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2 months ago | 
smartcompany.com.au | Tegan Jones |Garry Williams |Claire C Bristow
Another year, another round of statistics showing women founders getting the short end of the funding stick. The latest State of Australian Startup Funding report told a familiar story: early-stage deal participation for women founders is improving but the share of funding they receive beyond the seed stage continues to lag. This time around the report, put together by Cut Through Venture and Folklore Ventures, revealed women’s early-stage participation had reached record highs.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Tegan Jones |Garry Williams |Alexandra Cain
Quantum Brilliance has secured a $10 million investment from Breakthrough Victoria and $13 million from the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC), as part of a $30 million Series A funding round that also includes offshore investors. This follows a $25.7 million raise in 2023 and $13.4 million in 2021, which supported Quantum Brilliance in scaling production, refining manufacturing processes, and deploying its quantum accelerators to facilities worldwide.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Garry Williams |Jessy Wu |Raff Ciccone |Claire C Bristow
WTF. It was impossible to escape this (quite perfect) acronym in Perth this week, as West Tech Fest – the crown jewel of Western Australia’s technology and innovation showcase – showcased itself with aplomb, bringing in scores of local, interstate and global visitors to triumphantly sell out its biggest iteration yet.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Eloise Keating |Tegan Jones |Simon Crerar |Garry Williams
This week’s startup funding round-up features six innovative Australian companies that are already making their mark in their chosen industry — from construction to healthcare and B2B communications. Keep reading to learn more about six local startups that collectively raised $18.4 million this week. Leading this week’s funding round-up is construction tech startup Visibuild, which has secured the backing of Kim Jackson’s Skip Capital in a $6.6 million capital raise.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Mrinaal Datt |Simon Crerar |Garry Williams |Penny Locaso
Founder Louise Edmonds says there was no lightbulb moment for her startup Men of Manners but “many sliding doors” that led her to the idea. Men of Manners is a gamified subscription-based academy for male teens to properly know ‘the rules of engagement’ across social graces, confidence, purpose, deportment and behaviour.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Alexandra Cain |Simon Crerar |Garry Williams |Penny Locaso
Peer-to-peer electric vehicle (EV) charging network Ivygo aims to build Sydney’s biggest EV charging network by June next year. Its long-term goal is to make the most of a currently under-used existing network of 100,000 private EV chargers around the country. “Our forecast is to reach 500 hosts and 1000 active guests by mid-next year, at which point we will be the biggest charging network in Sydney,” says founder Julie Perrissel.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Garry Williams
“I’m incredibly proud to be Tasmanian. It’s a special place and community that has always punched above its weight and forged its own path. Over the last 20 years, seeing the growing confidence in Tassie’s ability to do its own authentic, unique, world-class thing is genuinely one of the great joys of my life. Good people doing incredible things.”That’s a quote from a recent LinkedIn post by Zac Duff, the co-founder and CEO of JigSpace, quite the extremely good technology company.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
wayves.ca | Garry Williams
Not Not NormalPeter E. FentonJames Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, Toronto There's an interview with the author below. This book was written for me: AMAB, cis, bibliophile, gay, Shakespeare-lover, actor. I am three decades (plus!) past eleventh grade, but I remember the self-doubt, the hormones, and the drama. The main conflict in Fenton’s RealLove romance is an internal one: can Jordan, who displays symptoms of OCPD and is prone to anxiety attacks, come to love himself, quirks and all?
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
lutontoday.co.uk | Garry Williams
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowAn article in Luton Today last year told the story of how two local churches were closing down, one after 120 years of worship. Stories like this are common, but there are also exciting new beginnings, even in old spaces…For people in Luton who count themselves as Christians it is always a sad thing to see a church or chapel that has been repurposed as flats of offices.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
musebycl.io | Garry Williams |Tim Nudd
Olympics fever is taking hold, and by now, sports brands and sponsors should be preparing to activate with impact on a global stage. But the nature of sports fandom has shifted since the Tokyo Games in 2021, and brands must focus on what matters most to their audience in order to maximize engagement. The good news is that passion among Gen Z is growing, with 60 percent considering themselves bigger sports fans today than they were three years ago.
