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Australia’s startup news: November 2020
Australian startup news headlines collected here were drawn from online coverage of Australia’s tech, startup and funding news across the month of November 2020.
Each Australian startup news headline is linked to the online article behind the headline, providing an at-a-glance overview of recent developments in Australia’s startup scene, whilst allowing you to immediately read in full the articles that interest you most.
Startup news articles linked below provide a wide-angle look at Australia’s startup news; subjects cover a spectrum from, for example, Australian startups securing seed funding, to Australian government startup support initiatives.
Items featured are also broader than simply coverage of Australia’s startups; cybersecurity, regulation and coverage of overseas startups operating in Australia is also featured, to provide as broad an understanding as possible.
- Australia: A brief intro to Significant Capital Ventures, focused on early-stage tech startups and innovations coming out of the university sector
- Australia: Carsales platform launches Placie transport app, allowing consumers to plan and book trips across multiple transport modes using real time data
- Reserve Bank of Australia boosts Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency Research Project with collaboration with 3 major banks
- Australia: Advanced Capture of Water from the Atmosphere takes win at Bridge Hub Water Challenge with nano-scale moisture collection
- Australia: Auctus – Allens Legal Accelerator applications now open, aiming to help law-focused startups scale solutions focusing on contracts and risk
- Australia: Beforepay raises $4M with pre-paycheck wages access, providing advances and automatic repayments
- Australia: UTS Women in Entrepreneurship Scholarship applications close January 18th for those already enrolled in the MBA in Entrepreneurship
- Australia: Planet Protector Packaging wins Ocean Impact Pitchfest, replacing polystyrene with insulated packaging made from sheep wool waste
- Video: Ocean Impact Organisation Pitchfest 2020 winner, Australia’s Planet Protector Packaging
- An intro to the 15 food and agtech startups selected for Rabobank’s FoodBytes! Pitch 2020 virtual competition, including firms from Australia, India and Singapore
- Quadpay instalment payments firm acquires Australian company behind fashion search engine, The Urge, and Schnap ‘Shazam for fashion’ app
- Download: Future of payments in Australia – The future of transaction banking and payments in 2020, from pwc (pdf)
- Australia: Extreme Tech Challenge, competition for entrepreneurs which addresses global challenges, set for December 1st as part of WA’s West Tech Fest
- A brief look at 5 satellite startups using AI to process images, optimize communications and more, including Australia’s LatConnect 60
- Instagram Australia to launch InstaNight Shopping, world-first in-app shopping event, alongside launch of new Shop tab, on December 3rd
- The Australian EdTech Directory now online, provided by EduGrowth and AusTrade
- Australia: Victorian gov’t announces details of $20M Small Business Digital Adaptation Program, offering rebates up to $1200 to aid SMEs in going digital
- Australia: An intro to Flave, 100% vegan meal subscription startup, with food prepared by local chefs and delivered to your door
- Australia: Lawcadia takes wins at global LegalTech Breakthrough Awards with matter and spend management solutions for in-house legal teams and law firms
- Australia: A 16-item video snapshot of recent tech and startup news headlines from Australia, QR coded from screen to each full online article
- Australia: SPUR program unveils 4 winners of annual accelerator program, alongside winners of First Nations grant and Landgate, Curtin Research grant
- Australian Public Sector Blockchain Network, a community of practice for blockchain enthusiasts in the public service, launches to support National Blockchain Roadmap
- Australia: Link4 e-invoicing startup gains pre-approval for software to be used across 187 federal gov’t departments after successful trial with Treasury
- Australia: AGL Energy Services awarded $2.9M for large scale EV charging trial across NSW, Queensland, Victoria and SA, installing smart chargers in owners’ homes
- Australia: Victorian gov’t to launch $25M venture growth co-investment fund in effort to keep startups in the state
- Australia: Zoomo launches e-bike subscription service from $4.14 per day and allowing riders to rent and keep the bikes at home
- An intro to some of the fast-growing startups in Australia’s alt-protein sector
- Australia: Nuheara earbuds selected as 1 of 100 Best Inventions of 2020 by Time Magazine, for noise cancellation and audio-processing for the hearing-impaired
- Australian Border Force partners Singapore Customs and Singapore Infocomm Media Development Authority for trial of blockchain-backed digital verification in cross-border trade
- Women In AI Awards 2021 Aus-NZ now open for applications, closing December 14th
- Australia: Freo Startup Fest 2020 set for December 3rd in Fremantle, part of Perth’s West Tech Fest
- Australia: Muru Music Health music streamer partnered by Universal Music Australia, focusing on over-60s with AI-driven tech to combat effects of brain ageing
- Australia: OwnHome takes $150K win from Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s fintech incubator Xccelerate2020 Awards with alternative method for property ownership
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