Tag: funding

Archives gets $67m lifeline for cyber, digital records

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The funding-starved National Archives of Australia will receive $67.7 million in extra funding to digitise its decaying records, address a growing backlog of access applications, and bolster its cyber...

Labor to reinstate games fund

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The popular interactive games fund would be reinstated under an elected Labor government, with $25 million in funding pledged over three years. Labor leader Bill Shorten made the election...

Labor $15m digital health accelerator

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Labor will fund a new health technology accelerator and medical simulation facilities in Melbourne’s south-east as part of a $15 million digital health election commitment. Shadow health minister Catherine...

Funding slowdown for tech sector?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Public investment in startups and tech companies is dropping while private investment growth is slowing in troubling signs for the local sectors amid political uncertainty, a new report has...

Airwallex achieves unicorn status

Posted on   |  by Aimee Chanthadavong
Melbourne-based cross border payments platform Airwallex has just earned unicorn status, following a successful Series C fundraising round of US$100 million. The fintech, which is now valued at over...

Salesforce offers $70M Australia fund

Posted on   |  by James Riley
American tech giant Salesforce has launched a $70 million-plus venture capital fund in Australia, but funding will only go towards startups in the company’s own “ecosystem”. The $US50 million...

MTPConnect driving solid growth

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government-funded industry growth centre for the medtech, biotech and pharmaceutical sectors has achieved significant results in its first three years of existence, but its mission has just begun,...

LaunchVic reveals open funding round

Posted on   |  by James Riley
LaunchVic has revealed its first funding round of the year as the agency begins discussions with the Victorian government for further funding of its own. The organisation’s tenth funding...

Asia cranks up startup engine

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
If there was any doubt that the billions of dollars that has been pouring into the Asian technology sector was in danger of drying up in the face of...