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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Canva’s cloud, tech lobbies up, LaunchVic’s 4-year plan

Gavin Appel & Rebecca Eastwood - August 16, 2021 6 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems. This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday. Don’t forget you can catch Gavin Appel discussing… Read more »

Other tech

This simple crystal could unlock full-scale quantum computing

Jarryd Pla & Andrew Dzurak - August 16, 2021 4 MIN READ

Vaccine and drug development, artificial intelligence, transport and logistics, climate science — these are all areas that stand to be transformed by the development of a full-scale quantum computer. And there has been explosive growth in quantum computing investment over the past decade. Yet current quantum processors are relatively small in scale, with fewer than… Read more »

Global tech

Here’s how Apple can scan iCloud for child abuse photos and still protect your privacy

Mayank Varia - August 13, 2021 4 MIN READ

The proliferation of child sexual abuse material on the internet is harrowing and sobering. Technology companies send tens of millions of reports per year of these images to the nonprofit National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The way companies that provide cloud storage for your images usually detect child abuse material leaves you vulnerable… Read more »

Funding

A VC explains why he backed the new alt-meat startup by Shoes of Prey founder Michael Fox

Derek Handley - August 12, 2021 4 MIN READ

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released this week was described as a “code red for humanity”. We’ve been collectively called upon to drastically reduce emissions in order to stabilise rising temperatures that are already beginning to cause natural events of biblical proportions. Meaningful emissions cuts won’t happen unless we come up with strategies… Read more »

Cryptocurrency

A hacker stole a record in $831 million in cryptocurrency – then started giving it back

Casey Tonkin - August 12, 2021 3 MIN READ

A hacker pulled off one of the biggest cryptocurrency heists in history by transferring $831 million worth of cryptocurrency off the Poly Network platform, only to start giving the assets back the next day. Poly Network announced the attack on Tuesday night, saying it had been attacked on the Binance Smart Chain, Ethereum, and Polygon… Read more »

Funding

How to target the right investors for your startup’s capital raise

Benjamin Chong - August 10, 2021 3 MIN READ

You’re a product visionary. You’ve incorporated customer feedback into your business. Your revenue model is scalable. Your brand is on point and cutting through. Your prototypes and proof of concepts are gaining customer traction. Your metrics are pointing in the right direction. Now all you need is funding to support your go-to-market. While we’ve previously… Read more »

Politics

Here’s what you need to know about the worrying new IPCC report on climate change

The Conversation - August 10, 2021 5 MIN READ

Earth has warmed 1.09℃ since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report also found escape from human-caused climate change is no longer possible. Climate change is now affecting every… Read more »

Business

7 things we need to do to fix Sydney’s Covid outbreak

The Conversation - August 9, 2021 4 MIN READ

On July 15, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said Sydney’s COVID lockdown wouldn’t end until the number of new cases not in full isolation was zero or as close to zero as possible. But by August 1 the premier’s message had shifted: Once you get to 50% vaccination, 60%, 70% it obviously triggers more… Read more »

Advice

Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: It’s hip to be Square, a big week of raises, Twitter’s hunt for AI bias

Gavin Appel & Rebecca Eastwood - August 9, 2021 6 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems. This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday. Don’t forget you can catch Gavin Appel discussing… Read more »

Advice

In a global legal first, an Australian court ruled that machines are inventors, so how long before AI rules technology?

Dr Amanda-Jane George - August 6, 2021 4 MIN READ

What does it mean to be an inventor? In patent law, designed to protect the intellectual property of inventors, officials are used to thinking of inventors as humans, taking an “inventive step” – a new way of doing something — not obvious to a person skilled in the same art. But last week — in… Read more »

Other tech

South Australia’s seaweed industry is booming in a bid to cut carbon emissions

Startup Daily - August 6, 2021 3 MIN READ

An emerging commercial seaweed industry is gaining pace in South Australia and it has the methane produced by cows firmly in its sights. Australian researchers have found red seaweed has the ability to reduce cow and sheep methane production by up to 90% when mixed with stock feed. The findings have led the South Australian… Read more »

Advice

12 startup lessons I learnt from Seth Godin

Steve Glaveski - August 5, 2021 7 MIN READ

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with marketing luminary, Seth Godin, for an episode of the Future Squared podcast. Here’s what I learnt. Of course, Godin needs no introduction to most of you reading this, but the TLDR of it is this – he’s the author of 19 books including titles such as Linchpin and Purple… Read more »

Advice

Giant Leap’s Small Steps: A record-breaking year for impact VC

Rachel Yang and Charlie MacDonald - August 5, 2021 2 MIN READ

Welcome to Giant Leap’s Small Steps, a newsletter offering global insights and news on the impact startups landscape. We’ll be sharing an edited version with Startup Daily readers every fortnight. Giant Leap is Australia’s first impact venture fund, and they use this newsletter to surface the ideas and businesses that intrigue and inspire them and… Read more »

Data

Open banking 1 year on: how Australia’s new world of data is changing finance

Jill Berry - August 4, 2021 3 MIN READ

Just over a year into the Consumer Data Right (CDR) regime and Australia is now beginning to understand the competitive advantage this new world of data can offer. Designed to give consumers greater access and ownership over their own data to increase competition, CDR has first been introduced to banking, to be followed by energy… Read more »

ASX

Why Jack Dorsey’s Square wants to pay record $39 billion for Afterpay

Lien Duong & Sonny Pham - August 4, 2021 3 MIN READ

The A$39 billion (US$29 billion) that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s digital payments company Square is paying to acquire Australian upstart payments outfit Afterpay is the biggest takeover deal in Australian corporate history. It surpasses the A$32 billion European commercial real estate giant Unibail-Rodamco agreed to pay for Frank Lowy’s Westfield Corporation in 2017. The deal… Read more »