Fresh from securing its restricted banking licence from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) last month, neobank Xinja Bank has launched its second equity crowdfunding offer.
Few countries have laws that require their cyber agencies that monitor hacking to report the criminal acts – either to third party victims or to the police.
Access to new ideas and products, better long-term prospects, and access to a wider talent pool are the top three factors pushing Australian businesses to expand overseas, according to a report. The Global Natives report, commissioned by payments company Stripe, surveyed 9,000 founders and executives of online businesses in 15 international markets about their thoughts… Read more »
Propel looks to enable participants to learn from Silicon Valley’s mindset and culture, and provide them with direct access to US venture capitalists.
As the saying goes, if you can’t see it, you can’t be it. To give girls developing an interest in STEM a close role model to look up to, Girl Geek Academy has developed a series of workshops to get young girls coding together with a close woman in their life, whether it be their… Read more »
Square is continuing its push beyond the market stall, today launching a software development kit (SDK) to enable businesses to process payments through their own apps.
Startupbootcamp is expanding its Australian presence, launching a fintech accelerator program in Melbourne. To kick off from Melbourne coworking community YBF in June, the program’s theme is financial health and wellbeing, with a focus on the intersection between open banking, insurance, superannuation, wealth management, and the consumer data right. It will run with support from… Read more »
Sydney startup VAPAR, whose artificial intelligence technology is helping councils and utilities providers manage their stormwater and sewerage assets, has received a $25,000 MVP Grant from Jobs for NSW. Founded by Amanda Siqueira, a civil engineer, and Michelle Aguilar, a mechatronic engineer, the business was born out of Siqueira during an internship having to manually… Read more »
RMIT Online has again expanded its course offering through a partnership with an industry player, launching CRM Professional with Salesforce.
Sydney startup Baraja has closed out a US$32 million (almost $45 million) Series A funding round, raising funding from Sequoia China, Blackbird Ventures, and Main Sequence Ventures. Founded in 2015 by Federico Collarte, CEO, and Cibby Pulikkaseril, CTO, to solve the problems faced by existing LiDAR (light detection and ranging) systems used to give autonomous… Read more »
Giant Leap Fund invests in purpose-led companies working across the themes of sustainable living, health and wellbeing, and empowering people.
Coworking community Tank Stream Labs is gearing up to open a third Sydney space by the end of January, to be located by Barangaroo Reserve.
Digital bank Xinja has today received a restricted banking licence from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA).
Data61 has partnered with IAG and the University of Sydney to launch the Gradient Institute, which has been tasked with researching the ethics of AI.
By Lizzie Rogers Researchers from the University of Adelaide have conducted a study further demonstrating the validity of an app that can detect depression. The THINC-integrated tool (THINC-it) is an app co-designed by researchers from the University of Adelaide’s Discipline of Psychiatry which measures cognitive deficits associated with major depressive disorder (MDD). A new study… Read more »
Atlassian cofounder Scott Farquhar steps down as co-CEO 
The lessons from Uber, Ola and rideshare’s disruption is that in the end, the consumer still pays 
Kiwi tech skills startup NextWork pockets $2.3 million pre-Seed raise 
Logistics software startup Veyor Digital shifts $2.75 million pre-Series A for US plans 
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