CSIRO invests $20 million to help SMEs and startups unlock R&D potential
The CSIRO plans to invest $20 million in its SME Connect portfolio to help 750 SMEs and startups accelerate their businesses.
Women founders received only 3.9% of all student startup funding over past decade
Over the course of a decade, just 3.9% of $1.2 billion in funding has gone to student-led startups with a team of women founders. Mixed-gender startups received 1.8% of funding.
NSW government backs UOW in new business innovation boost program
The University of Wollongong (UOW) has secured part of the NSW Government's new $11 million Boosting Business Innovation Program (BBIP).
After pay gap bombshells, Victorian business leaders consider startup investment bias
The release of groundbreaking gender pay gap data has shaken the startup world, with Australian founders and corporate luminaries calling for new ways to measure how venture capital does -- and doesn't -- reach women founders and women-led startup teams.
Boosting Female Founders cohort announced before agreements were finalised
The latest Boosting Female Founders recipients were recently announced before all agreements had been finalised and signed.
QLD tips $55 million into matched VC funding to grow and retain the next Sunshine State success
The Queensland government has tipped a further $55 million into its venture capital funding program, partnering with big-name investors to develop local startups and keep them within the state's borders.
Cannabis is equity crowdfunding’s new best bud in $71 million Birchal report
Birchal's 2023 CSF report reveals that beer took a funding hit. Meanwhile, medicinal cannabis is riding high.
Five Aussie businesses vie for $40,000 grant as part of inaugural LiftHER APAC cohort
The Lift Women Asia Pacific Grant Pitch Night will be held in Melbourne on Wednesday, March 27, where participants will get an opportunity to win a $40,000 grant, divided into three awards.
Crowdfunding platform Banana aims to fix fashion’s “inventory problem”, connect designers, producers and consumers
The world’s first fashion crowdfunding platform Banana has made its debut to bridge the gap between designers, producers and consumers and bring fashion ideas to life.
Blackbird explains its recent male-founder dominated investment announcements
Despite gender diversity pledge, Blackbird Venture's last 11 public investments have been into all-male founding teams. What's going on?
B2B marketplace for excess food produce wins $30,000 Kickstarter Challenge
Melbourne-based digital B2B marketplace Platform Zero, which allows supermarkets to sell surplus or rejected produce, diverting tonnes of daily food waste from landfills, has won $30,000 in equity-free funding as the winner of the 2023 Kickstarter Challenge.
Birchal seeks $3 million from investors to expand its equity crowdfunding platform
Venture capitalists and smaller investors who want to live more sustainably or have a clear conscience about how goods are made often turn to the licensed equity crowdfunder Birchal.
