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Rendevu looks to shift the sex industry by providing an on-demand platform...
Between apps that translate speech, platforms that fundraise for schools, and online services that deliver cars to a buyer’s front door, one wouldn’t be mistaken for thinking that just about every...
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Gamified pitching event Startup Games wraps up with fintech Nod securing victory
The UK Department for International Trade’s (DIT) gamified pitching event, Startup Games, wrapped up its first Australian event yesterday at The Mint in Sydney, with local fintech startup Nod securing...
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BeforeYouBid reduces the price of property inspection reports through a...
With a sea of older properties littered throughout Australia’s capital cities, it’s almost become a formality for potential buyers to throw cash at expensive strata and inspection reports. Buyers want...
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Peer-to-peer self storage startup Spacer acquires San Francisco-based Roost...
Australian peer-to-peer self storage startup Spacer has acquired San Francisco-based company Roost for an undisclosed sum. Roost, launched in 2014, will rebrand to Spacer, with its employees to stay on...
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Sydney falls one place to 17th in latest Startup Genome ecosystem rankings
The latest report to detail Australia’s startup performance has been released, with the 2017 global startup ecosystem ranking from Startup Genome seeing Sydney slip one place down the list to 17. The...
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Sydney fintech Nod helps consumers get one-off financial advice on-demand
A range of Australian startups have emerged over the last few years aiming to solve problems for consumers in the financial services space, with one of the particularly hot niches being money...
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Online platform Conjoint.ly is looking to automate conjoint analysis in...
Conducting market research has seemingly never been easier thanks to the internet, with platforms such as SurveyMonkey through to the likes of a simple Twitter or Facebook poll allowing brands to...
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Fintech app Carrott looks to help users identify and save their ‘lazy cash’
In this ‘tap-and-go’ era, where access to the speed and simplicity of PayPass and cardless transactions is an expectation, seeing or hearing the phrase ‘cash only’ in a store or cafe is enough to get...
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DishMe is a peer-to-peer marketplace connecting consumers to home cooks
The sharing economy has come a long way over the last few years: a report on the sector in NSW released by Deloitte has found that revenues in the sector grew from an estimated $1.6 billion in 2014-15...
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The Sharing Hub launches to foster development of sharing economy startups
The Sharing Hub, a coworking hub and community founded by four founders of sharing economy startups, has launched in Sydney’s Pyrmont to help foster the development of the sector. It comes as a report...
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Sydney startup Recomazing pivoted to focus on B2B recommendations for startup...
Sydney startup Recomazing first launched in mid-2015 as a platform to enable friends to find, make, and share business recommendations with their networks. Founder Marc Cowper remembered the excitement...
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Sydney Opera House partners with Energy Australia and CSIRO for renewable...
The Sydney Opera House has announced a partnership with Energy Australia that will see the creation of a new industry think tank in collaboration with the CSIRO, aimed at forwarding the Opera House’s...
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MySail is a crew finding and management platform for yacht racing
The idea of sailing out in the open seas may bring to mind relaxation and plenty of wine on a state-of-the-art cruise liner – unless you don’t handle motion well, in which case you might envision a...
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TechSydney partners with ELEVACAO Foundation to improve diversity and...
After a rocky start last year, when it was criticised for its launch announcement being accompanied by a picture of a male-heavy team, startup community group TechSydney has today announced a...
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Google withdraws from negotiations for NSW Government’s Silicon Harbour tech...
Sydney’s search for a shiny new tech precinct is not yet over, with tech juggernaut Google announcing today its withdrawal from negotiations with the NSW government around basing its new headquarters...
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Sydney edutech Smart Sparrow raises $5.3 million Series C round to expand...
Sydney-founded online education startup Smart Sparrow has announced the closing of a US$4 (AU$5.3) million Series C round led by OneVentures to expand its design-based technology to cater for the...
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Social network for parents Tinybeans lists on the ASX
Sydney-founded startup Tinybeans, the social platform allowing parents to share snaps of their growing children with a close network of people actually interested in seeing them, has today listed on...
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Sydney secures rights to host LAUNCH startup festival in 2018 and 2019
After months of international startup programs and events setting up shop in different states around Australia, NSW has bagged one, with Premier Gladys Berejiklian announcing this weekend that NSW has...
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Reposit Power helps homeowners optimise when to sell energy back to the grid
Despite living in one one of the warmest countries on earth, Australians still love to complain about the cold when it start to creep below 20 degrees. While a Canadian might walk around in a t-shirt...
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Airtasker and Unions NSW come to agreement on minimum rates and workers’...
Workplace laws and unions have struggled to keep up with the gig economy, which has risen to prominence over the last few years thanks to tech companies working via the independent contractor model...
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