To get a roundup of australiabusinessblog.com’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3PM PST, register here. Hello Crunchers! Our favorite reading today was Connie‘s piece with advice for startups that target the government. In honor of Black History Month, we want to share some [...]
Therapists — if you can even find one that takes your insurance or new clients — can add a layer of sadness to your wallet, even if you’re trying to right your own mental health issues. ShareWell believes it has an alternative outlook, with a much more affordable peer support [...]
Throw half a dozen entrepreneurs together in a room with a whiteboard, and they can come up with a thousand business ideas in a few hours. It’s the nature of entrepreneurship: our brains are wired to keep an eye on things what could be better And how that gap in [...]
hotels tech company, SiteLesshas appointed former Xero CEO Trent Innes as Chief Growth Officer (CGO) and former Apple CEO Tim Howard as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). SiteMinder is an open hotel trading platform that allows hotel and lodging operators to market, sell, manage and grow their business. The tech company [...]
Technical interviews are a black box — candidates are usually told if they made it through to the next round, but they rarely find out why. Lack of feedback isn’t just frustrating for candidates; it is also bad for business. Our research shows that 43% of all candidates consistently underestimate [...]
Start up biotech 23 strands intends to integrate genomics into mainstream health care through breakthrough bioinformatics research and innovations, scientific literature analysis, and clinical insights based on whole genome sequencing (WGS). A human body contains about 3 billion pairs of genes. But the function of each gene is not yet [...]
Budapest based SEON— an anti-fraud platform that looks at a customer’s ‘digital footprint’ to weed out fake bills to prevent fraudulent transactions — Acquired Compliance and AML Specialist, Complytronalso based in Budapest. The terms of the deal have not been officially released, but Techcrunch sources said the deal was worth [...]
ASX-listed Buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) fintech Openpay has been placed in receivership after it failed to bank working capital from its main backer. The payment platform has been shut down, effectively sealing the company’s fate. The collapse comes a week after the company’s quarterly results on January 31, which signaled delays in [...]
In just three years, investment in Australian agri-food technology has skyrocketed. With the planet’s rapidly growing population, never-ending concerns about the climate and an urgent shift to sustainability, the market for innovative agri-food technology has never been more hungry. The golden age of agri-food technology investment is upon us, if [...]
A house emerged last year with a cloud data lake product built on top of open source Apache Hudi project. The startup aims to act as an integration layer to move data between different repositories, rather than competing directly with larger data lake providers like Snowflake and Databricks. Today the [...]