Tag: Melbourne
Nitro’s Sam Chandler takes top ‘gong’ at EY Australian Entrepreneur Southern Region awards
Nitro Founder and CEO Sam Chandler has taken top honours at the 2014 EY Australian Entrepreneur of the Year Southern Region awards, judged best...
Airtasker has acquired Occasional Butler and is now exploring expansion to overseas markets
Airtasker has acquired Melbourne-based odd jobs outsourcing business Occasional Butler, strengthening its position amongst Australia’s online platforms for outsourcing local services.
The acquisition caps off...
This Melbourne-based file-sharing service is giving Google Drive and Dropbox a run for their...
Sixty Digits, a small Melbourne-based business has created a file-sharing service more than three times faster than the big boys of file sharing: the...
Aussie start-up Tablo, which is shaking up the publishing industry, secures $400,000 seed funding
Australian start-up Tablo, a cloud based e-book publishing platform and writing community, recently secured a $400,000 seed funding round from investors.
Lead investor Paul Reining, former...
This Melbourne promo agency is combining cool vintage styling with modern technology
With a strong background in communications and getting events and functions off the ground, Felicity Young predicted the trend of the rise in vintage...
The vanguard of humanity’s evolution: 30 years at Melbourne’s Bionics Institute
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Melbourne’s Bionics Institute, which has been responsible for actually bringing to market the type of technology we...
Allure Bathrooms raises $2 million; why an omni channel strategy leads to success
Here's a small company being rewarded for thinking differently.
Allure Bathrooms, Melbourne-based startup unique for its novel approach to retailing, has just received been partially...
Former lawyer makes cookies with her husband to sell to Qantas and Virgin Australia
Ken Mahlab purchased Uncle Charlie’s, a cookie business, in 2004. It had gone under administration in 2003, 10 years after it was established.
In 2007,...
Larry Kestelman’s Oxygen Ventures is looking for a start-up to breathe $5 million into...
Oxygen Ventures, the venture capital firm founded by successful serial entrepreneur Larry Kestelman, is putting up $5 million for The Big Pitch, a start-up...
Is this crowd sourcing market research tool going to change how we research what...
Launched in Melbourne last December, Australia’s first crowd-sourced brand research platform AnswerCrowd has taken crowd sourcing to the next level by connecting people with...
OneVentures launches its second fund to tap into Australian investors’ growing appetite for venture...
Australian venture capital firm, OneVentures, recently officially launched its new OneVentures Innovation and Growth Fund II.
This new fund aims to raise a total of...
Can this start-up help your business grow by 30 per cent and get a...
For a while, Gavin Sloan had been using live chat on his own website, Punch! Media, a Melbourne-based advertising agency as well as on...
You can now swipe images and videos off a wall in Melbourne to a...
Cruiser Interactive, the new spin-off company of Smart Services CRC, has released an innovative software platform that basically turns walls, tables, whiteboards and smart...
How a Melbourne family built a biscuit empire from their humble kitchen. Big retail...
If you have a sweet tooth, particularly for biscuits, then it's very like that this name rings a bell somewhere deep in your taste...
China Digital Conference brings experts on China’s online market to Melbourne and Sydney. It’s...
It's no secret that China has a rapidly growing business marketplace, attracting Australia's (and the worlds') attention.
More than 10 China online experts, including executives...
Eights things I learned while using only a mobile device for 30 days
Over the course of November, I commenced a 30-day/30-blog challenge on my website, Tech Coach HQ. The aim initially was to write purely on...
Liquorun launches in Melbourne. It has a “bring me beer” button, people. Need we...
Just ask any anyone: kindly asking someone to please bring you another beer from the fridge is one thing. Asking them to run to...
40,000 stores later, Bigcommerce is singing a happy song!
While there’s been a lot of talk about the big online retailers in Australia, barely a thing has been said about the small businesses...
Meet Kwencher, Anthill 2013 Cool Company Award WINNER [Micro Business Category]
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Anthill Cool Company Awards
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When entrepreneurship runs in the family: these two sisters have taken mum’s business beyond...
After years of being a stay-at-home mum, Jenny Folley started to get itchy feet. She missed the thrill of work but didn’t want to...
