Brisbane online training unicorn GO1 has won Scaleup of the Year, with Wollongong hydrogen electrolyser manufacturer Hysata winning Startup of the Year at the 2023 Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards. The winners across 10 categories were announced at a gala dinner before 180 people in Sydney on Wednesday night as founders, investors and tech… Read more »
Venture capital alternative Lighter Capital has a $30 million war chest to lend to local startups thanks to support from the Victorian government and iPartners. The 13-year-old revenue-based Wall Street financier offers non-dilutive funding to founders in the US, Canada and Australia. Invest Victoria tipped $10 million into the $30 million fund, supported by New York… Read more »
Catalysr, the startup incubator dedicated to supporting high-performing migrant and refugee entrepreneurs, is on the hunt for 25 “migrapreneurs” to take part in its 2023 Accelerate Program. Applications close this Wednesday, September 6, with the free, three-month program running from September 17 to early December. Since 2016, Catalysr has supported and mentored more than 900… Read more »
Law firm, Lander & Rogers has partnered with Monash University to launch the first artificial intelligence (AI) clinical placement program. We were a team of five law students embedded in the firm as “AI investigative agents” in a program overseen by Courtney Blackman from the firm’s iHub innovation function, Stan Chua from the technology team;… Read more »
Victorian medical cannabis biotech Medigrowth has raised one of the largest equity crowdfunding campaigns in the sector’s six-year history, banking nearly $3.45 million from more than 2000 investors. The CSF campaign on Birchal is the third largest in the platform’s history, with Medigrowth hitting its minimum target of $500,000 in just 45 minutes before gaining… Read more »
An updated report from Deloitte Access Economics has found the Victorian startup ecosystem has out- performed growth expectations from forecasts made in 2020. The report,“Scaling up: Growing the economic opportunity for Victoria’s startup ecosystem”, commissioned by startup agency, LaunchVic, concludes that pandemic tailwinds were kind to the sector with its value nearly doubling from $50… Read more »
Victorian agtech startups have access to a new funding source with LaunchVic backing a new $1 million angel sidecar fund backed by Agriculture Victoria. The Hugh Victor McKay Fund is named in honour of the inventor who patented the combine harvester in the 1880s, one of the most important agricultural innovations in recent history. The… Read more »
StartGiving, the not-for-profit organisation inspiring a new culture of giving in the Australian innovation community, has launched a podcast and vodcast series for tech founders looking to start or scale their giving. Hosted by StartGiving founder and chair Daniel Petre and CEO Antonia Ruffell, the series features leaders in the tech and philanthropy spaces generously… Read more »
School management software scaleup Compass has won the tender to supply more than 800 of Western Australia’s Public Schools with its technology – a project it will deliver in partnership with ASX-listed TechnologyOne. The deal, which is worth more than $9 million annually over seven years, with an option for extension, will see Compass expand… Read more »
The growing wealth of the top end of town has seen an explosion in the creation of family offices over the last decade, according to new analysis. That boom is good news for anyone looking to work in the space, since it’s a lucrative role according to the KPMG Australian Family Office Compensation Benchmark Report… Read more »
It was National Science Week last week and as it is with nearly every discussion on every front, artificial intelligence (AI) was in the spotlight. With automation and AI revolutionising the world, this year’s program examines innovation and technological advancements across all fields. We asked four To try and flesh out some of the ways… Read more »
A Melbourne startup founded by two former Amazon employees to improve online search for related objects has raised US$5.2 million (A$8.1m) in a Seed round led by Blackbird. Marqo is an AI-powered vector search engine. Vector search is a way to find related objects with similar characteristics using machine learning to find semantic relationships. The raise was… Read more »
Researchers and clinicians with startup ideas in the medtech and biotech space can apply for a new startup accelerator that’s writing cheques worth up to $5 million to bring their ideas to market CUREator+ is a new $50 million incubator program by Brandon BioCatalyst and ANDHealth, backed by the federal government’s Medical Research Future Fund… Read more »
An expat Queenslander who found his fortune building HR data analytics startup One Model in the US has scored funding from the state government-backed QIC as part of a US$41 million (A$64m) Series B. The investment will see HR Data and Analytics expert Chris Butler, who grew up in Brisbane, studied IT and software engineering… Read more »
Company name: Anda Founded: 2023 Stage : Pre-Seed Founders: James McWhinney, CEO, and Elisabet Sigurdardottir, CTO Current investors: Antler Currently raising: Yes The business The global health and fitness sector has significantly broadened beyond physical exercise and diet in recent years to encompass holistic mental and physical wellness. This has been fuelled in part by shifts… Read more »
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