Tag: sydney
10 things you need to keep in mind when targeting the Chinese online customer
It is clear from these growth figures that there is a huge untapped market for Australian companies to sell goods and services to Chinese consumers through online channels. However, this market can be notoriously difficult to do business in.
This crowdfunding campaign aims to make Sydney the Silicon Valley of APAC by 2023
TechSydney is a not-for-profit enterprise led by some of Australia’s most successful and influential entrepreneurs and innovators who have a mutual determination to see Sydney boom onto the global tech stage.
4.6 million Australian jobs may be at risk within the decade – new StartupAUS...
"The paper highlights the extensive economic benefits of building innovation hubs which have powerful multiplier effects. There’s a lot at stake here - if we get it right, we’ll be able to capitalise on it"
Meet the East/West entrepreneurial combo changing how Aussies do business in China
While the focus is often on how business and tech co-founders combine to create successful start-ups, Sinorbis, an emerging Australian digital company helping companies tap into China’s burgeoning online consumer population, brings Western and Eastern expertise together to benefit Australian businesses.
An upcoming hackathon is determined to empower more women in Australian tech
Australian start-up incubator Tech Pilot Fund are hosting a weekend-long hackathon event in Sydney with a difference.
The event is the initiative of Tech Pilot Fund founder and CEO Simon Anquetil to help foster a healthy start-up scene in Australia and reinforce the crucial role of women in the tech industry.
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.
Australia’s first home loan marketplace has hit the $1 billion mark in under a...
Australia’s first marketplace for home loans, HashChing recently announced its $1 billion of home loans milestone as momentum builds for the Sydney based fintech company.
11 innovators scooped up $300k funding in under three minutes at this pitch event
The inaugural Optus Future Makers program, launched earlier this year, is designed to foster digital innovation that has the ability to change the social landscape.
How to attract the best senior talent when your business is just starting out
Hiring the best talent straight off the mark is not easy, not cheap and it can be risky. It may be tempting to take the ‘safer’ option of hiring less experienced staff at the start with the intention of attracting more experienced talent as the business grows.
KPMG has chosen these 14 fintech start-ups for its new accelerator to help bring...
KPMG Australia recently announced the launch of mLabs, a market-first corporate fintech accelerator connecting forward-thinking mutual Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs) with some of Australia’s most exciting fintech startups.
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.
The ‘Uber of couriers’ has raised $1.25 million to keep traditional couriers looking over...
• Disrupter delivery business rushed by investors
• People Post says fragmented courier industry ripe for the picking
• Greenwich Capital Partners secures $1.25 million for the parcel distribution of the future
Sydney’s Flour Market has gone cashless with Square’s mobile payments technology
Using mobile payments technology by Square Reader, Flour Market has become Sydney’s first cashless market by transforming its traditional cash market.
Promise Or Pay has become the first Sydney business to attract an investment from...
One10, Australia’s national social enterprise accelerator, has accepted its first Sydney-based participant, a charity giving platform called Promise Or Pay
How do great entrepreneurs like Sir Richard Branson deal with a crisis? They do...
In this excerpt from Unwritten author Jack Delosa uses the example of Richard Branson to show how great entrepreneurs deal with crisis, fear and doubt
Can tampons change the world? A new start-up that has just raised $50,000 in...
her/, a new Aussie feminine care brand looking to inspire positive social change for women raised $50,000 in 48 hours in its first crowd funding campaign
Steve Wozniak is coming to present these tech awards in Sydney and Sir Richard...
IT recruitment company Talent has launched the 2016 Talent Unleashed Awards, announcing Steve Wozniak and Sir Richard Branson as some of the judges
Uniseed has invested $1 million in this high tech beverage’s $4 million funding round
Uniseed, a VC fund working with four Go8 universities and CSIRO, recently led a $4 million investment in probiotic drink company PERKii with $1 million
Deliveroo bounds into Brisbane hot off its huge growth in Melbourne and Sydney
Deliveroo bounds into Brisbane following impressive growth (30% week-on-week) The service has grown restaurant portfolio to 600 in just six months
Invoice2go has launched a new feature in Australia that has been helping US business...
No. 1 mobile invoicing app Invoice2go brings the fintech revolution to Australia’s smallest business owners, appoints Joe Nalewabau as VP of Product
