Nominations for the 3rd annual Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards have been extended for another 48 hours to midnight on Sunday, July 6. There are 14 categories in the 2025 Best in Tech awards including startup investor of the year, best technical leader, the AI gamechanger, best startup event, and the GSD Award –… Read more »
Artificial kidneys, mission-free mining trucks, low emissions ammonia and GPS-free navigation are just some of the breakthrough innovations that will feature at the Cicada x Tech23 deep tech showcase in Sydney this year. This annual event spotlights Australian science-based startups developing critical technologies in health, energy, infrastructure, and industry A record 150 applications were received… Read more »
When Sue Keay’s Facebook account was hacked, Meta didn’t warn her of the obvious problem, it preferred to go nuclear and deleted all her accounts. It’s a reminder that digital sovereignty matters. There used to be a lot of different ways that people could connect with me but please know that you are no longer… Read more »
News emerged this week that Canva was looking at another secondary share sale, worth up to US$500 million (A$762m) with its valuation increasing by more than 15% to US$37 billion (A$56.2bn). It seem surprising with a US listing on the Nasdaq expected as soon as 2026. But in breaking the news The Information reported that… Read more »
Nominations for the 3rd annual Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards are now open. The 2025 Best in Tech awards are once again feature AWS Startups as the major sponsor, with Vanta as supporting partner. This year there are 14 awards, including the always-popular Most Innovative Startup, as well as Startup of the Year. Several… Read more »
Two Sydney quantum startups have combined forces to developed technology that effectively reduces the size of the circuits required to run a silicon-based quantum computer. Diraq and Emergence Quantum published details in Nature today. Quantum bits (or ‘qubits’) must be held at cryogenic temperatures, near absolute zero (–273.15 °C), to preserve their information. But they… Read more »
Since ChatGPT appeared almost three years ago, the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on learning has been widely debated. Are they handy tools for personalised education, or gateways to academic dishonesty? Most importantly, there has been concern that using AI will lead to a widespread “dumbing down”, or decline in the ability to think… Read more »
Veteran WiseTech director Charles Gibbon will leave the board next month, after 19 years, with major shareholder Michael Gregg also departing after less than a year into his second stint at the company’s AGM. The changes bring the board turnover in 2025 to six directors amid a power struggle involving former CEO and founder Richard… Read more »
Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it will invest A$20 billion to expand data centre infrastructure in Australia over the next five years. Prime minister Anthony Albanese, on his way to the G7 Summit in Canada, met with AWS CEO Matt Garman in Seattle over the weekend for the announcement. The infrastructure rollout by 2029 will… Read more »
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage across various industries. From AI-generated art to chatbots in customer service, every sector is seemingly poised for disruption. It’s not just in your news feed every day – venture capital is pouring in, while CEOs are eager to declare their companies “AI-first”. But for those… Read more »
A tech platform that helps doctors transcribe medical notes faster from conversations with patients has raised $12 million, valuing the two-year-old startup at $50 million. The round for Melbourne-based Lyrebird Health was led by Five V Capital and UK fund Octopus Ventures, with support from Startmate. The AI-powered medical scribe generates clinical documentation from patient-doctor… Read more »
Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi signal. Far from being benign tools, smartphones parasitise our time, our attention and… Read more »
Sydney’s startup ecosystem has enjoyed a rapid rise in the last year and is near the top 30 cities in the world, but Australia has continued its decline overall, according to a new report. StartupBlink’s Global Startup Ecosystem Index Report 2025 ranks the startup ecosystems of more than 1,400 cities and 100 countries, using hundreds of thousands… Read more »
ASX-listed logistics software giant WiseTech Global is betting more than 10% of the company’s current value on buying NYSE-listed US rival E2open for $2.1 billion (A$3.2bn). WiseTech shares rose 4.7% today to close at A$104.75 on the news. The 25-year-old Texas cloud-based SaaS platform reportedly connects more than 500,000 manufacturing, logistics, channel, and distribution partners… Read more »
Sales of new battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in the first quarter of 2025 have fallen to 2023 levels, while demand for hybrid cars as nearly doubled over the past two years. New figures from the peak motoring body Australia Automobile Association’s (AAA) quarterly EV Index reveal 17,914 BEVs were sold in the three months to… Read more »
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