Startups

The government has passed new laws to finally bring its much-discussed fintech regulatory sandbox into reality. Here's what you need to know.

Australia’s ever-controversial encryption legislation has been debated in the Senate this week, but we’re seemingly still no closer to any resolution on the AA Bill.

Brisbane video editing startup Clipchamp has closed a Series A funding round of $13.2 million to help it achieve “more aggressive growth”.

Australian fintech SocietyOne has secured $15 million, and established a $100 million funding warehouse facility, as it gears up for a potential IPO.

Neobank Xinja is boasting about the fat stacks flowing into its coffers from Australians disaffected with the behaviour of the big four banks.

Australia’s first space industry incubator, the Venture Catalyst Space program, has opened applications for its third intake and is looking to help international companies.

Brisbane startup Outfit has bagged $19.5 million in funding as it looks to expand into the US, off the back of two years of 100% revenue growth.

In the run-up to Pause Fest 2020, founder and self-proclaimed ‘enabler of awesome’ George Hedon has had some particularly big hurdles to overcome.

Google’s self-driving car arm Waymo on Wednesday announced it will partner with UPS to deliver packages across Arizona.

Google is reportedly gearing up to take on the likes of Slack and Microsoft with a new business-first mobile communications app.

A Copenhagen startup has got Twitter all riled up over its LastTissue product — essentially a hanky with millennial marketing slapped on it.

A group of Sydney organisations and startups have come together to form the Envirotech Alliance, a squad of tech folk tackling climate change and helping protect the environment.