Tech news
06/2016
- A look at the challenges and opportunities for Australia’s VR startups
- Paper: Economy in Transition: Startups, innovation, and a workforce for the future
- startup community leaders must be entrepreneurs
- StartupAus: 4.6 million jobs at risk without future-ready workforce
- A quick look at the recent WA Innovation Summit
- In Australia, near 1/2 of marketing emails are opened on mobile
- A look at Seatfrog, auction app for last-minute flight upgrades
- A look at the need for data governance in Australia
- Melbourne’s ACMI X unveils first coworking space occupants
- Brisbane news startup Hash raises $1 million
- Qantas Codeshare 2016 Hackathon: Sydney in August
- Australia: Code Network Winter Hackathon set for QUT in August
- Startup Victoria appoints Georgia Beattie as new CEO
- Sydney Sports Incubator sets sights on sports startups
- Tech23.2016 Conference set for Sydney in October
- QUTCEA Real Enterprise Startup Workshop series set for August
- North Queensland Entrepreneurship Conference set for November
- A look at the 7 winners from Optus Future Makers pitch event
- Adcorp invests $1m in Sydney’s vid production startup Shootsta
- 3 Australian startups awarded in Talent Unleashed Awards
- Australia’s BidEnergy raises Au$7m
- 2 Aus health startups to pitch at O’seas Talent Entrepreneurship Conference
- Australian property trading platform Revalu8 lands $1.1m seed funding
- Queensland’s Hot DesQ applications closing end of July
- Survey: Cafe owners and retailers lead Australia’s entrepreneur boom
- Surgical Partners platform wins Innovation Challenge
- Australian startups in cybersecurity, fintech to take part in Tel Aviv accelerator
- Australia to help Pakistani startups to launch
- Tourism VR platform, TimeLooper, lands HotDesq spot at QUTCEA
- Blue Sky VC backs Asian e-commerce startup aCommerce for $13.6m
- TechSydney lowers sights after missing $2m crowdfunding target
- Former Telstra boss Trujillo to join board of Australia’s Unlockd startup
- Singapore’s AirTrunk aims for Sydney, Melbourne data centers
- Edstart launches platform to help parents pay private school fees
- Australia: Mapping the WA and Australian startup ecosystem
- Australia’s Startup Muster survey widens to ecosystem beyond founders
- Melbourne biotech startup CNSDose secures $1m
- Mercedes-Benz Vans aims to tap Aus startup community with hackathon
- HBF Activate health-focused Hackathon set for late August
- HBF Activate, health-focused accelerator: info night set for July 26
- Culture x Design unconference in Melbourne July 20th
- The 14 fintech startups chosen for new KPMG mLabs accelerator
- KPMG launches mLab, fintech accelerator for Australian startups
- Australia’s cyber-safety startup Family Zone launches $10m IPO
- Australia’s HR startup Seera gains funding from former Xero chief
- Geelong’s Pundit Connect lands Au$305k funding
- South Australia aims for innovation with $50m capital fund
- Why we need an alternative to venture capital
- UK’s Jaywing invests $2m in Sydney startup Digital Massive
- Australia: Mumpreneur Start-Up Innovation Workshop set for August in WA
- Australia’s 1st Indigenous Startup Weekend aims to empower
- Alchemy Ventures launches with $200m fund for early startups
- Research: Age determines devices used in Australia
- Western Australia Startup Ecosystem Report 2015/16 launch set for 25th
- Seek invests over $1m in Melbourne’s Sidekicker
- Melbourne startup Nura raises $1.2m for ‘world-first’ headphones
- How Techfugees worked with startups to help refugees settle in Australia
- Melbourne’s RosterCloud, cloud-based staff management tool, acquired
- Melbourne web dev startup Foxley secures over $700k in funding
- Australia’s Genero raises $4m from Ellerstone Capital
- A look at Perth fintech, Future Penny
- Melbourne’s Airwallex aims to take on banks, Western Union, Paypal
- Australia’s Get Kids Cooking lands $150k Shark Tank funding
- Snappr, ‘Uber for photographers’, hits double planned seed funding target
- Cardly takes top spot at Startup Week pitch competition
- Interview: The Difference Incubator co-founder, social enterprise incubator
- Australia: ABS data shows larger businesses are more innovative
- Top brands use Twitter more than other social media platforms
- AVTEG aims to give Australia an opening to the Indian VET sector
- On LinkedIn: New Zealand tech scene is hotter than yours
- New Zealand’s Odocs named APAC’s Best Startup for Social Impact
- NZ agritech startup CropLogic crowdfunds $500k
- A look at the 10 New Zealand startups selected for Vodafone xone accelerator
- Cisco $250k Grand Innovation Challenge open for submissions
