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Australian renewable energy company Evergen secures its first international software licensing agreement in South...

Evergen, one of Australia’s fastest growing renewable energy systems and software provider today announced its first international software distribution deal, partnering with South African battery storage distributor Midnight Sun Energy Storage Systems.

5 reasons why your start-up needs to hire a Virtual Chief Financial Officer (VCFO)

There are three major trends in the business world which are driving demand for Virtual Chief Financial Officers (VCFOs). The rapidly growing number of start-ups...

This workplace training start-up has raised $4 million in pre-Series A funding

Investing further in GO1 was a no brainer. GO1 is the perfect example of a startup who absolutely gets it and is poised to grow rapidly all over the world into a leading provider of learning and management platforms.

Meet the entrepreneur behind the world’s first barista standard reusable coffee cup

The outcome was a lightweight and thoroughly considered design that was BPA free and non-toxic; the world’s first barista standard reusable cup, KeepCup was born.

Australia’s tech sector poised for greatness thanks to millennial entrepreneurs

If you look back to the pre-millennial time before 1980’s, there were as many dreams and talents as now. Since then, technology, the Internet and smartphones democratised opportunities and brought them closer to those with the dream to do more, especially the youth.

WOTSO partners with Investible to build and grow a national accelerator for start-ups

Investible’s LAB Program is an eight-week, full time start-up accelerator, where winning companies access up to $250,000 in capital from the Club Investible network.

Australian medical innovator receives US$2.6 million Bill & Melinda Gates grant to develop a...

The grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support Atomo in development of an affordable, reliable and simple HIV rapid diagnostic test that will enable people in resource-poor countries to test themselves.

These 8 Australian companies have been named on the 2016 Fintech 100 list of...

The annual list includes three Australian companies, Prospa, Tyro and Society One, among the leading 50 Established fintech companies across the globe, as well as five entrants in the most intriguing 50 ‘Emerging Stars’

Is this one simple ritual the key to success? Branson, Mandela and Edison all...

Everyone, regardless of their career path, should journal. Whether it’s Branson’s hastily scrawled notebook memos, Oprah’s gratitude-filled memoirs or Kahlo's art-strewn diaries, journaling is the reoccurring trait many successful people share.

This tech start-up is going toe to toe with Shopify and BigCommerce with major...

Tech start-up Neto is one of the few Aussie e-commerce players that stands up to the giants like Shopify and BigCommerce and Telstra owns a huge stake in it

Uh-oh! Young Australians are the least prepared for the coming digital revolution

Young Australians are the least prepared for the digital revolution, according to a global report released at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos

A start-up disrupting logistics is the first to raise capital from this new Australian...

Logistics disruptor Premonition is the first to be funded by new seed capital fund Rimon Investments backed by investors in Australia, South Africa & Israel

This fast growing energy tech start-up’s latest AUD$2 million capital raising values it at...

Melbourne based energy management tech start-up carbonTRACK has secured a further AUD$2 million valuing it at AUD$23 million, and plans to further expand

Meet the fast growing Aussie start-up that is distributing weed in the US

Melbourne delivery software start-up Swift has seen fast growth in the US, taking on loads of clients including a couple of medical marijuana distributors

4 leadership lessons from 4 great leaders: What business owners can learn from Gandhi,...

The leadership landscape in the 21st century is almost certainly different to what you prepared for. Market volatility, strategic uncertainty, competitive complexity, and ethical and...

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...

CrowdStudy explores group buying for university courses and MBAs

The group buying market has matured quickly. But is it ready to go to school? The man taking the concept of group buying to campuses is Majilesh, a young software engineer fresh from a stint at the world’s largest provider of educational services, Kaplan. It’s fair to say his young startup, CrowdStudy, is venturing into uncharted territory.

Food Relief 2.0: Social networks rally around the flood-affected, offering both money and resources

Flood relief has officially gone 2.0. As 75% of Queensland braces itself for a ‘post-war scale’ clean-up in the wake of the recent devastating floods, online communities have rallied together on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook to coordinate both donations and resources.
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New Zealand’s Xero eyes US IPO, further disruption as subscribers increase...

Xero recently held its annual meeting in Wellington, during which the company revealed some interesting details about its future. As has been widely suspected, the...

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