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This Aussie-founded investment tech platform has pulled in $11 million from US investors to...
Investment technology platform Jacobi Inc. has announced it has raised $11m AUD from prominent US investors.
The capital raised...
Top Brisbane businesswoman Sonia McDonald has been named among the top 250 female leaders...
Prominent Brisbane businesswoman Sonia McDonald has been named in digital business magazine Richtopia’s 250 Most Influential Women Leaders of the world
Slingshot launches CoVentured platform to connect corporate Australia with startups
More than two dozen leading businesses including Westpac, Woolworths, Optus, Australia Post and Lendlease have joined Slingshot to launch a new platform designed to connect corporates with startups and scaleups.
The platform for designing other platforms is expanding to Australia with the appointment of...
InVision, the platform used to design the apps and websites we use every day, has appointed Tom Richardson as its first...
Schools to roll out $20 Boss challenge to nurture young entrepreneurs
NAB and the Foundation for Young Australians launch program to inspire a generation of future entrepreneurs.
Aussie businesses turn to e-commerce with local sales dominating online for 95%
More than half of Australia’s small and medium businesses (54%) are using e-commerce, with 95% making most of their online sales to customers in Australia, according to the 2016 Sensis eBusiness Report.
Square tackles Australia’s chronic cash flow problem with its new invoicing feature
Australian business owners have finally gotten an easy way to get paid for goods sold or services that they render due to the introduction of Square Invoices.
Steve Baxter’s Startup Catalyst is looking for 20 tech-savvy youth to take to Silicon...
The Startup Catalyst program has already taken two groups of 20 youths to Silicon Valley in 2014 and 2015, and recently conducted a mission to London and Berlin in June 2016.
No more boring presentations, please. How to keep your audience glued to every word
Can’t get your audience to pay attention during your presentations? Leonor Brilha shares some tips on how interest your audience and keep them glued
Attracting lots of interest: Peer-to-peer lending is finally set to take off in Australia
Peer-to-peer lending has already grown significantly in the UK and the US, but remains in its early stages in Australia. However, it's now set to take off
Digivizer and Investible are partnering to help startups accelerate growth using data-driven marketing
A new partnership between early-stage investment group Investible, and digital analytics platform Digivizer, will help startups harness the power of data-driven...
Aussie freelancers desperately plead for inclusion in the COVID-19 stimulus package
On March 12th, 2020 Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a multi-billion dollar stimulus package to address the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) – which totally ignores freelancers and sole traders with no employees.
Are you a successful tech scale-up in Australia and New Zealand? The UK Tech...
On the hunt for successful Australasian technology scale-ups, the UK Department for International Trade (DIT) has launched its Tech Rocketship Awards in Australia and New Zealand.
Significant proportion of Aussies indicate their employers are blind to sickness, work overload, stress,...
1 in 2 workers have admitted their bosses don’t send sick employees home, 2 in 5 have said work overload and stress is rife, and 1 in 3 have said inadequate training is provided.
This Aussie regtech platform brings on board two new neobanks, boosting this financial services...
Financial systems aggregator platform, FrankieFinancial, recently announced it has signed deals with Xinja Bank and Novatti Group (ASX:NOV), as it works to...
Businesses are exposing themselves to a great risk by failing to register their assets
Australian companies are exposing themselves to the unnecessary risk of losing multi-million dollar assets, according to leading legal experts.
Is your innovation changing Australia’s future? The iAwards are looking for you
From the world's first modular self-fit hearing aid, robots that write their own code, a virtual reality treatment platform for spider phobia, to an artificially intelligent shark detection system using drones - the Australian Information Industry Association’s (AIIA) iAwards program has unearthed outstanding Australian innovation for over 25 years.
This Perth-based search fund accelerator is redefining the term ‘entrepreneur’
An entrepreneur is not simply someone with an idea for an app.
Many business people have what it takes...
Wellington City Council has opened a new tech hub with BizDojo to support its...
Wellington City Council and BizDojo have launched a new tech hub and Collider programme - a key component of the Council’s Economic Development Strategy
Duke of York’s Pitch@Palace startup pitch coming to Australia for the first time
Founded in 2014 by His Royal Highness, The Prince Andrew, Duke of York, the global initiative was born as an extension of His Royal Highness’ ongoing endeavours to support and accelerate innovative business ideas.
