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Connect Education is getting top-scoring high school graduates to tutor current students
Connect Education is offering students an online platform that allows them to completing practice work developed and guided by graduate students.
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Art marketplace Bluethumb raises $1 million to build out Indigenous Art Centre program
Bluethumb has raised $1 million in a Series A round led which will go towards expanding the startup’s Indigenous Art Centre program and adding new features.
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HealthCoach is a fitness app offering online consultations with health professionals
HealthCoach is a fitness app which matches clients with “coaches” for online consultations to help achieve their health goals.
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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.
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Western Australian startup Cribber is a cloud-based communication stream for tradies
Cribber is an app facilitating communication and compliance between tradies and site manager through a daily content “bulletin board”.
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Olly’s Box is a monthly subscription crate aiming to get both dogs and their owners active
Olly’s Box offers a monthly subscription box for dogs, with each product designed to encourage dog owners to have fun with their pet and get active.
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Perth healthtech HealthEngine closes $26.7 million Series C round to expand team and products
HealthEngine has announced the closure of a $26.7 million Series C round led by Sequoia India, which will help expand the startup’s team and offerings.
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Online glasses platform Clens lets consumers swap in new lenses for their frames
Startup Clens allows users to buy affordable new lenses for their glasses online and send their frames in for a swap-over.
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Regulatory technology startups band together to launch Regtech Association
Thirteen companies have banded together to launch the Regtech Association, a group focused on facilitating collaboration and growth in the regtech sector.
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Qnect is a social ticketing platform for student events at universities
Targeting university societies, Qnect allows users to browse through events where the ‘attending’ list only reveals those who have paid for a ticket.
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Defiant Development’s Kim Allom on the state of Australia’s gaming industry
Speaking at Myriad, Allom shed light on how lack of government support and funding opportunities are restricting the emergence of new startups in the space.
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FiftySix Creations founder Taj Pabari on his startup journey and promoting young entrepreneurship
Taj Pabari’s FiftySix Creations is focused on educating and encouraging young innovators through workshops and built-it-yourself tablet kit.
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Regional innovation could add $44 billion to economy each year, report finds
Regional businesses across Australia are more likely than their metropolitan counterparts to be innovating and “making things happen”, a report has found.
Advice
Online Home Loans is implementing AI to guide customers to the best mortgage
Online Home Loans is a startup looking to harness AI in order to make a splash in the, well, online home loans industry with their new chatbot, Sophie.
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Queensland government opens new startup precinct in Fortitude Valley
The Queensland government has opened a startup precinct in Fortitude Valley, a place for entrepreneurs to “collaborate, collide, succeed and shine”.
