= Tech & startup news =
in Q4 2017
- Australia: SCU partners Epictenet fintech for AI-driven customer query platform
- Australia-Asean Emerging Leaders Program 2018 applications open
- Australia: Flamingo AI firm raises $5M in 12 minutes
- Australia: A brief look at cryptocurrency’s tax and regulation challenges
- Australia: Reserve Bank pitched for creation of Aus$ cryptocurrency
- Australia: Horizon State blockchain platform aims to improve civic engagement
- University of Melbourne Asia-Pac’s 1st to issue academic credentials on a blockchain
- Australia: Sunshine Coast Startup Week – 20+ events, 60+ speakers
- Australia: The $200K investment threshold problem for overseas startups
- West Tech Fest Startup Challenge – open to all Asia-Pac startups
- Penfolds Wine launches ‘maximum funding’ competition for US startups
- Australia’s impact investors bet on SE Asia’s women entrepreneurs
- Australia: Reserve Bank – crypto “offer a wealth of potential in the finance sector”
- Australia: Sydney’s BitPOS startup launches Bitcoin ATM
- A look at the case for and against a digital Australian dollar
- Australia: Bitcoin regulation bill gets government green light
- Australia: ASX to reveal blockchain assessment to replace CHESS in December
- Australia: ASX may switch to blockchain tech for post-trade settlement
- Australia: NAB intros customer advice via Google Home and Google Assistant
- Australia: Westpac to launch PayWear wearable payment tech in December
- Australia: Over $665M in tech startup funding in Q3 ’17
- Australia: Skrilla partners with GAMURS for bigger slice of esports market
- Australia: National opt-in digital ID set to go public
- Australia: NAB SME Hackathon at Intersekt Fest – Oct 27-29
- Australia: CancerAid selected for LA-based health tech accelerator
- Australia: CanYa blockchain p2p marketplace raises $1.5M in 24 hours via ICO
- Australia: Spreedbox, Skype alternative, sets for $4.2M IPO
- Australia: iAwards 2018 now open for applications
- Australia: uno Home Loans mortgage broker startup gains $5M more via Westpac
- Australia: A look at the sectors with most to fear from Amazon
- An updated look at who’s who in Australian fintech
- Australia moves to mass surveillance with facial recognition database
- Australia: REALas property sale price prediction firm acquired by ANZ
- Australia: Smart Cities Blockchain Hackathon – Melbourne, Oct 20-22
- Australia: H2 Accelerator February 2018 intake open for applications
- Australia: FUELD Info Session for data startups and scaleups – Sydney, Oct 19
- Australia: SIEMonster startup set for San Fran Launchpad
- Australia: Darwin Startup Weekend – November 10th
- Australia: Xplor student admin tech startup takes 5 awards at Tech23 conference
- Australia: Redback Technologies energy tech startup lands US$7M
- Australia: Trade Ledger fintech launches tech to help banks fend off tech giants
- Australia: FinTech Reverse Pitch Night- October 31, Melbourne
- Insurtech Australia launched to support local innovation
- Australia: The City of Melbourne Startup Action Plan 2017-2021 (pdf)
- Australia: Virtual Psychologist mental health startup wins $72K
- Australia: Charter Hall PropTech Accelerator now open for applications
- Australia: Bridge To MassChallenge Adelaide Boot Camp – closing Nov 8
- The West Tech Fest Startup Challenge – Asia-Pac startups in a live on-stage battle
- Australia: Open Pitch Night! Launceston, TAS – October 26
- Australia: Startup Tasmania Open Pitch Night – Launceston, October 26
- Australia: GardenSpace solar-powered robot gardener launches
- Australia: Cozitrip raises $2M for Chinese-focused travel bookings platform
- Australia: Girl Geek Academy partners General Assembly for women developers
- Australia: CUA Sponsored Entrepreneur Program unveils 4 new startups
- Australia: BuyMeStuff lands $450K for next-gen e-commerce marketplace
- Australia: A look at universities’ challenges with commercialising research
- Australia: A look at Startmate’s 8th startup cohort
- Australia: NevHouse disaster relief housing startup sets for UK Pitch@Palace final
- Australia: Agenda for November’s Startup Battlefield in Sydney
- Australia: Remix Summit – the intersection of culture, tech and entrepreneurship
- Australia: City of Melbourne Startup Celebration event – October 26
- Australia: The recently-launched Hatch Quarter pre-accelerator in Melbourne
- Australia: Lingmo International earpiece translates 9 languages in realtime
- Australia: Xperience Accelerator info sessions for AR and VR entertainment startups
- Australia: Female Founders Pitch Night – Melbourne, Nov 28
- Australia: Tech Savvy Seniors Queensland program set to help 10K develop skills
- Australia: CBH Group, AgriDigital successfully test blockchain in grain industry
- Australia: Queensland’s SwarmFarm partners with Bosch to bring robotics to farming
- Myriota aiming to bring satellite IoT to regional Australia
- Australia: A look at Spinify, gamifying sales, KPIs, real estate and more
- Australia’s blockchain and crypto firms to gain from newly focused funds
- Australia: City of Fremantle sets $8M trial of blockchain-powered energy & water systems
- A look at how online retail will help shape Australia’s smart cities
- Australian Computer Society launches accelerator and innovation spaces
- Australia: Fashion360 Accelerator now open for applications
- Australia: Blockchain Centre moves, launches in a new coworking and events space
- Australia: NAB to spend further AU$1.5BN on digital-first as 4K jobs go
- Australia: Westpac bank’s Reinventure arm backs Brickx property investment platform
- Australia: Douugh fintech startup lands partnership with Choice, US mutual bank
- National Australia Bank seeks 600 tech specialists for digital business focus
- Australian Payment Summit 2017 set for Sydney, December 13th
- A look at how the Australian fintech industry has matured over the last year
- Australia: A video round-up of every panel from Startup Battlefield Australia 2017
- Australia: NSW’s Dubbo to trial mobile phone based digital driver licences
- Australia: Wearable Technologies Conference – Sydney, December 7 & 8
- Australian Tourism Export Council partners Alipay for mobile payments
- Australia: Optus partners Vic government on $16M plan to beat mobile blackspots
- Australia: TOM Melbourne 2017 – for makers & assistive tech addressing disabilities
- Australia: Mentorloop software platform startup lands $725K
- Australia: Square Peg Capital to focus on Series B investments in SE Asia
- University of Queensland to grow sports entrepreneurs & sportstech
- Australia: Monash GENERATOR Accelerator Showcase – November 20
- Australia: Rocket Seeder agtech accelerator applications open for 2018
- Australia: China Boot Camp applications still open for Shanghai, Nov 20-24
- How technology is transforming Australia’s construction sector (pdf)
- Australia: CSIRO launches Main Sequence Ventures, unveils 4 deep-tech startups
- Australia: Waddle online cashflow lender secures $50M debt funding
- Australia: Credit Clear aims for $10M funding for overseas growth
- Australia: Up to 500 games industry jobs likely with $2M SA State government grant
- HealthMatch wins TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Australia with clinical trials work
- Australia: Tasmania to launch Australian-first LoRaWAN IoT network
- Australia: Herbert Smith Freehills Startup School launches in Melbourne for lawyers
- Australia: MedTech Actuator set to help startups get to market in Victoria
- Australia: EpiSoft cloud-based SaaS medtech closes $1M capital raise
- Australia: Microsoft Tech Summit Sydney – November 16, 17
- Australia: Your Home My Home startup launches house-sitting platform
- Australia: Startup Tasmania Open Pitch Night – Burnie, Nov 16
- Australia: Startup Victoria – What’s Up Tel Aviv?
- Australia: Neighbourlytics, FARMpay & BanjoMaps, 3 startups from SheStarts
- Australia: Startup Victoria Female Founders Pitch Night – Nov 28
- Australia: Melbourne Angels’ Angels@Noon event – November 24th
- Australian-German Start-up Summit set for Brisbane, 7 November
- Australia: StartUp Catalyst Future Founders Mission takes student to Silicon Valley
- Australia: ‘35.7% of founders in the (startup) sector were not born in Australia’
- Australian wedding startup Personalized Favors opens 1st US office in Wilmington, Delaware
- Australia: GMIC conference set for Sydney with Phil Morle-judged pitch contest
- A look at the 15 startups participating in Startup Battlefield Australia in Sydney
- Australia: A look at Western Sydney’s startup aspirations
- Tasmania to launch Australian-first open LoRaWAN IoT network
- Aussie startups need to get real about corporate partnerships
- Australia: The Project Counter aims to boost STEM interest with ‘science cookies’
- Australia: Space Innovation Fund applications close November 10th
- Australia: Telstra partners Pivotal in push towards tech refocus
- Australia: A look at Troovo ‘virtual payments’ solution, recent Start-up of the Year at Singapore’s Web In Travel conference
- Australia: Women in Blockchain Meetup – Melbourne, December 5th
- Australia: Go Girl Summit Networking Expo – November 30th in Melbourne
- Australia: Flurosat crop health monitoring startup lands $1.5M
- Australia: A brief look at WaterSave, a SproutX-incubated agtech startup
- Australia: Trucks to be retrofitted for autonomous mine operation by Caterpillar, Rio Tinto
- Australia: ‘Big data 2.0 is a big opportunity for government’
- Australia: Wepower chosen by Startup Bootcamp for blockchain-driven renewable Energy Australia initiative
- Australia: Blockchain startups set to gain from US$70M NEM investment fund
- Australia: ASX announces blockchain technology to be used to cut costs
- Australia: A look at Qlink, aiming for an blockchain-driven open-source telecom ecosystem
- Australia: Perth to gain from opening of Sydney’s Tank Stream Labs coworking
- Australia: Perth’s National Currency Exchange (NCX) aims to launch cryptocurrency exchange in 2018
- Australia: New law mandates crypto exchange registration around anti-money laundering
- Australia: Remarkable Incubator opens for tech innovation aimed at people with disability
- Australia: NSW launches platform for whole-of-government view of digital projects
- Australia: An intro to H2 Accelerator’s latest round of graduating startups
- Australia: Sniip mobile payments startup lands Australia Post partnership
- Indonesian and Australian Fintech Associations discuss growing connections
- Australia: Melbourne’s Airwallex raises $6M to grow cross-border payments
- Australian Securities and Investments Commission enters FinTech Cooperation Agreement with Canada
- A look at the future of digital government services in Western Australia
- Australia: CanYa closes ICO with Au$12M raised for decentralised p2p services
- Australia: Cog Systems IoT security startup secures $3.5M
- Australia: Inkl subscription-based news service lands partnership with Wall Street Journal
- Why Australian startups should start looking at Malaysia
- AT&T Aus/NZ MD: ‘…digital transformation should include Internet of Things tech’
- Australia: BRICKX ends 2017 with 6K clients, 14 properties and Westpac funding
- Australia: SheStarts unveils 8 female-led startups aiming for social impact
- Australia: BioConnected biosensing sports headphones launch crowdfund campaign
- Australia: Adelaide’s Sine takes Perth’s West Tech Startup Challenge title for visitor check-in system
- A look at the challenges for Australia’s regional startups and entrepreneurs
- Australia: Plane Pal startup kids sleep devices approved for use
- Australia: A look at Camplify, startup with the biggest caravan rental fleet in the country
- Australia: Sonder Design’s e-ink keyboard wins pitch comp and place in GMIC Beijing Startup Battle Finals
- Australia: BlueChilli the first ESIC-eligible accelerator, aiding access to early-stage funding
- Australia: Acceleprise B2B accelerator raises $7M fund; sets for Melbourne expansion
- Australia: Crossroads report – action plan to develop world-leading tech startup ecosystem (pdf)
- Australia: Founders For Founders launches to generate founder networks
- Australia: Next LaunchVic initiatives set to assist regional startups, local councils
- LaunchVic bringing Tech Inclusion Conference to Australia for the first time in February 2018
- Australia’s Power Ledger partners to supply blockchain tech for Thailand P2P energy trading
- Australia: Sydney Angels passes 50 startups mark for investments
- Australia: Galileo to raise $20M VC fund aimed at university graduates
- Australia: A look at the 10 startups chosen for CSIRO’s ON Accelerate program
- FinTech Indonesia signs agreement with FinTech Australia around collaboration and development across jurisdictions
- Singapore adopts South Australia’s approach to citizen inclusion
- Singapore: Australian Payment Summit set for December 13
- Main Sequence Ventures deeptechfounders Nat’l Tour – Hobart, Nov 1st
