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Sitemate CEO Hartley Pike is a former field engineer with Lendlease who was buried in paperwork before deciding to start a software company that would fix that problem.

Software start-up likened to Atlassian defies funding slump, raising $27.5 million

Australian start-up funding continues to tank, but not for this company, which wants to emulate the success of local tech billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar.

  • David Swan

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Mike Cannon Brookes at Director conference at AICD Climate Governance Forum, at Sydney Hilton Hotel on Aug 11, 2023. Photo: Flavio Brancaleone / AFR

The hundreds of millions in tax incentives for Australian start-ups that went south

The R&D tax offset has served as a life raft for some of Australia’s most prominent technology start-ups, though in some cases it wasn’t enough.

  • David Swan
Q-CTRL’s Michael Biercuk says new FIRB requirements were already scaring off investors to his company.

Quantum start-up breaks records with blockbuster funding round

Rugby legend John Eales has invested in this futuristic Sydney tech company, but there’s no guarantee it will stay in Australia.

  • David Swan
Rampersand venture partner Rod Hamilton and co-founder Paul Naphtali.

Venture capital fund Rampersand ramps up hunt for next Aussie unicorn

Success stories such as Canva and Culture Amp are more than a decade old, and this fund says it’s time to find and fund the next crop of billion-dollar start-ups.

  • David Swan
Sleeping Duck co-founders Selvam Sinnappan (left) and Winston Wijeyeratne.

‘Careful who you get into bed with’: Sleeping Duck case rocks start-up sector

The mattress maker’s court trial, which resembled a real-life episode of Shark Tank, offered a rare glimpse into how the start-up sausage is made.

  • David Swan
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Phonely co-founders Nisal Ranasinghe and Will Bodewes.

The Melburnians behind one of Silicon Valley’s hottest AI start-ups

These two university researchers have created an artificial intelligence phone receptionist that can answer questions, schedule appointments, and talk just like a human.

  • David Swan
Forged Parfait served in a pastry shell with a brulee topping.

Developed in a lab and grown in a vat: It’s meat, but not as you know it

Global demand for meat is growing. Without innovation, this will put more pressure on land clearing and greenhouse gas emissions. Could cultured meat be the solution?

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Disco investor Matt Gudinski with Karl Richter and Pete Nicholson.

Discotheque: Music mogul Matt Gudinski joins investors sinking $15 million into start-up

Matt Gudinski is bringing his record label - which just turned 50 - firmly into the 21st century with a new investment.

  • David Swan
From left to right: Former Fortescue executives, Bart Kolodziejczyk and Michael Masterman’s start-up Element Zero has plans for a $US2.1 billion green iron processing plant in the Pilbara.

The iron men with a $3 billion plan to save the planet

Two former Fortescue executives want to reduce the enormous carbon footprint of iron ore, Australia’s most lucrative export industry. It’ll cost at least $3 billion.

  • Anne Hyland

Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/topic/start-up-funding-1mqn