Australia’s tech news headlines,
gathered across March 2025
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• Australia: Feasibility licenses have been awarded for 3.2GW offshore wind energy projects off the coasts of New South Wales and Victoria, set to power millions of homes / full item
• Australia: Esper secures Au$5M to identify and map critical minerals, and more, from space / full item
• Australia’s Fleet Space satellite exploration firm partners US’ hydrogen company, Koloma, to speed discovery and development of natural hydrogen, globally / full item
• Australia: Hackers claim to have published a trove of sensitive data belonging to IVF patients after a 940GB hack on Genea, one of Australia’s largest fertility providers / full item
• Australia: Tendl secures Au$2M pre-seed with AI-driven platform to streamline tendering process for government suppliers, making it easier to write, submit and complete tenders / full item
• Australia: Zeller rolls out ‘Zeller for Startups, aiming to address and simplify the unique financial management challenges faced by Australia’s tech startups / full item
• Australia: An intro to Mindflight7, using virtual reality to upgrade the way students learn / full item
• Australia: Cortical Labs unveils world-first commercial biological computer, combining lab-cultivated neurons from human stem cells with silicon / full item
• Australia’s Optera Solutions fabless semiconductor firm has been selected to join the Thales Space Business Catalyst Program in France, with ‘event-based’ optical sensors / full item
• A brief intro to 6 Australian startups that between them raised Au$56.7M in the week to March 7th, working in marketing tech, satellites, AI services and more / full item
• The [Australian Electoral Commission] will use Starlink services as a backup telecommunications platform as part of our contract with Telstra for fixed line internet services… / full item
• Australia: BetterX secures Au$2.3M pre-A with B2B platform enabling financial advisers to securely access, trade, and manage digital assets on behalf of their clients / full item
• Australia: Year 11 & 12 students – “International Relations – Australia and the Indo-Pacific” microcredential course is available from Perth USAsia Centre at UWA / full item
• Australia: Startup to Scaleup Summit 2025 is set for August 20th & 21st at The Sydney Startup Hub, a 2-day celebration of entrepreneurship, scaleups, and SMEs / full item
• FinTech Australia Finnies 2025 Awards Gals Night is set for June 26th / full item
“The [Australian Electoral Commission] will use Starlink services as a backup telecommunications platform as part of our contract with Telstra for fixed line internet services…” / full item
• AUKUS security grouping looks to Japan for possible joint research on artificial intelligence-backed drones for use in surveillance, information collection and more / full item
• Singapore-Australian PHNXX raised $1.13M seed funding with containerised energy solutions providing modular, scalable energy systems for remote and rural industrial communities / full item
• Papua New Guinea: UN Office for Projects Services opens tender for solar and battery storage mini-grid in PNG, with application deadline set for March 24th / full item
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New Zealand: March snapshot
• New Zealand: Startup Weekend Tairawhiti 2024 is set for April 26-28 on the North Island, a 54-hour sprint to go from idea to MVP / full item
• New Zealand: An overview of the growth, success, and economic impact of the GridAKL Innovation Hub in Auckland / full item
• Rocket Lab launched a Japanese firm’s synthetic aperture radar imaging satellite from its New Zealand facility, the first of 8 planned missions for iQPS / full item
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