Australia’s tech news headlines
June 2021 tech news from Australia – articles, downloads & more
Australia’s technology news headlines for June 2021 covered items spanning agritech and foodtech VC funding, government-backed social impact efforts, Australia’s steps towards 5G, cybersecurity issues in offshore IT and hosting and many more.
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- Australia: Magic Valley launches as first Australian food-tech startup cultivating lamb meat from cells, with no use of animal-based products in manufacture
- Australia: Tenacious Ventures agriculture and food tech VC firm closes first fund, securing $35M to back Australian agtechs looking to make a global impact
- ICYMI: Twitter launches Twitter Blue service in Australia and Canada, providing creators with pay-for monthly subscriptions and premium features
- Australia: A brief round-up of recent tech startup funding news, touching on SME finance, insurance tech, proptech and more, from Smart Company
- Australia: Tenacious Ventures agriculture and food tech VC firm closes first fund, securing Au$35M to invest in up to 20 seed and Series A stage startups
- Download: ‘Trust In Artificial Intelligence’, a 5-country study from KPMG and Australia’s University of Queensland (pdf)
- Australia: FOMENT Accelerator applications now open, seeking tech innovations in viticulture, wine and tourism
- Australia: Memories secures $31M Series A with media platform focusing on memorials
- Australia: The Yield partners Treasury Wine Estates and Yamaha for R&D project to improve autonomous crop spraying and better prediction of wine grape yields
- Australia: Clipboard launches crowdfunding campaign, building a one-stop hospitality industry network and ecosystem
- Australia’s Investible hits Au$35M first close of Au$50M fund to focus on backing early-stage startups in Australia and across SE Asia
- The Fund Australia launches, local investment vehicle from New York’s early-stage investment firm The Fund, looking for pre-seed and seed stage startups
- An intro to 8 social enterprizes chosen for this year’s Social Impact Hub accelerator, a program backed by the Australian Government
- Australia: India’s HCL Technologies IT services major to host TechJam to develop technology solutions for Cricket Australia, using Microsoft Azure as sandbox
- Australia: Cyber war specialist warns recent Fastly outage that brought down global news sites is timely reminder of country’s dependence on offshore IT infrastructure
- Australia: Xccelerate21 event set for June 29th, opening applications for retail technology-focused startups
- Australia: Zeller, fintech startup from former Visa and Square execs, raises additional Au$50M pre-launch funding, looking to take on Australia’s major banks
- Western Australia launches whole-of-government Digital Strategy 2021-2025 focused on improving, integrating and streamlining services and regulatory processes
- Australia: Lloyds Auctions Australia begins accepting cryptocurrency for all purchases on its marketplace
- Australia: Telstra selected as 1 of 6 telcos globally for Ericsson Startup 5G, program boosting collaboration between operators and startups around consumer 5G services
- Australia: Camplify ‘Airbnb-for-campers’ firm lists on the ASX in four-times oversubscribed $11.5M IPO
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