To get a roundup of australiabusinessblog.com’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3PM PDT, register here. Thursday is here – how in the world did that happen? Those days just keep coming. If you’re still undecided about whether or not to join Disrupt, we’ve [...]

The tech ecosystems of Sydney and Melbourne may not like to hear it, but Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley may just be the new Silicon Valley. Of Advance Queensland and its partners are investing $1.7 billion in Queensland’s innovation future, and Brisbane seeing its first unicorn, learning software platform GO1, emerge in [...]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more and more common in our lives. It is no longer limited to certain industries or research institutions; AI is now for everyone. It’s hard to dodge the deluge of AI content being produced, and even harder to understand the many terms used. But we [...]

Chiefa professional network designed for women in leadership today cut 14% of its workforce, or 43 jobs, saying in an email from australiabusinessblog.com that the move is in response to the economy and that the outfit is being restructured to expand further to focus on the member experience . The [...]

The lack of skilled cybersecurity talent is a bigger challenge for businesses in Australia than abroad, according to new research that also found that high stress levels and inadequate assistive technologies are causing many workers to go berserk after a data breach. A whopping 45% of Australian CISOs surveyed for [...]

Cybersecurity accelerator CyRise, which has programs in Sydney and Melbourne, will close next month after five years. The program has supported 39 startups in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, India and the US since its launch in 2017, with the support of UK IT services and consultancy NTT and Deakin University. [...]

Meet Bastion, a French startup founded in October 2022 to help small businesses tackle cybersecurity risks without too much complexity. The company was founded by former Palantir employees and has already raised $2.8 million. What makes Bastion different from other cybersecurity startups is that it aims to be your first [...]

The federal government’s investment fund, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), has doubled its funding for Infradebt, pouring another $100 million into the ACT-based renewable energy financing company, bringing total aid to $150 million . Infradebt is a specialist fund manager/financier of infrastructure projects, providing capital for renewable energy and [...]

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That there is a huge gender gap in venture capital (VC) financing is hardly news; even ChatGPT knows it. This is despite the progress women have made in business in general. According to a 2021 report from PitchBook, companies founded exclusively by women in the US and Europe received only [...]