Fresh from winning AU$150,000 from a global impact entrepreneurship program that involved a trip to Paris to accept an award from Amal Clooney, Australian startup Teach Well gives Startup Daily a lesson in determination and purpose. “We’ve been working in a really sustained, committed way on a deeply intractable problem,” says Ingrid Sealey, the founder… Read more »
The Sydney and Melbourne tech ecosystems may not like to hear it, but Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley may well be the new Silicon Valley. With Advance Queensland and its partners investing $1.7 billion into Queensland’s innovation future, and Brisbane birthing its first unicorn, learning software platform GO1, in 2021, the Brisbane buzz is only getting louder.… Read more »
From fintech to edtech, web3 to AI, some of Australia’s most exciting and diverse startups and scaleups have chalked up major success since joining Stone & Chalk. It takes a village to build a startup and a unique community of bright sparks to scale one. That’s the raison d’etre behind innovation hubs like Stone & Chalk, which… Read more »
Move over ‘financial wellness’, the next frontier for fintechs is ‘financial intelligence’, says the founder of digital banking alternative Yondr. Money management is something of an obsession for Melbourne-based entrepreneur Shane Chanel. He first knew he wanted to be a financial planner as a 16-year-old student at Melbourne’s Nazareth College. After studying financial planning at Deakin… Read more »
As inflation and interest rates continue to rise, digital banking alternative Yondr is stepping up to help Australians save on hidden fees and budget better. Backed by former ANZ CEO Mike Smith, the fintech startup was developed and founded by Shane Chanel in 2018. Bringing more than 15 years of experience in finance and banking to… Read more »
From the high school dropout who started her first business at 12 and now runs a $25 million empire, to the surfer whose ‘sea bins’ have captured more than 100 tonnes of microplastics in Sydney Harbour in just two years, these entrepreneur podcast interviews will open your minds for 2023. If you’re looking for the… Read more »
In the current market downturn, startups are looking to tighten their belts. There’s no more obvious place to start than some of the more, shall we say, expendable employee expenses. Can that work trip be a Zoom call instead? Why the Uber Black and not just regular Uber? Is that ‘client entertainment’ really for the client?… Read more »
From an idea conceived over a farm kitchen table to a $100 million business in seven years, Australian livestock management platform AgriWebb has been anything but an overnight success, says co-founder and Executive Chairman Justin Webb. Looking back on setting up AgriWebb with John Fargher and Kevin Baum in 2014, self-confessed “math geek” Justin Webb… Read more »
The UK is ready for the Australian and New Zealand tech invasion. With 30 significant tech clusters, a record A$20 billion in UK venture capital investment in 2020 (the third highest in the world) and new Free Trade Agreements with Australia and New Zealand, the UK is our oyster. The proof is in the (British)… Read more »
The UK is proving to be an effective ecosystem for growth and innovation for Australian and New Zealand tech companies looking to expand internationally. The proof is three Melbourne entrepreneurs, Dennis Volodomanov, Dmitry Levin and Leon Kosher, whose idea, KISA, a simple-to-use mobile phone to meet the needs of the elderly, disabled and visually impaired… Read more »
There’s a new program giving a platform to Australia’s next generation of startups so they can turn their ideas into game-changing businesses. The Co-Action Project is a collaborative new initiative aimed at connecting up-and-coming startups, entrepreneurs and service providers so they can come up with new ways to do business, right now. Launched by sixty:forty,… Read more »
From personalising stem-celled derived therapies to revolutionising drug discovery and cyber security, Sydney is stepping into the global spotlight with transformative technologies that will reshape our world. This June, you’re invited to meet the entrepreneurs and startups behind these boundary-pushing ideas. Transformative technologies refers to new tech innovations that solve scientific problems in our daily… Read more »
Biotech incubator CUREator tips $12 million into 19 startups tackling global health
Link-in-bio startup Linktree slashes local jobs again, shedding 27% of ANZ workforce
Veteran tech director Cass O’Connor to chair Airtasker as investor James Spenceley steps down to focus on humanitarian work
‘AI isn’t the only revolution underway’: Visiting Entrepreneur Program explores new tech crossroads
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