8+ hour, 4+ min ago   (1059+ words) The sold out awards dinner with 220 guests heard from entrepreneur turned federal MP Allegra Spender who discussed risk and purpose in building startups in Australia. “Startups are about two things – it’s taking a big risk, and that’s a big cost…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (369+ words) NSW treasurer Daniel Mookhey announced the fund at the Sydney Investment Summit today. It will kick off in FY2028, should the government be reelected. It will coinvest alongside universities, which have a strong startup creation culture, including UNSW Founders, UTS Startups,…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (584+ words) Apple’s new foldable phone, Duo, is the alternative for anyone who prefers technology as their drug of choice. Tim Cook’s replacement as CEO, Apple hardware veteran John Ternus, helmed the $6.2 trillion tech powerhouse’s annual product launch in California overnight, also…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1554+ words) To those who say Sydney doesn’t have a deep creative culture, or that Australia is no place for serious creative ambition, I give you one of the biggest and most extraordinary contemporary art fairs in the Southern Hemisphere. The only…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1028+ words) Along with her co-founder Keith Muelas, the pair were darting frenetically from booth to booth, appointment to appointment, promoting their new venture, PlayIndies. Meeting in Cologne from opposite sides of the world — Hall is based in Western Australia, Muelas near…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (438+ words) For more than a decade working in Australia’s technology sector, I’ve seen the sector make genuine progress. Flexible work is now mainstream, career confidence has improved significantly, women are becoming more confident about senior roles and the perceived pay equity…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (309+ words) The funding for founder Meg van der Velde came from from an unnamed private investor, and will be used on product development. The startup handles transactions for second-hand goods advertised on platforms such as Facebook Marketplace and Gumtree. van der…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (282+ words) The 40x program is designed for the founders of software startups already generating revenue and scaling, and setting up to raise capital in the next 12 months. It will bring together up to 40 of Australia’s most promising early-stage software founders, with founder,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (528+ words) As first reported by Capital Brief, Expert360, which connects companies and startups to consultants, board advisors, and fractional executives, is being acquired by AI job-matching platform Swipejobs. The deal values Expert360 at $16 million, according to media reports. Expert360 had raised some $30 million since…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (454+ words) Just 2% of all tech startup capital in Australia in 2025 went to all-female founded teams, according to the State of Australian Startup Funding report. Female health tech innovators came together in Sydney on Tuesday for a health summit, where they discussed…...