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2 months ago | 
smartcompany.com.au | Mick Liubinskas |David Adams |Genevieve Brannigan
As of January 1, Australia’s largest businesses are now required to track and disclose their carbon emissions under new climate reporting legislation. While at this stage, the rules mainly apply to businesses with more than 100 employees, their impact will ripple through the economy — which includes small businesses operating within their supply chains.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Mick Liubinskas |Mrinaal Datt |Lily Rau
The Xero Beautiful Business Fund is helping small businesses get the financial support they need to take their truly innovative ideas to the next level and fund their long-term missions. Launched in 2023, the fund has already helped a number of startups, nonprofits and SMBs achieve their growth goals. This year’s Australian category winners received $20,000 in funding, with an additional $50,000 given to the global winners in their categories.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Emma Koehn |Mick Liubinskas |David Adams |Mrinaal Datt
Throughout December, Mount Zero Olives is flat-out, working hard to provide hospitality venues and consumers with important ingredients for festive snack platters. The Victorian food producer has built a reputation over the past three decades as a go-to supplier for olives, olive oils and fancy condiments. But beyond the Christmas rush, the family-owned business is also chipping away at a longer-term goal: investing as much as it can to boost its sustainability credentials.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Mrinaal Datt |Mick Liubinskas
What does a startup working to develop methane-reducing livestock feed and a beloved Aussie gelato brand have in common? Answer: a passion for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions in the agriculture industry. Agtech startup Number 8 Bio is trialling its proprietary methane-reducing feed additive, BetterFeed, for livestock to help Gelato Messina produce low-emissions milk, and thereby low-emissions gelato.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
smartcompany.com.au | Mick Liubinskas
As we look towards the future, we are filled with immense pride at the journey we’ve shared over the past three years. Together, we’ve made significant contributions to the growth of Australia’s climate tech industry, helping innovative companies tackle some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. From the early days of our community to the thriving network we are today, none of this would have been possible without your unwavering support, passion, and commitment.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
startupdaily.net | Matt Jones |Melissa Wheeler |Simon Thomsen |Mick Liubinskas
Every business starts with a decision. In the case of Four Pillars, it was the decision to make gin. And from that first decision flowed a cascade of dozens, then hundreds, of other decisions to be made. At its simplest, all business is just decision making, and those decisions come at you thick and fast when you’re getting started. There’s a temptation to prioritise action and believe that all momentum is good momentum.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
startupdaily.net | Melissa Wheeler |Simon Thomsen |Mick Liubinskas |Frances Goh
The 2024 Remarkable Accelerator Global Cohort took the stage at the Salesforce Tower Auditorium recently, showcasing their groundbreaking innovations to a packed audience of investors, partners, and industry leaders. The Demo Day highlighted five incredible startups, focused on harnessing the power of technology to remove barriers and amplify the lives of people with disability.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
startupdaily.net | Melissa Wheeler |Simon Thomsen |Mick Liubinskas |Frances Goh
But in case after case, we’ve also seen technology usher in a whole new era of workplace surveillance. Companies have powerful new tools to track employees and monitor their productivity in detail, raising obvious concerns. Reporting in The Guardian this week only highlighted the most recent example. Woolworths has been criticised for allegedly having “unrealistic” expectations about the productivity of its warehouse pickers – workers who travel from aisle to aisle to select required products.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Mick Liubinskas |Frances Goh |Terri Martin
WiseTech founder Richard White has stepped down as CEO of WiseTech Global, resigned from its board and also as a director of industry lobby group the TechCouncil of Australia. The billionaire fell on his sword late on Thursday afternoon following a fortnight of media reports about his private life, including legal action, settled on Monday, against a woman who alleged she’d been his lover, over $92,000 worth of furniture.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Mick Liubinskas |Frances Goh |Terri Martin
Construction technology startup BuildPass has raised $7.5 million in a Seed round as it makes a move on the US market. The round was led by Sydney VC Carthona Capital , supported by Leigh Jasper’s Saniel Ventures, GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner’s eponymous fund, Recursive Ventures, Horizon VC and Massive Tech Ventures. The new funds are earmarked for AI product development to boost productivity across construction site operations, safety and quality assurance for building professionals.
