Headlines below link to Australian startup news articles reported online across July 2020
Each Australian startup news headline links to the online source for that startup news headline, providing Startup News Asia’s readers with both an overview of Australia’s startup news and simple one-click access to more detail on a particular startup news item.
- Australia: An intro to Fitbotic, fitness app using motion detection technology and featuring a rewards credit system
- Australia: Stone & Chalk startup hub expands services to include virtual, providing support across commercialisation, mentorship, customer acquisition, capital raising and more
- Australia: MGM Wireless to launch all-in-one smartphone, watch and GPS device to help elderly users stay safe and connected to family
- Australia: Consumers can now choose to share banking data with 3rd party providers following launch of Open Banking under Consumer Data Right Act
- Australia: Licence photos, names, addresses and signatures of West Australians soon to be available to investigators via national facial recognition system
- Australia: Stone & Chalk Capital Raising Guide for Startups now available to download – 42 pages on funding stages, methods, equity, valuations and more
- Australia: A brief intro to a handful of WA’s women entrepreneurs
- Australia: University of Queensland medical students raise concerns that in-home use of 3rd-party ProctorU software to monitor exams constitutes invasion of privacy
- Australia: China’s TikTok may be ‘a data collection service disguised as social media’, says deputy chair of Foreign Interference through Social Media inquiry
- Australia: VAPAR secures $700K seed funding with AI focusing on sewer system repair, with sights set on taking its automation tech international
- Australia: Amazon Launchpad Innovation Report, the results of a brief survey of 1000+ SMBs, available to download as pdf
- Australia: Oovvuu partnered by WordPress VIP with ML tech that reads news articles, views videos, and matches them
- Australia: An intro to Sensavation’s Sensahub, a low-code IoT development platform for drag-and-drop development of custom IoT applications and dashboards
- Australia: Bega Cheese to deploy Cumulocity IoT platform to link supplier farms, milk transport storage and processing facilities
- Australia: ShareRing, enterprise blockchain startup focused on wide range of travel applications, gains backing from Alphabit digital asset investment manager
- Australia: Information Commissioner joins UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office in investigation of Clearview AI info-handling, focusing on scraped data and biometrics
- Australia: 6clicks secures $2.2M with cloud-based automation and management of corporate risk assessment, cybersecurity and compliance
- Australia: A look at The Difference, app allowing you to round up spare change from each transaction and give the difference to causes you care about
- Australia: Ping drone startup gains $1.3M with wind turbine damage detection system
- Australia: Shippit logistics startup steps into SEA e-commerce market with launch of Singapore operations, partnering with Shopify for cash-on-delivery services
- Australia: Sempo blockchain startup secures $1.6M from European Commission for Oxfam partnership focused on aid distribution to unbanked populations
- Australia: An intro to First Australians Capital, Indigenous-led not-for-profit aiming to provide Indigenous entrepreneurs with access to capital
- Australian Technologies Competition unveils the 2020 semi-finalists, 42 startups moving to stage 2 of selection (pdf)
- Australia: An intro to Heuros, making GM-free media for the manufacture of cultivated meat, recently selected for ProVeg incubator program
- Australia: Functionly wins $598K Accelerating Commercialisation grant with tech aiming to streamline organisational functions, enabling smooth growth
- Australia: Startmate Fellowship unveils partners including AWS, aiming to open doors for 300 women into tech startup jobs by end of 2021
- Australia: A brief look at Hubbed, pick-up and drop-off parcel network focused on newsagents for the first and last miles of e-commerce delivery
- Australia: Social Impact Hub unveils 8 startups selected for first cohort of new Scaling Impact accelerator program, set to run online
- ICYMI: Australia’s National Blockchain Roadmap Steering Committee seeks expressions of interest from blockchain community to join working groups
- She Loves Tech Australia chapter launches with inaugural event set for October 5th
- Australia: GroundSwell Regional New Industries Fund applications close August 10th, aiming to boost entrepreneurship and tech training programs in regional WA
- Australia: Propeller Aero raises $18.3M with drone-mapping and analytics focusing on mining, quarries and construction sites
- Australia’s TRIBU one of only 7 firms globally to be selected for US’ LAUNCH Accelerator, with AI-based IT support platform
- Australia’s Curious Thing startup selected by US Air Force to rework its recruitment process, in part using conversational artificial intelligence
- Australia: A look at how drones are helping Queensland farmers with cattle mustering, boosting both efficiency and safety
- Australia: An intro to Barayamal, the country’s first Indigenous-focused startup accelerator
- Australia: givvable takes win at inaugural Xccelerate2020 venture program with sustainability-focused business supplies platform
- Australia: SproutX Accelerator partnered by Crop Science division of Bayer to identify innovations around food, feed, fiber and renewable raw materials
- Australian Dairy Farmers industry group awarded gov’t contract to develop real-time payment and supply chain information sharing system using blockchain
- Australia: Cyamast cybersecurity startup raises $1.3M with tech focused on securing IoT and internet-connected networks
- Australia: UNSW Founders invests $140K across 7 startups as part of its 2020 10x Accelerator program
- Australia: Perth Mint partnering with Israel’s Security Matters to launch blockchain-powered mine-to-marketplace gold supply chain solution in 2021
- Australia: YBF Ventures launches Online Startup & Innovation Awards to shine a light on startups and scale-ups successfully navigating the COVID-19 pandemic
- Australia: Cointree, CoinJar and Swyftx now allow users to link accounts and public wallet addresses to Koinly, providing investors with a capital gains tax report
- Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance to launch fiat-to-crypto trading platform in Australia, supporting direct purchases of cryptocurrency using Australian dollar
- Hong Kong: Australia to introduce incentives for high-growth export companies alongside fast-tracked special talent tech visas to attract entrepreneurs and investors
- Singapore’s StashAway digital wealth management firm gains $16M backing from Australia’s Square Peg VC firm
- Sri Lanka: Veracity AI partners Australia’s GoMicro for use of mobile phone-based AI-powered microscopy in agriculture
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