As a Bondi resident for almost 10 years, the past few days have been hard to process. The terrorist attack that rocked Bondi last Sunday has left many of us struggling, still processing the horror and the impact on our community. My heart goes out to the victims, their families, the survivors, the Jewish community,… Read more »
Successful Australian startup founders donate money at more than twice the rate of other taxpayers, and have already committed to giving away more than $19 billion according to a new research into local philanthropy. The arc from founder to funding and then foundation is detailed in the Australian Tech Giving Report by StartGiving and the University… Read more »
Tech Council of Australia chair Scott Farquhar has another board to run since stepping down as Atlassian co-CEO, taking on a role close to his heart as chair of the global social impact movement Pledge 1%. Farquhar was one of the founding members of Pledge 1% started in 2015 via the Atlassian Foundation. Pledge 1%… Read more »
Daniel Petre once worked with Bill Gates and has achieved amazing tech success – along with the riches that come with it. Here he shares what the real meaning of having money is, and what he’s doing with his. I wasn’t wealthy growing up. My parents were Romanian immigrants who came to Australia after… Read more »
StartGiving, the not-for-profit organisation founded by tech investor Daniel Petre in 2022, is embarking on a new project in its mission to inspire a culture of giving in the tech community. Following last year’s podcast series featuring Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Canva cofounder Cliff Obrecht, StartGiving is partnering with academics from the Centre for… Read more »
Healthcare startup Mentwell and the Love Out Loud Foundation have joined forces to raise and distribute support to the victims, families and others feeling the impacts of the Westfield Bondi Junction attacks on April 13, which saw six people die. Mentwell, offers digital gift cards for health and wellness services. Love Out Loud Foundation is a… Read more »
What happens when a sports-mad CEO joins a small NGO disability charity? A tech upgrade for its remote support “coaches”, for a start. The charity sector isn’t exactly known for its cutting-edge tech, but Wallara isn’t your average charity. “We’ve invested a lot in our digital side,” says CEO Phil Hayes-Brown. “When I came here… Read more »
The Envato Foundation has pledged to match donations up to a total of $25,000 as part of Smiling Mind’s annual giving campaign. Smiling Mind is a non-for-profit app-based meditation program developed by psychologists and educators to help make mindfulness and mental health support more accessible for Australians of all ages. The Envato Foundation had previously… Read more »
Aussie “GiveTech” startup Dataro has raised $2.5 million in a seed round to help charities improve their fundraising capacity. The raise was led by Basis Set Ventures, Black Sheep Capital, and Save The Children Dataro uses AI-driven technology to transform how charity fundraising works. Its machine learning algorithms analyse patterns in a charity’s entire history of… Read more »
Software startup GoGenerosity, which helps New Zealand businesses and charities make generosity easier, has raised NZ$1.3 million in a seed round. The raise was led by local private investors, with support from Icehouse Ventures. The funds are to expand the team and additional develop of the GoGenerosity software for new features such as EFTPOS integration. Recent… Read more »
A social enterprise startup that’s helping keep the homeless warm and fed during lockdowns needs more support to deal with growing demand. Sydney-based Gali Blacher and Maddy Jones co-founded the social enterprise The Good Box as a simple way to assist people on the streets. Working together in Sydney’s CBD, they saw the awkward interactions… Read more »
The dreaded ‘no show’ or last-minute cancellation is the bane of every event organiser, but a new app, Symlee, is hoping to change all that and help a range of charities in the process. Founder and CEO Skye Butler developed Smylee as an event organisation app, and was also conscious that human connection in the… Read more »
The Envato Foundation has ramped up its charity work adding two new organisations to its ongoing support program. The Foundation is the charitable arm of creative marketplace Envato, which donates 1% of the company’s annual pre-tax profits to fund its work. Its new partners have a children’s education focus: online tutoring and education services support… Read more »
As the number of coronavirus in India surpassed 20 million this week, resulting in more than 220,000 deaths, a group of leading Australian tech and investment companies, led by Canva, have stepped in to launch a fundraising campaign to get much-needed medical supplies to the nation. Canva, in collaboration with SafetyCulture, Airtasker, Blackbird Ventures and… Read more »
Australians are officially the richest people on earth. I recently read that some time last year we leap-frogged the Swiss who have had the strangle-hold on the top spot for many, many years. We’ve had 26 years of economic growth – again, the only country to do so – and we’re now the number one… Read more »
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