Startup Daily

Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci, who departed the grocery retailer in February with a $24 million golden handshake, has put some of that windfall to use backing a $2 million Seed round for a startup taking on Salesforce’s Slack and Meta’s Whatsapp when it comes to workplace messaging for deskless workers.

It’s that time of year again … and we’ve invited 30 of our writers, from fields as disparate as wildlife ecology and mathematics to literature and politics, to share their best books of of 2024.

There’s a world in which you could consider 2024 unremarkable for the gaming industry. Here's why!

The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC) has gone into Christmas shopping mode, investing nearly $50 million in two days in two tech companies, announcing $22.5 million for 12-year-old sovereign cloud data security company Vault Cloud.

Victorian startup agency LaunchVic has added four new directors to its board as it gears up for 2025 with a revised focus.

The Victorian government’s controversial $2 billion venture fund has been embroiled in an unfair dismissal case launched by the cofounder of one of its portfolio companies.

As a developer at DataStax, I often find myself trying to explain what I do for a living, writes Phil Nash.

Twelve-year-old Melbourne EV charging business JET Charge has raised $72 million after a year-long funding hunt, securing Mirova, an affiliate of global asset manager Natixis, as its lead investor.

As an active contributor to Australia’s innovation ecosystem for the last 15 years, and a native Sydney-sider, I’m stunned by last week’s news that the Sydney Startup Hub will be kicked out of its wonderful Wynyard location in October 2025, writes Jennifer Harrison, Director, Startups & Scaleups, at Reputation Edge.

The federal government’s $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund has made its third investment, tipping $25 million to lead a $50 million raise by Internet of Things (IoT) satellite builder Myriota.