HubSpot’s VP of international marketing on what businesses can learn about...
A particularly popular advice for founders or tech employees is to simply find or embrace a hobby to help them realise there’s more to life than shipping a new feature, but many would respond that it...
View ArticleOneflare acquires home services marketplace UrbanYou to build out on-demand...
Fairfax-backed tradie marketplace Oneflare has acquired Sydney-based UrbanYou, a platform facilitating the booking of home services such as cleaning and gardening on-demand. The terms of the deal were...
View ArticleMirvac opens coworking hub The Third Space in Broadway shopping centre
Property developer Mirvac has opened The Third Space, a coworking hub in its Broadway shopping centre in Sydney. The pop up hub, which will operate for three months and initially be free, is an...
View ArticleSydney ranked 11th globally for its ability to foster women entrepreneurship
Sydney has been ranked 11th in a list of the top 50 cities globally for women entrepreneurs, with Melbourne also making the list, in 17th place. Assessing cities on characteristics including culture,...
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Sydney startup Pendula helps brands automate two-way communication with...
Many a startup idea originates from a deeply emotional personal experience that set a founder on their startup journey, but not so for Sydney-founded startup Pendula. Sitting within existing systems...
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Roll up, roll up! Pitch an investor on the iconic Luna Park ferris wheel with...
Roll up, roll up! Startup life is, to put it mildly, a rollercoaster – and some days it’s the whole carnival. Coworking network TwoSpace will be celebrating the highs at Sydney’s Luna Park on August...
View ArticleUploadOnce aims to improve accessibility to services through digital...
From opening a bank account to enrolling a child in school or applying for a job, even the tasks that one might consider relatively simple – if time-consuming and finicky – can be made difficult for...
View ArticleSydney HR startup Flare raises $21 million Series B led by New York-based...
Sydney HR startup Flare has raised $21 million in a Series B round led by New York venture capital firm Point72 Ventures, with participation from investors including existing backers Reinventure and...
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Sydney fintech Pearler wants to be the ‘Spotify for investment’
The fintech startup boom has seen a wealth of companies emerge to help Australians get better at saving and investing their money. Working in this space, we have the likes of Frollo, which aims to help...
View ArticleSydney-founded recruitment startup myInterview raises $1.6 million
Sydney-founded recruitment startup myInterview has raised $1.6 million from a group of investors led by Entrée Capital and Cliff Rosenberg, former managing director of LinkedIn in Southeast Asia and...
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German startup giant Rocket Internet acquires Sydney online corporate...
German startup giant Rocket Internet has acquired Australian online corporate catering business Order-In. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Launched in Sydney in 2000, Order-In allows corporate...
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Telstra-backed accelerator muru-D unveils fifth Sydney program cohort
Now in its fifth year, Telstra-backed accelerator program muru-D is still going strong, with the program running in Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore, and as the River City Labs Accelerator in Brisbane...
View ArticleMicrosoft to launch ScaleUp program out of Sydney Startup Hub
Fresh off adding outgoing Fishburners CEO Annie Parker to its roster as its global head of startups, Microsoft has provided another boost to the Australian startup ecosystem, today announcing the...
View ArticleAirbnb makes a play for the luxury travel market with new offerings
Airbnb is making a play for the luxury travel market, today unveiling a series of new offerings as part of a roadmap for its “core Homes business”. Among the new offerings is a new classification tier...
View ArticleHow a Master’s thesis turned into the Sydney Startup Hub’s creativetech space...
As any business mentor worth their salt will say, it’s not about the idea, it’s about the execution. It would have been easy for Chantal Abouchar to present her Master’s thesis, which examined global...
View ArticleFemale founders, go for it! Everyone else, quit the patronising
I recently attended an event encouraging women to get involved in the startup ecosystem at the new Sydney Startup Hub. While I applaud the aim of the event, I left with my blood boiling. It is hard to...
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Sydney startup The Hip Stars Band helps musicians book gigs at personal and...
The image of the struggling musician dreaming of making it big looms large across popular culture. In turn, a number of startups have emerged with a focus on helping these musicians book shows at hip...
View ArticleVirtual data room provider Ansarada raises $24 million Series A round led by...
Australian company Ansarada, whose platform providers virtual data rooms for deal makers, has raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Ellerston Capital, with participation from Tempus Partners,...
View ArticleMelbourne salon management startup Honee is taking on pen and paper and the...
Despite the wealth of tech platforms out there, particularly those targeting this space, Melbourne-founded startup Honee posits that booking a haircut or other type of beauty service at a salon still,...
View ArticleStartup Genome report highlights Sydney as a top 10 global ecosystem for...
While no overall ecosystem rankings released this year, the 2018 Startup Genome report has identified Australia as a place to watch across a number of sectors. Australia was in the top five countries...
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