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Nov 30, 2023 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Ben Ice
La Foundary is a startup co-founded by Melody Wu, Anh Van, David Sea and Shikhar Jung Shahi Thakuri. On November 30, Wu pitched to VC judges and a live audience at the Pitch, SmartCompany‘s early-stage startup competition, and was chosen as The People’s Choice winner by the attendees in the room. The team of students has developed a sustainable packaging solution, which feeds farm waste to mushroom mycelium to generate a styrofoam alternative.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Ben Ice
This evening in Melbourne, SmartCompany hosted its fourth instalment of the Pitch, an early-stage startup competition, with Eyeonic named the winner. Held at The Commons in Cremorne, the event was created in partnership with AWS, BlueRock and FinTech Australia, with a packed room in attendance to hear five early-stage startups pitch their ideas to an esteemed judging panel.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Ben Ice
Farm Automation founder Krishnakumar Santhanam comes from a long line of dairy farmers and has professional experience working on AI products. His latest journey started when a colleague asked if AI technology could be helpful on his brother’s dairy farm. Using drones and AI, Farm Automation helps dairy farmers choose the right paddocks to graze their cattle on to optimise milk yields.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Ben Ice
After her then 12-year-old daughter was the victim of cyber-bullying, Maggie Ciobanu started working on Yoochooz, an app that flags harmful content before kids send it. As children type harmful content, it issues a prompt, “are you sure you want to send this?”, so they think before they send it.
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Nov 26, 2023 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Ben Ice
Spool AI is the startup co-founded by Leopold Silberstein and Chloe Hanson-Boyd to put an end to ‘corporate amnesia’, using artificial intelligence to better connect employees and communications streams in companies. Silberstein explained why. “As [an] organisation grows, it gets exponentially harder and harder to find or to understand what everybody’s doing.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Ben Ice
Associate Professor Simon Skalicky is the man behind Eyeonic, a medtech startup that promises to make glaucoma testing easier and more accessible the world over. An opthalmologist by trade, he explained to SmartCompany how glaucoma begins by affecting the peripheral vision, but over time causes central vision loss. There are 80 million people in the world with glaucoma, and in the developing world, 90% of cases go undetected. In Australia, 50% of glaucoma is undetected.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
smartcompany.com.au | KPI Checklists |Ben Ice
Startups don’t get much newer than Inneurva, the medtech that blends software and hardware to help users manage chronic back pain. Clara Zhao and Dr Tass Paritt founded the venture earlier this year, each being exposed to chronic back pain in one way or another. For Zhao, it was through a friend who suffered an injury and back pain as a result. He went to physiotherapists but found he had to go back continually, and that the treatment wasn’t solving the purpose of the problem.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
smartcompany.com.au | KPI Checklists |Ben Ice
Untitled Group took the number one spot as the fastest-growing Australian SME at The Smart50 Awards 2023 last night, as well as winning The Marketing Award. Two amazing achievements for a brand whose entire business model was threatened when the lockdowns hit in 2020.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
smartcompany.com.au | KPI Checklists |Ben Ice
Common themes ran through the fine acceptance speeches at last night’s Smart50 Awards 2023: hard graft and supportive teamwork. Last year’s Awards were the first to be hosted in person after the lockdown years, so the topics of conversation mostly focused on just how great it was to be back in person with the SME community after the unprecedented challenges all had faced. The challenges of the last 12 months have been different, though perhaps a little more precedented.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
smartcompany.com.au | KPI Checklists |Ben Ice
The Australian SME community’s best and brightest came out in style on Thursday night to celebrate The Smart50 Awards 2023. Since 2007, the Awards have counted down the 50 fastest-growing Australian small and medium businesses and awarded a selection of category awards to those innovating and supporting their community and customers in exciting ways. The overall winner was Untitled Group, with a remarkable 597.4% growth average over the past three financial years.
