Startup news: Australia
Australia’s tech and startup news in February 20201 featured items across health-tech, indigenous entrepreneurs, cybersecurity skills funding and, of course, the face-off between Facebook and government around news publishing.
Items listed below are Australia’s tech and startup news headlines; each is linked directly to the free-to-read, online article behind that headline, available in full. This gives readers two things instantly:
- an at-a-glance overview of a given month’s technology news from Australia; and
- instant access to more detail on the Australian startup news items that interest you.
Technology news: February 2021
Artificial intelligence | Blockchain | Cryptocurrency
Cybersecurity | FinTech
- Australia: uSpark Destination Start-up Partner Program opens, seeking proposals for great products that need help with technology – applications close February 28th
- Australia: StartMate Autumn21 Fellowship applications now open for women-focused 9-week program, set to run from March 29th
- ICYMI: Google launches News Showcase platform featuring paid-for content from 7 domestic news outlets in bid to show proposed legislation enforcing payments is unnecessary
- Australia: $26.5M Cyber Security Skills Partnership Innovation Fund to provide industry and education with funding to improve quality or availability of cyber security professionals
- Australia: Barayamal Accelerator Demo Day set for March 19th, showcasing Indigenous entrepreneurs and their businesses
- Australia: FourthRev edtech startup closes Au$4.16M seed round to connect universities with industry to design pathways to employment
- Australia: An intro to PainChek, health-tech startup developing an app to help people with dementia assess and score their pain levels
- Australia: HyperOne to deploy $1.5BN, 20,000km backbone across Australia, a private country-wide fibre backbone with interconnection points for subsea cables
- Australia’s Swysh expands to New Zealand, allowing fans to purchase personalised video messages from favourite athletes whilst supporting local children’s charities
- Australia: AustCyber to merge with Stone and Chalk in bid to boost Australia’s domestic industrial capability in critical and emerging technologies
- Australia: An intro to Academic Entrepreneur, aiming to help academics translate their skills into work in the private sector, at another university, or into self-employment
- Australia: Fintech Australia’s Finnies Awards now open for applications across 20 categories
- Australia’s AgriWebb continues growth, closing £17M investment to digitise global livestock farming
- Australia: An intro to TradeSquare, B2B marketplace providing SMEs with a platform to source products from Australian distributors at wholesale prices
- Australia: Boab AI scale-up accelerator launches, with first cohort and $1.5M in investments announced from Artesian-backed $100M Boab Global AI Fund
- Australia: Applications for the NSW Gov’t Global Ag-Tech Ecosystem program close February 28th
- Australia: “Facebook blocking news in the middle of a pandemic…tells you all you need know about how much Zuckerberg cares about Australian society…”
- Webinar: TikTok & WeChat, where to now? From the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, set for February 24th
- Australia’s Selz, startup that helps small businesses sell products online, acquired by Amazon with system managing orders, payments processing and customer relations
- Australia: Recently-announced Boab AI program to grow 32 AI-focused companies over 4 years, each receiving $300K in funding and up to $5M follow-on funding
- Australia: Country’s first waste-to-hydrogen plant awarded Au$200K by Queensland Gov’t to convert waste from landfill for domestic use and in fuel cells
- “…it may leave Facebook operating much more like…WeChat, where news is ruled by platform-specific content houses cranking out huge volumes of low-quality articles”
- Australia: Startup Adelaide relaunch event set for March 16th at The Innovation Factory
- Australia’s GreaseBoss selected for Y Combinator program with lubrication management system preventing equipment failure and reducing maintenance costs
- ICYMI: Google launches Asia Pacific-focused Startup School initiative, offering a series of free, hands-on virtual courses for startup founders and their teams
- Seamless Australia 2021 online event set for May 4-5 – more than 80 banking, payments and e-commerce figures in panel debates, presentations and unconference sessions
- Australia: A round-up of the past month’s tech, startup and funding news headlines, each linked to their online articles
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