A 25-year-old University of New South Wales medical student who launched a medtech startup to solve the problem of finding patients for clinical trials has just raised $6 million in Series A less than a year after launching. Manuri Gunawardena (pictured) is founder and CEO of HealthMatch, which is a bit like Tinder for… Read more »
Hello and happy Tuesday. Behave if you’re at Flemington. 1. The race that stops the nation’s conversation Startup Daily has been to the Melbourne Cup. It should be on everyone’s bucket list, like the Boxing Day test, feeding the fish on Lord Howe Island, spending $100 a week on Sydney toll roads and not… Read more »
Seven Australian fintechs have been ranked among the world’s leading startups in the 2019 Fintech 100, produced by fintech investment firm H2 Ventures and KPMG Fintech. Four of the seven are payments companies. Global payments unicorn Airwallex is the highest ranked Australian firm at no. 32 on the Top 50 Established firms up from 49th… Read more »
Online legal marketplace Lawpath has raised $4.4 million as it looks to push into Asia. Adcock Private Equity lead the round, which was oversubscribed and saw existing backers Pollenizer Investments, LegalZoom, Fort Street Advisors, Machdoch Ventures and Nick Abrahams, now head of innovation at Australian lawfirm Norton Rose Fulbright return The Sydney legaltech startup previously… Read more »
Hello and happy Monday! Only one more sleep until the Reserve Bank decision that stops the nation. 1. Jodie Fox talks about the Shoes of Prey collapse Jodie Fox has written a book about her experience in the wake of the failure of her high profile startup, Shoes of Prey. Reboot: Probably More Than You… Read more »
Emma Startup, Dee Behan and Oonagh Geoghegan hope crowdfunding will back a women’s co-working space. A co-working space for women, especially working mums, that will offer an onsite creche; women-focused amenities; and corporate packages designed to help businesses attract female talent is seeking $2.5 million in equity crowdfunding to try and launch in Sydney. Frankly… Read more »
Shoes of Prey co-founder Jodie Fox when her startup was in full flight. Jodie Fox was 27 when she launched her bespoke footwear startup, Shoes of Prey in 2009, with her former husband Michael Fox and their university mate Mike Knapp. The business allowed consumers to create bespoke shoes at a fraction of the cost… Read more »
Startup founders at CEBIT Happy Halloween! If you’re looking to scare investors, apparently an Adam Neumann costume is Silicon Valley’s go to for 2019. 1. A social media watershed moment? https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952 Twitter’s boss, Jack Dorsey, just errr, trumped Mark Zuckerberg. More on that here. 2. North Korean hackers put malware on a PC… Read more »
Tom Cowan and Bruce Buchanan Rokt, the seven-year-old e-commerce marketing startup has raised US$48 million (AU$70m) in series C, led by local investment firm TDM Growth Partners. The funds will used to accelerate R&D, as well as giving early investors the chance to realise some of their investment without co-founder and CEO Bruce Buchanan heading to… Read more »
Twitter will ban political advertising globally from next month, with founder and CEO Jack Dorsey arguing that the current regime has “significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle”. We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought.… Read more »
Sydney’s Central railway station as Atlassianstan. Artist’s impression: Urban Growth NSW. Happy Wednesday everybody. Hello from the startup pitch fest at CEBIT Australia in Sydney. We’ll bring you the results tomorrow 1. Who wants to spend $17 a month on Apple AirPods? To paraphrase Robin Williams, Apple products are god’s way of saying… Read more »
Google is being taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which has accused the global tech giant of misleading consumers about its use of their personal location data. It’s believed to be the first legal action in the world on the issue as tech companies comes under increased scrutiny by… Read more »
The 2019 Telstra Business Awards had an astonishing 21,000 nominations, which has led to 32 state and territory-based winners across Australia now vying for the national People’s Choice Award. There was several categories in each state-based winner, ranging from the business of the year to small and medium-sized businesses, charities and social enterprises. Telstra CEO… Read more »
Muso co-founders Alan-Jin, Brandon Crimmins and Jeremiah Siemianow. Photo: supplied Muso, an online marketplace app for emerging musicians find live gigs, and help venues recruit new talent has raised $1.5 million in seed funding. The support came from Investible a new impact investment fund Alberts Impact Capital, created by the legendary music publishing business Alberts (who… Read more »
A Netflix subscription costs between $120 and $240 a year. But when you buy one in Australia, paid in Australian dollars, for the Netflix Australia service, the seller is actually a Dutch-based subsidiary of the US-listed global streaming giant. The money goes straight to the Netherlands, which may partly explain why the company paid just… Read more »
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