The City of Sydney is hoping to turn up to 600 tonnes of food waste into animal feed and fertiliser as part of a year-long trial with climate tech startup Goterra. Goterra recycles food waste using modular maggot-based robotic systems. Founder Olympia Yarger developed the system, which uses black soldier fly larvae to eat through… Read more »
Sydney-based startups were buzzing earlier this year with the news that global accelerator Techstars would be launching a local program. Techstars TechCentral, powered by the NSW Government, will welcome its first class of companies in July, led by Kirstin Hunter and Lauren Fong. We asked Kirstin and Lauren to talk to each other about Techstars,… Read more »
Former Hartsyard owners Jarrod Walsh and Dorothy “Dot” Lee are diving back into restaurant game after Easter with a new venue at the Old Clare Hotel in Sydney’s Chippendale, across the road from UTS Startups. Longshore, a seafood-focused restaurant and bar, will open in mid-April at the former Automata site at the Old Clare Hotel, seating… Read more »
The annual Vivid Sydney festival, May 26 to June 17, is expanding its program with new food events to accompany the evening lights. The 23-day festival features more than 300 events showcasing artists, musicians, and thought leaders while also recognising the significant contributions of First Nations people. This year’s theme is “Vivid Sydney, Naturally” and… Read more »
The stage is set for one of the year’s big moments for the Sydney startup ecosystem: the Visiting Entrepreneur Program 2022. Global thinkers and local entrepreneurs will discuss how transformative technologies can tackle major global challenges, in a series of 17 free events organised by the City of Sydney, from June 22 to July 1. Autonomous vehicles,… Read more »
I’ve been a mentor, advisor, investor and Board member to many individual startup residents and an incubator within the Sydney Startup Hub (SSH), so I guess you can say I’ve seen the birth and life-to-date of the SSH from within. The premise of establishing the SSH was sound. What a great idea to create a… 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 »
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 »
The current lockdown in Greater Sydney, which began on June 26, will now last until at least the end of September, with the NSW government adding further restrictions to the capital’s hotspots, including curfews. Masks will be mandatory when outside your home, except when exercising, everywhere in NSW from Monday, August 23 (including regional NSW… Read more »
Sydney residents must stay within 5km of their home and fines for breaches of NSW Covid rules will increase to up to $5000, with police enforcement increased, as daily infection numbers continue to hit fresh records. NSW will up its police presence with 14,000 officers across the state now on ‘Covid duty’ to check citizens… Read more »
The soaring 56-storey Salesforce Tower at Sydney’s Circular Quay will be home to a new innovation hub focused on tackling climate change. Named ‘Greenhouse’, the hub spans 3,800sqm on first three floors at 180 George Street and is due to open next year. It will offer affordable office space for climate tech startups and scaleups,… Read more »
A $2.1 million National Space Industry Hub to help bolster the NSW space ecosystem will be set up at Sydney startup incubator Cicada Innovations. NSW investment minister Stuart Ayres said the state was already home to more than a third of Australian space startups. “There is no better place to research, develop and commercialise space… Read more »
The federal and NSW governments have upped the ante on support packages for small businesses following the extension of the current lockdown to August 28. The extended lockdown has moved both state and federal governments to deliver an expanded COVID-19 Business Support Payment to assist businesses that are doing it tough. Prime Minister Scott Morrison… Read more »
Greater Sydney will remain in lockdown for another four weeks at the daily Covid cases continue to climb to record levels. There were 177 new cases to 8pm Tuesday, with 74 linked to a known case or cluster – 60 are household contacts and 14 are close contacts – and the source of infection for… Read more »
The NSW government is set to extend Sydney’s Covid-19 lockdown for another month – a total of nine weeks – on Wednesday after the state hit a new record of 172 daily infections. Media reports on Tuesday night say what many tracking the daily case numbers already suspect – that Australia’s biggest city, home to… Read more »
US-Australian cybersecurity startup hacks $4.75 million Seed round 
ASX-listed accelerator Scalare Partners buys VC marketplace Inhouse Ventures for $1.73 million 
Private equity firm Quadrant takes a $50-100 million slice of startup veteran LegalVision 
Artificial intelligence expert Lee Hickin departs Microsoft to become National AI Centre director 
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