Australia’s startup news from August 2020
The news collection below is drawn from online coverage of Australia’s tech, startup and funding news across August of 2020.
Australian startup news items listed here are a capture of the headlines; each is hyperlinked to the online news article behind each Australian startup news headline, providing an at-a-glance understanding of recent Australian startup news and developments, and also to instantly read those articles that are of most interest.
Our monthly news collections are drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily startup news updates – delivered on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and by app – which gather technology news from across 17 locations across Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
- Australian edition of SheLovesTech registrations close September 11th, with event set to run virtually in October
- Australia: A round-up of the country’s tech, startup and funding news from the past month
- Australia: Foment Accelerator applications open for startups and innovators in wine and tourism
- Australia: Neuromersiv receives $1M grant from government’s Biomedtech Horizons Fund with virtual reality solution for neurorehabilitation for brain injury survivors
- Australia: CareApp raises over $500K including $250K from SA State Gov’t to expand and scale up smartphone app connecting residents in aged care with families
- Australia: Google, Facebook to face $10M fine and forced arbitration if they fail to reach media revenue-sharing agreement inside 3 months, under new draft code of conduct
- Australia: Superstars of STEM program applications open, seeking Australian female scientists and technologists to act as role models for young women and girls
- Australia: Blackbird VC firm raises $500M fund, comprising $150M core fund focused on Australian tech startups and a follow-on fund with a broader remit
- Australia: Future Industries eXchange for Entrepreneurship unveils $2.5M funding and range of startup support and development programs
- Australia: Startupbootcamp FinTech Melbourne applications close August 7th, seeking startups ready to pilot solutions with financial and insurance corporations
- Australia: A video round-up of recent tech, startup and funding news from Australia, with QR code links to each startup news item featured
- Australia: Applied Blockchain Intensive Short Course- study blockchain fundamentals in 6 weeks with Blockchain Collective
- Australia: Gov’t to increase cybersecurity spending to $1.6BN and push for expanded police powers in bid to reduce crime on dark web
- Download: Australian Government Cyber Security Strategy 2020 (pdf)
- Australia: WA Gov’t opens applications for ‘virtual trade mission’ to London Tech Week for Western Australian startups and scaleups ready to explore the UK market
- Australia: Government to invest up to Au$1.3BN in new Maritime Unmanned Aircraft Systems development program, boosting situational awareness across coastline
- Australia: Expert FindHer Resources Directory launches with listing of relevant programs, funding sources, networks, mentors and tools for women entrepreneurs
- Australia: NSW gov’t launches Smart Places Strategy and Smart Infrastructure Policy, outlining plans to build sensors and tech into infrastructure and buildings
- Australia: AusCERT Cyber Security Conference set for September 15-18, running virtually this year
- Australia: National Rugby League to pilot Smart Trademark, blockchain-based app developed by Gov’t patent and IP office, to prove merchandise authenticity
- Australia: Melbourne EdTech Summit set for September 8-10, seeking 3-minute video pitches from startups focused on learning, globally
- Australia: Startup Gippsland Angel Investing and Venture Capital Masterclass event provisionally set for October 24th, online
- Australia: HIVERY AI startup secures $8M with stock selection, prediction and placing technology for retailers
- Australia’s Up digital bank partnered by UK’s TransferWise for b2b cross-border money transfers
- Australia: Binary Shift 2020 set for August 27th, interactive virtual event bringing together regional innovators, thought leaders and business leaders
- Australia: Digital Innovation Festival 2020 to run virtually, state-wide from August 21st to September 4th, showcasing emerging tech and promoting jobs of the future
- Australia: An intro to Yellowbox, short term locker and storage service using bluetooth, live map and mobile app
- Australia: An intro to the 16 startups participating in The Good Incubator, a program designed for entrepreneurs with disabilities
- Australia: DStart applications close August 27th for researchers and SMEs to connect with Defence, identify real-world applications, and attract resources
- Australia: Digital Health Accelerator Program launches, WA’s first digital health-specific program, to build capacity in entrepreneurs and provide pathway to commercialisation
- Australia: Digital Trust Report 2020 available to download now, highlighting the role digital trust plays in attracting investment and driving jobs growth
- Australia: Farmers2Founders Ideas Program applications close August 21st, seeking 12 agri-tech participants for 3-month online development program
- Australia: An intro to Catel, agriculture-focused fintech creating online marketplace allowing investment in tangible farm products such as a hectare of grain
- Australia: Buildkite gains $28M to enable tech firms to build and deploy software faster via continuous integration and continuous delivery method
- Australia: See-Mode Technologies medtech raises $7M Series A with AI-driven software to better predict stroke risk
- Australia: Future Founders Festival 2020 set for September 23-27, running online and focusing on international students, innovators and founders
- Australia: OneVentures VC firm closes 4th fund, 1V Venture Credit Fund, at near $80M looking for technology-focused scale-ups with global ambitions
- Australia: Parpera opens shares for trading on Equitise crowdfunding platform to further develop digital ?banking ?alternative for businesses, freelancers and entrepreneurs
- Australia: Former PM Turnbull suggests lack of a specific minister responsible for cybersecurity is a key weakness in government’s strategy and cyber policies
- Australia: Ofload secures $2.8M investment from Danish logistics giant Maersk to connect medium and small-sized carriers with shippers
- Australia: Waddle invoice financing startup to be acquired by accounting giant Xero
- Another look at the 11 startups selected from the End Plastic Waste Innovation Platform program, from Australia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar and UAE
- Australia: National Missing Persons Hackathon set for October 29th – registrations open September 1st
- Australia’s Power Ledger expands partnership with Thailand’s renewable energy company BCPG for blockchain-based Renewable Energy Certificate marketplace
- Australian-founded Songtradr raises US$30M with marketplace connecting artists, composers, labels and publishers with those using music in their content
- Australia’s Shippit logistics startup expands to Malaysia through partnership with Ninja Van, regional area-focused courier that offers COD options for the unbanked
- Australia: $1.3M pre-accelerator funding assigned via LaunchVic to support up to 700 entrepreneurs, with female founders, sports technology and regions as focus points (pdf)
- Australia: Defence Industry Competitive Evaluation Research Agreement to offer SMEs opportunity and grants up to $300K to investigate projects improving defence industry
- Singapore-Australia Digital Economy Agreement signed to facilitate digitization of trade processes and ease cross border business activities
- Sri Lanka’s Veracity AI partners Australia’s GoMicro for AI-driven mobile phone microscopy in agriculture to identify pests, disease and mineral deficiencies
- Australia’s Aus4Innovation program partners Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Tech with Au$650K short-term funding for AI solutions COVID-19 and economic recovery
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