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Mental health and the Australian startup ecosystem
Recent studies show that 49% of startup founders suffer from mental health issues.
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Venue Insider creates virtual tours to help event planners pick the right venue remotely
Australian startup Venue Insider provides venue listings complete with virtual tours to help event planners go about their work quicker.
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Brisbane startup BOP Industries develops hologram displays for events and marketing
BOP Industries creates holographic content specially tailored to a client for use at an event or space, also supplying them with projection devices.
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Social enterprise ecommerce startup Secret Sisterhood aims to tackle gender inequality globally
Helping connect women across the globe to charities working to put a stop to gender equalities is Sydney-based social enterprise Secret Sisterhood.
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Melbourne’s AmazingCo is an event planning platform helping customers manage the logistics of an event
AmazingCo allows users to plan an event, matches them with trusted providers, and then has its concierges manage logistics to ensure it runs smoothly.
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City of Melbourne identifying Smart Cities opportunities with Startupbootcamp
To further its focus on IoT, Startupbootcamp partnered with the City of Melbourne to host IoT & Data FastTrack for Melbourne Knowledge Week last Friday.
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Sydney secures rights to host LAUNCH startup festival in 2018 and 2019
Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced this weekend that NSW has secured the rights to host the LAUNCH startup festival in Sydney in 2018 and 2019.
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Bringing the traditional Startup Weekend back to Sydney
Fintech investment firm H2 Ventures has announced that it will be running its second Sydney Startup Weekend next week at WeWork’s space in Pyrmont.
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On-demand photography startup Snappr expands into the US with backing from Y Combinator
On-demand photography startup Snappr has announced today its expansion into the US with the opening of a San Francisco office and backing from YCombinator.
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New Zealand startup Eventfinda is a ticketing system built on an events discovery platform
Launched in 2006, Eventfinda was originally an events listing platform. Now incorporating ticketing, the startup last year processed 20 million tickets for events around New Zealand.
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Work Club is looking to diversify the coworking space formula to encourage collaboration
Work Club is a “lifestyle” coworking space offers startups of an opportunity to extend beyond their comfort zone and branch towards innovating new ideas.
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Rosterfy rebrands to Event Workforce Group as it targets US growth after signing on Super Bowl 2018
Victorian event staff rostering and management startup Rosterfy has announced a rebrand as it gears up to open an office in the United States after signing on clients including the 2018 Super Bowl, the Aspen Ski World Cup, and the City of Minneapolis
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River City Labs to host Brisbane edition of Global Startup Weekend series
River City Labs has announced it will be hosting the next iteration of Startup Weekend Brisbane on November 18 to 20. The event will run as part of the Global Startup Weekend series, with over 200 events to be held across November 11-13 and 18-20.
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Virtual reality experience Social Qs takes out first prize in Sydney leg of LadyProblems hackathon
Social Qs, a team looking to help men understand and develop empathy for the lived experiences of women in the workplace through VR and gamification, took out first prize at the Australian leg of the LadyProblems hackathon over the weekend.
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After being screwed over by developers and losing $500,000, Where4Events is on track to becoming Australia’s largest event aggregator
Caroline Woodhouse’s transition from office manager at a dead-end chiropractic clinic to tech entrepreneur has been rockier than anticipated. Like many non-technical founders, she decided to outsource the development of Where4Events, an event aggregation app, only to end up in a messy court battle, costing her $500,000.
