Startup News Asia’s monthly round-up of key Australian technology news headlines, curated from online news outlets during August 2022.
Headlines here span the full range of tech news from Australia in August of 2022, touching on agri-tech, sports-tech, cryptocurrency and related venture capital funding. Items are hyperlinked headlines – one click and you’re reading the Australian tech news that most interests you.
We’ve recently launched weekly tech news updates on Substack, alongside weekly startup news summaries on LinkedIn, and the less-frequent SNA e-newsletter on Revue.
Western Australia Dealroom
- Australia: Reserve Bank to trial its own digital currency as part of a CBDC research project looking at economic benefits and how a CBDC could maximise those benefits
- Australian Sports Technologies Network has released the Sports Innovation Report 2022, estimating the sports-tech sector’s value at near Au$3.1BN and employing over 10K individuals
- Australia: Startup Onramp Pre-Accelerator September cohort applications open – from idea to startup in 8 weeks, part-time
- Australia: THRIVE Australia Venture Fund launches agri-tech ecosystem, featuring accelerator, corporate innovation, programs and events, and annual Innovation and Investment Summit
- Australia:Hello Clever raises $4.5M seed funding with ‘buy-to-earn’ platform, giving shoppers real-time cashback rewards on purchases
AUKUS and Australia’s tech ecosystem / US Studies Centre
- Australia: Northern Territory Racing Commission considering crypto gambling regulation, aiming to ‘allow wagers to be placed in crypto with no fiat exchange required’
- ICYMI: Australian gov’t to intro legislation supporting a ‘market for biodiversity’, in which credits will be awarded to conservation projects that can prove measurable improvements to the environment
- KPMG Australia and Stone & Chalk partner for Future Technology Program, providing 5 founders and their teams with support, connections, mentoring and more, and 12 months at a Stone & Chalk hub
Australia: National Plan to Combat Cyber Crime 2022 (pdf)
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