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Sourdough pioneer Laurent Boillon named Australia’s EY Entrepreneur Of The Year, as Employment Hero’s founder wins tech award

Adam Bub - October 16, 2025 4 MIN READ

A French-born baker who developed a world-first way to supply frozen artisanal sourdough products to supermarkets has been named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ for Australia at the prestigious business awards. Professional services firm EY Australia’s annual entrepreneurship awards celebrated their 25th anniversary in Sydney on October 15, also recognising 22 national finalists who represent the… Read more »

Business

Employment Hero, Tiimely, Orthocell and Pay.com.au founders vie for top tech award

Adam Bub - October 9, 2025 4 MIN READ

Local tech titans are being given a platform for their achievements at the upcoming EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ awards on October 15. The founders of Employment Hero, Tiimely, Pay.com.au and Orthocell will go head to head in the Technology category of one of the nation’s most prestigious business awards, EY Entrepreneur of The Year (EOY). Now… Read more »

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Growth hacks

‘We want to have a billion-dollar valuation’: Cyber warfare, biotech scaleups vie for major award

Adam Bub - September 23, 2025 4 MIN READ

What does it take to be the best service provider in your field? Four leaders in defence tech, healthtech, executive recruitment and water infrastructure give us a glimpse. Ahead of the 2026 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ program’s 25th annual awards in October, Startup Daily is profiling the trailblazing entrepreneurs named as national finalists. So… Read more »

Beauty and fashion

Swimwear, sourdough, steel: 6 unique industry leaders make 2026 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year finals

Adam Bub - September 17, 2025 4 MIN READ

From K-beauty to French baking to low-emissions steel production, the national finalists in the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ program’s Industry category show the true diversity and innovation of Australian manufacturing today. Ahead of the 25th annual awards, the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year program has given Startup Daily a glimpse at the Australians whose… Read more »

Opinion

If nostalgia is Australia’s innovation story, no wonder we’re stuck

Selina Short - September 10, 2025 3 MIN READ

Australians love reminding ourselves we invented Wi-Fi, the black box and the Hills Hoist. But those stories are outdated. The challenges we face today are new. Nostalgia won’t build the systems we need to turn our next breakthrough into something the world buys. No wonder we rank 68 out of 69 countries for entrepreneurship in… Read more »

EY Entrepreneur Of The Year's Emerging leaders: What Ability and Our Cow founders

Growth hacks

‘Elastic spaces’ and meat merchants: 2026 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year shines light on emerging leaders

Adam Bub - September 1, 2025 4 MIN READ

From reinventing the workspace to bringing sports star power to disability support, these four entrepreneurs have won praise for how they’re tackling the problems of today with a sharp eye on the future. As the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ program marks its 25th year of supporting Australian entrepreneurship, Startup Daily is profiling the exceptional… Read more »

Growth hacks

Meet the 2026 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year national finalists for Social Impact

Adam Bub - August 21, 2025 3 MIN READ

As the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ program celebrates 25 years of spotlighting the best of Australian entrepreneurship, Startup Daily is profiling the finalists of one of our nation’s most prestigious business awards, to be held on October 15. Today, we meet the four finalists in the Social Impact category. From improving youth mental health… Read more »

Fintech

EY’s annual fintech census finds the number of new startups emerging has dropped dramatically

Startup Daily - November 29, 2023 5 MIN READ

Australian fintechs are looking offshore for success, hampered by the funding climate and regulatory complexity account to the latest EY FinTech Australia Census. The eighth census, a collaboration between Ernst & Young and industry group FinTech Australia, reveals a mature sector that overall is performing well. A record 88% of respondents said they are post-revenue,… Read more »

People

Go1’s cofounders are in the running to be named EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year

Simon Thomsen - February 2, 2023 2 MIN READ

Consulting giant Ernst & Young has named seven Australian finalists in its annual EY Entrepreneur Of The Year awards. They include Chris Eigeland and Andrew Barnes, cofounders of the Queensland edtech unicorn Go1. Last year Go1 doubled its valuation to $2.8 billion after raising $140 million. Now in its 22nd year, the awards recognise people… Read more »

Fintech

EY: Talent, salaries & capital remain concerns for Australian fintechs

Startup Daily - November 3, 2022 5 MIN READ

The annual Australian fintech census by consulting firm EY reveals the sector continues to grow strongly, despite the headwinds of the last 12 months, but founders face the same challenges and concerns when it comes to talent, salary costs and access to capital as other startups The 7th EY FinTech Australia Census report, collaboration between… Read more »

Fintech

EY: Australia’s fintechs are booming, but concerns about access to capital are growing

Simon Thomsen - October 22, 2020 4 MIN READ

39% of local fintechs have more than 500 paying customers, up from just 27% in 2019 72% of fintechs say the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on their capital raising ability Payments, wallets and supply chain (30%) and lending (20%) are now the top two types of fintech services The Australian fintech sector… Read more »

Topic

EY FINTECH CENSUS: The Hayne royal commission was a blessing, but now money is tight

Simon Thomsen - October 17, 2019 4 MIN READ

The 2019 EY FinTech Australia Census reveals the Hayne Financial Services Royal Commission was good for the local fintech sector 42% of fintechs say relationships with existing financial institutions improved over the past year 77% of fintechs are now post-revenue and median revenue has grown 80% from 2018 Nearly half report a stronger uptake of… Read more »

Topic

Almost 70 percent of Australian fintechs are post-revenue, with 1 in 5 profitable: fintech census

Gina Baldassarre - October 30, 2018 3 MIN READ

Almost 70 percent of Australian fintech startups are post-revenue and 19 percent are profitable, median revenue growth across the sector up 2.25x on 2017, a report has found.

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Sydney coworking hub Tank Stream Labs to expand to Perth in partnership with EY

Gina Baldassarre - December 7, 2017 2 MIN READ

Startup hub Tank Stream Labs has announced it’s branching out west, opening a new space in Perth in partnership with EY.

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Australia ranks fifth globally for adoption of fintech services, report finds

Gina Baldassarre - June 28, 2017 2 MIN READ

Australia is a leading market globally for adoption of new financial services technologies, according to a report from Ernst & Young, with a particular focus on money transfer and payment services.