New Zealand small business tech developer Black Pearl Group (NZX: BPG) will dual list on the ASX in the coming months as it looks to expand its Australian presence. Blackpearl founder and CEO Nick Lissette, who recently told Startup 360 that the company was exploring an Australian listing, today confirmed the company preparing to file… Read more »
Storm Menzies knows better than most about the challenges of finding funding to back women-led startups. The founder of accessible beauty tools startup ByStorm Beauty set out to help more than 700 million women globally living with a disability to look and feel good, launching last month. Menzies has mild cerebral palsy, and after breaking… Read more »
Sydney biotech startup Smart MCs has secured $900,000 in funding through the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Linkage Program to scale its next-generation microcarrier technology for large-scale cell-based manufacturing. The project is a partnership between Smart MCs and the University of New South Wales, led by Associate Professor Christopher Marquis and Professor Kristopher Kilian, working alongside… Read more »
Qantas chair John Mullen and digiDirect founder Shant Kradjian are among several prominent backers in a $1.2 million raise for a new proptech for residential property management. The round for Sydney startup Cohabit, a data and benchmarking platform for strata and residential buildings, was also supported by strata lawyer Christopher Kerin, and Sentia’s Michael Cindric. … Read more »
UQ Venture’s iLab, Australia’s longest running accelerator program for early-stage startups, has merged with their later-stage Momentum accelerator for a super cohort in the second half of 2025. But you’re keen to be part of the action, get cracking – applications for both the iLab and Momentum Accelerators close this Monday, July 7, at noon.… Read more »
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 »
The technology behind Owls Eat Rats is more RI (raptor intelligence) than AI-based, but it solves a big agricultural problem and won the $50,000 grant prize at the Hatch: Taronga Accelerator Program pitch last week. Six startups were involved in the annual program, which culminated in the pitch night at Taronga Zoo Sydney. Owls Eat… 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 »
Just two months away from hundreds of startups and founders being forced to move out of the Sydney Startup Hub, there’s still no clear vision from the NSW government about what the move to Tech Central will look like. While the government has yet to publicly announce a new location, Startup Daily understands that tenants… Read more »
Kiwi startup Kiki is hoping that its plan to be bigger than Airbnb will have more luck in London after it was forced to shut down in New York due to the city’s subletting laws. It’s also a case of 4th time lucky for the Blackbird-backed startup, which has previously opened, and closed, in New… Read more »
Real estate proptech FoundIt has raised $2 million in a pre-Seed to give buyers greater insights when buying property. The raise was backed by a strategic group of real estate experts, including Realbase cofounders Frank and Jacques Greeff, Realtair’s Peter Matthews, and Propps founder Daniel Bignold. FoundIt, the brainchild of former Domain executive Angus Ferguson… Read more »
Contactile, a deep tech startup giving robotics the subtlety of human-like touch, has scored $268,712 from the federal government under its Industry Growth Program The matched funding will go towards the the commercialisation of its tactile sensor-enabled smart robotic gripper. Contactile’s patented tactile sensor array has created a smart gripper measures 3D deflection, force, vibration, torque,… Read more »
Sydney startup Vow will finally get to serve its cultured quail meat products in Australia following approval from regulatory authorities that it’s safe to eat. The food safety authority, FSANZ, spent two years picking at Forged, Vow’s cell-based meat created from Japanese quail, including a second round of public consultation late last year. Meanwhile, the… Read more »
When Chris Friend rocked up to a Bondi Boardriders comp in 2016, he didn’t expect to stumble across a business idea that would soon power surf and skate comps around the world. But standing in the sand, watching organisers scramble with pens, paper, and spreadsheets, he and mate Fernando Freire, a surfer and software programmer,… Read more »
Three months of hard work building deep tech startups came to a climax today when their founders told their stories at CSIRO’s ON Accelerate showcase in Melbourne. The ninth cohort of the national science agency annual program to support founders from Australian universities and CSIRO itself featured 11 finalists, spanning drug development, healthcare delivery, and… Read more »
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