This year has seen a boom in wearables. From the flop of the ill-timed (and ill-designed) Google Glass to the recent launch of the Apple watch, fashion and tech seems to be an inevitable match. We can no longer avoid being snobs around the fashion industry, leaving it to designers and manufacturers to figure it out.
Seeing the Eiffel Tower is great and all, but travellers these days seem to be more keen on avoiding the tourist traps and exploring and getting to know a city like a local. But with established travel guides and sites often constricted by the types of trips and destinations they can write about, bloggers are often the best source of information when looking for the local experience.
If you’ve ever been to a bottle shop or boutique wine store and found yourself overwhelmed with the number of options available and the jargon used by salespeople, Sydney-based startup The Wine Gallery may just rock your world.
Sydney-based FinTech startup Afterpay allows online consumers to pay for their purchase after they’ve received it and decided to keep it.
BakeBox partners with the best, and often obscure, patisseries in Sydney, and delivers baked food items to the customer’s desired location within 48 hours.
Sydney based startup LegalVision announced this morning it has just finalised a Series A round of funding to the amount of $1.2 million.
After experiencing difficulties trying to find carers for their grandparents, who wanted to stay home and receive care rather than entering a facility, Sydney sisters Lauren Hockley and Marissa Sandler came up with the idea for Careseekers.
By its very definition, a good coworking space isn’t just about the ping pong tables, nap pods, and coffee machine, but community. With Sydney’s Fishburners nestled between ABC, UTS, and TAFE buildings on Harris St in Ultimo, a street populated with more startups than on any other around Australia, you might be hard pressed to find a bigger community on just one road.
The healthcare industry is heavily regulated in order to take care of consumers. However, all those regulations also mean that things are slowed down on the administrative side. A new startup wants to help at least one aspect of the time consuming administrative side through HealthcareLink, a job search platform built specifically for healthcare professionals.
Last year, startup Big Review TV experienced a fast-tracked and oversubscribed IPO, when it underwent a reverse takeover with publicly listed, struggling gold explorer, Republic Gold. The preparations for this started happening around October and on New Years Eve, the new company BIG UNLIMITED began trading on the ASX officially for the first time.
On Sunday, CUZIN went into public beta, a strategic move for the Sydney-based startup, given Australians are flocking to shopping centres, departments stores and ecommerce websites to take advantage of discounts in the lead up to Christmas. According to a recent National Retail Association report, Australians are expected to spend $43 billion in the pre-Christmas trading period.
One such person who was affected by the Jill Meagher case is humble Sydney-based entrepreneur Christian Beck who, as the founder of LEAP Legal Software, isn’t unfamiliar with what it takes to build a profitable technology company. It was this incident that motivated Beck to create a solution that would help reduce unexpected deaths that like of Jill Meagher occurring in the future.
I’m pretty skeptical when it comes to startups who claim they are trying to ‘disrupt’ the Australian postal system.
After graduating from the University of New South Wales, Kearney decided to do something about this ‘expensive gown situation’. He roped in his friend from uni to create GownTown, a startup that sells graduation sets for $99.
In ancient times, foot messengers ran miles to deliver messages. And then there were homing pigeons and horseback riders. Today, not only is a short drive inconvenient, we’re also impatient about delivery timeframes – especially when compared to the instant nature of information exchange. This is the basis of a recently launched Sydney-based startup Sherpa, founded by Frenchmen Mathieu Cornillon and Bastien Vetault who migrated to Australia four and six years ago, respectively.
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