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Tech giant Canva is using prop-tech startup Spacenow to find short-term space
The news follows a strong year of growth for the online marketplace, which has on-boarded more than 2000 listings to more than 25 categories of spaces
Swimply, the Airbnb of swimming pools, launches its first-of-a-kind online marketplace for pool sharing...
Founded by 22-year-old entrepreneur, Bunim Laskin, who, as the eldest of 12 children created Swimply out of necessity and a desire for relief and relaxation on a hot summer day.
Neo-financial services platform WLTH launches, but don’t call them a bank
Founded in Brisbane in 2019 by serial entrepreneurs Brodie Haupt, Drew Haupt, Darren Hodgkin and John Kerr, WLTH will bring to market a suite of tech-centric products, including commercial and residential lending, feature-laden transactional accounts, a powerful payments app, a high value loyalty system and a pipeline, including a myriad of further fintech solutions.
Digital Wine Ventures raises $6m to fund launch of a wine trade marketplace
The volume of cases processed through the cloud-based platform over the last three months doubled as Australians took advantage of online ordering to purchase from their favourite wineries as an alternative to visiting retail outlets and shopping centres.
Reading about his future competitor in the paper inspired this entrepreneur’s idea
In July 2012, while managing a large Westpac branch, he came across an interview with the founder of a well-known personal budgeting company which claimed they had created a new category in personal finance.
Steve Wozniak announces winners of 2017 Talent Unleashed Awards in Melbourne
In comments at the award ceremony in Melbourne, Mr Wozniak recognised the prevalence of stellar leaders and innovators amongst this year’s Talent Unleashed finalists and winners.
These 18 local startups will battle it out for $1m backing at StartCon Pitch...
$1 million at stake as the hottest local startups go head-to-head at a major pitch competition hosted by StartCon in Brisbane on 5 October.
This University of South Australia startup is using artificial intelligence to tame Parkinson’s disease
A South Australia startup, Lookinglass , based at UniSA’s Innovation & Collaboration Centre recently released an artificial intelligence (AI) web app that...
Aussie fintech start-up Pelikin has partnered with insurance company Travel By Us
Working to enhance their already accomplished product offering, Aussie fintech start-up Pelikin, has announced an exciting partnership with Travel By Us, a Sydney based travel insurance company for Australians.
Aussie dining rewards app Liven announces world’s first integration with ApplePay
With the digital wallet movement firmly in full swing, Australia’s leading dining rewards app Liven has recently announced its in-store invisible payments integration with ApplePay.
A digital disruptor won big at these Australasian legal industry awards
LegalVision, an disruptive online law firm targeting Aussie SMEs, was crowned the 2015 ALPMA/InfoTrack Thought Leadership Award winner, ahead of 3 finalists
The five creative startups at the forefront of fashion at Creative Enterprise Australia
With Australia’s fashion industry now worth $28.5 billion, QUT Creative Enterprise Australia’s Fashion Accelerator covers a hole in the industry when it comes to fashion tech.
This new online platform is here to revolutionise business mentoring
The new platform has already successfully matched over 1,500 mentors to mentees and Art of Mentoring is looking to reach their first 10,000 matches by June 2018.
How I turned a startup into one of Australia’s fastest-growing tech companies in 3...
Since its launch in 2015 Aaron Brooks and his business partner Ben McGrath have transformed Vamp into a leading influencer marketing platform with offices around the world.
This emerging tech startup is giving businesses an advantage in VR and AR
Australia
risks losing pace with the advanced nations of the world by its failure
to fully embrace immersive technologies such as Virtual...
Australian buy now, pay later provider Payright sets its sights on global expansion with...
Australian fintech and innovative payment plan provider Payright today announced its first international venture, extending its buy now, pay later service into New Zealand.
This Australian medtech startup is bringing the power of virtual reality to healthcare
Vantari empowers doctors and patients to better visualise and read medical imaging such as CT and MRI scans. The company’s cutting-edge rendering technology takes the current visualisation of these images into Virtual Reality by creating an immersive and intuitive environment.
This Australian e-commerce site is tapping into the $100 billion Chinese beauty market
Adore Beauty, a leading Aussie online shopping destination for beauty products and cosmetics, recently its expansion into China via Tmall Global (tmall.hk)
Proptech startup Property HQ is out to shake up commercial real estate search in...
Proptech startup Property HQ launched its new branding and a beta launch of its website this week with a renewed desire to disrupt and shake up the “status-quo.”
Girl Geek Academy extend their influence to the U.S. with diversity and inclusion grants
Girl Geek Academy is extending its impact into the U.S. market with a scholarship initiative aimed at increasing the number of minority groups working within the chaos engineering field.