Today
Microwaves get out of the kitchen and onto the farm
Weeds beware! Microwave technology is about to zap them out of existence as an Aussie start-up attracts international attention.
- Julie Hare
CBA replaces Albert terminals with Smart fleet to integrate apps
The bank’s latest payments terminal is set to integrate Doshii, Whitecoat and other business apps.
- James Eyers
Yesterday
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- Mergers & acquisitions
Ex-AFL star sells start-up for $205m after just four years
The recent boom in Brisbane-based tech company success continues as former Adelaide Crow Brad Moran sells CitrusAd to French giant Publicis Groupe.
- Jessica Sier
This Month
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- Funding
Hospitality tech in the money as restaurants learn lockdown lessons
Mobi, a start-up that helped chains such as Oporto and Red Rooster control their online operations, has raised $10 million as restaurants keep a digital focus post-lockdown.
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- Jessica Sier
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- Funding
Heavenly service: Start-up raises for ‘end-of-life’ digital platform
Westpac’s Reinventure fund has led a $3 million round in digital will provider Safewill, which has plans to build a platform to safeguard your digital life when you’re gone.
- James Eyers
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- Life after Lockdown
Start-up helps bands score post-lockdown gigs
Muso, a software platform that helps musicians find gigs and venues find artists to put on shows, is banking on a post-lockdown boom after raising capital.
- Paul Smith
Banking-as-a-service deal: Parpera uses Railspay, Volt for deposits
A new money management app to help gig economy workers with invoicing and payments will also offer deposits, which sit on the Volt Bank balance sheet.
- James Eyers
Athena Home Loans is the most innovative company of 2021
Athena Home Loans, the overall winner of the 2021 AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies awards, focuses squarely on the homeowners’ key problem.
- Sally Patten
Facebook accused of cashing in on small business ads despite outage
Facebook’s outage last week caused thousands of dollars in marketing spend to either evaporate or redirect into less efficient audiences.
- Jessica Sier
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- Funding
Start-up that let Woolies analyse staff with AI raises funds
Reejig’s AI platform is enabling companies such as Woolworths, KPMG and John Holland to map the skills they have in their workforce to target retraining and help them retain key people.
- Jessica Sier
- Opinion
- Shares
The small deal that shows ASX tech stock trying to ride a global wave
Last week Cluey bought Code Camp, a start-up offering computer coding lessons to children, but the loss-making company needs to motor if it wants to cash in on the global edtech boom.
- Adir Shiffman
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- Funding
NAB among backers as ‘moral hacker’ gets $2.2m to teach techies her tricks
Laura Bell has raised $2.2m to expand her online security training platform SafeStack Academy, with Jelix Ventures leading a raft of local investors in the round.
- Natasha Gillezeau
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- Funding
Former DLA Piper partner banks $28m for breakout tech venture
Jim Delkousis quit life as a Melbourne legal eagle to set up Persuit in 2016, five years later he has taken the US by storm with some of the world’s biggest companies using it.
- Paul Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Five lessons from Australia’s first unicorn
Tech entrepreneur and start-up mentor David Shein shares the secrets of his success in a new book: The Dumbest Guy at the Table.
- Tony Boyd
Ivvy targets 2022 float, expands board
Event and venue management platform Ivvy has added Susan Forrester and Craig Kinross to its board ahead of a planned listing next year.
- Anthony Macdonald, Yolanda Redrup and Kanika Sood
The dating app that’s like Tinder for fitness fanatics
Fitafy founders Stephen Mansfield and Cem Miral say they want to change the online dating game and place health and wellbeing at its core.
- Jane Albert
Hutly acquires REIV’s PropertyData platform
The property contract digitisation start-up is acquiring the Real Estate Institute of Victoria’s platform in a multimillion-dollar deal.
- Anthony Macdonald, Yolanda Redrup and Kanika Sood
- Explainer
- Funding
How start-ups really spend their funds
Raising capital is an exciting milestone for an aspiring company builder. But what happens once the money lands? We asked five startups how they set their spending priorities.
- Jessica Sier and Natasha Gillezeau
SoftBank is cutting more deals with fewer staff
The faster pace of deal-making is sure to raise questions about whether Son is risking missteps, especially as a string of high-profile departures depletes top talent at the Vision Fund.
- Pavel Alpeyev
Gonski family backs legal-tech start-up
Legal tech start-up Lawpath offers pro forma legal documents and an online lawyer marketplace to small business owners.
- Natasha Gillezeau
