The founder of ShelfLife learned that things don’t always go as planned A startup begins like an idea, a conjecture. Maybe the founder sees a pain point and thinks he can solve it with a little technology and change an industry, but things don’t always go quite as planned. That’s [...]
Early-stage investment firm Antler Australia recently backed a new cohort of 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, which is designed to give you a quick, incisive insight into the [...]
Wwelcome to the australiabusinessblog.com Exchange, a weekly newsletter for startups and markets. It is inspired by the daily australiabusinessblog.com+ column from which it takes its name. Do you want it in your inbox every Saturday? Register here. I spent quite a bit spent some time lately watching the latest news [...]
The Federal Government has released a discussion paper on developing a new National Robotics Strategy to better understand the opportunities and challenges facing Australian industries adopting robotics and automation. Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic said the discussion paper will help guide a conversation about the growth of production and [...]
It’s that time of the week, folks: Week in Review (WiR) time. If you’re new to WiR, this is australiabusinessblog.com’s newsletter recap of the week in tech that was. We get it – you’re a busy person. We are all. So what better way to keep track of what happened [...]
New car sales fell 3.9% in March from 12 months ago to 97,251, but the shift to electric vehicles is well underway in Australia Monthly figures from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) show that sales of battery electric vehicles are up 19.5% from March 2022 figures, while sales [...]
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced look at this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. Subscribe to receive it in your inbox here. The new era of Y Combinator, with smaller batches, a refocus only on early stage investments and a new CEO, [...]
A Melbourne startup hoping to become the Canva of 3D presentations has raised another $5.2 million from existing investors. It is the third time Rampersand and Investible have supported JigSpace, along with Vulpes Investment Management, which previously supported the 3D and augmented reality (AR) product tool in its $6 million [...]
That will be VC’s biggest fundraising question in 2023 One of the The biggest venture capital trends in recent years have seen early-stage companies pooling “opportunity” funds to make follow-on investments in their most successful bets. But will that trend continue in a tougher fundraising market hitting both VCs and [...]
Consumer group Choice has enlisted the experts to help you brew coffee with confidence by choosing a coffee machine that’s right for you. With takeaway coffee now costing about $5 a cup — 2 a day and you have a $50 weekly habit — Choice tester Adrian Lini said a [...]