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Agtech segments which have raised the most funding in Australia
Leading investment totals for IoT agtechs is The Yield, which applies its flagship ‘Sensing+’ technology to detect the microclimate of an ecosystem
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Perth-startup Beanbag Movies is developing a streaming platform for on-release movies
Beanbag Movies is developing a streaming platform that allows users to watch the latest release at home as soon as it debuts at the cinema.
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Brisbane startup Outfit is a brand automation and marketing production platform
The most time-consuming and frustrating tasks often revolve around branding guidelines, ensuring designs and documents are sized a certain way and use a particular logo.
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Blue River Group to develop educational commercial farm and agricultural innovation hub in Wagga Wagga
Blue River Group has announced Project Bridge, which will see the development of an educational dairy farm and an agricultural tech hub in Wagga Wagga.
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Zencastr is an online platform looking to simplify podcast creation
New Zealand startup Zencastr is looking to help podcasters by providing an online platform to simplify and automate the podcasting process.
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Sydney’s Shootsta helps brands produce professional video by combining in house filming with outsourced editing
Sydney startup Shootsta is essentially a production company that works by distributing easy to use camera kits to clients, providing some training, and then letting them shoot.
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New Zealand startup EditMate helps brands mold user-generated video into marketing material
The rise of smartphones has seen social media platforms and sites like YouTube flooded with amateur footage of everything from concerts and sporting events through to random events on the street. These videos are becoming increasingly valuable to brands looking to cash in on the next viral video or build a buzz around events but, let’s be honest, social media is full of shaky videos shot in portrait.
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How a gay themed web series is an early warning sign that online TV is the new cable
Like many tech startups are leading with a ‘mobile first’ play in a lot of industries, there is a growing community of content creators that are leading with their own ‘online first’ focus – and this in-and-of itself is partly what is beginning to create such a strong online streaming and on demand content culture across the globe.
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Makers: The Women of Today and Tomorrow
If you are woman and you have not paid the site Makers a visit yet – then you need to get yourself over there for a visit. It is a dynamic digital platform that has been produced by a group of film makers, where they showcase influential women, change agents, feminists and basically anyone known or unknown that is driving change within the world, industries or society.
