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Grants to target cancer research

New grants of up to $200,000 are on offer to foster innovation in brain cancer research and plug a funding gap for small players in the industry. The Cure...

Validation for Vic tech policy

A global award for Melbourne’s technology and innovation sector serves as validation for the Victorian government’s ongoing policy strategy in the space, according to Innovation Minister Philip Dalidakis. Melbourne...

Super pool can fund scale-up VC

Australia’s venture capital pool has likely doubled for FY2017 as the proportion of VC bound money coming from the country’s super funds ramps up. Last year Australia’s VC sector...

Banks told to open up their data

There’s a clash developing between traditional finance institutions and the new wave of disruptive FinTechs and RegTechs over data access that may take government intervention to rectify. FinTechs and...

United front on tech extremism

Australian politicians from both sides of the aisle have united to call on big tech firms like Facebook and Google to do more to fight the spread of extremism...

Other side of the FinTech coin

There is an almost unlimited opportunity for the RegTech sector in Australia, but the country must move quickly at every level from RegTech startups to the regulatory environment to...

Vic Library’s new startup space

The State Library Victoria was founded in 1854 with an aim of being “the people’s university”. Led by Justice Redmond Barry, the library operated – and continues to do...

FinTechs unhappy on crowdfunding

The Australian fintech community is urging the government to reconsider the requirements to be placed on startups that undertake equity crowdfunding or risk no companies taking part. Treasury announced...

Local RegTechs drive new growth

Australia’s RegTech companies need to get their skates on and focus on the issue through a more collaborative lens if they are to avoid being overtaken by international rivals,...

Dr Feakin: Our man in cyber

“That was something a bit different,” Australia Thailand Chamber of Commerce president Brenton Mauriello remarked following a 90-minute breakfast session on cyber security issues on the rooftop of Bangkok’s...

PM plots refresh for cyber strategy

Just 14 months after the launch of the Australian Government’s Cyber Security Strategy, the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has begun a process of refreshing the plan, and has looked...

Are MedTechs the next big thing?

Could MedTech startups be the next big thing on the Australian venture capital landscape? Petra Andrén, CEO of Sydney technology incubator Cicada Innovations thinks so, and her outfit’s Medical...

Ted Pretty’s next big challenge

Covata listed too early, promised too much, delivered too little; but its security focus is still spot on according to CEO Ted Pretty. Ted Pretty has a storied history...

What next for NBN’s Bill Morrow?

Bill Morrow, the 56-year-old Californian silver fox who heads Australia’s endlessly controversial National Broadband Network sounds just a little amazed with himself when he admits that the job –...