Australia’s startups
News in June 2019
Today’s startup news:
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- Australian Technologies Competition unveils 33 semi-finalists
- Australia: Complexica partnered by Jacob’s Creek wine parent company on AI Foundations project to blend ML and AI into production and supply chain
- Australia: Tech in Sport & HYPE UQ SPIN Accelerator Pitch Competition set for July 10th in Brisbane, with 10 startups presenting
- Australia: GoMicro agtech is currently crowdfunding around AI-powered mobile phone microscope that identifies agricultural pests and diseases
- Australia: Sqhub incubator and coworking space unveils 2nd cohort of 10 creative-tech startups
- Australia’s Claimspace selected for US’s gener8tor OnRamp Insurance Accelerator with insurance claims platform
- Australia: Stone & Chalk fintech space to open Adelaide hub with new focus on defense and space tech startups, big data and AI
- An overview of South Australia’s solid presence in the 2017/18 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report
- Australian Venture Consortium launches, aiming to be the voice of regional and suburban innovation
- Australia: NSW to roll out opt-in Digital Driver Licence across the state
- Australia: Third Aurora launches Winetales augmented reality platform focused on the wine industry, with 80 wineries on the books
- Researchers from Australia’s Data61, data/digital arm of the national science agency, develop ‘vaccine’ for algorithms subjected to machine learning attacks
- Australia: YBF Ventures, Melbourne-based tech and innovation hub, to take ownership of Tyro Fintech Hub in Sydney
- Australia: The nine 2019 IoT Award winners unveiled
- Australia’s Power Ledger blockchain-based energy firm partners E-NEXT to launch P2P network in Austria’s second-largest city, Graz
- Australia: A look at how Webjet online travel agency uses blockchain tech in Rezchain and Rezpayments to lower costs and increase efficiency
- Interview covering the Australian Stock Exchange’s moves with blockchain tech, aiming to replace legacy system with decentralised ledger technology
- Australia: Flinders University New Venture Institute partners Mount Gambier High School to boost entrepreneurship across the Limestone Coast
- Australia: “It should be mandated that accelerators transparently publish even basic metrics of their performance.”
- APAC Blockchain Conference 2019 set for 22-34 July in Sydney, Australia
- FinTech Australia overhauls membership structure, opening avenues for connections from international members and associates
- Australia: SBE Australia’s Springboard Enterprises Dolphin Tank final pitch event set for June 20th in Sydney
- Australia: An intro to Wrappt smartphone video platform aiming to allow users to create and edit pro-standard content
- Australia: CEBIT 2019 tech conference and exhibition set for October 29-31 in Sydney; to include startup pitch competition and more
- Australia: 11th Space coworking opens in the heart of Melbourne, aiming to be a startup ecosystem hub
- Australian Women in Tech Pitch registrations open – present to potential investors, customers and partners from Australia, North America and the Asia-Pacific
- Australia: Stadiums Queensland quietly switches on facial recognition software trial focusing on sports fans and concertgoers, prompting privacy concerns
- Australia: The 23 pitch videos from last month’s StartupOnRamp pitch night in Brisbane
- Australia: Perth City council facial recognition surveillance cameras trial greeted with concern in light of apparent lack of community consultation
- Australia: Universities trial facial recognition tech and biometric profiling to crack down on students who pay impersonators to sit their exams
- Australia: Verrency payments startup raises Au$10M with sights set on Singapore and US expansion
- Australia: BDO accounting firm partners Decentralised Capital for cryptocurrency and blockchain auditing service, aiming for first Bitcoin ETF on the ASX
- Australia: Credit Card Compare unveils Australia’s first credit score-monitoring app
- Future Food Asia Award selects Australia’s RapidAIM for US$100K grand prize with real-time pest detection technology suite
- Australia: Brisbane edition of Startup Onramp Founders Course set for late July, with pre-registrations open now
- An intro to the 2019 FinTech Australia Finnie award winners
- Australia: Government’s Austrade seeks agtech and foodtech startups and operators to showcase the country’s capabilities
- Australia: MedTech’s Got Talent 2019 startup bootcamp set for Adelaide, June 27th
- Australia: Maxwell Plus startup uses AI and Google’s machine learning services to augment the work of clinicians in identifying prostate cancer
- Australia: Be MPowered Pitch Competition aims to give female startup founders a shot at $10K, mentorship and more
- Australia: Unyoked tiny house travel startup raises $1.2M to take wilderness cabins to new sites
- Australia: Mobi ride-share startup gains seed funding from NEM Ventures
- Australian National University data breach points to China as key suspect, given sophistication of hack
- Australia: Near 100,000 Westpac banking customers’ details exposed after cyber security breach
- Australia: Hike retail management startup takes win at Startup Victoria pitch night with multi-channel business synchronization
- Australia: CRIISP investor matchmaking platform launches to help startups secure capital
- Australia: Antler, global VC fund and startup generator, launches with cohort of 71 prospective startup founders
- Australia: She’s a Crowd wins MKW Open Innovation Competition with data-driven women’s safety platform
- Australia: A collection of the country’s tech and startup news from the last month
- Australia: Gobbill AI bill payment platform partnered by Cointree crypto exchange platform to provide ‘pay any bill with any coin’ service
- Skift’s list of 25 travel and tourism startups across the globe to keep an eye on
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