Blackpearl has brought Wilson Asset Management and other Australian funds onto its register via an oversubscribed placement, using proceeds to settle the B2B Rocket deal and ready the company for a late-November ASX debut.
AWS has announced the 40 global startups chosen for its 2025 Generative AI Accelerator. The eight-week program, now in its third year, is designed to help early-stage startups scale foundational generative AI technologies.’ Participants will receive up to US$1 million in AWS credits, mentorship, and access to AWS’s full AI technology stack. “The pace of… Read more »
The Community Collective cofounder and CEO Paz Pisarski admits it all happened by accident, but it’s the best accident to ever happen. At the Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards 2025, Pisarski was named Future Leader of the Year, sponsored by Techvisa. The award recognises an individual our judges believe has the potential to be… Read more »
Local tech titans are being given a platform for their achievements at the upcoming EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ awards on October 15. The founders of Employment Hero, Tiimely, Pay.com.au and Orthocell will go head to head in the Technology category of one of the nation’s most prestigious business awards, EY Entrepreneur of The Year (EOY). Now… Read more »
Sydney legal practice collaboration and CRM platform Nexl has raised US$23 million (A$35m) in a Series B. The round was led by Dave Yuan’s US growth equity firm Tidemark Capital. Philipp Thurner, former head of innovation at Gilbert and Tobin, and now based in New York, founded Nexl in 2018, pivoting in 2021 to help law… Read more »
Improving our brain health takes a village. It’s a community of researchers, clinicians, leaders, founders, and funders working together to turn possibility into impact. Some of Australia’s braintech has already made global waves – think Saluda and Synchron – both born from collaboration. It makes sense that some of the most ambitious innovators inevitably have to look overseas for… Read more »
ASX-listed jobs platform Airtasker (ASX:ART) has cut a new media-for-equity deal with 4 Ventures, the VC arm of Channel Four Television, worth £2.5 million (A$5.1m). The media inventory deal for its British subsidiary, Airtasker UK, is the third as the business hit a gross marketplace volume annualised run rate (ARR) of more than $21 million… Read more »
A Sydney climate tech startup looking to electrify heavy freight supply chains has shown what’s possible in a demonstration trial with impact toilet paper brand Who Gives A Crap. New Energy Transport (NET), founded in 2024, by Daniel Bleakley and Scania’s former head of innovation, Fredrik Pehrsson, is a trucking company delivering zero-emission heavy road… Read more »
NSW biotech Cauldron Ferm became the first startup to win two years in a row at the Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards, after taking out Best Regional Startup in both 2024 and 2025. The award, supported by Carta, recognises an outstanding startup located outside of the state capitals, which demonstrates strong growth, boldness in… Read more »
The electrification boom of the 1920s set the United States up for a century of industrial dominance and powered a global economic revolution. But before electricity faded from a red-hot tech sector into invisible infrastructure, the world went through profound social change, a speculative bubble, a stock market crash, mass unemployment and a decade of… Read more »
Enterprise software scaleup Octopus Deploy, which bootstrapped for 11 years, before a $220 million raise in 2021 took on $US30 million (A$45m) in fresh capital from its existing and only investor, New York VC Insight Partners, ahead of a major acquisition. The new funding was secured in 2024 before the Brisbane business spent $43 million… Read more »
ASX-listed defence technology company DroneShield will spend $13 million developing a new R&D facility in Adelaide, South Australia. The investment covers three years of operational and capital expenditure. DroneShield sells protection against threats such as drones and autonomous systems as well as electronic warfare solutions and off-the-shelf counter-measures for terrestrial, maritime or airborne drone attacks,… Read more »
Artwork created by generative AI (genAI) and other software could be eligible for copyright protection, after a seven-year legal battle ended with a Federal Court ruling that gaming giant Aristocrat can patent game features created by its software without human input. The latest ruling – which follows years of appeals and counter-appeals between Aristrocrat and… Read more »
Wellington startup PAM (Personal Administration Manager) has raised NZ$570,000 (A$502k) in the first close of its Seed round to help parents deal with the life admin of raising a family. Initial support was led by Flying Kiwi Angels, with participation from Icehouse Ventures, Even Capital’s Sarah Park, Easy Crypto founder Janine Grainger, Foggy Valley, Wainot… Read more »
Press Play Ventures has a simple goal – help more women become startup founders. The 12-week accelerator program won the GSD (Get Sh*t Done) Award, supported by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, at the Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards 2025 after delivering a dramatic impact for women founders in just 12 months. Press Play was founded… Read more »
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