Australia’s startup news
#startupAus – 05/2019
Today’s startup news:
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- Australia: ASIC regulator releases guidelines for cryptocurrency, ICOs and more
- Australia: Mars Seeds of Change Accelerator launches, seeking food-focused startups
- Australia: A look at the 8 startups to be based in Singapore under the Austrade Landing Pads initiative
- National Australia Bank partners Israel’s Bank Leumi and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for online portal to foster fintech and bank collaboration
- Australia: Allume Energy startup partnered by Mirvac real estate giant for solar power sharing in apartments and offices
- Australia: HoneLab takes Hunter Innovation Festival pitch win with device coupled to a phone app for conducting instant soil, crop and grain testing
- Australian Government cabinet reshuffle to see Senator take on financial technologies responsibility
- Australia: Victorian gov’t startup agency LaunchVic gains Au$10M funding top-up in state budget to continue operating for at least 12 months
- Australia: Morse Micro raises $24M with HaLow chips focusing on Wi-Fi for the internet of things
- Hacking democracies: Cataloguing cyber-enabled attacks on elections, from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
- Australia: Parkhound app launches nationally, giving short-term or long-term parking options plus income from leasing idle parking spaces
- Australia: Vogue Codes event series discussing the future of digital and empowering future female innovation set for Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney
- Australia: Lumi fintech startup and alternative lender secures Au$8M with focus on SME lending
- PropTech Australia Summit set for September in Sydney
- Australia: Brauz e-commerce startup launches new ‘Reserve in Store’ feature to drive in-store sales
- Australian Computer Society appoints former StartCon chief executive as NSW state manager
- South Australian gov’t seeking ‘urgent advice’ on its $50M VC fund run by Blue Sky Alternative Investments after fund manager falls into receivership
- Australia: Applications open now for September intake to Plus Eight Sprint, 6-week part-time pre-Accelerator in Perth, WA
- Australia: LawTech Hub launched by Lander & Rogers lawyers in partnership with YBF Ventures, with applications now open for September startup cohort
- Australia: CoVentured, business connecting startups and scale-ups to corporates, opens offices in Europe and Asia
- Entries now open for 2019 Australia and New Zealand Sports Technology Awards
- Australia: Brisbane’s RiverPitch Live set for Sydney in June, and is seeking startups to take part
- Australia: XR:WA virtual reality festival launched by State Gov’t of WA, set for 6-14 July in Perth and Fremantle
- Australia: An intro to the 7 startups selected for the SparkLabs Cultiv8 agritech accelerator
- Insurtech Australia appoints new CEO, entering from Stone & Chalk, Asia-Pacific’s largest fintech hub
- Australia: Cluey Learning online tutoring startup raises Au$20M with AI-backed personalised education focus
- Australia: An intro to the 9 creative-tech startups selected for QUT’s 2019 Collider Program
- The 4 finalists from the recent Australian Legal Technology Association’s pitch competition
- Australian Technologies Competition applications close May 20th, aiming to aid startups ready to scale
- An intro to the 7 food and agri-tech startups selected for SparkLabs Cultiv8 2019 cohort
- Australia: An intro to WeekDay Space, aiming to solve the pain of long commutes for workers
- An overview of opportunities for Australia and India to connect in the innovation space
- Australia: Labor Party proposes ‘entrepreneurs council’ to guide policy affecting startups
- Australia: Labor Party pledges $25M to restart the Australian Interactive Games Fund
- Australia: China’s JD e-commerce giant closes Melbourne office after just 15 months
- Australia: IoT Impact Conference and Exhibition 2019 set for September in Sydney
- Australia: 2019 Eureka International Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition set for Melbourne in June
- The finalists of the Fintech Australia 2019 Finnies Awards
- Australia: Josef tech startup raises $1M to help legal centres, law firms and enterprises create legal help bots
- Australia: Kasada cybersecurity startup secures $6.5M
- Singapore’s Zebpay cryptocurrency exchange launches trading services in Australia
- Australia: Labor Party pledges $25M for creation of regional digital skills hubs
- Australia: Power Ledger energy trading platform gains multi-government partnership for blockchain-ready homes in Western Australia
- Australia’s BlueChilli startup accelerator launches Singapore-based healthtech accelerator for SE Asia – applications open May 28
- Australia: An intro to CyRise, accelerator with a specific focus on cybersecurity startups
- Australia: Sydney to replace Singapore as Hootsuite Asia-Pacific HQ
- Australia: B2B Rocks Sydney 2019, B2B and SaaS startups and scaleups conference, set for 6-7 June in Sydney
- Australia: Taxation Office to require local cryptocurrency service providers to hand over records for data-matching with individuals’ tax returns
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