Sydney NFT gaming startup Immutable, has cut 20 staff from its team, less than five months after raising $280 million. CNET’s Jackson Ryan reports that Immutable CEO and cofounder James Ferguson announced the cuts, which account for around 6% of total staffing, at an all-hands meeting held via Google Meet on Monday. Staff were offered… Read more »
Local fintech Cointree has found its new CEO internally, handing the role to Jess Renden at the crypto exchange heads towards 10 years in business. Renden signed on with Cointree five years ago after a career at software firm BGL. She takes over from founder Shane Stevenson after eight years heading up the company he… Read more »
FinTech Australia has appointed former federal government adviser Nick Kavass as its first Policy Lead. Kavass brings nearly a decade of experience across government agencies including The Commonwealth Treasury and ASIC to the role. He most recently served as a policy adviser for former Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Housing Michael Sukkar. The new role… Read more »
Impact Investment Fund founder Geoff Gourley has signed on as the director of ESG at leadership and executive coaching firm Apricot Consulting. Gourley will lead all ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), social value & impact, NetZero and social and sustainable procurement management consultancy activities. Apricot founder Derek Linsell said the appointment recognised Gourley’s experience as… Read more »
He’s held senior roles at the City of San Francisco, the White House, and the World Bank. Now Chris Vein is adding yet another prominent role to his impressive career: CEO of the association representing Australia’s technology professionals, ACS. Vein (pron. VEE’-en) is moving from the US to Sydney for the new role, invigorated by… Read more »
Former architect turned impact startup founder Julia Kay has been chosen as Young Victorian of the Year by the Victoria Day Council. Kay is the co-founder of Great Wrap, the compostable stretch wrap made from food waste. The Victoria Day Awards celebrate Victoria’s foundation following its split from New South Wales on July 1, 1851,… Read more »
• Elon Musk spies a burrito cart -> Elon Musk wants a burrito. • He doesn’t want to pay for it. • Suggests via tweet that the burrito cart guy, sixty-eight-year-old Miguel Chumacero, should just let him have the burrito. Specifically, the ‘Giga-Chad’ Trinidad Scorpion Chilli Breakfast Burrito. • Burrito cart guy unimpressed with early… Read more »
Australian businesses continue struggling to find staff, including IT professionals, as the ongoing labour shortage worsens. Almost one third (31% of employers the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) surveyed said they couldn’t find suitable candidates for jobs. Tom Joseph, Head of Industry Statistics at the ABS, said businesses weren’t getting many applicants for open job roles… Read more »
Sydney startup hub Fishburners has changed its leadership with CEO Nicole O’Brien standing down, replaced by entrepreneur and investor Alan Jones as interim CEO. The organisation marked a decade of operation last year, and has received strong support from the NSW government to help it survive the pandemic lockdowns. Earlier this year it launched theTech… Read more »
What you say and do on social media can affect your employment; it can prevent you from getting hired, stall career progression and may even get you fired. Is this fair – or an invasion of privacy? Our recent research involved a study of 312 news articles about people who had been fired because of… Read more »
Western Sydney is poised to produce Australia’s next generation of IT workers and high value tech companies, according to Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm. In her acceptance speech for the inaugural Florence Mary Taylor Innovation Medal, Denholm described her upbringing in Milperra, a suburb just past Bankstown in Southwestern Sydney. “My parents owned a service station in the… Read more »
What’s the secret to keeping good talent in tech right now and how fundamental are issues such as hybrid work to the future success of your startup? Creating a culture where teams actively want to be there is one of the biggest challenges tech companies face in the wake of the global pandemic. To address… Read more »
Four out of five (78%) of Gen Z workers considered moving jobs post-pandemic, a survey by rewards platform Perkbox has found. The survey of more than 1000 employee under 25 (born between 1997 and 2012) by data research firm Censuswide didn’t quite deliver a great resignation, although low unemployment and high competition for skilled workers driving… Read more »
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead Techfugees Australia is coming back with a meetup on World Refugee Day on June 20. We’re a group of committed tech people collaborating with NGO partners like Settlement Services International (SSI)… Read more »
PropHero, the AI-enabled digital property investment platform that helps people find, buy and manage investment properties, was named the Startup Proptech of the Year at the Proptech Association’s second annual Proptech Awards. It was one of several startup recognised alongside scaleup companies. The awards were held in Sydney with more than 300 people at the sold-out… Read more »
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