Australia: June 2016

Startup Australia

News from 06/2016

• A look at the Female Fantastic panel from Advance Queensland Innovation Summit  //  read it here
• Silicon Valley and fintech giants head to Sydney in regional tech power play  //  read it here
• Sydney fintech hub Stone and Chalk set to expand to Melbourne  //  read it here
• Australia’s Uno takes home mortgage finance to next platform  //  read it here
• Bank of Queensland and River City Labs partner for banking hackathon  //  read it here
• Australian teachers’ simple startup helps schools ‘see and save’ kids  //  read it here
• New Union: Singapore crowdfund platform putting up big numbers  //  read it here
• Australia’s H2 Ventures backs 5 new fintech startups  //  read it here
• Australia considers options to cut double taxation from digital currencies  //  read it here
• 1st Annual Australian FinTech Awards: June in Sydney  //  read it here
• Australia to set up Au$500m innovation fund  //  read it here
• EveryThingIOT Smart Cities Forum: Sydney, May 12th  //  read it here
• CSIRO’s Data61 enters China tele-medicine market with Coivu  //  read it here
• Sydney’s Chronic Pain Australia hackathon: 60 people, 6 teams  //  read it here
• US$29.2m gov’t fund for Singaporean startups unveiling next week  //  read it here
• Aus startups to pitch at Beijing O’seas Talent Entrepreneurship Conference  //  read it here
• Malaysian POS startup StoreHub raises $850k  //  read it here
• Australia to launch 5th and final startup ‘landing pad’ in Singapore  //  read it here
• ShopWings, Grocery Butler join forces for grocery deliveries in Australia  //  read it here
• QubeRider, Telstra-backed startup, is off to space  //  read it here
• Griffin Accelerator aims to be catalyst for Canberra startup ecosystem  //  read it here
• 500 TukTuks funds 10 new startups, soon to be Thailand’s top investor  //  read it here
• Melbourne rental broker startup finds opportunity in ‘poorly serviced’ industry  //  read it here
• A look at Carhood’s success, post-Shark Tank  //  read it here
• A look at 10 startups in Melbourne Accelerator Program  //  read it here
• Australia: Blackbird Ventures launches program to help tech startups recruit  //  read it here
• Inside 2 days Melbourne’s Nura crowdfunds $200,000 for smart headphones  //  read it here
• Melbourne’s Shopping Links named to Anthill Magazine’s SMART 100 Index  //  read it here
• Crowdfunding: the future of angel investor funding?  //  read it here
• Enterprise Monkey heads to India with Australian Sports Tech trade mission  //  read it here
• Zoom2u raises $1.85m to expand into Australia’s regional areas  //  read it here
• Sydney’s HowAboutEat uses FB Messenger for office food delivery  //  read it here
• Nabable: Clearance and second-hand furniture, delivered  //  read it here
• Regional startup Rundl targets Australia’s geographic isolation  //  read it here
• Major tech firms, Aus startups back new innovation organisation TechSydney  //  read it here
• Australia’s biggest techs and startups join forces for TechSydney  //  read it here
• Lazada Group opens Bangkok tech hub to drive regional mobile development  //  read it here
• Meraki Startup Kit for Australian startups – apply for 1 of 10 free kits  //  read it here
• Oneflare lands $15m as trades marketplace space becomes 2-horse race  //  read it here
• Silicon Valley GSVLabs incubator looks to establish in Australia  //  read it here
• Sydney stakes its claim to Australia’s startup culture  //  read it here
• Fremantle startup Life Cykel: gourmet mushrooms from coffee waste  //  read it here
• Perth’s BankVault one of top finalists in World Cup Tech Challenge  //  read it here
• Australian Technology Competition open for entries  //  read it here
• RiverPitch: 6 startups pitch to Australia’s biggest investors  //  read it here
• Gold Coast startup sees IoT potential in wireless mesh network  //  read it here
• AOL Launches DeskAid for Australian NFP startups  //  read it here
• Brisbane startup Winja encourages customers to complain  //  read it here
• Surf app ‘Pulse’ takes top honours at Startup Weekend Sunshine Coast  //  read it here
• First FinTech Bridge established between Britain and Singapore  //  read it here
• A quick glance at what Asian investors want in Australian tech startups  //  read it here
• India’s HealthifyMe health and fitness app lands funding  //  read it here
• Australia’s Seatfrog: snag last-minute upgrades on your next flight  //  read it here
• Microsoft gives BlueChilli startups a cloud boost with BizSpark Plus  //  read it here
• CeBIT Australia, on now in Sydney: Startup Zone, Conference, PitchFest  //  read it here
• Unpitch, Australia: 60 startups, 20 VCs – May 26th  //  read it here
• PayPal cofounder warns Australia’s mining, property focus is holding back tech  //  read it here
• Australian Budget 2016 roundup for startups and SMEs from BizSpark Australia  //  read it here
• Australia’s 1st Indigenous Startup Weekend set for July  //  read it here
• Australian Silicon Valley star returnee heads home for tech talent  //  read it here
• A look at Springboard Enterprises, global entrepreneur network for women  //  read it here
• A look at the ecosystem of female Australian entrepreneurs and business owners  //  read it here
• Byron Bay: The case for investing in innovation in regional Australia  //  read it here
• The difference between angels and seed VCs  //  read it here
• An infographic look at how startup funding works  //  read it here
• Entrepreneur Summit Thailand 2016 set for May 25th in Bangkok  //  read it here
• The 6 Indonesian startups joining the Google Launchpad accelerator in June  //  read it here
• Mentioned in Startup News Asia, April 2016 edition @MagicCyberjaya @Groupama @KNOLSKAPE @clusterVR @MassChallenge  //  read it here
• New Zealand’s TechWeek AKL 2016, on now  //  read it here
• ‘Australia wants more fintech opportunity despite low budget commitment’  //  read it here