So this is actually edition #95, not #94 in case you’ve been counting - turns out I double counted #86 by mistake!
If you’re in Sydney this week make sure to come along the Startup Palette Show on Thursday where the topic this is all about scaling successful consumer businesses.
A great lineup of speakers including;
- Elli Hanson: Co-Founder of Flaus (TIME Magazine’s Invention of the Year) and currently Principal Investor at Side Stage Ventures
- Bronte Campbell: 3x Olympic Champion and Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Earthletica Activewear, turning athletic grit into sustainable brand success.
- Daniel Wan, CFA, CPA: Former CFO who’s led a successful IPO, now the founder of FlavourIQ blending data with innovation to build a deliciously unique startup.
Register here and use the code ‘TWIAS’ for a free ticket
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- $5.9bn and counting: WiseTech reveals cost of White scandal (The Australian)
- ACCC assesses claims of PEXA’s anticompetitive behaviour (InnovationAus)
- Mighty Kingdom hit by another CEO resignation after just 8 months (BNA)
- Deloitte Tech Fast 50: Honey Insurance defies capital crunch to clinch top spot (BNA)
- Looking to 2025: What’s next for Climate Salad (SmartCompany)
- Uber back in court over payroll tax in NSW (Capital Brief)
- Vow launches Forged Gras this week in high-end restaurants across Hong Kong and Singapore (The Age)
- Drone delivery startup Swoop Aero lands in liquidation (Startup Daily)
- Perth’s LatConnect 60 to employ Gilmour Space satellite bus to track methane and carbon emissions (BNA)
- Popular restaurant ordering app me&u lays off 10% of staff (AFR)
- Advanced Mobility Analytics Group, which uses AI to improve road safety and traffic management gets acquired by Transoft Solutions (The Australian)
- Airtree raises $650m for new start-up investment funds (AFR)
- Aussie startups optimistic about the year ahead despite funding challenges, survey finds (BNA)
- Finder acquires cashback rewards company Grow My Money (BNA)
- Q-CRTL scores $2.3 million in $60m federal government plan to back quantum in defence (Startup Daily)
- The gender pay gap is shrinking and the good news is tech’s better than most industries, but don’t expect equal pay as an older woman (Startup Daily)
- Canva finally gets a new CFO as IPO plans loom, hiring Zoom’s Kelly Steckelberg (Startup Daily | AFR)
- Car subscription platform Karmo picks up rival Motopool amid plans to rev up growth (BNA)
- Quantum Brilliance sells Europe's first room-temperature quantum accelerator (Capital Brief)
- Virescent Ventures closes second climate tech fund as QIC invests $10m (Capital Brief)
- Boman Group launches a $1 billion fund for Australian startups to crack the Chinese market (Startup Daily | AFR)
- Flying vehicle startup AMSL Aero has completed the first untethered test flight of its Australian designed and manufactured electric aircraft (InnovationAus)
- From a garage to a $2.5b start-up: SafetyCulture founder Luke Anear steps down as CEO with Kelly Vohs taking over (The Age)
- Two new scholarships that will send founders and investors from Australia to study at the Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program have launched (Bede Moore)
- Giant Leap releases their FY24 Portfolio Impact Highlights Report (Report)
- Pronto Pilates, a virtual trainer network of Reformer Pilates studios nationally, has raised $1.64M in an equity crowdfunding campaign (BNA)
- Total Synergy, a leading provider of project management software for architecture and engineering practices, has raised an undisclosed amount from M33 Growth and PSG (The Manila Times)
- Identitii, a platform which powers the way organisations store, transmit and share sensitive data, has raised $1.8M on the ASX (Australian FinTech)
- TALY, an intelligent personality profiling platform that helps put personality data back at the heart of recruitment and team decision making, has raised an undisclosed amount in a Seed round from Skalata (Skalata)
- Alt.Leather, a world-class 100% biobased leather alternative that turns waste and regenerative plants into a material, has received a strategic investment from Main Sequence as part of the Atmosphere initative (Tina Funder)
