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This IT whiz used his tech expertise to launch a successful fashion business with...

Alex Hsu grew tired of friends and family asking him to buy shoes for them as he travelled frequently between the United States and...

Blue Sky has done the maths and invested in an Aussie education tech company...

Blue Sky has invested in ORIGO which provides primary school maths solutions tailored to local curricula through the cloud and is now booming in the US

Surviving after being hit by a drunk driver drove her to build a social...

Built by Ramona Pierson after surviving after being hit by a drunk driver, knowledge platform Declara, now availale as an app, has been praised by Obama.

This fintech start-up is taking a new approach to financial wellbeing after getting 1.5...

Aussie fintech start-up, MoneyBrilliant recently announced that it is ramping up its financial services, with recent investment from AMP of $1.5 million

Missed delivery killer, Shippit is changing online retail for the better fueled by a...

Shippit is changing how Australian online retailers ship parcels to anxious customers fueled by $500,000 seed funding in June led by Les Szekely of Equity Venture Partners

This fintech start-up offers Australian investors easier access to US stocks and a foundation...

Fintech is one of the hottest niches in tech right here in Australia, with more and more start-ups popping up here and there. Now Australian...

Who said the stock markets should be for millionaires alone? This app will invest...

Fintech start-up FirstStep wants to democratise investing and open it up to the masses, aiming to let anyone start investing by doing so in small way.

Click here to put a ring on it: Meet the men who are putting...

The idea of paying for a wedding online is not traditional but Gen Y brides are happy to shop online leading to a real shift in the $4.5b wedding industry

This new online marketplace is giving used goods ‘a 2ndLease on life’

New online marketplace 2ndLease invites everyone to join the sharing economy by listing their own goods to be rented for an income, hence reducing e-waste.

From rural beginnings, she has built a multi-million dollar health food company successfully challenging...

Growing up in the small town of Ballarat, Narelle Plapp never thought she would one day create one of Australia’s leading muesli brands, Food for Health.

Better than the best a man thought he could ever get? This guy is...

Australian start-up OSCAR RAZOR has launched an Australian and NZ subscription service for high quality home delivered shaving system from as little as $2.50 per blade looking to take on grooming giant, Gillette.

This former Google employee is opening a futuristic first-of-its-kind learning centre for HSC students...

A new Google-inspired HSC learning centre will open its doors today with a mission to train the brightest young minds in Sydney for stellar careers in science, medicine, mathematics and English courtesy of Richard Chua's Talent 100.

Four frustrated colleagues started this tech start-up to bring professional service businesses out of...

Christine Higgins, Eamonn Bell, Glenn Fowler and Geoff McQueen started AffinityLive out of frustration, to create integrated, cloud-based business-automation software for professional service businesses.

This guy is dragging sidewalk signs into the digital age with his unique innovation

Carpet cleaner and inventor David Ranger has developed the WAYO board, a 39-inch high definition digital sign board that he believes is the world’s first mobile digital sign board that can deliver content in real-time via the Internet.

This start-up wants to make sure you never fight with your flatmate again over...

Sydney fintech start-up Easyshare has launched its new digital platform, aiming to make the lives of Australia’s 4.1 million renters easier by eliminating their common disputes over money splits for rent and bills.

She is using inspirational thongs to put shoes on the feet of the world’s...

Kathy Wong started Moeloco, a socially conscious business that sells thongs (flip-flops) with inspirational messages on the soles and for every pair sold, donates canvas shoes to a poor child in Kolkata, India.

This guy has grown a grain of an idea into the world’s largest hospitality...

It was a case of necessity being the mother of invention for Find My Rice, the world's newest and most comprehensive hospitality search engine, out to link suppliers, producers, business owners and customers in on place.

Hate chores? This app lets you have your laundry and dry cleaning picked up...

Tired of doing chores? Dryz, a Melbourne-based tech start-up, has launched an app that offers an on-demand, door-to-door laundry and dry cleaning service.

A disruptive UK start-up is coming to Australia to change how and when businesses...

UK-based point-of-payment rating system, truRating recently announced plans to launch in Australia to bring its solution to the Australian consumer analytics market, which it believes is ripe for disruption.

This tech start-up has taken finding a venue for your event down from 6...

Award winning event tech start-up iVvy is revolutionising the events industry by centralising function spaces and group accommodations for the first time ever in Australia on its new Marketplace platform.
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