AI/Machine Learning

AI application management startup Seekario.ai is making it easier to find your dream job

- June 10, 2025 3 MIN READ

Finding a job is getting tougher, and more frustrating. Posting “open to work” in LinkedIn, then submitting your CV isn’t the solution, especially when you’re competing with hundreds of others for the same role. AI is adding to the complexity on both sides. But there is a way to enlist artificial intelligence to give jobseekers… Read more »

People

Travlr named best startup and Kismet, scaleup of the year in Victorian governor’s annual awards

- June 10, 2025 2 MIN READ

Victoria’s leading startup founders, investors, and ecosystem builders were honour at the annual Governor of Victoria Startup Awards at Government House last week.  Her Excellency Professor Margaret Gardner AC recognised outstanding contributions to the state’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem  Government startup agency LaunchVic helps coordinate the awards, now in their 4th year, with 4-5 startups… Read more »

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Investing

The Australian government is ignoring $500 million worth of annual startup investment. Here’s what they need to do to fix it

- June 10, 2025 4 MIN READ

Earlier this year, New Zealand launched a revamped investor visa scheme, the Active Investor Plus visa, designed to attract high-net-worth individuals by slashing minimum investment thresholds, removing English language requirements, and reducing time-onshore commitments to just 21 days over three years. In return, investors gain a clear and rapid path to permanent residency. The response… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

AI-powered healthcare transcription platform prescribed $12 million

- June 10, 2025 2 MIN READ

A tech platform that helps doctors transcribe medical notes faster from conversations with patients has raised $12 million, valuing the two-year-old startup at $50 million. The round for Melbourne-based Lyrebird Health was led by Five V Capital and UK fund Octopus Ventures, with support from Startmate. The AI-powered medical scribe generates clinical documentation from patient-doctor… Read more »

Business

SAD!!! How the marriage of convenience between Trump and Musk turned into a fast and furious split

- June 8, 2025 4 MIN READ

A no-holds-barred and very public blow-up between the world’s richest man and the president of the United States has had social media agog in recent days, with each making serious accusations against the other. And while tech billionaire Elon Musk appears to have cooled the spat somewhat – deleting some of his more incendiary social… Read more »

ASX

Getswift cofounder Joel Macdonald is back offering advice on dealing with setbacks

- June 6, 2025 6 MIN READ

Joel Macdonald’s been busy resetting his thinking in the last few years after the cofounder of Getswift was banned by the Federal Court from running  companies in Australia for 12 years. He’s been in therapy, busy journaling, writing affirmations on glass walls in an apartment, taking psychedelics, including ayahuasca and mushrooms, and the former CEO… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

StrongRoom will be wound up as EVP names the startup’s early investors as defendants in expanded legal action to recover $10.4 million

- June 6, 2025 5 MIN READ

EVP has added 20 more defendants, including earlier VC investors – taking the total to 32 – in its legal action to recover $10.4 million invested in StrongRoom AI. EVP has a freezing order over the company’s assets and during a case management hearing on Wednesday added the company’s other early investors, including Artesian Ventures,… Read more »

Accelerator

Here are the 11 deep tech startups to emerge from CSIRO’s ON Accelerate

- June 5, 2025 2 MIN READ

Three months of hard work building deep tech startups came to a climax today when their founders told their stories at CSIRO’s ON Accelerate showcase in Melbourne. The ninth cohort of the national science agency annual program to support founders from Australian universities and CSIRO itself featured 11 finalists, spanning drug development, healthcare delivery, and… Read more »

Business strategy

Carbar founder Des Hang on why consolidation is a sign that your startup’s market is maturing

- June 5, 2025 2 MIN READ

Remember when car subscription services were the next big thing? Around the late 2010s, they were everywhere, hailed as the future of driving. All the benefits of having a car, without the long-term commitment. One monthly payment covering everything from insurance to servicing. It was a simple, flexible alternative that struck a chord, especially with younger drivers… Read more »

People

Quantum pioneer Michelle Simmons joins Tech Council board

- June 5, 2025 2 MIN READ

Quantum physicist and deeptech startup founder Professor Michelle Simmons has joined the board of The Tech Council of Australia (TCA). Her appointment dramatically improves the representation of women in the industry lobby group, which last year came under fire last year for failing to act when former board member Richard White faced inappropriate conduct allegations.… Read more »

Global tech

Evolutionary biology suggests smartphone are now the tech version of human parasites

- June 4, 2025 4 MIN READ

Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi signal. Far from being benign tools, smartphones parasitise our time, our attention and… Read more »