Q3 2017
Startup News
Australia
- Australia: Gold Coast startups set for UK’s Pitch@Palace event
- Australia: Wrappli mobile outdoor ad-tech platform launches
- Australia: Cultiv8 agricultural tech accelerator launches
- Australia: Blockchain In Healthcare Summit – October, Melbourne
- Australia: Government pledges AU$50M for cybersecurity research centre
- Australia: Everything IOT Global Leadership Summit – Sydney, October
- Australia: A look at i4Tradies tradesperson management platform (pdf)
- Australia: Intersekt Festival + Collab/Collide Summit – Melbourne, late October
- Australia: DigitalX, Stargroup to modernize ATMs for bitcoin compatibility
- Australia: Bookwell raises $2.6M for ‘MenuLog for beauty & wellness’
- Australia: Croomo edtech firm raises $2M
- Australia: Power Ledger raises $17M in 72 hours, pre-ICO sale
- Australia: The 3 startup winners from UniSA Venture Catalyst Awards
- Corporate Australia: “Adapt and thrive; innovate or die”
- Australia: 3rd Regional Online Heroes competition applications open
- Australia: Tempus Partners closes A$40M early-stage tech fund
- Australia: Steve Wozniak to headline Pivot Summit ’17
- Australia: Removing the double taxation of digital currency
- Fintech Australia’s Meet the Industry Leaders – Melbourne, Sept 12
- Australia: Macquarie Bank announces banking data initiative
- Australia: Indigenous Digital Excellence Award finalists announced
- Unilever Foundry 30 SEAA applications close October 1st
- Australia: Nanollose raises $5M for fabrics derived from alcohol
- Australia: Blenktech takes Westpac Innovation Challenge People’s Choice
- Australia: C2 Melbourne int’l business conference – end November
- Australia: Farmwalls launches Kickstarter campaig for in-restaurant growing
- Australia: Dockland’s Hatch Quarter funded for refugee program
- Slingshot, NORA partner to launch Australia’s 1st retail tech accelerator
- Australia: SavR fintech launches Kickstarter campaign for personal savings app
- Australia: 2900 ‘two-way’ Bitcoin ATMs set to launch
- Australia: NAB SME Hackathon @ Intersekt Festival – Oct 27-29
- Australia: Hackoffeethon – October 14th, Melbourne
- Australia: Barayamal partners CoderDojo for First Nations coding clubs
- Australia: TitleExchange aims to end ‘ridiculous’ conveyancing fees
- ‘Universities should view startup students as future donors’
- Australia: UHack, University of Tasmania hackathon – Sept 8-10
- Australia: Melbourne Silicon Beach opens to sponsorship
- Aus/NZ: Defence Forces partners 2 startups for Fight Recorder project
- Australia: Study Loans aims at ethical financing for students after raising $2M
- The Australian Information Industry Association iAwards winners
- Australia: 5 startups selected for EnergyLab clean energy accelerator
- Australia: Brighte home energy-financing startup raises $4M
- Australia: Snappr photographer marketplace lands $2.5M
- Australia: Snapshot Millionaire sets $1.1M amateur photog competition
- Australia: A look at Brisbane’s Startup OnRamp pre-accelerator program
- Australia: Jayride airport transport startup lands $8M
- Australia: WineMinder, a sensor pinpointing the best time to drink wine
- Australia: 3 Day Startup at Wade Institute, Melbourne, set for Sept 22
- Australia: Jiangsu-Victoria Innovation Centre set for Melbourne
- Australia: Future Workplace Hackathon – Sept 4-5, Melbourne
- Australia: Micropower Labs raises $100K equity free from Queensland government
- Australia: 23 startups selected for Tech23 showcase
- Australia: Queensland Government digital strategy for 2017–2021 (pdf)
- Australia: Thinxtra IoT gains $10M from Clean Energy Finance Corporation
- Australia: Pivot Summit – tech, startups, social enterprise
- Western Australia government pledges $17M for tech sector
- Startup Battlefield Australia applications extended to September 11
- Australia: Power Ledger, Origin Energy trial blockchain-driven P2P energy trading
- Australia: Kickstarter launched for Tiller time-tracking productivity device
- Australia: Melbourne set to be APAC’s latest coworking giants battleground
- Australia: Creatively Squared creators-to-brands connector takes Creative3 Pitch
- Australia: Myriad festival could make Brisbane Australia’s Silicon Valley
- Australia: StartCon 2017 set for Sydney, 1-2 December, with NSW government backing
- Australia: SkyBuys selected for Germany’s Airbus BizLab aerospace accelerator
- Australia: WiRE program for rural, regional & remote entrepreneurial women
- Australia: A look at The Weekly Review’s 2017 Startup Stars winners
- Australia: $30M Mac Equity, View Street fund set to support startups
- Australia: Stone & Chalk joins SproutX for Melbourne ‘agri-fintech’ hub
- Australia: Expert360 secures $13M boost for consulting platform growth
- Australia: Girl Geek Academy launches world-largest all-women incubator
- Australia: Trimph biotech lands $3.4M around world-first ‘bone glue’
- Australia: GlamCorner raises $4.2M for fashion rental platform
- Australia: Bitcoin trading startup secures $815K for growth
- Australia: TapeArk set to transition tape media backups to the cloud
- Australia: MedTech’s Got Talent applications close late August
- Australia: WADEx New Ideas Forum – Regional Startups – August in Melbourne
- Australia: Pitch@Palace Australia applications close August 1st
- Australia: Run The World female entrepreneur conference – 29th, Melbourne
- Australia: Stone & Chalk gears up for expansion to Melbourne
- Australia: GoDaddy, WeWork partner for Junior Entrepreneur Bootcamp
- Australia: TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Sydney applications open
- Australia: FoundX sets for launch, focusing on regional businesses
- Australia: NSW government launches $26M quantum computing fund
- Australia: SA initiative allows public vote on budget allocation receives UN Award
- Australia: Unpitch 2017 – September 14, Melbourne
- Another look at the FinTtech Australia Member Ecosystem Map
- Australia: 2017 Westpac Innovation Challenge applications open
- Australia: Unearthed Accelerator for resource industry kicks off with 6 teams
- Australia: Melbourne’s Brauz retail tech startup lands $1M new funding
- Visa study suggests Australia will warm to payments via IoT
- Australia: Nuheara ‘intelligent earphones’ startup lands $9M
- Australia: Commonwealth Bank to aid startup entry to Hong Kong, China
- Australia: Reuters Digital News Report country analysis
- Australia: SA Police receives VR firearms training simulator system
- Australia: Al Gore to speak at iAccelerate Impact Conference, Wollongong
- Australia: government developing anti-encryption law – based on those EU Court rejected
- Australia: York Butter Factory set for NSW Australian Technology Park growth
- Australia: Startup Muster gains $330K funding, expands to act as tech matchmaker
- Australia:York Butter Factory, Mirvac to partner for nationwide startup hubs
- Australia: Evening with IBM Global Director, Blockchain Labs – Melbourne, 31/07
- Australia: Finch app, helping millennials balance social life & finances
- Australia: More on the recently opened CyRise cybersecurity accelerator
- Australia: A look at NSW government $35M plan for 17000 square metre startup hub
- Australia: Cicada Innovations opens applications for AgTech program
- Australia: Charlie Chatter TV chat software startup lands $300K
- Australia: CyRise cyber security accelerator launches in Victoria
- Australia: Pitch Night – Machine Learning / AI – Melbourne, July 25
- Australia: Tech23, Sydney, October – people, tech, capital, innovation
- Australia: Tic:Toc aims for home loan approval in 22 minutes
- Australia: Small Business Festival – Melbourne, August
- Australia: AdNews Media & Marketing Summit (Melbourne) – August 2
- Australia: Pollinators coworking lands $110K for startup initiatives
- Australia: Can Tesla and Blue Sky make Adelaide a startup hub?
- Australia: Macrovue fintech lands $1.25M around themed investment plans
- Australia: PlayUp seeks $10M to take fantasy sports global
- Australia: ANZ, Westpac back blockchain with IBM bank guarantee trial
- Australia: ASIC enters fintech cooperation agreement with Japan finservs agency
- Australia: Expert360 wants to see more government-startup partnerships
- South Australia chooses Blue Sky Ventures to manage $50M VC fund
- Australia: Assignar raises $3M for cloud-based construction SaaS platform
- Australia: A look at blockchain-based TBSx3, working in food provenance
- Australia: Pitch Night – Machine Learning / AI – Melbourne, July 25
- Australia: Mastercard launches contactless payments for Sydney Ferries
- Australia: A look at City of Sydney’s Chinatown startups making connections
- Australia: Thrivor aims to change experience of cancer and chronic disease sufferers
- Australia: Startup Muster 2017 launches
- Singapore’s Fundnel University of Adelaide to expand into Australia
- Australia: Brisbane’s CityHack17 set for 14-16 July
- Australia: SheHacks hackathon for women, Melbourne edition – 14-16 July
- Australia: Digi-Tech Start-Up Grants set to attract students into tech careers
- Australia: KoalaSafe hits the US with monitor for kids’ internet use
- Australia: DiviPay launches mobile shared accounts with virtual Mastercard
- Australia: Oovvuu unveils IBM Watson-driven video-on-demand news
- Australia: WA grain handler to trial blockchain agtech in grain sales
- Australia: Arludo brings AR games to STEM education
- Australia: Bipartisan push for Reserve Bank to back bitcoin
- Australia: i4Tradies tradesman services management platform launches (pdf)
- Australia: Hyper Anna AI data science start-up backed in $16M round
- National Energy Resources Australia sets $15M fund for collaborative projects
- Australia: New accelerator aims to fix energy system
- Australia Post to launch AlphaCommerceHub for smaller retailers
- Australia: Stake fintech set to launch $0 brokerage US share trading
- Australia: Flare HR backed in $5.5M round by Westpac Reinventure
- EY FinTech Australia Census 2017 now open for submissions
- Australia: A look at Xinja, mobile-only digital bank
- Australia: ZipMoney lands $40M backing from Westpac
- Australia: $25K hackathon aims for innovation in NSW gov’t, public safety
- Australia: Hack4Homelessness – 15-17 Sept, Sydney
- Australia: Unlockd debuts in Asia, launches Swapps in Indonesia
- Australia: Fund My Neighbourhood lets SA citizens vote on $40M allocation
- Australia: IAG launches Firemark Labs Sydney insurance tech incubator
- Australia: Spectur IOT-based security startup lands $4.5M
- Australia: Norbit raises $400K to pull customers back to bricks-and-mortar
- Australia: UNSW pitch comp winner trials startup for ageing population
- Australia: TokenOne cyber-security startup selected for US move
- Australia: Armourcard pre-empting hackers with tech to block NFC attacks
- Australia: NSW gov’t set to trial driverless vehicles
- Australia’s e-commerce remains tied to the PC
- Australia: Amazon confirms fulfilment centre plan for SE Melbourne
- Australia: Wattwatchers raises $4M to help consumers save on power bills
- Australia: Spriggy lands $2.5M to change how children get pocket money
- Australia: A look at UBank, NAB’s digital-only subsidiary
- Australia: The agenda for November’s Intersekt fintech festival
- Australian Information Security Association conference – November, Sydney
- Australia: 4 startups join muru-D, Telstra IoT-focused accelerator
- Everything IOT founder interviewed on Australia’s IOT ecosystem
- Australia: Thinxtra IoT gains $10M to change the way we use data
- Australia: A look at Melbourne’s burgeoning IoT startup space
- Australia: Yeah Nah Summit 2017 – Melbourne, August 25th
- Australia: HaymarketHQ to host Alibaba Cloud startup contest
- Australia: ActivePipe property tech startup raises $1.8M
- Australia: LaunchVic announces 3rd round of refugee, migrant startup support
- Australia: Symbiot Technology renewable energy startup sets for Silicon Valley
- Australia: Early Ethical Entrepreneurs Pitch Competition open for applications
- Australia: Sports tech set to be export bright spot
- Australia: Galileo launches $20M fund aimed at uni grad entrepreneurs
- Australia: SBE Australia E3 Empower, Evolve, Escalate – EOIs open
- Australia: SBE Australia to launch female founder program in Melbourne
- Australia: Monash Food Incubator, Rocket Seeder to launch agtech accelerator
- Australia: StartCon conference set for Sydney in December
- Australia: Sydney School of Entrepreneurship opens doors to first 60 students
- Australia: Digital Innovation Festival – 23/08-06/09 across Victoria
- Australia: A look at Workyard, app for the construction industry
- Australia: OpenStack Summit – November, Sydney
- Australia: Domain launches open APIs for 3rd-party developers
- Australia: Girls In Tech Amplify Pitch Night applications close 4th
- Australia: SheStarts graduates its first cohort
- Singapore’s Fundnel to partner Australia-based ThincLab incubator
