A round-up of Australia’s tech news headlines, articles, reports and downloads from August 2021
Australian tech news headlines in August 2021 spanned applications and developments including: the growth of the buy-now-pay-later market; the newly-launched Tech Council of Australia; digital trade with the US; the rise of meat alternatives; the increasing presence of cybersecurity considerations in international affairs; and many more.
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- Australia: Harvest B gains VC and grant funding of $4.5M with ‘smart ingredient system’ for food producers to make vegan meat analogues
- Australian organisations most likely globally to pay a ransom if hit by ransomware, IDC report finds
- Australia: Afterpay ‘buy now, pay later’ firm to be acquired by US payments giant Square in $29BN deal, the largest in the country’s history
- Australia: Greenhouse innovation hub launches in Sydney, aiming to provide affordable office space with a focus on climate tech startups and scaleups
- Australia: Startmate launches Liminal*, program running August 16-20 for women considering a startup bid, featuring online panels, masterclasses and breakout sessions
- Australia: CoinJar, country’s longest-running cryptocurrency exchange, unveils Crypto Mastercard allowing users to buy, sell and spend digital assets
- Australia: Facebook launches AU$15M across two funds, Newsroom Sustainability Fund and Public Interest Journalism Fund, and begins launch of Facebook News
- e-news, latest issue: Australia’s crypto MasterCard, Japan’s virtual celebs, new Singapore startups…
- Australia: Citi to launch Spot, a ‘buy now, pay later’ card in partnership with Diners Club, usable online or in-store anywhere Mastercard is accepted
- Australia: Foodbomb secures $4.5M Series A with focus on connecting independent venues with food suppliers, optimising wholesale food ordering
- Australia: An intro to the 6 tech startups selected for EnergyLab Climate Solutions Accelerator
- Australia: Commonwealth Bank’s x15ventures selects 10 startups to pitch at retail-tech focused Xccelerate21 Community Day
- Interview with Australia’s Ambassador for Cyber Affairs: “…it was hard to avoid international affairs which didn’t have some form of cyber component…”
- Australia: Gov’t in active discussions with US around regional digital trade agreement in effort to re-engage America in the Indo-Pacific, whilst boosting local tech sector
- Australia: FinTech Awards 2021 awards night set for October 6th in Sydney, with fintech submissions closing September 17th
- Australia: LockBit attacks on the rise, warns Cyber Security Centre, with ransomware that locks corporate files and systems
- Tech Council of Australia launches with Google, Atlassian, Afterpay among its 24 founding members, with sights on boosting tech industry value to $250BN by 2031
- e-news, latest issue: Australia’s Tech Council, Taiwan and Berkeley, payments from the Metaverse, digital asset custody in Singapore…
- Australia: More on the newly-launched Tech Council of Australia, industry lobbying group with 3 core goals including creation of 1M jobs in the tech sector by 2025
- Australia: Splashup takes CBA’s Xcelerate21 win with focus on boosting customer sales for e-commerce websites, adding refinements to search options
- Australia: Transformative Technology Founders sets mid-program pitch fest for August 25th, showcasing the 4-month program’s wellbeing and wellness tech and founders
- Australia’s Fable Food raises Au$6.5M with mushroom-based meat alternative, setting sights on US launch and building on Singapore and UK presence
- Australia: As part of Growth Campus initiative, WeWork co-work giant to offer subsidised work spaces and mentoring in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth
- Australia: Grow2Asia applications open for agrifood businesses, providing opportunity to land and launch in Singapore
- Australia: Government accredits country’s first private digital ID provider, OCR Labs, to offer automated, contactless identity verification
- Australia: NAB joins with Canada’s CIBC, Brazil’s Itaú Unibanco, UK’s NatWest Group, and AWS for Global Open Finance Challenge
- Australia: Regrow agri-tech startup raises $17M Series A with carbon measurement platform focused on agri-food supply chains
- Australian Blockchain Industry Awards 2021 applications close September 30th, showcasing 6 individual and 7 business-focused awards
- Australia’s SEEK, owner of JobStreet and JobsDB, takes 10% stake in JobKorea, Korea’s largest online employment platform
- “Investment scams in Australia cost investors more than Au$70M in the first 6 months of 2021, with crypto scams contributing to more than 50% of the losses…”
- Australia: She Loves Tech competition unveils 10 finalists selected for 2021, spanning mobility, wearable tech, health-tech and more
- Australian Border Force, Singapore Customs and others concluded blockchain trial for trade document issuance and verification across independent systems
- e-news, latest issue: Blockchain in Australia-Singapore trade, She Loves Tech finalists, Indian CBDC, hyperconnected smart cities…
- Available to download: Australia’s AI Action Plan, a key feature of the Australian Government’s Digital Economy Strategy
- Australia: Nutromics raises $4.1M with med-tech tracking multiple targets in the human body via a single wearable sensor, providing real-time molecular-level insights
- e-news, latest issue: Malaysia’s entrepreneurs, Australian e-commerce, Indonesia’s digital economy…
- e-news, latest issue: Myanmar’s mobile wallets, WeWork in Australia, driverless data…
- Australia’s Independent Reserve cryptocurrency exchanges gains in principle approval from Monetary Authority of Singapore to operate digital payment token services
- Taiwan’s space technology firm TiSpace to conduct test launches from South Australia having gained regulator approval, focusing on low-Earth orbit satellites
- e-news, latest issue: Healthtech in Taiwan, open banking, Baidu’s robocar, AI artists…
- e-news, latest issue: Singapore’s restaurants, China’s digital payment QR codes, India’s deep-tech initiative, Australia’s AI Action Plan…
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