December 2020’s tech and startup news headlines from Australia, drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily news feeds
Australian startup news headlines featured here were gathered from a variety of free-to-read online news sources, each covering Australia’s tech, startup and VC funding ecosystems in some way. Headlines listed are each hyperlinked to the full news article behind that headline, giving both an overview of Australia’s startups and deep-dive information on particular startup news content.
Bear in mind that December is a relatively quiet news month for the startup space in general. For a more accurate picture of monthly startup news from Australia, take a look at 2020 in review.
Australian startup news headlines featured here are drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily tech news feeds, delivered on social media and via mobile app.
- Video intro’s to 13 of the startups that presented at Antler Australia’s recent virtual Demo Day
- Australia: Shouta launches with ‘micro-gifting’ app for small presents, to let friends and family know you’re thinking of them
- Australia: A collection of the past month’s tech, startup and funding news, gathered from Startup News Asia’s daily news feeds
- Australia: Nextgen Funds Management launches country’s first AI-specific fund
- Australia: ExSitu aged care startup lands 2nd place in WomenTech Global Awards with platform to help with advance care planning
- Australia: StartupWA gains $160K over 2 years to further build local start-up and technology sector in Western Australia
- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority new cybersecurity strategy expands to 3rd-party IT suppliers, fund managers, payments companies in bid to safeguard financial systems
- Australia: HealthMatch healthtech startup raises $18M with focus on placing patients into clinical trials
- Australia: AWS to open second infrastructure region in Australia with plans for AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region to be available in H2 2022
- Australia: Cashless welfare payments program trial extended for 2 years after Government fails in attempt to make it permanent in some communities
- Australia: Banks ordered to adopt proactive stance to cyber security, including hiring independent ‘red team’ hackers to deploy techniques to expose weaknesses
- National Australia Bank partners Slyp Smart Receipts to automatically store consumer receipts in the NAB banking app
- ICYMI: Near 2 in 3 Australians say they would support introduction of Universal Basic Income concept, according to new poll
- Australia: Melbourne Water and City West Water partner Collective Campus for Water Works corporate-startup program, aiming to boost innovation in the water sector
- Australia: Immediation online disputes resolution platform gains $3.75M Series A with focus on legal needs of SMEs
- Australia: A brief intro to the 11 agtech startups selected to present at Australian leg of THRIVE Global Accelerator, set for December 17th
- US and Australia join for Cyber Training Capabilities Project Arrangement, bilateral international agreement enabling Australian Defence Force feedback to US Cyber Command
- Australia: Consumer watchdog to take court action against Facebook and 2 subsidiaries over Onavo Protect VPN service due to misleading data privacy claims
- Australia: A video chat with Rick Baker of Blackbird Ventures VC firm focusing on the ANZ startup ecosystem
- Australia: Morse Micro gains CES Innovation Award Honoree status with Wi-Fi HaLow system-on-chip, providing 10x range, 100x area, 1000x volume of traditional Wi-Fi
- Australia: Australian Strategic Policy Institute to host the Sydney Dialogue, a virtual summit for emerging, critical and cyber technologies
- Australia: SydWest Global Connections Tech Startup Accelerator Program now open for applications, a 6-month growth program for tech startups
- Australia: Ethitrade takes win at Canberra Innovation Showcase with blockchain-backed platform solution showing consumers where products are made or grown
- Download: The Robots are NOT Coming (And why that’s a bad thing…) via the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute (pdf)
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