Startup Smart

For Melbourne food tech startup EatClub, landing the backing of celebrity chef Marco Pierre White didn’t involve deep industry or personal connections, nor huge marketing campaigns or reachouts. [...]

For Cardly co-founder Patrick Gaskin, the unassuming industry of greeting cards is a gold mine of opportunity. It’s not just the potential $17 billion market across the US, UK, and Australia, he [...]

When it comes to advances in technology, it’s the companies that are able to get ahead of the curb that reap the benefits. The digital landscape may be vastly different within a few years, and [...]

Seven Australian equity crowdfunding platforms, including Birchal, OnMarket and Equitise, have received Australian Financial Services licences for crowd-sourced equity funding services, opening [...]

Investing oracle Warren Buffett has weighed in on cryptocurrencies, telling CNBC he believes with “almost certainty” digital currencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum will come to a “bad ending”. [...]

With cryptocurrency prices rising to staggering levels over 2017, traditional listed companies are looking for a slice of the action: an increasing number of US-based businesses are changing tack [...]

In August, Google employee James Damore published a 3300-word ‘manifesto’ about women in tech, suggesting they are underrepresented due to being psychologically and biologically less capable, [...]

Graphic design startup Canva has joined the ranks of Atlassian, becoming Australia’s next tech unicorn after closing a $US40 million ($50.9 million) capital raise that officially values the [...]

In a series of pre-budget submissions, finance industry bodies have thrown their support behind a government-backed venture capital fund to further innovation in all industries while continuing [...]

When Anne-Marie Elias was named ‘Agenda Setter of the Year’ at the 2017 Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards, she expressed her surprise saying, “but I’m not mainstream”. So when she told us about [...]