Scott Farquhar, the kid from Sydney’s Western suburbs who became a billionaire after responding to an email from fellow uni student Mike Cannon-Brookes about starting a tech company, will step down as co-CEO role at the end of August The father of three sons called time on role after 23 years as Atlassian posted a… Read more »
Ahead of Startmate Demo Day on May 2 in Sydney at Blackbird’s Sunrise, Startup Daily is profiling the 10 startups involved. Today it’s Everbility, which is using AI to cut the admin for allied health workers. When Angela Mariani and Mani Batra went on their first date in 2020, their shared passion for startups had them seeing… Read more »
Healthcare startup Mentwell and the Love Out Loud Foundation have joined forces to raise and distribute support to the victims, families and others feeling the impacts of the Westfield Bondi Junction attacks on April 13, which saw six people die. Mentwell, offers digital gift cards for health and wellness services. Love Out Loud Foundation is a… Read more »
Atlassian cofounder Scott Farquhar steps down as co-CEO 
The lessons from Uber, Ola and rideshare’s disruption is that in the end, the consumer still pays 
Kiwi tech skills startup NextWork pockets $2.3 million pre-Seed raise 
Logistics software startup Veyor Digital shifts $2.75 million pre-Series A for US plans 
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Thinking of starting a small business? Exciting isn’t it? That was me nine years ago. I had an idea for a Registered Nurse led professional ear wax removal business using safe and gentle microsuction. In these nine years we have grown from one clinic opening four hours a week, to a nationwide business clearing the… Read more »
Funding
An AI-powered research and insights discovery platform for research papers has raised $750,000 in a pre-Seed round. The raise for Outread was backed by the Techstars Accelerator and Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, as well as Google VP of finance Fiona Bones. The research and insights platform was founded in 2023 by siblings Janhvi and… Read more »
AI/Machine Learning
China’s Qitian Dasheng Network Technology is expanding its 72 Byte AI System for smart hotels and commercial buildings into Australia, with the help of a local AI expert. Launched in 2014 by entrepreneur Qi Wu (Allen), the Beijing and Shanghai-based company’s AI-powered IoT services are used by some of China’s leading hotel and real estate… Read more »
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