Startups

A Melbourne-based startup has raised more than $56,000 in a Kickstarter campaign for what it is calling the “world’s most beautiful and function” trash can, and it's just getting started.

This week's startup funding round includes an NZ brand tracker, a Sydney-based deeptech startup, a 'better for you' drinks brand and an app that wants to help make our roads safer. 

Sydney-based deep tech startup Bandicoot Imaging has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding to help it on its mission to transform how fabrics and materials are captured and used digitally.

New Zealand brand tracker, Tracksuit, has landed $20.5 million in Series A as it plans US and UK expansion, more product features.

Double Australian unicorn SafetyCulture was missing from the recent WGEA gender pay gap report. Here's why.

Software giant Atlassian has settled a $92 million tax dispute with the ATO and has promised to keep its IP in Australia.

eBay Australia announced Dempstah, which was founded by Guy Dempster and Otis Ng, has won the leading prize fund of $100,000.

Australian startups building space tech and an AI-powered recruitment platform made headlines this week, thanks to a combined $62 million in new funding. 

Former Disney Channel star and singer Bridgit Mendler has launched a startup that will build a network of satellite ground stations on the Earth that connect and send information to satellites in space.

Comparison platform Finder made 60 employees redundant on Wednesday morning. This is the fourth round of redundancies for the startup since April 2023. 

Byron Bay-based environmental solutions company Subpod will soon close its doors, after helping more than 65,000 people in 20 countries turn their food waste into soil food.

The National AI Centre is partnering with Stone & Chalk and Google Cloud to launch Australia's AI Sprint, a three-month competitive program designed to help bolster Australia's AI industry.