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| 03.04.2024 | Vow becomes third company to launch cultivated meat, but it ... | Sydney-based Vow has become the third startup* (after UPSIDE FOODS and GOOD Meat) to introduce culti... | agfunderne... |
| 27.03.2024 | Kiki officially gets back into subletting, but the “girls on... | Image: Instagram article-article-body
Kiki, the subletting startup turned girls-only social group is... | smartcompa... |
| 07.02.2024 | Kiki and Blackbird say the “girls only” club is still commit... | Image: Instagram article-article-body
New Zealand-born startup Kiki and its prominent investor Black... | smartcompa... |
| 28.12.2023 | The top 20 agtech deals of 2023 | Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company is AgFunder.
Agtech deals of 2023 followed much the same tr... | agfunderne... |
| 22.12.2023 | How Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins overcame rejection to b... | article-article-body
Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins famously pitched to over 100 investors when sh... | smartcompa... |
| 22.12.2023 | Do Australian startup founders pay themselves too much? | article-article-body
When did salary expectations for some early stage startup founders in Australia... | smartcompa... |
| 28.11.2023 | Exclusive: Blackbird explains its recent male-founder domina... | Image: Blackbird article-article-body
Back in July, 13 of Australia’s most prominent VC firms commit... | smartcompa... |
| 23.11.2023 | Healthcare OS Carepatron Secures $4m USD Funding to Make Hea... | Carepatron's Team
Health tech platform Carepatron will use its latest round of funding to deliver it... | einpresswi... |
| 22.11.2023 | Australian investors say capital limitations push founders t... | This is part of a survey of investors focused on Australia and New Zealand. The following responses ... | techcrunch... |
| 23.10.2023 | Opinion: VCs are leaving money on the table. And it belongs ... | (Left to right): Chris Gillings (5V Capital), Kirstin Hunter (Techstars), Alex Khor (Afterwork Ventu... | smartcompa... |
| 18.10.2023 | Darwinium brings digital security and fraud prevention to th... | Back in 2018, LexisNexis acquired the digital identity platform ThreatMetrix for just under $820 mil... | techcrunch... |
| 19.09.2023 | BioticsAI wants to improve prenatal ultrasound scans with AI | Meet BioticsAI, a startup that has built an AI-based platform that plugs into an ultrasound machine ... | techcrunch... |
| 16.08.2023 | Meet Marqo, an open source vector search engine for AI appli... | Vector databases are the unsung heroes of the modern AI movement, storing unstructured data such as ... | techcrunch... |
| 28.04.2023 | Telehealth brands startup Eucalyptus lands $50 million from ... | Concerns over mail order weight loss brands Juniper and Pilot by Australian doctors haven’t dampened... | startupdai... |
| 06.04.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Hardee Fresh grabs $56m, Upward Fa... | Vertical farming saw good and bad news this week, as Hardee Fresh raised new funds, Upward Farms cea... | agfunderne... |
| 17.11.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Muncher grabs $27m for ghost kitch... | Besides a major milestone for cultivated meat, this week’s news also includes new fundraising for Co... | agfunderne... |
| 16.11.2022 | Vow raised $49.2 M Series A funding from Blackbird, Prosperi... | Vow, an Australian cultured meat company, has raised US $49.2 million in a series A round that was c... | incubees.c... |
| 14.11.2022 | Brief: Vow lands $49.2m ahead of its cultivated quail launch... | Australian cultivated meat company Vow has secured $49.2 million in Series A funding to bring cultiv... | agfunderne... |
| 11.11.2022 | The Tech Council of Australia says the industry has a divers... | You need to bridge the gap between formal education and job description. Source: thisisengineering/U... | smartcompa... |
| 03.11.2022 | DARWINIUM, A NEXT-GENERATION FRAUD AND SECURITY PLATFORM, SE... | Darwinium's technology enables a new approach to holistic customer protection by understanding the c... | en.prnasia... |
| 02.08.2022 | Sitemate raises $5.2M led by Blackbird to bring no code tool... | Sitemate co-founders Sam McDonnell and Hartley Pike Unlike many white collar industries who have had... | prweb.com/... |
| 11.05.2022 | Blackbird has unveiled an expanded parental leave policy and... | The Blackbird team, including Justin Angsuwat (third from the right in the second-back row). Source:... | smartcompa... |
| 08.03.2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forg... | 166
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| 21.02.2022 | Electrify Accelerator | The competitive programme is designed to accelerate the venture building process within a tight comm... | nzgcp.co.n... |
| 17.12.2021 | Inventia Life Science raises $25M, launches ‘RASTRUM’ 3D bio... | Australian 3D bioprinting specialist Inventia Life Science has announced the closure of a Series B f... | 3dprinting... |
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| 30.11.2021 | Foundry Lab raises US $8M Series A round to make metal casti... | WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital metal casting startup Foundry Lab eme... | en.prnasia... |
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| 05.11.2021 | Weekly Wrap #73: Linktree's pop, NZ tech is tiptop, Allbirds... | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from ... | ignitionla... |
| 22.10.2021 | Weekly Wrap #71: Bitcoin's explosion, Snap's erosion, Atlass... | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from ... | ignitionla... |
| 27.08.2021 | Weekly Wrap #63: OnlyCorn's back, more on-demand snacks, and... | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from ... | ignitionla... |
| 12.08.2021 | Fable raises $4.8m from AgFunder, others for Heston-endorsed... | Disclosure: AgFunder, AFN’s parent company, is an investor in Fable Food Co.
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| 25.07.2021 | Electrify Aotearoa | Hear stories of grit and Kiwi ingenuity from start-up founders (including Kathryn Topp from Yabble -... | nzgcp.co.n... |
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| 08.03.2021 | IWD 2021: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forg... | 15 Mins Read
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| 12.01.2021 | Starting with cultured kangaroo dumplings, Vow is on a missi... | Most of the meat consumed in modern society comes from a relatively narrow set of animal species: ca... | agfunderne... |
| 11.12.2020 | Weekly Wrap #32: Pizza Arbitrage, Bed Photographers and Magg... | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from ... | ignitionla... |
| 10.12.2020 | Investment Notes #4 - Mint Innovation | We are excited to announce Movac Fund 5’s fourth investment – Mint Innovation. Movac led the $20m Se... | movac.co.n... |
| 27.11.2020 | Weekly Wrap #30: Hungry Caterpillars, Psychedelics and Power... | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from ... | ignitionla... |
| 18.11.2020 | Exclusive: APAC Alt Protein Startups Raised More Than US$230... | 3
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| 17.09.2020 | First AML raises AU$ 7.3M in Series A funding | | vcbay.news... |
| 07.09.2020 | Elevate makes first investment: into the newly formed Blackb... | | nzgcp.co.n... |
| 07.08.2020 | Weekly Wrap #14: Capital Raising Inception | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from ... | ignitionla... |
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| 28.04.2020 | Gateway Australia April Investment Update | On the back of an unprecedented bull ride, a downturn was overdue. But, unless you’re the organisers... | insurtechg... |
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| 14.02.2020 | Roborigger wins $5M Series A investment from Blackbird | // Multiple WA Innovator of the Year award winner Roborigger, developer of a wireless crane load con... | startupnew... |
| 05.09.2019 | Momenta Leads $7.35M Series A Investment in Fleet LoRaWAN Sa... | Momenta Ventures closes a Series A investment in Fleet Space Technologies, a satellite connectivity ... | momenta.on... |
| 24.05.2019 | A unicorn a year: More than 50 Australian startups founded s... | Founders at Blackbird's Sunrise event. Source: Supplied.
In 2012, the information memorandum for Bla... | smartcompa... |
| 20.03.2019 | New Funding for Workplace Software Firms Skedulo and Scope A... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
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| 17.10.2018 | UK recruitment platform Applied raises £1.5million to bring ... | London, 17 October 2018… Applied, a platform that makes recruitment smarter, fairer and easier, has ... | realwire.c... |
| 23.07.2018 | Zoox is Blackbird Ventures’ largest single investment to dat... | The Blackbird Ventures team.
Australian-founded self-driving car startup Zoox made international hea... | smartcompa... |
| 17.07.2018 | Robotaxi Revolutions Don't Come Cheap, So Zoox Boosts Fundin... | Prototype Zoox driverless vehicles, the VH4, left, and VH5, are being tested as the company races to... | forbes.com... |
| 27.06.2018 | “No dickhead policy”: Why leading Australian VC firms are ba... | Daniel Petre and Craig Blair, founders of AirTree Ventures. Source: Supplied.
Some of Australia’s la... | smartcompa... |
| 17.04.2018 | What’s the average age of a successful Australian startup fo... | Source: That Startup Show.
Despite the increasingly successful efforts to increase diversity and equ... | smartcompa... |
| 13.02.2018 | AI-fuelled online beauty platform Honee raises $1.8 million ... | Honee co-founder Matt Jones. Source: Supplied.
For Matt Jones, the key things that led to his startu... | smartcompa... |
| 07.06.2017 | Australia: Autopilot closes $12m strategic investment led by... | Premium
Autopilot, the visual marketing software for automating customer journeys, has secured a $12... | dealstreet... |
| 22.08.2016 | Proxy raises $1.6 million to kill the card key, and make the... | A startup called Proxy has raised $1.6 million in seed funding to help people use internet-enabled d... | techcrunch... |
| 25.05.2016 | How Canva founder Melanie Perkins overcame rejection to buil... | Canva founder Melanie Perkins famously pitched to over 100 investors when she was on the hunt for se... | smartcompa... |
| 10.05.2016 | What one of Australia’s most prominent investors looks for i... | There’s one thing that Square Peg Capital co-founder Paul Bassat always looks for first when he’s co... | smartcompa... |
| 17.03.2016 | The founders of Atlassian, Canva and other “big idea” startu... | The brains behind some of Australia’s biggest startup success stories will be coming together to spe... | smartcompa... |
| 07.03.2016 | Employee analytics startup Culture Amp raises $10m, opens Lo... | Culture Amp, which develops analytics tools for employers, is to open a new London office and spur i... | tech.eu/br... |
| 15.02.2016 | The one thing governments should do to help startups and oth... | There’s only one thing that governments should be doing to help drive innovation and assist the grow... | smartcompa... |
| 08.02.2016 | How the Shoes of Prey founders hire their best employees and... | The Shoes of Prey founders, Michael Fox, Jodie Fox, and Mike Knapp.
Shoes of Prey co-founder Michael... | smartcompa... |
| 02.02.2016 | The secrets behind this $50 million Australian startup’s suc... | The secret to Envato’s success lies in the tactics it used to attract its first 100 users, co-founde... | smartcompa... |
| 02.02.2016 | Seven tips for novice angel investors so you can take advant... | The innovation statement tax incentives and Atlassian IPO millionaire effect will create a new wave ... | smartcompa... |
| 28.01.2016 | Why you only become a great startup culture by admitting wha... | The perfect startup culture doesn’t exist and founders should strive to continually improve internal... | smartcompa... |
| 08.01.2016 | Nine pieces of wisdom from an Aussie who sold startups to US... | Despite having two of his startups acquired by some of the largest tech companies in the world, Auss... | smartcompa... |
| 03.11.2015 | Great Aussie startups have paved the way for $200 million VC... | The emergence of two tech-focused $200 million tech venture funds will help to “rebuild” the Austral... | smartcompa... |
| 30.09.2015 | Australia’s Biggest Tech VC Firm On What’s Happening Right N... | Earlier this month, a three-year-old venture firm that’s focused on Australian entrepreneurs, Blackb... | techcrunch... |
| 29.09.2015 | Seven reasons you should apply for Startmate 2016 | My startup Nexus Notes had the privilege of going through Startmate 2015. Here are seven reasons you... | smartcompa... |
| 28.09.2015 | Atlassian $US3 billion listing shows world what Australia ca... | Pic: Atlassian’s Sydney office celebrates the company reaching 40,000 customers last November.
Atlas... | smartcompa... |
| 15.09.2015 | Blackbird looking to invest $200 million | Blackbird Ventures is on the hunt for “dramatically ambitious” startups after announcing a second ve... | smartcompa... |
| 30.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 30, 2015 | GitHub raised $250M; Catawiki landed $82M; Golden Gate Ventures announced $50M
Git repository hostin... | vator.tv/n... |
| 06.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 6, 2015 | Hotel Urbano landed $60M; Bizzy scored $2.5M; AffinityLive raised $2M
Hotel Urbano, an online platfo... | vator.tv/n... |
| 19.05.2015 | Aussie VCs to standardise their legal documents to make it e... | Several Australian venture capital funds have come together to standardise their legal documents and... | smartcompa... |
| 14.05.2015 | ‘We’re not small businesses’ – Australian startups react to ... | The latest federal government budget continues to confuse tech startups with small businesses.
Here’... | smartcompa... |
| 13.05.2015 | Jungle Ventures participates in education startup Edrolo’s f... | Premium
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| 11.05.2015 | Online education startup Edrolo sets sights on expansion fol... | Online education startup Edrolo has raised $2.6 million that will be used to expand its content libr... | smartcompa... |
| 05.05.2015 | Canva raises $7.7 million, prepares to launch Canva for Work | Design startup Canva has raised $US6 million ($A7.7 million) in funding from existing investors, whi... | smartcompa... |
| 04.05.2015 | Canva raises $7.7 million, prepares to launch Canva for Work | Design startup Canva has raised $US6 million ($A7.7 million) in funding from existing investors, whi... | smartcompa... |
| 10.04.2015 | GoDaddy Acquires Marketplace Startup Elto To Expand Its Serv... | Web hosting and web services provider GoDaddy is continuing to expand its resources for small busine... | techcrunch... |
| 04.03.2015 | It’s all in the culture – Melbourne-based startup Culture Am... | Workplace culture analytics startup Culture Amp has raised $US6.3 million ($A8.1 million) in Series ... | smartcompa... |
| 20.01.2015 | Lack of diversity and ambition still big problems: Startup M... | The results from the latest Startup Muster survey indicate Australia still needs work when it comes ... | smartcompa... |
| 13.01.2015 | Do Australian startup founders pay themselves too much? | When did salary expectations for some early stage startup founders in Australia reach $150,000? Optu... | smartcompa... |
| 20.11.2014 | Big news for Bigcommerce, bigger news for Australian startup... | Bigcommerce’s $US50 million Series D raise is evidence that the “sorry state” of Australian venture ... | smartcompa... |
| 11.11.2014 | Angel investor Alan Jones throws his support behind That Sta... | For the last decade the startup industry has been “envied, pilloried and lots of other things but it... | smartcompa... |
| 09.10.2014 | Venture capitalist named as new CSIRO chief executive | In an interesting move, cementing the relationship between science innovation and commercialisation,... | smartcompa... |
| 22.09.2014 | Braintree and PayPal launch a blueprint for startups | PayPal and Braintree’s Startup Blueprint, a global program to support startups making mobile web sof... | smartcompa... |
| 05.09.2014 | Six more of the best startup tips these Australian entrepren... | Last week, StartupSmart asked six successful Australian entrepreneurs and startup community leaders ... | smartcompa... |
| 29.08.2014 | Niki Scevak says Australians need to learn about our startup... | The leading entrepreneurs behind some of Australia’s best-known tech companies, including Atlassian,... | smartcompa... |