Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Act in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people to the businesses and opportunities that extend their lives. More posts from this contributor Dear [...]

Early stage investment firm Antler Australia recently supported 13 startups as part of its ongoing program to build great local tech companies. Startup Daily shares the details of each venture in the “Antler Investor Memos” series. You can also meet the founders every Monday and Wednesday on the Startup Daily [...]

Food ingredientsa food technology company that makes animal-free fats using synthetic biology has secured $28.6 million in Series A funding led by Horizons Ventures and supported by Main Sequence Ventures and Hostplus. We previously profiled the Australian company in 2021 when it raised $11 million. It is one of the [...]

Eight startups founded or led by women will pitch this week for the chance to represent Australia on the global stage as part of the She Loves Tech Global Startup Competition. Now in his third year in Australia, seven year old She loves technology is a global platform committed to [...]

In 2018, Neil D’Souza, a software engineer by trade and previously the VP of product development at Thinkstep, realized that his more than decade-long effort to solve enterprise product challenges related to sustainability, compliance and risk have little influence. The way he saw it, it took too long, minimizing their [...]

Flinders University’s Factory of the Future facility in Adelaide’s Tonsley Innovation District will receive $10.1 million in federal budget next week to ramp up advanced manufacturing support for small businesses and defense startups. The announcement follows an election promise Labor made during the campaign in May. Industry and Science Minister [...]

chef co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan started the company because they had firsthand experience of being female executives without much support. They created a community of women leaders that is now 20,000 strong, with 60,000 on waiting lists, but just don’t call these women “girl bosses.” The two women [...]

Don’t let all this talk of an impending global recession slow down your new venture. Rather, now is the time to get started building. However, make sure you get it right with these ‘how to’ style Spark Festival events in the final week of the festival. Future-proofing your startup in [...]

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Way back in 2010, Marc Lore struck a deal worth more than half a billion dollars to sell Quidsi – the company behind Diapers.com and Soap.com – to Amazon. The blowout acquisition helped Amazon turn into “the everything shop‘, but twelve years later, Lore described the sale as ‘disturbing’. “We [...]