Lawpath launches accounting-on-demand product for SMEs Lawpath's new service bundles legal and accounting services, plus a company secretary offering for small businesses and startups.
Meet the first five startups to secure funding from Victoria’s women-focused Alice Anderson fund Victoria's Alice Anderson Fund has backed its first five women-led startups, funding comfortable breast pumps, a fitness app, childcare support tech and more.
Canva co-founders sign up to Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge, committing the ‘vast majority’ of their wealth to charities Canva co-founders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht are doubling down on their commitment to donate most of their wealth to good causes.
Zip, Afterpay and Flight Centre: Superhero’s most-traded Aussie stocks for 2021 Buy now, pay later businesses, travel and EV companies were among the most-traded stocks on Superhero’s retail trading platform in 2021.
How Blackbird built its $10 billion portfolio, and what comes next Blackbird has turned $1.3 billion in funding into a portfolio worth $10 billion. Now the team is seeking out the next generation of unicorns.
Calm & Stormy weathered the COVID-19 crisis, and emerged with Woolies and 7-Eleven on board Almost two years after disaster struck, Calm & Stormy is seeing double pre-COVID revenues — and the founders expect that to continue rising.
SME Loan Recovery Scheme extended to June 2022 The federal government is extending the SME Loan Recovery Scheme for another six months, until after the election.
Log4j: What’s going on, and should Aussie businesses be concerned? This weekend, you may have seen a whole lot of tech chatter about log4j, vulnerabilities, exploits and chaos spanning the world wide web. Here’s what you need to know.
Pets, cars and cybersecurity: 10 Aussie startups that raised a combined $372 million this week We're coming towards the end of what has surely been the biggest year in startup funding on record in Australia, and this week's funding news spans e-commerce, fintech, logistics and bot-fighting.
After 15 years of bootstrapping, Finder raises $30 million to capitalise on ‘Web 3’ The funding gives Finder a valuation of $650 million, as the startup gets ahead of the global 'internet revolution'.
Aldi ousts plastic straws in juice boxes in sustainability drive Supermarket giant Aldi is providing paper straws with its own-label juice boxes, in an effort to reduce distribution of single-use plastics.
InstantScripts, Pickstar and Mr Yum: The startups recognised in this year’s Smart50 Awards From telehealth to retail to food tech, here are the startups and tech-enabled businesses that won out at SmartCompany's Smart50 Awards 2021.