase and listen to audiobooks narrated by a book’s author or a voice professional.
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SLIKR lets customers book their spot in a queue for a barber appointment
SLIKR is a booking app targeted at men which allows users to enter an online queue for hair appointments, rather than booking an inflexible, set time.
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Government abolishing 457 visa to give Australian workers priority “for Australian jobs”
The 457 visa, or the temporary work visa allowing skilled workers to work for an approved business in Australia for up to four years, is to be abolished.
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Sydney edutech Smart Sparrow raises $5.3 million Series C round to expand platform for US market
Smart Sparrow has announced the closing of a AU$5.3 million Series C round to expand its technology to cater for increase in online courses in the US.
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Feedmee is an AI-based food discovery app donating to charity with each meal purchased
Feedmee is a social enterprise restaurant discovery and booking platform which donates a portion of each booking referral fee to charity.
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Medical cannabis accelerator BuddingTech partners with Guardian Data Software to boost analytics and research
Guardian Data Software has announced a partnership with BuddingTech that will see the organisation utilise their analytical engine and achieve new research.
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Nicole Stark of Disparity Games talks life as an indie dev and the rise of gaming startups
According to Disparity Game’s Nicole Stark, the rise of indie devs can be attributed to the “perfect storm” occurring post global financial crisis.
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Space startup Fleet raises $5 million Series A to build network of nanosatellites
South Australian space startup Fleet has raised $5 million in a Series A round led by Blackbird Ventures, with participation from Earth Space Robotics, Silicon Valley firm Horizon Partners, and Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes.
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The Rural Network is on a mission to connect and empower rural communities
Pioneering the task economy movement for the 1.3 million regional business owners across Australia is a fast-growing platform called The Rural Network.
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The Rural Network is on a mission to connect and empower rural communities
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the future of work is going to be about individuals selling their unique set of skills – the more connected households become via technology, the less relevance things like offices and shopfronts will hold in society. We have seen many metro-centric platforms, such as Airtasker and Sidekicker appear in the last… Read more »
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MySail is a crew finding and management platform for yacht racing
Through two online platforms, MySail helps racing yacht owners manage their crew, from the point of hiring to all the organisational facets of scheduling.
