Tag: africa
This new tech start-up has got taxi drivers switching lanes into parcel delivery
New service recently launched in Sydney, allows taxi drivers to deliver parcels 24/7. After two months of operations, the Sydney-based company expands its activities to more cities across the country.
This Brisbane start-up is doing away with the headaches of managing a large brand
Designers face multiple minor changes. Marketers face escalating costs. This has been the reality of enterprise brand management. Outfit is changing that
Who Gives A Crap about social enterprise? Australia’s most successful toilet paper disruptor, that’s...
Social enterprise Who Gives A Crap has collaborated with Melbourne artist Stephen Baker to create a limited edition Christmas toilet paper wrapper
This heroic Australian start-up has pledged to donate two million condoms a year to...
HERO, a socially responsible Aussie start-up helping to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa, has returned from a two-week mission trip in Botswana...
An Aussie tech start-up is quickly going global because international students love its unique...
Holistic education services provider, Cohort Solutions, continues to grow globally, announcing that its payment platform Cohortpay is now in 60 countries
Everyone deserves a second chance. This Sydney start-up is looking to give one to...
70 years ago, as a 10-year-old boy, Josh Wermut’s grandfather was forced to endure the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps.
Somehow, some way, he...
Australia is one of the three best places in the world for female entrepreneurs
The second annual Gender-Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), commissioned by Dell, has revealed that Australia is one of the three best countries in...
What challenges are women entrepreneurs facing all over the world today?
According to the second annual Gender-Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), more than 75 per cent of the 30 countries surveyed are not meeting...
Two Aussie engineers have cooked up a global healthcare revolution with the AtomoRapid™
There’s nothing like a parent’s love to inspire a world-changing idea! After witnessing bruising on his two year old daughter after blood tests, John Kelly thought there had to be a better way.
Why are CEOs world over worried about the future of their businesses?
Australian CEOs are sceptical about the next six months. Many were doubtful that overall business and economic conditions would improve by the end of the year. Less than a third (31%) thought they would be better in six months’ time, while almost one in four (22%) thought they would get worse.
Hugh Whalan, 2011 Anthill 30under30 Honourable Mention
Hugh Whalan is bringing clean energy solutions to the developing world. The problem is not that there aren't enough innovative products to aid the poor, says Whalan. It's that supply and distribution challenges make it difficult for those products to ever arrive. Impact Energies was founded to combat these challenges by pairing microfinance with a new model to coordinate product distribution from factories to villages in West Africa.
