After a long career in property, it wasn’t until he was buying his own home that Mark Allen ran into a common frustration that many house hunters face. Allen was trying to buy a home, but by the time he had arranged finance, the property had been taken off the market. After moving on and… Read more »
Startup founders know how to face adversity head on, so after cancelling last year’s YBF Lift Off Awards, a fresh pandemic outbreak that has three states in lockdown wasn’t going to stop the 2021 event going ahead. The Lift Off Awards are part of YBF’s overarching drive for diversity. Shifting online for a YouTube-streamed virtual… Read more »
Perth-based startup Komo Digital now has one of the most important jobs for the Australian team at the Tokyo Olympics – driving fan engagement. The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has appointed Komo to deliver a fan hub to support the AOC’s first-ever digital fan engagement strategy for the Tokyo Games, which kick off today with… Read more »
The Future Founders Festival – Australia’s first festival for international student startups, innovators and founders – will now take place entirely online from this Thursday, July 15, running over two days to July 16. As Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak spread south to Victoria, the Melbourne-based event decided to move to online to ensure the safety of… Read more »
Telstra will refund more than 49,000 customers around $50 million after Australia’s largest telco failed to tell them they had internet plans that physically could not deliver the NBN internet speeds they were paying for in another embarrassing failure of the NBN. But the refunds are only occurring following intervention by the Australian Communications and Media… Read more »
The NSW government’s health department has turned once again to deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations to deliver a free training program to help aspiring biotech and medtech entrepreneurs and academics commercialise their ideas. The NSW Health Commercialisation Training Program aims to fast-track innovative ideas that will revolutionise the healthcare sector, improve patient outcomes, and provide… Read more »
Welcome to our weekly column on the important things to see and do for the ANZ startup community, brought to you by the director of the Spark Festival, Maxine Sherrin. Every Tuesday she picks out 3 things worth putting in the dairy for the week ahead. If you’d like to know more, sign up to the Weekly… Read more »
Seemingly out of nowhere, insurance tech is suddenly hot. Last month, Honey, a home and contents insurance startup that few had heard of, made global headlines raising Australia’s largest ever seed round, coming in at around $15 million. That’s remarkable when you consider that most rounds in Australia are less than $1 million. What could… Read more »
The dreaded ‘no show’ or last-minute cancellation is the bane of every event organiser, but a new app, Symlee, is hoping to change all that and help a range of charities in the process. Founder and CEO Skye Butler developed Smylee as an event organisation app, and was also conscious that human connection in the… Read more »
Sydney startup Meetric has hit the global stage just 14 months after launching thanks to the US productivity site Product Hunt. Meetric, which emerged out of the Antler program, is building a SaaS platform to ensure better, more effective meetings and improve the accountability from decisions made in them. It manages everything from calendar and video… Read more »
Construction of the first processing plant to use a seaweed-based feed supplement for cows to reduce their methane production by 90% will begin near Port Pirie towards the end of this year. The $90 million advanced processing facility will be built by Pirie Meats, with CH4 Global, Organic Technology Holdings and Siemens Australia signed up… Read more »
The problem that many smaller companies and startups face is trying to develop something that competes without spending the huge sums of money that comes with hiring an agency. With a background working in strategic brand consultancies, Bramp CEO, Benni Weller understood the challenge that smaller businesses faced and felt he could systemise the process… Read more »
Stamp duty waived on EVs priced under $78,000 from Sept 1 $3,000 rebate on 25,000 EVs priced under $68,750 $171 million for new charging infrastructure The NSW government will waive stamp duty for electric vehicles (EVs) costing less than $78,000 and offer $3,000 rebates to 25,000 people who buy a battery and hydrogen fuel cell… Read more »
The world’s first electric flying racing cars flew successfully in Sth Australia The octocopter has a 250kmh top speed and will start racing using remote pilots in 2021. Piloted craft will start racing in 2022. Tech experts from Boeing, McLaren, Brabham and Rolls-Royce helped develop the cars A flying electric race car that its developer… Read more »
Emmi, a carbon risk management startup that lets institutional investors improve their understanding of how financially exposed they are to carbon risks, has launched after attracting a series of high profile investors to join its board. Tim Samway, chair of Hyperion Asset Management, Coca-Cola Amatil and Boral director Catherine Brenner and Startmate investor Patrick Sieb… Read more »
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