Tag: perth
Australia’s innovation eco-system needs assistance to survive the COVID-19 crisis
The common theme is that start-ups don’t expect a hand-out but a leg up. Start-ups, innovators and entrepreneurs are a group of Australians that are already resilient, tenacious and used to growing their companies with limited resources.
Australian start-up DingGo targets national expansion following $500K investment
Australian start-up DingGo, creator of an online platform for smash repairs, has announced plans to leverage a half-a-million-dollar matched grant to expand across Australia and beyond.
Perth medtech chosen as joint-winner in global finals for international startup competition at St...
Perth medical device company, OncoRes Medical, has been announced as one of three ‘Entrepreneurs of the Year’ at the global finals of an internationally-recognised start-up event, following a pitch overnight to an international audience including the Duke of York, Prince Andrew.
Digital disruptor Careseekers makes it much easier to find affordable in-home aged care
Private in-home care was expensive and government options were rigid and impersonal. We knew there had to be a better way for people to find care workers and realised we needed to bring technology to aged care.
This start-up has found success disrupting the traditional mattress market [VIDEO]
Koala personifies forward-thinking, entrepreneurial young business. Co-founders Mitch Taylor and Dany Milham’s unique approach has seen Koala disrupt the traditional mattress market and crack an impressive $12 million in sales in just 12 months.
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.
Employment Hero adds AirTree to its list of VCs and raises $3m Series A...
Employment Hero has announced it has extended its over-subscribed $3 million capital raise by 50 per cent, bringing the startup’s total funding to $4.5 million with additional investment from new and existing investors.
This award-winning headset measures how consumers respond to marketing content
A headset that captures and measures a consumer’s facial expression, eye gaze, heart rate and brain function may change the way retail outlets design and merchandise their stores. It's a product of DuPont Sustainable Solutions and Curtin Business School.
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.
Aussie tech entrepreneurs dominate top 5 at the 2016 APAC Talent Unleashed awards
At an awards event in Melbourne, Richard Earl, Executive Chairman and Founder of Talent, announced the APAC regional winners for the 2016 Talent Unleashed Awards, naming the most talented and disruptive entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific Region and demonstrating the strength and diversity of the APAC technology sector.
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 new start-up has set out to become the Airbnb for retail and commercial...
Australian start-up Popupshopup provides the perfect solution for activating vacant retail and commercial space for entrepreneurs and global companies
Australia’s best healthcare minds have come together to help treat strokes better [VIDEO]
Australian health professionals will be empowered to deliver high quality, best practice stroke care thanks to a world-first, new online platform. The Stroke Foundation...
Are you a female tech start-up founder based in Victoria? This new program is...
Startup Victoria’s Female Founders Committee has launched “Ignite” - open to all Victorian female tech start-up founders who want a great business mentor
6 reasons why point-of-sale breaches are not about to stop making headlines
Although it’s still early in 2016, already we are seeing reports of point-of-sale (PoS) breaches around the world.
Hilton Hotels was hit by a POS-related...
They went from sleeping on cardboard boxes to running an award winning business
From a chance meeting and sleeping on cardboard boxes behind a tractor to ‘Business of the Year’ award winners, Photosnap Photobooths has a lot to celebrate
The ‘Uber of couriers’ is here to disrupt how Australians send and receive packages
People Post has set out to be a game changer for the Australian courier industry, with the new crowd sourced courier service launching early this year
Meet Talent, the back-to-back award-winning company that has been shaking things up in recruitment...
Leading recruitment firm Talent won Recruitment Agency of the Year in Australia and New Zealand at the 2015 SEEK Annual Recruitment Awards and turned 20
Are you a social start-up? This Melbourne entrepreneur has launched an incubator and accelerator...
Global social entrepreneur, Geoff Gourley, recently launched One10, a new national incubator and accelerator for social enterprise, HQ in Melbourne
KFit claims the ANZ fitness sharing crown after absorbing local competitors Classhopper and Sweatpass
Following the merge with local competitors, Classhopper and SweatPass, KFit has continued to cement its title as the leader of ANZ's fitness sharing economy
