Startup news: Australia
The April 2020 Australian startup news round-up, covering Australia’s tech, fintech and funding news in the early-stage startup scene. News items are gathered at the country level, rather than at a country-plus-technology level, to provide a view of the overall activity levels in Australia’s startup news.
The links listed below are Australian startup news headlines from April 2020, with each link taking you to the online news source for that headline, generally covering either an individual Australian startup in the news or the wider Australian tech startup ecosystem in some way – venture capital, government or private startup support initiatives, or startup industry body news, for instance.
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- Australia: Airwallex fintech raises $160M to expand cross-border payments and tools in Europe, the US and new overseas markets
- Australia: Facebook and Google to face mandatory code of conduct requiring platforms to pay news media businesses for the content they produce
- Australia: An intro to Angel Next Door, Geelong startup helping neighbours through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia: An intro to Remarkable accelerator’s startups, creating technology to change the lives of people with disability
- Australia: EdApp online learning startup partnered by United Nations Institute for Training and Research for ‘Educate All’ global learning initiative
- Australia: A brief intro to 3 startups working on aspects of the real estate industry
- Australia: An intro to the mentors offering online consultations via Sydney Startup Hub
- Australia: Power Ledger to roll out blockchain energy trading to apartments in WA, delivering renewable energy via embedded network, solar PV and microgrid
- Australia Post launches trial of Remotely Piloted Aircraft, drones to deliver small parcels to customers, particularly time-critical deliveries such as medication
- Australia: An intro to eBottli, providing blockchain-enabled tracking, geolocation for bottles or containers, and unique identifier labels for winemakers
- Germany’s ProVeg Incubator selects Australia’s Heuros and India’s Mister Veg for plant-based and cultured food program
- Australia: Coworking businesses in Sydney Startup Hub gain access to 6-month rent deferment from NSW Gov’t as move to maintain viability past coronavirus crisis
- Australia: WHOOP fitness and health tracking wearable to be studied for use in early detection of COVID-19 respiratory issues
- Australia’s Power Ledger, peer-to-peer energy trading pioneer, unveils world’s largest choose-your-own-energy-source project in France
- Australia: An intro to Meld Gold, scheduled to launch a blockchain-based platform for tokenized gold trading in Q3 2020
- Australia: New spyware targeting Android users identified by Bitdefender, adding to woes as country targeted by more banking trojans than any other developed country
- 10 early-stage startups selected for SportsTech Melbourne Accelerator Program, from Australia, Spain, Germany, Austria, India, the US and Canada
- Australia: Washington Post highlights University of Queensland’s actions regarding student critical of China over Hong Kong, Tibet, Uighurs and free speech
- ICYMI: Opera web browser expands crypto wallet service across whole of Europe, and adds Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Switzerland to roster
- Australia: Myriota IoT firm raises $19M with sights set on constellation of at least 25 satellites to connect internet-of-things devices globally
- Australia: An intro to SilVR Adventures, providing guided communal VR sessions encouraging social interaction for seniors in care homes across Victoria
- Australia: Startup Onramp launches Online Founders Course training and mentoring program
- Australia: M8 Ventures VC fund announces hibernation in response to coronavirus, setting sights on post-pandemic restart
- Australia: EnergyLab Australia cleantech startup acceleration program gains $480K in government funding, focusing primarily on Scale Up program
- Australia: 86 400 neobank startup secures $34M Series A in round led by Morgan Stanley, with 170K registered accounts and expectations of 500K accounts in 12 months
- Australia: Animoca Brands blockchain gaming firm engages PrimaryMarkets online marketplace to launch private trading of unlisted securities and investments
- Australia edition of Techstars Online Global Startup Weekend Unite to Fight Covid-19 set for April 24-26
- Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre now working with Google, Microsoft to publicly flag COVID-19 scam websites as malicious
- Australia/New Zealand: Startups Hiring Through COVID-19 – a live, continually-updated spreadsheet of jobs and opportunities, from Airtree VC
- Australian Technologies Competition 2020 applications now open, seeking Australian technology scaleups with the greatest global potential
- Australia: Eftpos digital ID trial approaches, aiming to provide a ‘smoother, faster and more secure onboarding experience, including for government services’
- Australia: Longtail UX SaaS startup secures $5M to connect online searchers to products with exact matching of long tail search terms
- Australia: Okra Solar lands $40K from the $1M Chivas Venture fund with plug-and-play smart grid tech focused on off-grid populations
- An intro to RMIT Activator from Australia’s RMIT University, running simultaneous online LaunchHub programs for startups in Melbourne and Vietnam
