A month-end snapshot of Australia’s tech news headlines, articles, reports and downloads from March 2022
The Australian technology headlines collected here are drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily tech news feeds, which go out on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, and via mobile app. Less frequently, we post digests via Medium, e-newsletter and on YouTube.
And don’t forget: Wild3 metaverse-themed conference, April 12-13, and the Wild Digital SEA Conference in July 2022.
- Australia: Buy-now-pay-later firm Zip Co set to acquire Sezzle in Au$491M deal, setting sights on presence in $25 trillion global market
- Australia: Female Founders Pitch Night with Microsoft for Startups set for March 11th in Sydney
- Australia: Truescope gains $6.2M with cloud-based SaaS platform, harnessing social media to pull insights for customer reputation management, intelligence and crisis communications
- Australia’s CryptoTaxCalculator raises seed capital to expand automated crypto tax reporting tool further into the US market
- Australian Plant Proteins project set to quadruple animal-free protein manufacturing in South Australia, with Au$378M funding for 3 new production plants
- Australia: Language Confidence raises $1.5M seed funding using artificial intelligence to automate teaching and testing of spoken English
- Australia: Portabl takes Zurich Australia Innovation Championship win with insurance platform for self-employed workers, enabling them to take benefits from gig to gig
- Australia: 30X30 program unveiled by LaunchVic, aiming to help high-potential Victorian firms scale up in pursuit of unicorn status by 2030 – applications close March 14th
- State of Australian Startup Funding report now available to download, an analysis of data from more than 800 Australian founders and startup investors
- Australian Blockchain Week 2022 is set for March 21-25 – over 75 events and more than 200 speakers
- Australia’s Immutable NFT/Web3 firm raises $200M Series C at valuation of $2.5BN, backed by China’s Tencent, Singapore’s Temasek, Hong Kong’s Animoca Brands and others
- Australia: An intro to Boomer Home Loans, fintech-focused home loans provider focused on challenges faced by the over-55 demographic
- Australia: Book An Artist raises $1M with platform connecting businesses and people with visual artists worldwide, aiming to change how art is consumed and commissioned
- Australia: ‘Exploring Cryptocurrency’, March 2022 report from Cyber Security Industry Advisory Committee of the Dept’ of Home Affairs, now available to download (pdf)
- Australia: A brief interview intro to 1Receipt, sustainability-focused fintech startup providing digital receipts at point-of-sale
- Australia: Entries now open for 2022 Local Business Heroes program, aiming to select 57 small businesses for promotion through the Australia Post network
- Australia: All smartphones sold in the country may be mandated to include parental controls and higher default safety levels, under new gov’t online safety push
- Australia: A quick overview of what you need to know about non-fungible tokens and your tax liabilities in the country
- Australian Competition & Consumer Commission to sue Meta over crypto scam ads, with Facebook and Instagram linking fake crypto deal articles to unknowing celebrities
- Australia: Gov’t unveils ‘Space Command’ defence agency, initially modest in scope but potentially growing in scope with time
- Australia: Senator sees decentralized autonomous organizations posing ‘existential threat to the tax base’ since they are not liable to company tax, proposes legislation
- Australia: The transcript of Senator Andrew Bragg’s address to Blockchain Week 2022, looking at taxation on crypto tokens, DAOs, crypto and sanctions, and more
- Australia: Gov’t seeks feedback on proposals in consultation paper on minimum standards of conduct by crypto asset secondary service providers, and safeguards for consumers
- Australian Communications & Media Authority given powers to force big tech firms to provide internal data on how they have handled misinformation and disinformation
- Australia: Federal budget allocates $10BN over 10 years to Australian Signals Directorate to ‘keep pace with the rapid growth of cyber capabilities of potential adversaries’
- Australia: SBE Australia unveils 10 female founder-led startups selected for new Global Tech program
- ICYMI: Indonesia’s Bukalapak e-commerce major has opened a tech hub in Melbourne, Australia, providing opportunities for both countries’ tech and startup sectors
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