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2 months ago | startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Harrison Polites |Zena Assaad

Startup 360 cohost Kayla Medica with episode 1 guests Steve Taitoko and Vinisha Rathod and some old cis het white guy they brought along as their diversity pick Welcome to the Startup 360 product launch! We hope you like our MVP with cohosts Kayla Medica and Simon Thomsen.

2 months ago | startupdaily.net | Tom Williams |Simon Thomsen |Harrison Polites |Zena Assaad

A Melbourne startup building AI agents for the disability and aged care sectors has raised $2.5 million in Seed funding. The round for Minikai was led by Tidal Ventures with participation from Antler. Tigerspike founder Luke Janssen previously backed the startup with a six-figure pre-Seed investment nearly 12 months ago.

2 months ago | startupdaily.net | Tom Williams |Simon Thomsen |Harrison Polites |Zena Assaad

The independent review by four industry experts, announced in December and led by Australian-born Tesla chair Robyn Denholm, released a discussion paper on Wednesday as it continued the first review into Australian R&D in almost two decades. The nation’s “siloed” R&D system and “a business community that is largely indifferent” meant Australia’s economy was “unprepared to achieve sustained growth”, the discussion paper found.

2 months ago | startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Harrison Polites |Zena Assaad

Battery storage tech startup Allegro Energy has scored a $1.85 million federal government grant to bring its battery technology to mass production. The Newcastle-based startup is one of five early stage tech companies funded under the $400 million Industry Growth Program. Allegro Energy has developed water-based Redox Flow Batteries (RFB) to store renewable energy.

2 months ago | startupdaily.net | Harrison Polites |Simon Thomsen |Zena Assaad

Humour me with a little thought experiment. Go ask someone, anyone, to name one love story in film, literature and music. They may stumble on one of the three, but I’d wager they wouldn’t do too badly. Now ask them for a love story in a video game. If they don’t game, I’d reckon they’d clutch at straws. Mario and Peach? Zelda and Link? Donkey Kong and bananas? I may be living in hope here, but it’s surely known by now that games are a complicated vehicle for storytelling.