Australia’s startups
in April 2019
Today’s startup news: on LinkedIn, on Twitter and on Facebook
- Australia: Presagen raises Au$4.5M to accelerate Life Whisperer, AI-backed medical tech that improves fertility outcomes
- Australia: IncoDocs SaaS startup raises $1.2M to aid small businesses better export and import goods in funding led by Maersk shipping
- Australia SportsTech Startup Day 2019 set for Melbourne in August as part of Sports Analytics Conference
- Australia: A look at how SheStarts helps non-technical entrepreneurs innovate using technology
- Australia: Government commits $100M over 5 years to SME fund, likely to also appeal to startups
- Australian Labor Party plans $4M national centre of excellence for AI in Melbourne, with focus on technology for social good
- Australia: Elenium Automation secures $15M for self-service and automation tech for the airport and aviation sectors
- Australia: Applications for the Nexus Jiangsu-Victoria Startup Summit 2019 are now open (pdf)
- Australia: A brief look at Senno, customer data monetization platform that recently completed Startup Bootcamp Energy Australia accelerator
- Life360, US ‘family tracking’ app, launches $104M Australian IPO, with sights set on future insurance and home security diversification
- Australia: BlueChilli opens applications for round 3 of SheStarts female-led tech accelerator
- Australia: Tiliter partners with GaP Solutions to take AI-driven fresh produce recognition software nationwide
- Australia: Sydney’s Barangaroo startup incubator aims to take Australian tech global, growing on Queensland’s River City Labs’ successes
- Australia: Infarm regional Queensland agtech 1 of only 6 to receive Microsoft AI For Earth program grants
- Australia: Startup Weekend Melbourne Q&A event set for April 30
- Australia: An intro to Questa Game, education-focused mobile app in which players identify endangered species before they become extinct
- Australia: 86 400 challenger bank partners Vow Financial to enter home loans market
- Australia: Department of Defence selects 11 quantum mechanics projects via nextgen tech fund, aiming at improved national security
- Australia: Starts At 60, publisher and e-commerce startup, takes win at Australian regional championship of Startup World Cup
- Australia: LJ Hooker real estate giant to launch artificial intelligence-driven platform
- Australia: A brief look at the mobile-point-of-sale opportunity for fintech startups
- Australia: Crypto SA Lab incubator program to launch in September following Au$170K Federal Gov’t grant and focusing on blockchain startups
- Australia: The Refinery Creative Incubator 10-week program launches on the Sunshine Coast, backed by QUTCEA
- Australia: Lookinglass unveils AI-driven web app capable of detecting early-stage Parkinson’s disease
- Australia: University of NSW Sydney partners Providence Asset Group and Tamworth City Council for AI, IoT and hydrogen power smart city trial
- Hub Australia launches Flexi Impact program to support purpose-driven businesses
- Australia: Google’s Wing drones are now delivering fresh food, coffee and groceries in Canberra
- Australia: Agerris field robotics startup secures AUD$6.5M with AI-backed automation
- Australia: NSW Cyber Security Network to aid cybersecurity cyber security research with $500K funding for startups to work with selected NSW universities
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Telstra to build distributed ledger platform to enable secure high-value online transactions
- Australia: An intro to the University of Queensland’s Ventures program
- Australia Post focuses northern Sydney store services entirely on Chinese community – items purchased can only be sent to China
- Australia’s Lonely Planet to acquire TRILL Travel, tech startup that turns Instagram photos into bookable travel experiences
- Australia: Automation and artificial intelligence could add up to $4 trillion to the economy
- Australia: Applications open for SheStarts female-led startup accelerator
- Australia: Digivizer digital analytics platform partners Investible early-stage investment group to help startups with data-driven growth
- Australia: An intro to Ally Assist, social impact startup building independence for people with a disability
- Australia: Remarkable, disability tech accelerator, unveils seven startups for latest 16-week bootcamp
- Australia: A look at Agersens agtech startup’s eShepherd smart collars for livestock management
- Australia: Applications for Monash University’s Generator 2019 Accelerator program open to May 5th
- Australia: An intro School Bytes and Saasyan, education-tech startups on Amazon Web Services’ AWS EdStart program
- Australia: NaturesCoin creates blockchain-based economy to support all initiatives across the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Australia: Registration of drone flyers and flyers licensing to be mandatory from July 2019
- Australian Signals Directorate to launch cyber recruitment drive, aiming to hire ‘many hundreds’
- Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City partners Australia’s New South Wales state on broad areas of interest, including startup and SME development
