StartupBus hackathon returns for its second Australian roadtrip
One of the more unorthodox hackathons out there, StartupBus, is returning for its second year. Two buses will be taking off on a 72 hour road trip on October 25, arriving in Sydney in time for the...
View ArticleLifestyle-driven coworking space Spaces launches in Melbourne ahead of Sydney...
Spaces, a company that offers premium lifestyle-driven workspaces for entrepreneurs, small to medium enterprises and corporate intrapreneurs, has chosen Australia as its next launch location, starting...
View ArticleSMS-based on-demand service ASAP merges with former rival Ketings, says it’s...
Following the viral success of Magic, an American SMS-based on-demand service that gets you whatever you want whenever you want (or as soon as possible), we’ve seen a number of Australian entrepreneurs...
View ArticleMalaysian angel investment firm QEERAD is looking to invest in Australian...
To put it bluntly, the amount of angel investment available in this country is actually larger than one what people imagine. Perhaps, this is because the actual amount of angel investments being made...
View ArticleFintech startup zipMoney, which offers interest-free loans to online...
Sydney-based fintech startup zipMoney, described as ‘online lending meets the checkout’, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) yesterday after raising $5 million in an oversubscribed...
View ArticleStrategic partnership platform Collabosaurus experiences steady stream of...
Earlier this year, Startup Daily profiled a Sydney-based startup called Collabosaurus, which aimed to solve one of the most time-consuming problems facing businesses: the forming of mutually-beneficial...
View ArticleWill Sydney startup MoneyBrilliant be the winner in the personal finance...
We’ve seen a number of startups emerge in the last few years that help people manage their personal finances via their smartphones - a few notable examples include Mint, Pocketbook and Digit. Although...
View ArticleOpenLearning and Smart Sparrow partner to offer educators easier course...
Sydney EduTech startups OpenLearning and Smart Sparrow have partnered to launch an integration that will allow educators using OpenLearning's Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform to create...
View ArticleStartupWeek Sydney launches to celebrate and strengthen the city’s startup...
Just two months after Sydney fell four places to 16th in the latest Global Startup Ecosystem Report rankings, StartupWeek Australia has announced the launch of the inaugural StartupWeek Sydney, a...
View ArticleNAB launches partnership with Sydney coworking community Fishburners
Sydney coworking community Fishburners has landed yet another big name partnership, announcing this week that National Australia Bank (NAB) has joined forces with the space to provide support for its...
View ArticleConstruction safety startup Safesite names Dailius Wilson as vice president...
The tech world is full of young entrepreneurs, but that doesn’t make it any less strange to see someone in their early 20s with a resume that would rival that of someone enjoying the twilight years of...
View ArticleWyatt Roy teams up with BlueChilli to run policy hackathon aimed at...
Although there are varying opinions around how involved government should be in the startup ecosystem, the general consensus is 'support entrepreneurs, but let them lead the way'. Following Malcolm...
View ArticleSydney startup FlexCareers wants to help mothers get back into the workforce...
The issues of maternity leave and returning to work after having children are perennial hot topics, and for good reason. There are around 2.1 million ‘career mums’ in Australia, and many of them are...
View ArticleINDX.GURU is the latest fintech startup looking to decode the stock market...
From Simply Wall St to Stockspot and StockLight to FirstStep, many Australian startups have emerged in the past few years attempting to decode the stock market, make it more accessible to investors of...
View ArticleHart: Ldn’s interior design marketplace is holding its own by curating a...
If television is anything to go by, Australians love three things: sport, cooking, and sprucing up their homes. As a result, the interior design market is a crowded one, but new Sydney-based ecommerce...
View ArticleCollaborate Corporation ventures into fintech territory with investment in...
Collaborate Corporation (ASX:CL8), formerly known as QANDA Technologies, has today announced an investment in FundX, a Sydney-headquartered peer-to-peer lending startup supported by venture tech firm...
View ArticleDisrupt launches ‘connected surfboard’ that captures location data so surfers...
Sydney-based startup Disrupt, which allows customers to design their own surfboards, has announced the launch of its new connected surf board, the SmartSurf. The SmartSurf boards are equipped with an...
View ArticleEdTech startup Fluid Education wins Lenovo Choice award at INCUBATE demo day
EdTech startup Fluid Education has been named the winner of the sixth INCUBATE accelerator intake at the University of Sydney and awarded the Lenovo Choice award by INCUBATE's technology partner...
View ArticleStartup WithWine is like a wine festival in an app that helps consumers buy...
Australia may have a reputation for being a country of beer drinkers, but the number of startups in the wine industry that have emerged over the last few years may suggest otherwise. From startups...
View ArticleUrbanOutsource raises a $500,000 seed round led by Grand Prix Capital
UrbanOutsource, an online contracting service that caters to the three main categories encompassing the average household - cleaning, gardening and handyman services - announced today that it has...
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