Q2 2016
Startup News
Australia
- Perth startup races US developers to create 1st secure e-voting system
- Startup Buckitdream aims to tap ‘bucket list’ data
- Brisbane’s Karma Kids crowdfunds for revolutionary kids’ therapy tech
- Sydney’s 3P Learning lands a Microsoft Education Partner of Year award
- Australia: Flux startup prompts Senate to consider democracy-as-a-service
- Australia’s next startup ‘landing pad’ opening in Berlin
- Pollenizer partners University of Western Australia for entrepreneurship
- $25 million budgeted for new Sydney School of Entrepreneurship
- Australia’s Lorna & Bel launches ‘smart handbag’
- Canberra’s eWay acquired by US giant, Global Payments, for US$50m
- Australia’s Uno takes home mortgage finance to next platform
- BankVault founders 20-year journey to a win at Silicon Valley World Cup
- Australia considers options to cut double taxation from digital currencies
- FinTech Australia appoints CEO
- Sydney-Denver fintech startup Avoka raises $12m
- Australia’s H2 Ventures backs 5 new fintech startups
- Sydney fintech zipMoney lands $20.6 million in funding
- Australian fintech Avoka raises $16m in expansion funding
- 6 tips for early-stage fintechs from an Australian investor
- Silicon Valley and fintech giants head to Sydney in regional tech power play
- Sydney fintech hub Stone and Chalk set to expand to Melbourne
- 1st Annual Australian FinTech Awards: June in Sydney
- IBM’s Bluemix platform helps Bendigo and Adelaide Bank seek startup vibe
- Aus online lending platform Kikka Capital lands $2 million
- Australia’s ASIC to build fintechs a ‘regulatory sandbox’ to test ideas
- Fintech Brisbane Startup Weekend set for July
- Fintern Fever at Sydney’s Stone & Chalk Hub lets students compete for internships
- Tilt, ‘social payments app for Gen Y’, launches in Australia
- TruePillars connects smart investors with businesses for small loans
- 2 startups aim to enable Bitcoin purchasing at Australian newsstands
- Australia’s Blockchain Summit 2016 set for June, in Melbourne
- Perth’s BankVault one of top finalists in World Cup Tech Challenge
- A look at the creation of TechSydney, Australia’s tech supergroup
- Startup launches WelcomeOver, the Airbnb for food, in Australia
- Bank of Queensland and River City Labs partner for banking hackathon
- Sydney’s Chronic Pain Australia hackathon: 60 people, 6 teams
- Australian teachers’ simple startup helps schools ‘see and save’ kids
- Hacking Health: Melbourne in July
- CSIRO’s Data61 enters China tele-medicine market with Coivu
- Aus startup CliniCloud aims to bring doctor’s office into US homes
- Australia’s 1st Indigenous Startup Weekend set for July
- Australian ‘innovation needs to extend beyond city borders’
- Queensland government unveils $225 million innovation spend
- EveryThingIOT Smart Cities Forum: Sydney, May 12th
- Gold Coast startup sees IoT potential in wireless mesh network
- Australia: Victoria aims to be APAC regional IOT hub
- How much are you worth as a social media platform user?
- Australia’s Bytes4Health incubator aiming to grow digital health startups
- OMG Mobile looks to capture youth market with access to fun experiences
- Australian startup SkedGo wins Rio Olympics Transport Challenge
- Melbourne’s Hava SaaS startup lands $500k
- Australia’s Humanihut aims to provide low-cost shelter for all
- Australia’s Clapit aims to be the top social network aggregator
- Hoozu aims to link tech with social media talent in Australia
- Australia’s Bombd sets up shop in Venice Beach, aims at social networking presence
- Social media startup Vamp aims for IPO in Australia
- Australian Pollinate Energy startup aidng India’s poor
- Enterprise Monkey heads to India with Australian Sports Tech trade mission
- Asia-Pacific Sports Analytics Conf pitch comp: July in Melbourne
- Australia to set up Au$500m innovation fund
- H2 Ventures backs 5 new startups, basing them in Sydney
- Australia & New Zealand tech deal activity jumps 8x since 2011
- Queensland music streaming startup Guvera aims for ambitious IPO
- Apparition Media advertising startup uses mural art for customer engagement
- Australia: VentureCrowd and Clearstate raise near $1m in 4 hours
- clapit breaks Australian record with seed funding of A$2.57m
- South Aus entrepreneur lands $60k on Shark Tank
- An infographic look at how startup funding works
- Japan Aus Entrepreneurship Initiative: opportunities, partners, collaborators…
- 2016 Tech Pioneers report: Australia & New Zealand (pdf)
- Melbourne tech community works to help refugees settle in Australia
- You don’t need a co-founder…but you do need a team
- Surf app ‘Pulse’ takes top honours at Startup Weekend Sunshine Coast
- Backers pour $15m into Australia’s telecom/advertising startup Unlockd
- News Corp leads seed round in Australian augmented reality startup, Plattar
- Melbourne’s Startup Week, 6 days of events this month
- Time for a rethink of the tech incubator model…
- Fintech Brisbane Startup Weekend set for July 8-10
- Ordermentum, Aus web-based F&B industry ordering & payments platform
- Employment Hero closes $2.2m round led by OneVentures
- Perth’s IOT startup Quantify Technology hires 2 ex-Cisco execs, preps for launch
- Followit, property marketing app, links agents and customers
- RiverPitch: 6 startups pitch to Australia’s biggest investors
- The difference between angels and seed VCs
- Telstra, NAB open Proquo digital marketplace for small business
- Queensland banks on Au$8m relocation program to lure int’l startup talent
- New $20m Dragon Egg fund to back Aus startups expanding to China
- Australian entrepreneur on the problems with today’s startups
- Australia’s BugCrowd digital security startup raises $19m
- ‘Absolute crisis’ facing Australian tech: “Nobody wants to come here anymore”
- Fishburners plans 4-fold Sydney expansion
- LA meet Australia: Emerging Innovators Xchange 2016
- Funnel Ventures: bridging social gap between Aus startups and Silicon Valley
- A look at DRU, the world’s first pizza delivery robot
- General Motors launches new platform made by Australian startup
- Cardect startup on Indiegogo aims to be the end of the business card
- Australia’s ‘trust economy’ startup, Meeco, in global push
- Townsville tech startup receives funding for JESI work safety app
- 3 core traits an early-stage startup investor looks for in founders
- Telstra’s Muru-D supporting Aus entrepreneurial talent as 3rd intake winds up
- Startup co-operatives aim to take on the Uber economy
- Macquarie Group, Acorn Capital invest in Maestrano cloud application provider
- ‘There’s too much groupthink in the tech ecosystem’
- Australia’s all-you-can-fly startup Airly aims for Q3 launch
- Melbourne’s Airly to jet to Europe after pitch contest win
- Salesforce creates $50m venture fund to invest in app devs
- 4 Aus VC firms gain recognition from global Project Include
- Queensland gov’t, Future Now Ventures co-invest $1m in software firm Jesi
- Crowdfunding: the future of angel investor funding?
- Infographic: How startup funding works
- Startup News Asia, May summary online: pdf & Issuu
- Melbourne’s Rampersand hunts start-ups with new $50m fund
- CapitalPitch VC raising new $10m startup fund
- $20 million Dragon Egg Fund launched for Australian startups to crack China
- Australia’s new StartMesh fund raising $20m to back tech startups
- Brisbane’s ClipChamp, video startup, lands $1.45m
- Australia’s Zero Latency virtual zombies head to Japan
- Academy Xi gets in early on VR education in Australia
- Startup VIC Female Founder event, July in Melbourne
- Director of Sales needed for @WeWork in Sydney
- Brisbane startup Winja encourages customers to complain
- Australian online marketplace startup RangeMe gears up for growth
- Wanted: Entrepreneur-in-Residence at muru-D, Australia
- Aus startups to pitch at Beijing O’seas Talent Entrepreneurship Conference
- Melbourne, July: Tech Crash Course for Non-Tech Co-Founders
- Sydney custom dressmaker Fame and Partners raises $10m from US
- Australia’s Design Make Produce, helping ASEAN fashion designers and manufacturers
- A look at the Female Fantastic panel from Advance Queensland Innovation Summit
- May 2016 Startup News Asia digest: online to offline
- Meraki Startup Kit for Australian startups – apply for 1 of 10 free kits
- Griffin Accelerator aims to be catalyst for Canberra startup ecosystem
- Startup Victoria Pitch Night, part of Startup Week in Melbourne
- Melbourne event in June: How to find the right cofounder
- Rare Birds Conference, Sydney, June 8-9: Australian entrepreneurs & innovators
- Fremantle startup Life Cykel: gourmet mushrooms from coffee waste
- $100 million ‘global first’ Australia-China science precinct for UNSW, Sydney
- AOL Launches DeskAid for Australian NFP startups
- Melbourne rental broker startup finds opportunity in ‘poorly serviced’ industry
- Aus real estate startup aims to cut middle-man agents out of the picture
- Sydney’s ‘design your own sports equipment’ startup heads to the UK
- Australia’s SOFI Spritz lands Shark Tank funding
- LaunchVic, Australian $60 million startup fund, open for applications
- A quick glance at what Asian investors want in Australian tech startups
- AP exec on cultural differences between Australian and Asian companies
- How Australia’s real estate boom hurts startups
- Australia considering startup landing pad in India’s Bengaluru
- A look at Carhood’s success, post-Shark Tank
- Regional startup Rundl targets Australia’s geographic isolation
- Zoom2u raises $1.85m to expand into Australia’s regional areas
- A simple rebrand helped this Sydney startup accelerate growth
- Melbourne’s Giggedin: Netflix-style subscription for live music
- The rise of Australia & New Zealand community hacking conferences
- Branson, Wozniak and Facebook VP seeking world’s best startups
- The right business to build is the one you *want* to build
- Applications open for QUT CEA Creative3 Pitch event
- Connect Expo 2016, Melbourne: business, technology, innovation
- MadPaws, ‘Airbnb for pets’ startup, partners with PETstock
- Australian trade delegation seeks opportunities for startups in China
- In Shanghai: Digital Disruptors in Asia & the Power of Partnership
- VC funds, think tanks puzzle over startup ‘valley of death’
- Australian startup aims to matchmake startups with big business
- StartupAUS director: Fix immigration or lose people like me
- Australia’s Seatfrog: snag last-minute upgrades on your next flight
- Unpitch, Australia: 60 startups, 20 VCs – May 26th
- Microsoft gives BlueChilli startups a cloud boost with BizSpark Plus
- CeBIT Australia, on now in Sydney: Startup Zone, Conference, PitchFest
- River City Labs to be Australia’s first startup hub with childcare
- Creative3 Pitch: connecting creative industry ventures with investors
- Entrepreneurs concerned Coalition, ALP still misunderstand startups
- Friday Beers delivery startup lands Shark Tank investment
- Startup World Cup Australia set for November
- Why backing local tech startups is crucial for Australia’s future
- Asia-Pacific internet users use more devices, often 4+
- Australian startup Spacer eyes Asia’s $4bn storage market
- Microsoft to bring MassChallenge startup accelerator to Australia
- Sydney’s HowAboutEat uses FB Messenger for office food delivery
- A look at 10 startups in Melbourne Accelerator Program
- Major tech firms, Aus startups back new innovation organisation TechSydney
- Australia’s biggest techs and startups join forces for TechSydney
- Australia to launch 5th and final startup ‘landing pad’ in Singapore
- Australian Silicon Valley star returnee heads home for tech talent
- Sydney stakes its claim to Australia’s startup culture
- Video distribution startup Veredictium uses blockchain to reduce piracy
- StartupAUS Crossroads 2016 workshop: Monday in Ultimo
- Artesian Venture Partners’ periodic table of Australia’s startup ecosystem
- Australia’s CSIRO to host Eighteen04 to foster clean tech startups
- Unrest hacker conference set for Melbourne in July
- ‘Australia’s scattergun startup funding short changes accelerators and won’t work’
- Sustainability Startup/Innovation Weekend Melbourne set for May
- Drive Yello food delivery app helping Australians earn an extra buck
- Data61’s Ribit.net collabs with ICT Geelong to spur regional startups
- Aus startup system will “fall hopelessly behind” if gov’t doesn’t fix immigration laws
- ‘..launch pads overseas will only undermine talent creation at home..’
- Sydney event: Stories from media-tech startups at different stages
- A look at the recent Victorian gov’t BudgetHack event
- Australian startups: more commitment, less conversation
- Australian Technology Competition open for entries
- Australia: Blackbird Ventures launches program to help tech startups recruit
- PayPal cofounder warns Australia’s mining, property focus is holding back tech
- Nabable: Clearance and second-hand furniture, delivered
- Inside 2 days Melbourne’s Nura crowdfunds $200,000 for smart headphones
- Australian Budget 2016 roundup for startups and SMEs from BizSpark Australia
- Melbourne’s Shopping Links named to Anthill Magazine’s SMART 100 Index
- ShopWings, Grocery Butler join forces for grocery deliveries in Australia
- Sydney’s GorillaStack aims to help IT managers control costs
- Mentioned in Startup News Asia, April 2016 edition @MagicCyberjaya @Groupama @KNOLSKAPE @clusterVR @MassChallenge
- You’re in April’s Startup News Asia: on/offline @WhatClinic @ribitdotnet @sgfintechfest @Fishburners @plattarglobal
- Oneflare lands $15m as trades marketplace space becomes 2-horse race
- QubeRider, Telstra-backed startup, is off to space
- Silicon Valley GSVLabs incubator looks to establish in Australia
- Melbourne Accelerator Program: Startup Intensive 1-Day Workshop in July
- A very quick look at entrepreneur-related election promises in Australia
- If elected, Labor to repurpose StartupAUS funds towards regional innovation
- Australia: ‘Go west for tech funding’, says startup founder
- Startup Muster, Australia’s largest startup survey: 2015 report online
- StartupAUS: $15m for startups not enough
- Australia’s Remarkable Accelerator to develope disability-focused startups
- A look at Springboard Enterprises, global entrepreneur network for women
- A look at the ecosystem of female Australian entrepreneurs and business owners
- Byron Bay: The case for investing in innovation in regional Australia
- May 2016 SEA startup news: Mentions @1337ventures @GRIFFINAcc @indee @ippfivn @LifeSREDA @Seedstars
- Startup Leadership Programme: India, Europe, Australia, Asia & the US
- NZ’s SuchCrowd startup: musicians, artists secure an audience before touring
- New Zealand POS startup Vend gets new CEO
- Tuhua fund raises $10m to invest in 25 New Zealand startups
- New Zealand Morning-After Maids startup clean up post-party mess
- NZ startup Dotterel wins innovation award for drone noise reduction tech
- New Zealand’s TechWeek AKL 2016, on now
- NZ startup First Table lands 200 restaurants for early bird dining
- How Loomio, a worker-owned tech startup, found investors and kept its values
- Sequoia Capital, Airtree lead $10m funding of NZ startup 90 Seconds
- NZ-based video collab startup Wipster scores deal with US giant Vimeo
- How blockbuster films turned New Zealand’s capital into thriving startup mecca
- Global from Day One Fund II raises NZ$38 million
- New Zealand’s Motion Sickness startup to open office in Sydney
- A look at Australia’s ROAM-e drone, the flying selfie stick
- Startup World Cup: conference & competition offers $1m funding
- 7 seed-stage sources that may finance your startup
- What investors expect startups to know about business models
- We need to talk about startups…it’s 1999 all over again’
- A quick graphic look at how startups are unbundling the hotel industry
- Asian and Oceanian Accelerator Report 2015 from Gust and Fundacity
- VC Gurley warns startups to beware of toxic funding deal terms
- Ireland’s Seedcorn Competition 2016: €280,000 in prizes
- In Startup News Asia’s on/offline May digest @elsa_speak @CurrenSeek @DesignMProduce @ExparaAsia @goxips
- Bosch injects $2.5m into Tasmanian agritech startup, The Yield
- muru-D’s Get Started: Tasmania, set for June 24th
- Australia Post to trial drone delivery
- Australia’s SOFI Spritz lands Shark Tank funding
- Staying the course as a tortoise entrepreneur, again on Inc
- User experience dominates Fintech 2020 Sydney
- Aus fintech startup Third Party Trade streamlines US stock access
- Forget Melbourne vs Sydney, Aus fintech must take global view
- A look at the swift growth of Australia’s fintech ecosystem
- Australian Budget paves way for fintech ‘regulatory sandbox’
- Brisbane credit union CUA partners Sydney fintech hub Stone & Chalk
- 12 fintech startups added to Afiniation Melbourne event
- Westpac’s Innovation Challenge opens for health tech startups
- Flipper entrepreneurs vs builder entrepreneurs, on Inc
- ‘Win-in-Suzhou’ Oceania Start-up competition New Zealand launched
- Philippines’ Future Now Ventures backs 5 more tech startups
- Study: SEA’s internet economy to touch $200b inside 10 years
- The State Of The Startup Accelerator Industry, via Forbes
- Startup Battlefield Disrupt SF applications open
