Australia’s startup news
February 2020’s tech, startup and funding news from Australia.
Each link below leads to the original online news source for each item, and each item is drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily news feed:
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- Australia: Art and Emerging Technology Forum set for March 3rd in Melbourne, at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
- Connecting Australia-India Startups and Innovation Ecosystems event set for February 6th in Melbourne
- Australia: Commonwealth Bank hopes to get the edge on rivals by launching 25 new fintech businesses over the next 5 years
- Australia: QUT CEA Collider Accelerator applications are now open for early-stage creative tech businesses
- Australia: An intro to Immediation, aiming to make the legal industry easier to use, more cost-effective and more accessible, moving disputes from court to online
- Australia: Commonwealth Bank launches X15 Ventures incubator to create and nurture digital businesses to add to core business, partnering Microsoft and KPMG
- Australia: QUT Fashion360 Grow scale-up program applications close February 12th, aiming to lift existing fashion businesses into commercial, sustainable enterprises
- Australia: Perth Mint partners Security Matters for blockchain-based gold supply chain traceability project
- Australia: Openpay to launch Openpay for Business portal to enable companies to manage trade accounts end-to-end, with Woolworths partnership in place
- University of South Australia Innovation & Collaboration Centre opens applications for 2020 Venture Catalyst Space program
- Australia: FlashFomo, firm connecting social influencers to quality manufacturers, selected as one of 50 companies for Startup Grind 2020 Accelerate Program
- A look at the Australian and New Zealand publishers who have grown readership revenue through the Facebook Accelerator, part of the FB Journalism Project
- Australia: National strategy for Australia’s use of blockchain technologies to be launched today, focusing on opportunities to industries from finance to wine
- Australia: Swinburne University Blockchain Innovation Lab partners Asta Solutions software firm to develop blockchain-based supply chain management
- Australia: The National Blockchain Roadmap – Progressing towards a blockchain-empowered future (pdf)
- Australia: The National Blockchain Roadmap – a 2-pager outlining 12 key focus areas (pdf)
- Australia’s Cohort Go, edtech helping students with living arrangements abroad, partnered by international student-focused North Loop, a US challenger bank
- Australia’s Power Ledger P2P energy trading firm lands contract with Alperia SpA, one of Italy’s largest renewable electricity utilities, following innovation competition win
- Australia: NurtureCloud proptech startup gains $3M backing from country’s largest real estate agency
- Australian Urban Observatory launches, an online platform mapping health and liveability of cities for use by gov’t and industry
- Australia: Clipchamp in-browser video editing startup raises $9M, preps to open office in Seattle
- Australia: Prospection raises $10M to use predictive analytics and machine learning to speed treatments for prostate cancer and hepatitis C
- Standard Chartered JV’s with Australia’s Assembly Payments to offer payment solutions to the global ecommerce industry from Singapore base
- Australia: AirSeed Technologies in early stage talks with government, industry organisations around trials of tree-planting drones in bushfire-devastated areas
- Australia: SocietyOne peer-to-peer lender secures $15M, establishes a $100M funding warehouse facility with Nat’l Australia Bank, and preps for IPO
- Australia: Okra Solar wins local heat of Chivas Venture 2020, preps to represent the country at $1M Global Final
- Australia: Blockchain For Social Good event set for February 17th in Sydney, from Women in Blockchain and Blockchain Australia Young Professionals
- Australia: Resolve Disputes Online takes first prize at Legaltech Venture Day at UNSW Sydney
- Australia: Victorian Gov’t to bring together startups, universities, businesses and the investment community to form innovation taskforce
- Australia: Startmate accelerator launches women-only Startmate Fellowship program to run twice-yearly for 3 months in Sydney and Melbourne
- Australia: An intro to Perth’s Appollo, virtual queuing platform allowing users to dodge long queues to enter their favourite venues
- Australia: FifthDomain gains $1.19M from gov’t AustCyber program to address cybersecurity skills shortage with cybersec education and training programs
- Australia: An intro to Hireup, platform allowing people with disabilities to find, hire and manage their own support workers
- Australia: Dovetail raises $4M in seed funding with customer research and data-backed insights platform
- Australia: St George Bank Kick Start program offers up to $40K in grants to help a startup or small business launch or boost early-stage growth
- Australia: Woolworths trials AI-enabled scales using system from Tiliter startup that automatically recognises type of fruit or vegetable being weighed
- National Stock Exchange of Australia to partner iSignthis financial institution to develop DLT platform to compete with the ASX for digital securities trading
- Australia: “In the blockchain space, ICOs are a mechanism for funding the creation of technology platforms and development of blockchain businesses”
- Australia: 6clicks regulatory-tech firm partnered by Startupbootcamp to help SBC’s predominantly B2B portfolio scale faster
- Australia: An intro to 6 startups that presented at the recent Pause Fest Startup Pitch Competition in Melbourne
- Australia: ResApp gains $5M backing with smartphone apps for diagnosis and management of respiratory diseases, aiming for Europe-focused commercialisation
- Australia: Vibewire youth-led coworking community startup scholarships available for up to 5 young female entrepreneurs in Sydney
- Australia: GGWP Academy launches e-learning platform for gamers who want to build a career in content creation and esports, partnered by Logitech G
- Australia: An intro to NoahFace, time and attendance logging platform enabling organisations to accurately comply with Fair Work Act Award changes
- Australia: Melbourne Accelerator Program Info Night set for March 4th
- Australia: An intro to Cheq app, launched to provide an on-demand alternative to payday loans
- Australia: Perth Mint Gold Token, world’s first sovereign gold digital token, commences trading on KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange
- Australia: Digital Transformation Conference set for March 26th in Sydney
- Australia: Victoria gov’t is uploading driver license data to federal gov’t National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution; license-holders cannot opt out
- Australian Red Cross faces new bushfire-related challenge – hundreds of bot-generated submissions for bushfire relief grants
- Australia Clean Energy Accelerator Program preps for launch in April, focusing on efficiency, optimisation and emission challenges for industrial applications
- Hong Kong: 5 winners unveiled from the recent Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund/HSBC Jumpstarter 2020 pitch competition
- India’s T-Hub startup incubator partners Australia’s inQ Innovation to provide Indian growth-stage tech startups with market insights and entry opportunities
- Finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 event include Australia’s AgUnity and Wriveted, South Korea’s Looxid Labs, and India’s NeelAgil
- A brief intro to 12 of Asia’s legal-tech startup founders and their businesses
Other news in February 2020
Other subject-specific news from across Asia-Pacific in February 2020:
• Blockchain news across Asia-Pac
• Artificial Intelligence news, Asia
• Cybersecurity and data security news
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