The March 2020 month-end collection of Australia’s startup news, from Startup News Asia.
Each month, we gather Australia’s startup news, along with venture capital funding items and tech news to produce a monthly summary, in this case for March 2020. Items are drawn from our daily news feeds, which collect startup news in Australia from online news sources, tech news channels and Australian news services; and each item linked here will take you to the original news source.
- Australia: An intro to Morsl, self-service food and drink market being installed in the offices of some of Australia’s biggest corporates
- Australia: The Block Ledger one of 5 winners of the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund/HSBC JUMPSTARTER 2020 Global Pitch Competition
- Australia: An intro to GoMicro, app identifying pests, leaf disease, mineral deficiencies and food quality levels using AI
- Australia: Seabin ocean-cleaning startup hits minimum equity crowdfunding target of $1M in just four days
- Australia: A brief video intro to FlashFomo, marketplace for Asia-focused social influencers and key opinion leaders to create and sell personalised products via flash sales
- Australia: Federal Police and forces in Queensland, Victoria and SA found to have dozens of accounts with facial recognition firm Clearview AI
- Australia: A brief intro to the 14 advisory committee members of the recently-established Digital Technology Taskforce
- Australia: The KPMG Pulse of Fintech H2 2019 biannual report now available
- Australia: Startup Weekend Sunshine Coast, Sustainable Development Goals edition, set for April 3-5
- Australia: Former SA senator Xenophon should sign on foreign influence register due to legal work for China’s Huawei, says Intelligence and Security Committee chair
- Australia: “The reason we don’t just use [open banking] instead of screen scraping is…largely because big financial incumbents have dragged their feet.”
- Australia: We Are Social and Hootsuite’s report on internet, social media, mobile and e-commerce usage in Australia in 2019
- Australia: Startup Gippsland info session set for Bairnsdale, April 2nd, introducing incubator program and the 6 local government areas involved
- Australia: Startup Weekend NextGen set for QUT Gardens Point campus in Brisbane, March 13-15
- A brief intro to the 4 Australian women on the Innovate Finance Global Top 200 Women in Fintech Powerlist
- Australia: A look at HackHunter, hard- and software startup using IoT to protect organisations from info theft by malicious Wi-Fi
- Australia: Zookal edtech platform gains Au$15M with services including textbook sales and rental
- Australia: ITS Asia Pacific Forum seeks 5 startups working in intelligent transport, mobility solutions or smart cities for free booths at Brisbane event in May
- Australia: The Studio’s combined open day, demo day and 2nd birthday celebration set for March 13th at Sydney Startup Hub
- Australia: Future Minds Accelerator applications open, a Rio Tinto, BlueChilli accelerator and AWS partnership to prepare students for a digital future by fast-tracking skills
- Australia: Cellr develops bottle lid to combat counterfeit wine, using NFC and RFID to let consumers confirm provenance, verify producers, and access promotions
- Australia: Hunter Innovation Festival set for May 6-22, centered around Newcastle, NSW
- Australia: National Electronic Warfare Centre to be established in partnership with Flinders University in $5M initiative to grow Electronic Warfare defence workforce
- Australia: CyberCX cybersecurity firm launches scholarship fund and unveils partnerships, aiming to boost female presence in cybersec
- Australia: Judith Neilson Institute Freelance Grant for Asian Journalism applications open to aid Australian freelance journalists to produce a significant work
- Australia: Another look at Cellr, connected ‘smart cap’ platform aiming to help wine producers protect bottles from counterfeiting using RFID and NFC
- Australia: Guardhouse closes Au$1M funding round with workforce management platform and app focused on HR in the security industry
- Australia: Boosting Female Founders Initiative Round 1 applications open to April 14th to help female startup founders launch and scale domestically and globally
- Australia: Suncorp Digital Incubator Program applications open until April 17th, seeking fintech and insurtech startups
- Australia: A look at recently-launched X15 Ventures startup incubator, created by Commonwealth Bank in partnership with KPMG and Microsoft
- Australia: Blinker launches electric vehicle subscription service aiming for try-before-you-buy intro to EV ownership
- Australia: A podcast interview with deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations CEO, Sally-Ann Williams
- Australia’s Xinja mobile-first neobank to gain $433M over 2 years from Dubai’s World Investments, with plans for home loans and personal loans market entry
- Australia: CogniVocal tech startup makes complete Pirate Island ‘voice game’ for Alexa smart speakers free, to help players stuck at home
- Australia: PetSure pet insurance administrator partners Vetchat for veterinary telehealth services with registered vets via text or video
- Australia: A brief intro to Coverhero, insure-tech startup providing freelancers and contractors with fast-response income insurance
- Singapore-Australia Digital Economy Agreement unveiled, focusing on international rules, interoperability between systems and frontier issues from emerging tech
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Other subject-specific news from across Asia-Pacific in March 2020:
• Blockchain news across Asia-Pac
• Artificial Intelligence news, Asia
• Cybersecurity and data security news
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