The team at Sydney-based VC firm Folklore share some of their insights on the investment process to help founders, especially early founders, understand how to approach VC engagement from your first call through to what to expect from your VC after receiving your first check , or even rejection. In [...]

It can be very confusing and difficult to understand when and what type of marketing hire to do. When reviewing applicants, their job titles often don’t tell you what they actually do on a day-to-day basis, and on the other side of the coin, you may know what you want [...]

The newly launched Strategic plan for the Australian payments system – developed through consultation with regulators, industry representatives, consumers and business and feedback from a previous one consultation paper – “describes the government’s vision for the sector,” said Treasurer Jim Chalmers in preparing a broad reform agenda built around the [...]

Online health brand company Eucalyptus is using the $50 million it recently raised to acquire the online assets of Australian brand Jenny Craig from its trustees as the rest of the weight-loss company faces liquidation. Voluntary trustees FTI Consulting were appointed on May 9, but a month later they have [...]

If you’ve made a will—and if you haven’t already, you might want to consider it—you’ve almost certainly thought about what you want to happen to your assets, such as property, after you die. But have you also thought about getting your digital affairs in order? As our lives become increasingly [...]

The ASX-listed job market is looking to expand its UK business in a deal with leading TV channel Channel Four. The broadcaster’s VC arm, 4 Ventures, Britain’s leading media-for-equity investor is tipping $6.5m (£3.5m) for a 20% stake in Airtasker UK, the company’s UK subsidiary. Channel 4, which gave the [...]

Queensland home catering platform Gathar has raised nearly $800,000 in a crowdfunding for Microwd, targeting a female founder. Dubbed the Airbnb of dinner parties, the private chef platform partnered with celebrity expat chef Curtis Stone to bring the concept to the US and launch in his home state of California [...]

Deeptech incubator Cicada innovations has chosen its first cohort of startup founders to showcase world-changing innovations at its annual deep technology conference Cicada x Tech23. Cicada became a trustee of Tech23 last year, reviving Australia’s longest running deep tech event to support Australian deep tech innovators The 23 companies were [...]

Developed by major service providers and Delivered the problematic Proposed Codes for Designated Internet Service (DIS) and Relevant Electronic Services (RES) submitted to eSafety for review in February, just two of eight sectoral guidelines to be adopted after the passage of the Online Safety Act 2021. DIS includes providers of [...]

Last week, we were among many startups and small businesses that were hit in the gut by the sudden (and silent) shutdown of Investment NSW’s MVP Ventures grant program. In one short e-mail our plans for the year were turned upside down. Just last month, we publicly praised the NSW [...]