Tank Stream Labs will bring together hundreds of founders, investors and experts from the Australian tech ecosystem for a one-day conference, titled the Startup 2 Scaleup Summit (S2S), on November 16. The conference is the brainchild of Tank Stream Labs CEO Bradley Delamare, who’s designed a program that spans all stages of the founder journey… Read more »
Live entertainment platform Muso has rebranded as Surreal, a year after expanding into the UK and New Zealand ahead of a Series A raise. Surreal is a software solution designed to streamline and simplify the booking, management, payment and promotion of live entertainment. Cofounder and chief operating officer Alan Jin said the business has grown… Read more »
Brisbane’s River City Labs is looking to back up to 20 women entrepreneurs in a new program that will offer emerging tech companies run by female founders with several months of support and mentoring to get their ideas to the next level. The Elevating Female Founders Program, was launched at the annual Something Tech. festival… Read more »
Anyone who has heard me speak over the year and a bit since I became the Minister will have heard me talk about scams. And in particular, we believe the Consumer Data Right can be used to make a real, lasting difference. Scammers are causing untold misery across the country. Conservative estimates tell us that… Read more »
Australians will go to the polls on October 14 to vote in a referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. We have not voted in a federal referendum since 1999. So what do you need to know? How is a referendum run? A referendum is run by the Australian Electoral Commission in the… Read more »
Hearing the calls of founders tangled up in tech stacks and dealing with increasingly tight runways, global tech leader Dell Technologies has stepped up its local support for Aussie startups at a crucial time. We may be going through a dip in Australian startup funding, but the bigger picture is bright. Sydney and Melbourne were… Read more »
A majority Australians see AI as a negative 20% believe it will end humanity in the next 20 years. ANZ businesses using AI fell in the last 12 months Using AI in safe and secure way remains a concern AI adopters more likely to report profitability increase Artificial intelligence (AI) is about as popular as… Read more »
Aotearoa New Zealand is the latest country to enter the expanding and competitive international space market. In the aerospace strategy and national space policy, the government lays out how it intends to grow the domestic space sector by launching rockets and satellites and promoting Earth observation research. The documents indicate the government’s general priorities in… Read more »
Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Tech Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems. This wrap goes out free to subscribers. Don’t forget you can catch Gavin Appel regularly… Read more »
Victorian medical cannabis biotech Medigrowth has raised one of the largest equity crowdfunding campaigns in the sector’s six-year history, banking nearly $3.45 million from more than 2000 investors. The CSF campaign on Birchal is the third largest in the platform’s history, with Medigrowth hitting its minimum target of $500,000 in just 45 minutes before gaining… Read more »
Nourished Life founder Irene Falcone’s Sans Drinks will get a second life with business being acquired from its administrators by online retailer Just Wines. The online non-alcoholic drinks store was placed in voluntary administration in mid July, with Falcone citing a challenging and changing retail environment. The sale is a surprising turnaround for the business… Read more »
An updated report from Deloitte Access Economics has found the Victorian startup ecosystem has out- performed growth expectations from forecasts made in 2020. The report,“Scaling up: Growing the economic opportunity for Victoria’s startup ecosystem”, commissioned by startup agency, LaunchVic, concludes that pandemic tailwinds were kind to the sector with its value nearly doubling from $50… Read more »
ASX-listed semiconductor business Weebit Nano is adding entrepreneur Naomi Simson to its board as a non-executive director (NED). Simson, who founded online experiences marketplace RedBalloon in 2001, is already busy as a company director, sitting on several boards, including Big Red Group, RedBalloon’s parent company, as well as Australian Payments Plus, Colonial First State, University of… Read more »
Victorian agtech startups have access to a new funding source with LaunchVic backing a new $1 million angel sidecar fund backed by Agriculture Victoria. The Hugh Victor McKay Fund is named in honour of the inventor who patented the combine harvester in the 1880s, one of the most important agricultural innovations in recent history. The… Read more »
StartGiving, the not-for-profit organisation inspiring a new culture of giving in the Australian innovation community, has launched a podcast and vodcast series for tech founders looking to start or scale their giving. Hosted by StartGiving founder and chair Daniel Petre and CEO Antonia Ruffell, the series features leaders in the tech and philanthropy spaces generously… Read more »
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