Startups

Australian pet treat company Huds and Toke has announced that the company will partner with US doughnut giant Krispy Kreme to create dog-friendly 'Doggy Doughnuts' using insects as a source of protein.

Australian digital menu startup Mr Yum has announced its second round of layoffs in the space of a year, ending the employment of "approximately 40 staff" members worldwide in an attempt to steer the business towards profitability.

In 2022 Hypersonix Launch Systems along with the University of Southern Queensland, LSM Advanced Composites, and New South Wales-based Romar Engineering were awarded a $2.95 million Cooperative Research Centres projects grant from the federal government.

Fortune favours brave brands. That’s the lesson from AU+NZ’s most interesting, innovative, and brave challenger brands. The brands that are breaking through, or well on their way to doing so.

This week is a little more modest than our last funding roundup. But we still have six cracking Aussie startups getting the cash they absolutely deserve.

Melbourne-based Great Wrap is challenging the global supply chain by launching a world-first compostable alternative to plastic pallet wrap.

The Beautiful Bunch, which was founded by Jane Marx in 2020, is a social enterprise that creates work for women who have recently migrated to Australia and helps them on the path to fulfilling their dreams. 

Born in 2017 out of a partnership with Australia’s national science and research agency CSIRO, DAS is a fintech company that is focused on agriculture, operating at the intersection of digital transformation, nature-based peril and global food security.

The startup scene was shaken by the collapse of SVB over the weekend, with panicked Australian companies joining the hordes trying to extract money. Here's what it looked like from the inside.

The VCs are a little hungrier compared to last week, with five Australian startups landing $114.5 million in capital this week.

Twelve Victorian startups, aspiring agtech founders and researchers who are taking on some of the biggest issues facing agriculture today have been accepted into the latest round of AgTech Seeds.

Victorian startups are more innovative, more mature and more diverse compared to 2020 according to the 2022 Startup Ecosystem Mapping Report -- the fourth report of its kind developed by LaunchVic.