Feb ’18 startup news
- Australia: AgTech Summit set for March 13-14 in Melbourne
- Australia: Fleet Space partners Reekoh IoT data and API management firm for constellation of 100 nanosatellites
- Australia: Adelaide’s Flinders University’s New Venture Institute incubator named best in Asia Pacific
- Australia: Ceres Tag IoT startup partners CSIRO and Data 61 for cattle ear tag monitoring location, movement and temperature
- Australia: A look at Shebah female-focused ride-sharing startup
- Australia: Shping launches ICO to rewrite how advertisers reach consumers
- Australia: CSIRO to add 3 more US offices, first Asian premises likely for Singapore, and China launch in sights
- Australia: Myriota satellite communications startup to open $2.7M IoT lab in Adelaide
- Australia: InStitchu custom tailoring startup raises $2.5M from Chinese manufacturer Dayang
- Australia: Melbourne’s Forticode cybersecurity startup backed to $1.3M
- Australia: Boost Juice partners CoinJar for marketing around Bitcoin giveaway
- Australia: Legislation passed in Victoria for driverless car trials
- Australia: AgriFutures applications open for high school entrepreneurial program
- ‘Why Australian startups should forget Silicon Valley and leverage new opportunities in Asia’
- Australia: An intro to Wynergy, building small-scale solar farms on rural grazing land
- Australia: Stone & Chalk Insurtech Program 2018 to gain from Hall & Willcox lawyer partnership
- Australia: Melbourne’s York Butter Factory to launch world-first hub for Web 3.0 tech
- Australia: A brief look at Tinybeans photo sharing startup targeting ‘sharenting’ and online security
- Australia: Could nanobots transform mining?
- Australia: A look at Daisee, bringing AI to business decisions around structured and unstructured data
- Australia: A look at GlamCorner, making online rental the future of fashion
- Australia: The 10 blockchain startups chosen for Melbourne’s Block Engine incubator
- Australia: An intro to Sellable, startup paying house vendors agreed minimum price before sale
- Australia: Pelikin bank-in-an-app startup launches $400K crowfunding equity drive
- Australia: River City Labs lands Bank of Queensland for 2-year corporate partnership
- Australia: RMIT to run nation’s first blockchain strategy course – 8 weeks beginning in March
- Australia: Xinja digital bank startup offers housing loans following license approval
- Australia: Everproof ID verification startup closes $1.5M round, sets sights on Silicon Valley backing
- Australian Medical Association chief’s take on the concerns around healthtech, privacy and more
- Australia: SA’s Fleet Space Technologies wins Dutch government grant to fast-track IoT network for farms
- Australia: WA-grown Kanopy now offers 30K free online movies for library users
- A look at teenager-led EduKits, startup supplier of 3D printers, electronics and STEM kits for home and classroom learning
- What can Australia learn from Estonia about creating a digital society?
- Australia: Entersoft cybersecurity firm named 2017 FinTech Startup of the Year in Hong Kong
- Australia: CanYa blockchain startup develops own accounting software after finding a compliance gap
- Australia: Penten cybersecurity startup secures AU$1.3M from Dept of Defence for mobile access cryptography
- Australia: An intro to the newly-opened Sydney Startup Hub (pdf)
- Australia: USQ WiRE boot camp established to encourage rural female entrepreneurs
- Australia: The Studio Incubator to open in Sydney for tech, media, entertainment, music, design and game developers
- Australia: Havven blockchain startup sees $31M pledged for ICO with aim to create first stable coin
- Australia: $6.7M SA election pitch includes all public primary students to be taught coding and entrepreneurship
- Myriota, South Australian satellite comms firm, to invest $2.72M into IoT lab in Adelaide
- Australia: Honee AI-driven online beauty platform raises $1.8M
- Australia: Reserve Bank and Payments System Board launch New Payments Platform for real-time inter-bank payments
- Australia: Cashless welfare card trials extended for a year in SA and WA
- Australia’s Muru-D accelerator unveils latest cohort of 10 startups
- Google set to base fast-growing photos product team in Australia
- Microsoft targets Australian tech startups with launch of ScaleUp accelerator in Sydney
- Australia: VIctoria leg of Global Legal Hackathon set for 23-25 February at Monash University
- Australia: Telstra’s Muru-D has accelerated over 100 startups since launch 5 years ago
- South Australia unveils details of $2M local games development fund
- Australia: ActivePipe real estate proptech company backed by NAB Ventures for automated communications
- Australia: Car Next Door P2P car sharing platform lands $5M
- Australia: Queensland water authority to run water industry hackathon around IoT, blockchain and Smart Cities tech
- Australia: France’s Le Wagon coding school to set up Melbourne and Sydney campuses
- Australia: Nuonic data analytics and IoT startup gains KPMG backing
- Australia: First Gens accelerator launched for migrant and refugee-led social impact ventures
- Australia: One Roof Community Market set for Melbourne, Feb 17, showcasing some of the finest female-led startups and small businesses
- Australia: Tech Inclusion Conference set for Melbourne, February 13, to push diversity and inclusion solutions
- Australia: Power Ledger blockchain startup partners Helpanswers NFP energy firm for P2P energy trading across hundreds of US sites
- Australia: WePower blockchain green energy startup raises US$40M in ICO
- Australia: TBSx3 blockchain startup partners Hamburg Sud following logistics solutions trial securing cargo across supply chain
- Australia: Shping blockchain startup raises US$3M in pre-sale ICO, aiming for later $40M raise
- Australia: Disability-focused accelerator Remarkable to invest $35K into 6 startups in next batch
- Australia: A look at 5 growing blockchain startups
- Australia: Sydney Women Startup Weekend set for February 16-18
- PDF download: Australia 2030 – Prosperity Through Innovation
- Australia: Hackastron Sky Mining 2018 astronomy-focused hackathon set for Perth, 16-18 February
- Australia: The wins and challenges, post-accelerator, for SheStarts alumni
- Australia: A look at Binary Beer’s IoT platform for keg tracking and content monitoring
- Springboard Enterprises Australia Accelerator applications open for women-led companies, startups and entrepreneurs
