STARTUP STORIES
Where is Australia’s youngest university student now? Running a successful start-up!
At age 12, most kids are playing computer games and transitioning into high school, but this wasn’t the case for Mel Myers. At the ripe age of 12, he became Australia’s youngest university student and then went on to become Director of successful Australian start-up, BoxBrownie.com.
This new start-up helps you determine how successful an entrepreneur you can be
Fingerprint for Success uses evidence-based analysis from 15-years of research benchmarking the attitudes and motivations that correlate with venture success, providing invaluable insight for aspiring entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs building their business, co-founders and angel investors, VCs, accelerators and incubators.
This new start-up is combining traditional and short-term rental management
In a sense it is an accounts and property management for home-owner's to handle the entire guest experience all guest inquiries, cleaning, property management.
This new social media app is designed to create stronger bonds within your family
kin2kin is a kind of private and live family album. Photos are organised by who is in the photo, not who sent them. Simply loving a photo, or making a comment, lets the person in the photo know you are thinking about them and lets you start a conversation directly with that person.
Investible is looking to improve Australian investors’ early stage start-up investing skills
Investible, the leading startup generator that pairs entrepreneurial education with high quality investment capital, wants to empower more Australians to improve their investing skills and support top start-up talent.
World-first app CancerAid is bringing a more personalised touch to cancer treatment
Cancer treatment is about to be revolutionised on a global scale by five Sydney doctors who hope to make the lives of those living with cancer a little easier via a personalised smartphone app, known as CancerAid.
This new sharing economy start-up is delivering food from talented home cooks
Instead of ordering off your local restaurants, the new online marketplace is the first in Australia to connect you with super talented locals in your community who love to cook, bake and create at home, so you don’t have to. Meals can be simply picked up or delivered straight to your door - and reviewed.
Top law firm offers $500k for innovators in the legal scene, opens start-up accelerator
Launching the Mills Oakley Innovation Accelerator, Mills Oakley Chief Executive, John Nerurker, said the firm would provide up to $500,000 to support viable ideas through incubation and commercialisation.
One10 announces two new accelerator programs that will combine two popular start-up business approaches
“At One10, we receive so many pitches from people who get lost between the idea and the execution, lacking the skills or process to create a viable, sustainable and impactful business," said Veronica Munro, One10 CEO.
This tech start-up has launched Australia’s first intelligent home energy system
Renewable energy tech start-up Evergen recently launched the nation’s first, next-generation, intelligent home energy management system, with the investment and technical backing of leading investment manager, AMP Capital and CSIRO.
This human resource tech start-up makes candidate referencing easier and faster
Xref, at its core, is an automated, cloud-based candidate referencing platform – that in itself is a major win for its clients in terms of the time and money they save on resources otherwise wasted on calling and chasing referees.
How did this entrepreneur manage to create a multi-million-dollar app with no coding experience...
One of the most important things to remember is that you shouldn’t be afraid to ask for help because many connections will be able to put you in touch with new connections and help you grow your network.
From the sixpack to the cellar: online retailer BoozeBud (formerly BeerBud) expands into wines...
Australia’s largest online craft beer retailer, BoozeBud, formerly known as BeerBud, has today announced its expansion into premium and boutique wines and spirits, adding hundreds of alcohol brands to its already comprehensive range of craft beers.
The Uber of weddings – is this start-up the future of the $300 billion...
JoinMyWedding.com is the first online global platform that enables to-be married couples to open up their weddings to travellers who seek authentic cultural experiences on their holidays by connecting them via selling and buying tickets to weddings.
This new tech start-up enables businesses to stream music without breaking the law
QSIC, Australia’s first and leading commercially licensed music streaming service, has exceeded 1.5m streams in the last quarter and has added Melbourne, super-venue, Garden State, to its expanding client database.
10 start-ups enter new innovation hub at New Zealand national museum Te Papa
Mahuki, an innovation hub within the innovation hub has opened its doors to ten entrepreneurial teams. They will respond with digital solutions to challenges faced by Te Papa and other cultural service providers across New Zealand and the world.
This company raised AU$1 million in pre-order sales for its hi-tech earbuds
The start that this smart Aussie tech company had was far from good. It was awesome! On crowd-funding platform Indiegogo, they hit their goal in two hours, reached the $100,000 mark within one day and had reached over $300,000 by the end of that first week.
Nexba is taking on the big boys of soft drinks with a new naturally...
Nexba’s new range of Cola, Lemon and Orange Sparkling Infusions are a natural, zero sugar alternative to traditional sugary soft drinks, with no artificial ingredients, flavours or sweeteners.
Meet the East/West entrepreneurial combo changing how Aussies do business in China
While the focus is often on how business and tech co-founders combine to create successful start-ups, Sinorbis, an emerging Australian digital company helping companies tap into China’s burgeoning online consumer population, brings Western and Eastern expertise together to benefit Australian businesses.
He changed the $300bn Aussie construction industry with this one fintech innovation
Progressclaim.com is tailor made for the construction industry and streamlines the claim process by offering complete transparency, allowing claims to be processed collaboratively while minimising the risk of disputes and speeding up submittals and approvals
