Victorian government to establish $60m startup strategy
Victoria's minister for small business, innovation and trade Adem Somyurek, has announced that the state government is developing a $60 million plan to help startups.
Victoria's minister for small business, innovation and trade Adem Somyurek, has announced that the state government is developing a $60 million plan to help startups.
Investors this week poured at least $350 million into cloud computing companies focused on everything from security to Hadoop clusters to industry-specific apps.
Soha Systems is launching a cloud service today that lifts the burden of setting up customer-owned security platforms and eliminates the need to make network configuration changes to accommodate that security.
The government has formally introduced legislation to reform how employee share schemes (ESS) are taxed in an effort to make it easier for startups to attract and retain talent.
Tech startups who want to connect with the energy and natural resources (ENR) sector are being encouraged to apply for KPMG Australia’s program, Energise.
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has called for the establishment of a digital economy ministry and more support for startups in its NSW election policy statement.
More Australians should be encouraged to take a punt on a startup by changing equity-based crowd funding rules, according to Ingogo managing director and founder Hamish Petrie.
In among all the cloud, security and mobile tech startups attracting venture funding so far this year, new companies focused on hiring, education and career development are pulling in big bucks.
Salesforce announced a partnership with StartupAUS and the launch of a Salesforce for Startups program in Australia.
More than two-thirds of Australian startup founders can’t name an Australian politician who has been especially supportive of the startup scene, according to the results of a Startup Muster survey for 2015.
Like Uber but for babysitting, Kindy is a mobile app that helps parents to find carers to watch their children.
Australian startup Bluedot Innovation has won a partnership deal with the mobile commerce platform for Taco Bell, Sonic and other major US brands.
A new co-working space in Sydney hopes to bring together financial tech startups into 1230 square metres of collaborative office space.
StartupAUS will raise money and appoint a CEO to better drive its mission to promote startups and entrepreneurship in Australia.
Amcom in June will open a tech startup accelerator in Perth focused on software, with applications opening later this month.