Applications have opened for the 2024 evokeAG. Startup Program to help boost our nation’s best agrifood tech innovators. Centred around the two-day event in February 2024, the program gives applicants a unique chance to connect with…
In 2018-19, identity crime directly and indirectly cost Australia an estimated A$3.1 billion. To address such costs, the federal government is proposing a national digital identity scheme that will let people prove their identity without…
Getting the right technology and expert advice has brewed success for Perth-based coffee roasting company and online retailer Grouch & Co. Renata Taylor’s grandma was quite the legend. Picture this: a Croatian immigrant in Australia,…
Startups, technology, innovation, investment and modern manufacturing are no longer on the priority list in NSW. Technology, startups and the arts are esoteric areas of investment for the new NSW Labor government and will bear the brunt of…
Global technology companies boast some of the best employment conditions in the world, but the journey there is often peppered with late nights burning the midnight oil for founders and their employees. Founders need to be aware of their…
A new agricultural innovation program for is setting up in Toowoomba, 125km west of Queensland, to support startups focused on enhancing plant health. The Agtech and Logistics Hub in Toowoomba is delivering the open innovation initiative…
While most of us suspect we waste too much of our working day in meetings and dealing with emails, employee communications startup Traffyk.AI has had a look at the size of the problem – it’s a day a week – and done something about it. The…
Newly created Sydney climate tech platform Greenhouse has been enlisted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to drive a new program to help the planet’s ‘hardest-to-abate’ sectors, such as aviation, shipping, trucking, and steel, increase…
Human laughter as we know it likely developed between ten and 16 million years ago. For context, the stone tools our distant human ancestors made in the Early Stone Age date back around 2.6 million years. These are vast time spans, but it…
Microsoft has been its own worst enemy this week as the tech giant suffered two unrelated data leak incidents where masses of internal documents, trade secrets, and backups of employee computers were released on the internet. On Tuesday,…
Financial regulator the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has launched Federal Court against Bit Trade Pty Ltd, the company behind the Kraken crypto exchange in Australian, alleging it failed to comply with regulations…
One of the startup sector’s biggest merger and acquisition deals will go ahead with rival restaurant ordering apps me&u and Mr Yum getting together. The Sydney and Melbourne startups have raised a combined $165 million in venture capital,…
It’s been half a decade since Investible launched our inaugural Early-Stage Fund, and first opened the doors of our office in Singapore. Since 2018, we have invested in 15 companies in Southeast Asia and we are now active in markets…
Foodbomb, a six-year-old wholesale food marketplace, has been acquired by hospitality ordering platform Ordermentum for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2017 by Paul Tory and Josh Goulburn, Foodbomb raised $4.5 million in a Series A two…
You’re a startup raising capital between pre-seed and Series A and struggling to find a lead investor – have you thought about a party round? But before we start the party, let me explain the purpose of a lead investor. When you typically…
Melbourne fintech tikpay has raised $1.6 million pre-Seed round ahead of the launch of its pioneering account-based ticketing (ABT) and payments platform. The round was led by AfterWork Ventures and Black Nova VC with participation from…
Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, is offering a new online learning program for free for startups focused on innovation in agrifood. The ‘Innovate to Grow: Agrifood’ program runs for 10 weeks from November and is designed to help…
Back in 2017, The Economist published a headline that became a meme. It said data had become the new oil. By that it meant that the world’s biggest and most profitable companies no longer worked with oil, as they had throughout the 20th…
Three Australian startups have been chosen from more than 3000 applications globally to take part in the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield event at Disrupt in San Francisco this week. AI-based marketing B2B Rammp, fashion tech venture…
The Victorian government’s $2 billion investment fund, Breakthrough Victoria has backed five Victorian universities to help them bring research to market in a deal worth $87 million. Deakin, La Trobe, Monash and Swinburne universities have…
While owner Elon Musk denies X, his rebranded Twitter, is an even bigger cesspit of abuse, racism, and unfettered nastiness than it already was, perhaps one way to improve things is meditation, according to Kiwi academics. Researchers from…
Female founders are involved in nearly 40% of the 13 startups in the Startmate class of winter 2023, with climate tech and AI among the key themes backed by the accelerator and investment program. The Winter23 Accelerator cohort spans…
What is a founder? Generally, we mean a person who starts something. But what does it take to start something? What do founders actually do? I believe it is the behaviour of a founder that makes it possible to deliver something that most…
Climate tech accelerator EnergyLab has singled out 13 startups for its new Climate Tech Charge program, offering them 12 months of support to help them make it through the current investor downturn. The Charge program provides critical…
Renowned innovators, creators, artists, and explorers across generations all share a profound passion for curiosity. This could be argued as their real key to success, with research confirming curiosity serves as a powerful driver for…
Fishburners has appointed Taryn Williams and Samantha Martin Williams to the board of the Early-stage startup community hub. They replace Jacqui Feeney, who leaves to become CEO of Screen Queensland, and Andrew Thornton, whose term has…
The Australian government will continue to authorise a one-to-many facial recognition system connected to the national ID database but is limiting its use to helping identify “shielded persons” like undercover police and protected…
An idea is the most powerful, important and valuable part of a startup’s journey. Unicorns such as Canva, Atlassian and Go1 all began as ideas that became a new reality. And it’s that crucial moment the 2023 Startup Daily Best in Tech…
Food waste recycling startup Goterra, a company Woolworths is relying on to help it achieve net zero food waste, has won the 2023 Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards’ Best Sustainability Startup award, sponsored by Zembl. In many ways…
With a culture of ‘radical candour’, transparency and more-than-flexible working arrangements, Kanopi has won the Best Startup Culture category, sponsored by The Culture Equation, at the 2023 Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards. When runways…