The remarkable success of employee management platform Deputy, which became Australia’s first tech unicorn in two years in March, has seen the 15-year-old tech company named Scaleup of the Year at the 2024 Startup Daily Best in Tech awards. The recognition, at a gala dinner with 270 guests at Sydney’s Ivy Ballroom had a certain… Read more »
The open balcony at level 53 of Salesforce Tower Sydney, is not for the faint-hearted, but it gives a choice between whether the views or being around 230 metres above CBD’s streets taking your breath away. But you don’t have to go out there among the planter boxes of box proteas and kangaroo paws to… Read more »
This year marks a decade of Stripe in Australia. The US global payments behemoth founded 14 years ago by Irish-American siblings John and Patrick Collison now services over 500,000 Australian businesses and has processed more than A$200 billion since landing here The Stripe World Tour rolled into Sydney recently to showcase the fintech’s products and users, and including a… Read more »
The Indigenous Australian Datathon (IAD), which combines with knowledge of traditional owners with the cutting edge of tech, returns to Cairns in November The IAD is an annual community and technology workshop, hosted at James Cook University’s Ideas Lab and spearheaded by software quality engineering consultancy, KJR, now in its fourth year. Ambitious startups, creative… Read more »
NSW Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology, Anoulack Chanthivong, will open the ninth annual Spark Festival in Sydney today– bringing together a network of over 40,000 tech sector leaders from across Australia. “Spark Festival is created by startups, for startups – sparking engagement across a community that shares knowledge and finds ways through challenges that… Read more »
The She Loves Tech Oceania Regional Pitch Finals is on in Melbourne this Monday and is set to be a landmark event, showcasing some of the most innovative women-led and women-impact tech startups from across the Oceania region. As the world’s largest community and acceleration platform dedicated to closing the funding gap for women in… Read more »
Everyone in tech has a Maria MacNamara story. Or if you don’t have one, you soon will. MacNamara has a knack for bringing people together, and has spent the past decade helping Australia’s startup ecosystem succeed in a storied career advising government on policy as well as the private sector. She was most recently CEO… Read more »
There’s plenty of startup action happening in the Sunshine State at the moment, and that’s on show this week at Something Tech. The two-day festival, August 29-30, once again brings together Queensland’s tech and innovation community in their own unique way for “a saturation of expertise, community sharing, and networking”. Festival cofounder Pauline Fetaui, from… Read more »
The annual Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) Renewables Startup Showcase will return to Sydney in November and the hunt is now on for startups looking for investment to take part. Innovation Bay, the membership community for technology founders and investors, is collaborating with ARENA for the fifth year of the event, on Thursday, November 21.… Read more »
If community is the new currency, then community management has emerged as the cornerstone of successful business growth and impactful social causes. As the world shifts online more and more businesses are embracing real human connections to have a positive impact on the lives of customers. Companies such as Culture Amp, Canva, Salesforce and Slack… Read more »
Puddle Pod started four years ago as a weekend side hustle of Startmate CEO Michael Batko. But since then it’s grown into a thriving community of learners committed to improving their professional lives featuring courses for people in startups to ramp up the talents they need to succeed. Puddle Pod has become the go-to productivity… Read more »
The 2024 season of the revived Shark Tank Australia series will see Queenslander Maxine Horne and Melbourne’s Nick Bell joining Davie Fogarty, Jane Lu and Robert Herjavec vying to invest in entrepreneurs on the fast-paced TV show. Horne was the founder of Fone Zone, one of Australia’s first mobile retailers, back in 1995, with the… Read more »
Brisbane biotech Gelomics will represent Australia in KPMG’s Global Tech Innovator challenge after winning the local pitch competition. The startup, which grows human tissue in a petri dish for drug testing as an alternative to animal testing in pharmaceutical drug development, was selected from among five high-powered finalists chosen from 155 entries. The annual KPMG… Read more »
Celebrating the best of Australia’s startup community The Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards 2024 is a major celebration of the innovation, impact and diversity of the Australian tech startup and scaleup community. As Australia’s leading digital publisher of startup news, insights and stories, Startup Daily wants to recognise the founders, investors, startups and individuals who… Read more »
The annual Cicada x Tech23 event returns to Sydney next Wednesday, August 7, and in partnership with the team from Cicada, Startup Daily is profiling the 23 deep tech startups selected to take part. They span five key themes – systems, Cicada CEO Sally-Ann Williams calls them – and this time we’re diving into “Forging Industrial… Read more »
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