Startup 360 cohost Simon Thomsen is flying solo this week, taking a deep dive into philanthropy with Antonia Ruffell, CEO of StartGiving, and the Australian MD of global tech charity initiative Pledge 1%. Technology is transforming the art of giving – with companies such as Atlassian, Canva and now Airtree cofounder Daniel Petre, founder of… Read more »
The founder of 20-year-old Canberra cybersecurity firm QuintessenceLabs, Dr Vikram Sharma, is among eight of the nation’s top scientists, innovators and educators recognised in the 2025 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science. The annual awards recognise outstanding achievements in scientific research, innovation, and teaching Queensland University of Technology physicist and air quality expert professor Lidia Morawska won… Read more »
David Fairfull, the cofounder and former CEO of failed marketing startup Metigy has pleaded guilty to two charges in a prosecution brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). A year after first appearing in Federal Court in the ASIC case, and facing five counts of making false and misleading statements, plus one count… Read more »
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 »
A decade ago, Ronen Heine tossed in his career as a corporate lawyer at a top tier law firm for life as a startup founder and adviser. “I was doing lots of fancy work on the outside, but dead on the inside,” the founder of Luna tells Startup 360. “It was funny because no one… Read more »
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 »
Uniseed CEO Dr Peter Devine as called time on two decades leading the university-backed research commercialisation fund, staging his own exit at the end of 2025. Taking the helm in January 2026 is Dr Alistair Hick from Monash University, where he’s been its inaugural chief commercialisation officer, with responsibility for overseeing its IP commercialisation program,… Read more »
Officials from corporate regulator the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and Australian Federal Police officers raided the headquarters of ASX-listed WiseTech Global on Monday over concerns about share sales by founder Richard White and three others. WiseTech (ASX: WTC) shares fell more than 16% to around $71 in opening trade on Tuesday morning after… Read more »
“You treat us like a pack of galahs. [That’s a kind of parrot.] Just because I don’t wear a tie or spend all day buried in a manual doesn’t mean I’m a drongo. [That’s a hopeless …]” What’s your favourite line from the movie ‘The Dish’? Created and written by Rob Sitch, Jane Kennedy, Tom… Read more »
After facing a major health scare, Sydney grandparents Ken and Adelle Alexander could have focussed on their own physical and mental wellbeing through retirement. Instead, that difficult experience inspired the couple to give back to their community — in the form of a new smartphone app. “We couldn’t really do it financially, because we’re both… Read more »
The CEO of industry lobby group the Tech Council of Australia, Damian Kassabgi, is tossing in his job after less than two years in the role to focus on his young family, based in Northern NSW. Kassagbi, a former Afterpay, Google and Uber executive who took over from inaugural CEO Kate Pounder, now at OpenAI,… Read more »
Investment NSW director of innovation Liza Noonan is leaving the government to become Cicada Innovations CEO. Noonan replaces Sally-Ann Williams, who stepped down in mid-2025. Noonan will take the helm of the Sydney-based deep tech incubator on November 3. The move ends a 3.5-year stint in various roles inside the NSW government, during which Investment… Read more »
Startmate is getting into the streaming business with the next evolution of its Accelerator program – dedicated Founder Streams. Streams is designed to deliver more focused, hands-on support for founders across key startup sectors. It also features Stream Leads, experienced founders who’ve lived the journey themselves, to guide startups through tailored 12-week programs focused on… Read more »
I’m personally pro-tech and use AI every day. I’m genuinely excited by progressive tools that expand what creators and businesses can do. But the pace of what’s happening — and how it’s being rolled out — has been eye-jarring: creators sidelined, copyright murky at best, implementation racing ahead of consent. Right now it feels like a land-grab: who can… Read more »
Air conditioning is doesn’t sound like a sexy startup problem, but Conry Tech cofounder Sam Ringwaldt knows more than most how profound its impact on us and the planet will be as climate change takes hold. “It’s a really vicious irony that the main solution that we’re relying on to mitigate the change is also… Read more »
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