Byron Bay eco-startup, Zero Co, rewrote the history of Australian crowd-sourced funding (CSF) on Tuesday after raising $5 million in just 6 hours and 27 minutes. It’s the largest CSF campaign in Australian history – $5 million is the maximum under law – and beats the previous record by $2 million. It also broke several… Read more »
The NSW government has approved tech giant Atlassian’s plan for a 40-storey timber skyscraper next to Sydney’s Central Railway The 180-metre tower will be the tallest commercial hybrid timber building in the world with construction to get underway next year. The tower concept is by New York-based architects SHoP, with Australian practice BVN as the… Read more »
Melbourne construction tech startup BuildPass has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round. The raise was backed by local construction industry companies and strategic US-based investors with the company looking to expand into the US market in the next 1-2 years. BuildPass was co-founded by Matt Perrott and Aaron Vanston, who met with principle engineer, James… Read more »
Australia now has more tech accelerators than a Tesla Gigafactory. But if you’re a founder thinking about joining one, how to you choose the right match in the startup sector’s version of Married At First Site. Even finding out about them takes tons of research before you drill down into the details of what’s on… Read more »
AustCyber’s annual Australian Cyber Week, is back next week with a series of events and activities running from October 25-29. In keeping with the times, there’ll be a mix of virtual and in-person sessions focused on the Australian cyber security industry and local innovation. Michelle Price, CEO of AustCyber, said Cyber Week helps to demystify… Read more »
Mum and dad investors eager to invest in plastics waste reduction startup Zero Co have flooded the website of crowd-sourced funding (CSF) platform Birchal ahead of the company’s $5 million raise. More than 2500 people pre-registered for the Birchal campaign during the expressions of interest phase. With the offer due to open to investors at… Read more »
New Zealand-based education and consulting social enterprise SpaceBase Limited is on the hunt for solutions to address climate change with the help of satellite technology. The “Space for Planet Earth Challenge” is open to students and innovators across APAC region to leverage satellite technologies to address climate change challenges, through quantifying carbon sequestration and monitoring… Read more »
The Bitcoin bulls are racing again. A year ago the cryptocurrency was valued at less than US$12,000. Now it has passed the symbolic milestone of US$60,000, nudging the US$63,255 record it reached in mid-April, before its price fell to as low as US$30,000 in July. Bitcoin’s rally over the past month is largely attributed to… Read more »
Environmental startup Zero Co has raised $6 million from VC firm Square Peg Capital just as the venture launches the biggest crowd-sourced funding (CSF) campaign in Australian history. The 11-month-old Byron Bay company, which is reducing plastic waste generated from common household products, is already generating more than $1 million a month in sales of refillable… Read more »
Live entertainment startup, Muso, has cranked up the volume as the nation emerges from lockdown with a $2 million seed-plus raise for international expansion plans. The round was led by Melbourne VC Rampersand, with a syndicate headed by Athena Home Loans co-founder Michael Starkey also chipping in alongside Alberts Impact Capital, Flying Fox VC and… Read more »
GovConnex, a political intelligence and relationship management platform, has raised $1 million in a round led by local VC Black Nova. The funds will be used to scales platform to organise all of Australia’s government data amid plans to expand internationally by the end of 2021. The GovConnex platform, which launched in 2019, captures information… Read more »
The reopening of NSW continues today with masks coming off in the office after the state hit its 80% double dose vaccination target last week. Under the Reopening NSW Roadmap’s 80% settings for people who are fully vaccinated, community sport returns, you can stand to have a drink and there’s no longer a cap on… Read more »
Victoria’s latest lockdown will end at midnight on Thursday as vaccination rates hit key benchmarks. Melburnians, who now have the dubious honour of having endured the longest combined period of lockdowns of lockdowns in the world during the Covid-19 pandemic, will begin to return to a more normal life with the state expected to hit… Read more »
Tech entrepreneur Mick Liubinskas has mapped the Australian and New Zealand climate tech ecosystem to give everyone a better view of the big picture when it comes to dealing with climate change. His new venture, Climate Salad, has set out to help startup founders building technology solutions to climate problems get more customers, find great people… Read more »
Move over Banksy. While the anonymous UK street artist is grabbing headlines today after his semi-destroyed artwork, Love is in the Bin, sold for $34 million a Sydney sneaker marketplace has raised $1.2 million in a pre-seed round. PUSHAS was founded in 2017 by Justin Truong and Sandy Li and offers a secondary market for… Read more »
Perx Health bags $3 million seed round for US launch
Zero Co’s staggering $5 million crowd-funding raise was over in just six hours
VC Square Peg backs waste reduction startup Zero Co in $6 million raise ahead of record-breaking $5m crowd-funding campaign
Sneaker reselling marketplace PUSHAS raises $1.2 million pre-seed round
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