The March 2023 tech news round-up for Australia provides an extended snapshot of items reported in fields including AUKUS grouping developments, startup accelerator loans for students, Australian exposure in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and many more. Hit the links below to read each article in full.
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SharePass: Secure communications & cybersecurity
- Australian Defense Force Space Command sees need to quickly secure ‘non-destructive’ capabilities to deter attacks on satellites, or interfere with enemy satellites
- Australia: LaunchVic unveils new grant program, offering up to $300K for organisations to run pre-accelerator programs to help women founders build a minimum viable product and find their first customers
- Shark Tank Australia applications are now open for Australian citizens and permanent residents with startup business ideas
- AUKUS defense pact advances with upcoming leaders meeting in San Diego, home of US Pacific Fleet, with discussions set around tech and info-sharing, submarines and more
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- Australia: University of Melbourne to back 2 female-founded health startups -Kali Healthcare at-home pregnancy monitoring startup, and clinical trial participant recruitment startup Torch Recruit
- Australia: Legislation under consideration to allow up to 2000 university students and recent graduates each year to defer the cost of accessing startup accelerator programs using HECS-style loans
- Australia’s Investible venture capital firm partners with UAE’s Hub71 to support tech startups and early-stage companies in Abu Dhabi
- Australia: An intro to the 12 agri-tech startups selected for Rocket Seeder’s latest AgTech Seeds cohort
“ASX-listed companies have revealed tens of millions of dollars in exposure to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, as Australian tech leaders face an anxious wait…”
- ICYMI: Australia-India Critical Mineral Investment Partnership has been extended with new lithium and cobalt projects providing key milestones towards sustainable supply chains
- Australia: Female Founder Pitch Night applications extended, with pitch training set for Thursday 23rd March
- Australia: Brisbane’s Hypersonix Launch Systems aerospace firm selected by US Defense Innovation Unit to provide hypersonic vehicles for testing, beating international companies for the contract
- Australia: City of Sydney opens applications for ‘Ready Set Grow’, a 12-week business innovation accelerator, delivered by Disruptors Co and based in the city’s Tech Central innovation precinct
Australia: Government flags option to shift cyber risk and liability from community to “…software and cyber security service providers, telecommunications firms and technology developers”
- Australia: Latitude Financial consumer finance provider confirms cyberattack, with details of 14M customers stolen from its computer systems amounting to what may be Australia’s biggest data breach
- “$368 billion, 20,000 jobs over 20 years: How AUKUS could ‘fundamentally transform’ Australia”
- Australia: Cauldron secures $10.5M seed funding with animal-free meat and dairy products, with sights on creating Asia-Pac’s largest network of precision fermentation facilities
- Australia: Herik Labs takes Entrepreneur of the Year and People’s Choice awards at Ventures ilab Accelerator Pitch Night with highly-efficient 3D-printed rocket engine
- Twitter lost 46% of its Australian advertising dollars following Elon Musk takeover, dropping from $7.3M to $3.9M in just the final 3 months of 2021
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Asia’s tech news headlines
Our other news editions go out on a range of platforms and channels, and across a range of timeframes, highlighting key tech news from across Asia and the Indo-Pacific and showcasing the region’s startups and technology developments:
