Q4 2016
Startup News Asia
Australia
- UQ ilab Germinate accelerator unveils next 10 startups
- SignOnSite construction safety start-up lands $590K
- Australian wheat farmers trial blockchain tech for grain sales
- Expat Australian tech startup Plutora raises $US13.4M
- Perth’s Quantify Technology taking IoT tech to ASX listing
- Melbourne’s MyGolgi turns mobiles into physios
- WA’s Loyalty App aims to open loyalty programs to new sectors
- A look UTS’ entrepreneurship program, The Hatchery
- Springboard’s women-led 2017 cohort unveiled
- A look at HealthTech Startup Service from Baker & McKenzie
- ASIC launches licensing exemptions for fintechs
- Sydney’s FlashFX launches forex payment solution
- Australia’s Lemonade Stand launches world-1st AR class for kids
- Powerledger blockchain project set for P2P energy trading trial
- One10 accelerator offers $1M for high-impact social business
- Australia’s Unkapt fintech startup launches in SE Asia
- RocketSpace set to open campuses in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne
- TechnologyOne plans startup incubator for Brisbane
- Stackla social media marketing startup lands $4M
- LaunchVic CEO outlines plans to encourage startups
- Melbourne BMY Group seeks Chinese investors for AU$50M startup fund
- Meet Launch Vic’s new CEO, Dr Kate Cornick – January 2017
- Blockchain Centre Xmas Party, Melbourne tonigh
- A quick advance look at Queensland’s Myriad startup event
- GO1 edtech lands $4M for workplace training marketplace
- A look at Padlokt, Periscope crossed with a Reddit AMA
- Melbourne’s Bugwolf to represent Australia in World FinTech Finals event
- Startup VIC Female Founder Xmas Party: One Roof, Melbourne, Dec 15
- TechCrunch, 500 Startups to head 2017 Brisbane startup conference
- South Australian VC Fund: $50M co-investment fund seeks EOIs
- Australian gov’t CSIRO launches $200m innovation fund
- Barayamal selects 5 indigenous startups for mini-accelerator
- Sydney Angels aims for $20M early-stage startup fund
- Why Melbourne is a top choice for Asia-Pacific headquarters
- NSW accelerators/incubators gain $10M; $3M in direct startup grants
- SheStarts launches with $1m program for women-led startups
- Startupbootcamp FastTrack – 15th in Melbourne
- ANZ steps into mobile payments space with BladePay
- MassChallenge selects 10 Australian startups for acceleration
- Crossroads report presents 14-point plan to transform economy
- Australia’s 4Dx medtech set to make waves in US healthcare diagnostics market
- The 12 energy & resources startups chosen for Energise accelerator
- Barangaroo’s Lighthouse set to be country’s largest startup precinct
- Melbourne’s RMIT launches Activator program for future founders
- AGDATA agtech startup named Regional Online Hero
- Food To You connects consumers to farmers for fresh produce
- Living Room of Satoshi fintech expands, adding Dash
- PwC wants banks to rethink Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies with Vulcan project
- DASH integrates with Living Room of Satoshi bill payment service
- Webjet, Microsoft to create 1st hotel bookings blockchain
- Australia’s Entersoft selected for SuperCharger FinTech 2.0 accelerator
- Cool Clutch ecommerce startup wins Bendigo Pitchfest
- A look at why Australians head to New Zealand to start businesses
- Australian edtech Mathspace learning app heads to US schools
- A look at Australia’s women in tech
- Melbourne fintech Airwallex chipping away at major players
- Aon partners York Butter Factory in search of fintechs
- FinTech Australia lands $200k funding grant to promote internationally
- Sail fintech uses new id tech for small business loan market
- FinTech Australia and EY Sweeney release FinTech Australia Census
- Acorns fintech startup faces off against Commonwealth Bank
- My Four Weeks aims to provide ‘superannuation for holidays’
- Secco fintech CEO in Melbourne for FintechAus Collab / Collide Summit
- KPMG: Australia’s banks will ‘invisible’ by 2030; branches, call centres obsolete
- Human Capital: Australia’s 1st HRtech accelerator
- D:HIVE indigenous entrepreneur hub proposed for Cairns
- Applications open for 2nd Slingshot HCF Catalyst accelerator
- Australia’s Reekoh partners Kyocera for IoT marketplace for SEA integrators
- Spotless Hack @ the G, IoT Hackathon in Melbourne
- Thinxtra implements 1st regional city IoT deployment
- HCF & Slingshot call for women delivering big ideas in health
- Drones may soon deliver medical supplies via Angel Drone project
- Caterpillar, Innovation Hub to connect startups and corporates in resources sector
- Australia / New Zealand Q3 2016 startup news round-up
- Startup Weekend Melbourne, RetailTech, set for Nov 25th
- Singapore ‘net provider MyRepublic to launch in Australia
- 8 social change-makers to gain $70k funding via Young Social Pioneers incubator
- Aussie Founders Network launched in Silicon Valley
- WOTSO partners Investible to build national startup accelerator
- The Dream Factory opens, launches $13M impact-driven startup fund
- A look at the winners of the recent Spotless Hack in Melbourne
- government pushes legislation for SMEs to gain capital via crowdfunding
- A quick intro to StartupAUS CEO Alex McCauley
- A look back at The Bridge Summit: Australia & Israel, startups, innovation
- Australia’s AirTree invests $1M in Jobbatical short-term placement platform
- Startup Victoria Pitch Night, November 29th
- SPARK@Deakin Demo Day set for November 29th
- Barayamal mini-accelerator launched for indigenous Australians
- Startup Weekend Melbourne RetailTech 2016, November 25th
- DateTix acquires Thai dating app Noonswoon for SE Asia expansion
- Startup&Angels event: 24 November at WeWork in Sydney
- Melbourne Startup Week: Nov 28-Dec 2
- Meet Melbourne’s AntStand, sustainable notebook stand startup
- Australia’s Vinomofo online wine retailer to start sales in Singapore next month
- Startup Toowoomba Bootcamp set for Nov 22nd
- Wagga Wagga target of 100 startups launched by 2020 praised
- A look at Future Assembly, coming to Melbourne in December
- A look at SettleIn and Refugee Talent, making lives of refugees better
- Travello partners Youth Hostels Australia
- Cairns schoolkids beat crowdfunding target with PowerShot app
- Enablr, winner of AOL non-profit startup DeskAid initiative
- A look at Curtin Accelerate in Western Australia
- North Queensland Entrepreneurs Conference this week
- Western Australia aiming to become APAC innovation launch pad
- Melbourne Startup Weekend RetailTech: November 25-27
- Leezair travel experiences deal app lands funding
- A look at why more Australian corporates are getting into VC
- Women In Tech panel discussion in Sydney, November 24
- Women In Business: Kate Kendall, CloudPeeps Founder & CEO
- REA Group launches REALABS property tech innovation hub
- Startup Weekend Cairns, Innovation Edition set for November
- HackFest 2016, Creating Solutions for a Smarter Region: Maroochydore, November
- Australia’s NRMA to take 40% stake in Divvy parking startup
- Australia unveils plans for Blockchain in public services
- CCW the latest legal firm to invest in a startup with Beagle JV
- Sharing Hub opening in Sydney with sharing economy accelerator
- FinTech Australia Collab / Collide 2016, this week in Melbourne
- A look at Sydney’s StartCon, in late November
- A look at winners from the recent Google Impact Challenge in Sydney
- StartupAcademy online workshop set for regional innovators to startup in 3 days
- Sydney set to share startup knowledge with regional Australia
- Australia is still too ‘arms-length’ from…starting and growing companies
- Veromo launches ‘What’s stopping you?’ campaign and $30k competition
- Startup News Asia quarterly digest: Australia, New Zealand
- muru-D Sydney Cohort 4 applications now open
- Australia/NZ drone startup Flirtey outpacing Google, Amazon
- Sydney’s Flamingo, AI-focused fintech, readies for AU$23m ASX listing
- A look at itsFound, Sydney lost-and-found startup
- Five accelerator programs currently open for applications
- Apple joins with Australian startup to redesign keyboard
- A look at South Australia Collaborative Economy Innovation Challenge
- MadeComfy unlocks income for home owners, property investors
- Australia and New Zealand startup news summary, Q3 2016
- Social Traders Crunch startup accelerator open to end October
- Sydney’s SpaceConnect lands $307k
- Fintech fund H2Ocean cancels IPO plan, aims for private fund
- Is Australia too risk-averse for startups?
- ANZ banking group opens up APIs to 3rd parties
- Queensland government partners Chinese tech incubators for opportunities
- Analytics startup Hyper Anna land $1.2M from Westpac, AirTree Ventures
- Sydney Uni to double INCUBATE accelerator: 30 startups yearly by 2018
- How Australia’s local councils can help startup communities
- Sydney cycle-training startup Today’s Plan aims for European markets
- ‘Igniting the Indigenous economy’ KPMG report online now
- AgriWebb lands People’s Choice Award at Tech23 event
- Uprise raises $200k via SAFE note, ‘future of early capital in Australia’
- 4 health startups awarded $8.6M by NSW Dep’t of Health
- 26 startups head to Queensland for Hot DesQ first intake
- Energy Hack, your chance to shape the future of energy
- Call made for indigenous incubators, accelerators
- Australia-China Association of Scientists and Entrepreneurs Pitch Night, Oct 20th
- Melbourne Accelerator Program Demo Day – October 27
- Veromo set to streamline, speed up new business and startup set-up
- Element 8 Ventures $250m Au-based tech, biotech, cleantech set to launch
- Presumi lets you track resumes after job applications
- Property startup CrowdfundUP closes funding round, eyes China market
- A quick advance look at Spark Festival Sydney, on later this month
- MedTech’s Got Talent MiniHack, next week in Melbourne
- 3d body-map startup mPort signs $80m LA Fitness deal
- A look at Social Traders Crunch Accelerator, open now for social enterprise startups
- Wattwatchers IoT energy mgmt startup a winner at Australian Tech Competition
- Class Travel aims to Uberize premium hotel bookings
- Sunsuper partners BlueChilli SheStarts program
- Australia’s Honcho takes off-the-shelf business plans to the world
- Everything IoT Summit Australia, mid-October in Sydney
- Cairns school hosts Australia’s 1st schools startup summit
- TwoSpace turns closed restaurants into startup cowork spaces
- KPMG mLabs bears fruit with 18 commercialisation opportunities
- SenseAg takes top prize in IBM big data competition
- Haymarket HQ opens in Sydney for companies with an Asian focus
- Funding grants available for women’s leadership development
- Open Opportunity 2016 Sydney: tech in government sector, tech SMEs, startups
- Applications open for Springboard 2017 Boot Camp
- Spark Festival in Sydney – 9 days, 60 events, 15 themes
- Grassrootz launched, online donation platform for not-for-profits
- Innovation Dojo info night set for next week in Sydney
- SheStarts program launched to address tech’s gender bias
- Sydney fintech hub Stone and Chalk ranked 9th global review
- Crowdfunder StartSomeGood partners non-profit Impact Seed
- Applications open for SheStarts, new BlueChilli program
- OpenLearning underpins Malaysian universities’ online learning
- Sydney’s Full Profile uses blockchain to get farmers paid in real time