Carolyn Breeze
ASX

ASX-listed Scalare Partners launches AI-powered services solution platform, The Founders Union

- November 3, 2025 2 MIN READ

ASX-listed tech investment & advisory firm Scalare Partners has launched an AI-powered startup services platform, called The Founders Union.  The AI-enabled matching engine offers founders with curated access to organisations providing education, community, services, perks, and investment options, based on a startup’s growth stage and needs, taking into account issues such as budget and availability,… Read more »

Executive, The Scream
AI/Machine Learning

Generative AI is freaking out Australian tech execs, who say they’re not ready to deal with its risks

- November 2, 2025 3 MIN READ

Australian technology leaders are losing sleep over increasing regulatory complexity, growing damage from ransomware, and the challenges of near-ubiquitous artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes, a new survey by cybersecurity body ISACA has found. Generative AI (genAI) and large language models will drive the agenda in 2026, with 64% of Oceania respondents to ISACA’s 2026 Tech… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

The 10 new features just launched by Canva

- November 1, 2025 3 MIN READ

Australian design unicorn Canva has unveiled its biggest product overhaul in its 12 years, as part of what it is calling its ‘Creative Operating System’. The blockbuster new system features Canva’s own large language model trained specifically for design, and permanently free access to the Affinity professional design tool, and new features to help you… Read more »

Funding

Cheque-in: 8 startups raised $113 million this week to end October

- October 31, 2025 5 MIN READ

There’s been a flurry of funding deals announced by Australian and Kiwi startups this week — from a Brisbane startup building superfast, hydrogen-powered planes to a Perth company transforming seaweed into a natural alternative to plastic. Keep reading to learn more about the eight Australian and New Zealand startups that collectively raised more than $113… Read more »

Leadership

How to reframe failure as fuel for growth

- October 31, 2025 4 MIN READ

In “the recession Australia had to have”, as our then Treasurer Paul Keating stated in 1990, I was a cofounder of a small, emerging manufacturing business in Sydney, NSW. We started the business in mid-1988, went through the usual start-up growing pains, won a place on a NSW government tender, and things were tight, but… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

Data privacy regtech SecurePII lands $5 million Seed raise for global push

- October 31, 2025 2 MIN READ

Melbourne compliance and data privacy startup SecurePII  has raised US$3.5 million (A$5m) in Seed funding. The round was led by Sydney VC Tidal Ventures. SecurePII was founded by Jason Thals, Haydn Faltyn and Bill Placke, self-confessed skiers, mountain climbers, soccer players, cyclists, marathon runners, campers, golfers, paragliders and travellers who are “into motorbikes, sports cars, woodwork, Lego, science fiction,… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

Kiwi workplace feedback startup Huckleberry pockets NZ$2.1 million pre-Seed for US ambitions

- October 31, 2025 2 MIN READ

New Zealand voice-based 360 feedback platform, Huckleberry, has raised NZ$2.1 million ($1.84m) in pre-Seed funding. The round was led by US VC Oregon Venture Fund, with support from Archangel Ventures, plus US and NZ founders, including Mineral CEO Nathan Christensen, TradeMe’s Rowan Simpson and M-Com’s Serge Van Dam. Huckleberry enables people to talk rather than… Read more »

Sydney CBD, Harbour bridge
Business

The NSW government’s development fast-track program attracted $73 billion in data centre and tech projects seeking support

- October 30, 2025 2 MIN READ

The NSW Government’s Investment Delivery Authority (IDA) has received 48 major investment proposals worth $136 billion in just 10 weeks since it opened the first round of expressions of interest. Treasurer Daniel Mookhey announced IDA in the June budget, setting aside $17.7 million to get it up and running to “cut through red tape” and… Read more »

ULUU cofounders Michael Kingsbury and Michael Julia Reisser
Climate Tech

Seaweed plastics alternative startup Uluu raises $16 million Series A

- October 30, 2025 3 MIN READ

Perth sustainable materials startup Uluu has raised $16 million in Series A, helping it develop a facility capable of turning seaweed into a natural plastic alternative at commercial scale. The latest raise was led by Germany’s Burda Principal Investments, with contributions from Main Sequence, Novel Investments, Startmate, and impact investors and family offices, including Fairground… Read more »

Business

How a health app helping women deal with their gut feelings topped the charts

- October 29, 2025 4 MIN READ

When Chelsea McCallum and Alison Williams launched Tummily, they weren’t just creating another wellness platform. They were redesigning how people experience – and take ownership of – their gut health. Within 24 hours of launch, Tummily had broken into Apple’s Top 100 Medical Apps, downloaded in over 40 countries. No massive ad campaign. No investor… Read more »