Tech news, Australia
09/2017
- Australia: Gold Coast startups set for UK’s Pitch@Palace event
- Australia: 5 startups selected for EnergyLab clean energy accelerator
- Australia: WiRE program for rural, regional & remote entrepreneurial women
- Australia: Study Loans aims at ethical financing for students after raising $2M
- Australia: A look at Brisbane’s Startup OnRamp pre-accelerator program
- Unilever Foundry 30 SEAA applications close October 1st
- Australia: NAB SME Hackathon @ Intersekt Festival – Oct 27-29
- Australia: Hackoffeethon – October 14th, Melbourne
- Australia: Steve Wozniak to headline Pivot Summit ’17
- Australia: government pledges AU$50M for cybersecurity research centre
- Australia: Creatively Squared creators-to-brands connector takes Creative3 Pitch
- Australia: Bookwell raises $2.6M for ‘MenuLog for beauty & wellness’
- Australia: TitleExchange aims to end ‘ridiculous’ conveyancing fees
- Australia: Kickstarter launched for Tiller time-tracking productivity device
- Australia: SkyBuys selected for Germany’s Airbus BizLab aerospace accelerator
- Australia: Power Ledger, Origin Energy trial blockchain-driven P2P energy trading
- Australia: Jayride airport transport startup lands $8M
- Australia: Nanollose raises $5M for fabrics derived from alcohol
- Australia: Blockchain In Healthcare Summit – October, Melbourne
- Australia: Pivot Summit – tech, startups, social enterprise
- Australia: Macquarie Bank announces banking data initiative
- Australia: Croomo edtech firm raises $2M
- Australia: Blenktech takes Westpac Innovation Challenge People’s Choice
- Australia: Melbourne set to be APAC’s latest coworking giants battleground
- Australia: WineMinder, a sensor pinpointing the best time to drink wine
- Australia: The 3 startup winners from UniSA Venture Catalyst Awards
- Australia: Removing the double taxation of digital currency
- Australia: Myriad festival could make Brisbane Australia’s Silicon Valley
- Australia: Cultiv8 agricultural tech accelerator launches
- Western Australia government pledges $17M for tech sector
- Australia: Everything IOT Global Leadership Summit – Sydney, October
- Australia: Intersekt Festival + Collab/Collide Summit – Melbourne, late October
- Australia: Micropower Labs raises $100K equity free from Queensland government
- Australia: Snappr photographer marketplace lands $2.5M
- Australia: Queensland Government digital strategy for 2017–2021 (pdf)
- Australia: Tempus Partners closes A$40M early-stage tech fund
- Australia: DigitalX, Stargroup to modernize ATMs for bitcoin compatibility
- Australia: Melbourne Silicon Beach opens to sponsorship
- Corporate Australia: “Adapt and thrive; innovate or die”
- Australia: 23 startups selected for Tech23 showcase
- Aus/NZ: Defence Forces partners 2 startups for Fight Recorder project
- Australia: 3 Day Startup at Wade Institute, Melbourne, set for Sept 22
- Australia: Farmwalls launches Kickstarter campaig for in-restaurant growing
- Australia: StartCon 2017 set for Sydney, 1-2 December, with NSW government backing
- Slingshot, NORA partner to launch Australia’s 1st retail tech accelerator
- Australia: 2900 ‘two-way’ Bitcoin ATMs set to launch
- Australia: Brighte home energy-financing startup raises $4M
- Startup Battlefield Australia applications extended to September 11
- Fintech Australia’s Meet the Industry Leaders – Melbourne, Sept 12
- Australia: Thinxtra IoT gains $10M from Clean Energy Finance Corporation
- Australia: Indigenous Digital Excellence Award finalists announced
- Australia: Power Ledger raises $17M in 72 hours, pre-ICO sale
- ‘Universities should view startup students as future donors’
- Australia: Wrappli mobile outdoor ad-tech platform launches
- Australia: Dockland’s Hatch Quarter funded for refugee program
- Australia: A look at i4Tradies tradesperson management platform (pdf)
- Australia: Snapshot Millionaire sets $1.1M amateur photog competition
- Australia: Jiangsu-Victoria Innovation Centre set for Melbourne
- Australia: 3rd Regional Online Heroes competition applications open
- The Australian Information Industry Association iAwards winners
- Australia: Future Workplace Hackathon – Sept 4-5, Melbourne
- Australia: Barayamal partners CoderDojo for First Nations coding clubs
- Australia: UHack, University of Tasmania hackathon – Sept 8-10
- Australia: C2 Melbourne int’l business conference – end November
- Australia: SavR fintech launches Kickstarter campaign for personal savings app
