A new digital jobs networking app targeting Gen Z, migrants and older job hunters is hoping to boost employment for blue- and grey-collared workers. ApplyKart is the brainchild of Melbourne-based entrepreneur Bharati Babbar. She set out to match job seekers with new employers within 48 hours, through an end-to-end hiring system. “Younger and older people,… Read more »
If you’re a new mother who wants to document each and every moment of your little bebe in a baby book but can’t find the time and effort, this new app is for you! Baby journaling platform Dujourbaby has launched a memory book app to help mothers easily capture and preserve memories of their baby’s… Read more »
Sustainability-focused tech startup Greener has raised $1 million in a seed round. The funds raised will be used to accelerate the development of the Greener app, secure further commercial partnerships, and prepare the world-first solution for a national launch next year. The Greener app makes it easier for consumers to identify brands with a focus… Read more »
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After travelling around the world and collecting people’s life stories as an anthropologist and filmmaker, Dr Aliaa Remtilla realised that everyone has a story to tell and everyone wants these stories to be captured. However, most people don’t know how to go about doing it. With a strong belief that every person’s story matters, Dr… Read more »
The dreaded ‘no show’ or last-minute cancellation is the bane of every event organiser, but a new app, Symlee, is hoping to change all that and help a range of charities in the process. Founder and CEO Skye Butler developed Smylee as an event organisation app, and was also conscious that human connection in the… Read more »
Agora Gourmet is a loyalty app that leverages South Australia’s love of local producers by rewarding consumers for publicly supporting their favourite brands, created by Barossa Valley Brewing founder Denham D’Silva. D’Silva has been in small business since founding Barossa Valley Brewing back in December of 2005. He came into craft brewing from the finance… Read more »
As people hope to travel again in 2021, a healtchare worker has come up with a tech solution to help navigate the covid-safe demands of airlines. Erika Harman, a dietician studying for her Masters in Healthcare Innovations at Bond University, developed the app VaxVisa to carry verifiable digital certificates for vaccination and laboratory test results. She… Read more »
ScrubUp is a cloud-based surgical preparation app that bridges the gap between hands-on experience for nurses and brushing up on best practice procedures in their own time. Surgical nurse and educator Marrianne McGhee founded ScrubUp in 2016 and has taken the healthtech app global to help instruct surgical technicians and nurses on the correct preparation procedures… Read more »
The founder of a health data analytics startup says it’s “absurd” for people to worry about the government tracking people on its new coronavirus app, when so many already give away their location data to international tech giants such as Facebook and Google. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Health Minister Greg Hunt released the voluntary… Read more »
Coffee break shout app Appreci, which lets colleagues buy each other cafe beverages, has a new backer, with Sydney-based Lakeba Group, which specialises in commercialising technology startups, taking a 35% stake in the gratitude platform to help it scale globally. The $430,000 investment is timely for the Queensland-based startup, which has 59 corporate customers,… Read more »
As governments look to ease general social-distancing measures and instead use more targeted strategies to stop coronavirus transmission, we face a social dilemma about the limits of cooperative behaviour. Consider the controversy over contact-tracing phone apps, which can help authorities identify people with whom someone diagnosed with COVID-19 has recently come into close contact. Oxford… Read more »
The Morrison Government has launched Coronavirus Australia, a new app for official COVID-19 information, as well as a Whatsapp feature, partnering with Facebook and Atlassian to produce it. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the launch of the app during a $1.1 billion commitment to additional telehealth, mental health, domestic violence and emergency relief services on… Read more »
This is the modern version of an old joke – and the punchline is a startup. Once upon a time, three strangers would normally meet in a bar. Nowadays it’s an Uber, where they exchange contacts and then go on to create an app that helps to pay bills on time. Silje Dreyer, David Wareing… Read more »
Neobank Xinja has been granted a full banking license by Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), and will launch transaction accounts as the battle to carve out a digital slice of the $13 billion banking system’s revenue stream heats up. APRA has now granted four authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI) licences to challenger banks, having recently approved… Read more »
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