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St Kilda Mums provides families in need with safe pre-loved baby equipment
St Kilda Mums was founded by a group of mums after they discovered charities are loath to take baby gear because it’s so difficult to assess items’ safety.
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myprosperity launches Kwidz platform to teach children financial literacy
While there are a wealth of pocket money apps and kids’ bank accounts in the market, the team still saw a gap for a money management and education tool for kids, and so Kwidz was born.
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Sydney startup Juggle Street connects parents to local carers
Founded in Sydney in 2014, Juggle Street connects families with ‘local helpers’ and has grown to 46,000 users across Australia.
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Girl Geek Academy launches cybersecurity skills workshop for primary school girls
Girl Geek Academy has partnered with NAB to launch a cybersecurity workshop for primary school girls in the upcoming school holidays in Melbourne.
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What startup founders with kids need to know about the New Child Care Package
The Government is introducing a New Child Care Package that will offer better support to parents who work outside the normal 9-5.
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Adelaide startup My Creative Child is a subscription box service helping kids embrace art
My Creative Child puts together boxes with art supplies and education packs, including lesson plans, for kids of various ages.
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In shuttering Our Little Foxes, its founders honed in on their vision and community’s needs for a future business
The key challenges that would eventually lead to the closing of Sydney company Our Little Foxes were chronicled in a documentary series, Dream Academy.
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Code Club Australia looks to break its own record of kids coding with return of Moonhack
Code Club Australia has announced the return of Moonhack for 2017, a campaign to see thousands of kids come together to code online.
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Sydney startup Littlescribe is an app allowing kids and schools to digitise and print their own books
Littlescribe’s app allows kids or their parents to digitise the stories they create, with the platform meshing each page together to create a book.
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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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Melbourne app Parachuute helps parents organise carpooling for all their kids’ activities
Parachuute allows parents to tap into their trusted networks to get their kids to and from school and all those sports practices and matches, playdates, and other activities after school and on the weekends.
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Tree Hut Village is a peer-to-peer platform allowing parents to hire out unused baby equipment
To make it cheaper for parents to hire while also enabling parents with unused equipment lying around to make some extra cash is Melbourne startup Tree Hut Village.
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Social network for parents Tinybeans lists on the ASX
Sydney-founded startup Tinybeans, the social platform allowing parents to share snaps of their growing children with a close network of people actually interested in seeing them, has today listed on the ASX, seeing to raise $6 million to pursue growth.
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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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Hobart startup AirParents connects parents to help each other with childcare
To help parents connect with others in their school or local community willing to lend a helping hand is Hobart startup AirParents.
