| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.10.2024 | 1,547 attendees pack Sydney’s State Theatre to see pitches at record Startmate Demo Day | Source: SmartCompany article-article-body
Sydney’s iconic State Theatre was packed to the gills last night for the latest iteration of startup accelerator Startmate’s Demo Day, with more than 1,500 people seated – and sometimes on their fee... |
| 22.12.2023 | Why start-ups are flocking to collaborative working hubs | article-article-body
The age-old notion of artists collaborating in a central space has been given life in the 21st century as start-up businesses champion the practise of co-working with each other.
What started almost a decade ago in Sili... |
| 31.07.2023 | Fishburners launches Services Hub to remove accessibility barriers to quality service providers | SYDNEY, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia's original startup community Fishburners has launched a one-stop marketplace for startups to connect with the type of high-quality, vetted, and affordable service providers that can help found... |
| 12.05.2023 | Fishburners partners with La Trobe University to help students realise entrepreneurial dreams | SYDNEY, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia's original startup community Fishburners has partnered with La Trobe University to give students access to the Australian startup ecosystem through the launch of the "International Student... |
| 03.03.2023 | Alan Jones (the good one) joins tech PR company Third Hemisphere as Tech & Investments Director | SYDNEY, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology PR company Third Hemisphere has appointed renowned investment and tech heavyweight Alan Jones (the good one) as Tech and Investments Director, to deploy his 25+ years' experience in a sector ... |
| 14.12.2022 | Why new Fishburners CEO Martin Karafilis wants to champion regional startups | After six months with interim-CEO Alan Jones at the helm, Fishburners has named Martin Karafilis as the new leader to take the startup hub into the future. And it looks like part of that will be in regional Australia.
Karafilis has a wealth... |
| 12.12.2022 | Fishburners appoints new CEO, co-founder and COO of Tiliter, Martin Karafilis | SYDNEY, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia's original startup community Fishburners has appointed experienced startup founder, and former co-founder and COO of product recognition AI company Tiliter, Martin Karafilis, as its new CEO ef... |
| 31.10.2022 | Fishburners & Google announce cohort for inaugural AUNZ 'GNI Startups Boot Camp' | SYDNEY, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia's original startup community Fishburners has revealed the pioneering cohort for the first ever Google News Initiative (GNI) Startups Boot Camp to be held in Australia and New Zealand.
The 2022... |
| 24.10.2022 | Budget 2022: Startup founders seeking support for women, STEM careers and tax cuts | Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas
The federal government will be coming in hot with a fresh budget on Tuesday, which means there’s a lot of opinions floating around regarding what should be in there.
Now we know a few things a... |
| 16.09.2022 | Fishburners doubles down on sustainability, announcing winners of Tech for Good Awards | SYDNEY, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia's original startup community Fishburners has announced the winners of its inaugural Tech for Good Awards, a program launched in celebration of startups harnessing technology to help solve the... |
| 18.08.2021 | The Aussie tech companies valued at more than $100 million, and what AirTree is looking for next | The AirTree team. Source: supplied.
A few years ago, we published the first iteration of the Australian tech companies with $100M+ valuation chart. Since then, things have only accelerated, and we’ve got the numbers to back this up.
In 2018... |
| 24.01.2018 | Microsoft hires Fishburners' Annie Parker | Microsoft is set to name Annie Parker as its new global head of start-ups, following the reported departure of Tzahi Weisfeld last week.
Parker has been interim CEO of the Australian start-up hub Fishburners for the past seven months.
She a... |
| 21.04.2016 | Grant McCall – founder of Rounded | website twitter facebook LinkedIn
Grant McCall is originally from a tiny rural town on the mid-north coast of NSW. While still in high school he started making websites and shooting photos. Soon after school he moved to Melbourne. Having a ... |
| 14.04.2016 | Google for Entrepreneurs adds People Squared, its first partner in China | Many of Google’s services are blocked in China, but the company is still finding ways of maintaining ties with startups there. Today People Squared, which runs tech hubs in Beijing and Shanghai, announced that it has joined the Google for E... |
| 16.02.2016 | How a startup backed by Australia’s cricket captain turned over $1 million in less than three months | A Byron Bay startup says it has turned over more than $1 million in sales in just 79 days thanks to social media and video sharing.
Koala Mattress offers disruptive mattress technology for “zero-disturbance sleep” and co-founder Dany Milham... |
| 25.01.2016 | How diving into the startup scene gave a delivery service its zip: “You have to put yourself out there” | Not becoming deeply immersed in the Australian startup community and taking advantage of the various opportunities on offer is one of the biggest mistakes a founder can make, Ziip co-founder Naby Mariyam says.
The Sydney-based startup is ou... |
| 20.01.2016 | How this hackathon for students is helping to inspire and educate the next generation of Australian entrepreneurs and founders | Generation Entrepreneur founders Victor Zhang and Alex Luo are planning to expand their Initiate 48 hackathons so more students can be empowered with the possibilities of entrepreneurship.
The pair put on a hackathon over the weekend which ... |
| 10.11.2015 | Israel an innovation revelation for Wyatt Roy and party | A group of 50 Australian entrepreneurs, founders, investors and public servants have returned from a fact-finding mission to Israel with a host of lessons and inspiration.
The one-week trade mission saw the group tour the country’s universi... |
| 03.11.2015 | NAB and Fishburners partner for fintech hackathon | Everyone from politicians to large corporates are embracing hackathons, and now NAB is getting in on the act.
After announcing a partnership with Australia’s largest coworking space Fishburners earlier this month, NAB will be holding a fint... |
| 22.10.2015 | Sydney harbours vision of tech hub around site of former power plant | A huge coal-fired power station that’s been inactive for more than 30 years will become the centrepiece of a new “world-class” tech hub in Sydney under the state government’s plans to revitalise the Bay Precinct.
NSW Premier Mike Baird anno... |
| 04.09.2015 | WeWork would be welcome in Sydney, say other co-working sites | The Australian startup community is welcoming news that global co-working giant WeWork may soon be setting up shop in Sydney.
The collaborative workspace company is worth more than $US10 billion ($14 billion) and has 29 locations in 10 citi... |
| 25.08.2015 | Unearthed hackathon wants resourceful problem solvers | Over 100 tech innovators will be trying to solve problems facing the resources industry in just 54 hours as part of an Unearthed Sydney hackathon in Sydney this weekend.
Western Australia-based Unearthed has already held three similar event... |
| 18.06.2015 | Fishburners teams up with Y Combinator graduate Dropbox | Fishburners has teamed up with Dropbox in order to encourage startups and entrepreneurs to embrace the platform and learn how to work more efficiently.
The partnership will see the 130 startups housed in Fishburners receive free access to D... |
| 08.05.2015 | Move over Melbourne Cup – let’s start betting on Australian unicorns | Australians gamble more on the Melbourne Cup ($200 million, $9 per capita) than the entire venture capital industry invests in startups in a year ($100m, $4.55 per capita).
This disparity is especially concerning when we consider that in th... |
| 06.05.2015 | NSW Innovation Minister Victor Dominello says open data holds the key to growing state’s startup ecosystem | Open data and the startups that make that data useful have the potential to save governments a great deal of money, according to New South Wales Minister for Innovation Victor Dominello.
Speaking at CeBIT Australia on Wednesday, Dominello s... |
| 17.03.2015 | The NSW election is heating up, but where are the policies for startups? | While Queensland’s state election saw both sides of politics vying for votes based on their policies for startups, people in New South Wales will head to the polls on March 28 with few commitments from the major parties.
Pete Cooper, the fo... |
| 23.01.2015 | Michael and Richard- founders of Troopr | Richard Ing is CEO and Co-Founder of troopr and a fitness-instructing, corgi-loving traveller. His favourite holiday destination is Japan. Michael Lieu is COO and Co-Founder of troopr and a DJ-ing, snowboarding world adventurer. His favouri... |
| 27.10.2014 | New Sydney co-working space looks to fill back-to-basics gap | SydStart founder Pete Cooper is set to launch a new co-working space in Sydney.
When SydStart launched, Cooper was looking to fill a need in Sydney’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. Now, six years on, he sees a need for another Sydney co-work... |
| 15.09.2014 | NSW MP inspired by startup scene at Fishburners | New South Wales independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich says he finished a two week stint at Sydney co-working space Fishburners with more awareness of the problems facing Australian startups.
Greenwich, whose electorate encompasses startup ho... |
| 11.08.2014 | NSW MP gets a taste of startup life | New South Wales independent member for Sydney, Alex Greenwich, says both state and federal governments are “stuck in the past” and need to do more to support startups. And he’s doing something about it.
Greenwich announced on Monday that he... |
| 18.07.2014 | FRIDAY TIDBITS: The fox in the fish house, #ubericecream and Baillieu’s bungle | Just as there was speculation that Rupert Murdoch had fallen out of love with Twitter, he has resurfaced at Sydney incubation hub, Fishburners. He broke his twitter silence with an apology saying “I have been busy lately with many preoccupa... |
| 25.06.2014 | Startup stalwart Bill Bartee urges Australia to lift its game when it comes to STEM education | Increasing participation in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and computer science disciplines is critical to the success of Australia’s startup ecosystem, according to entrepreneur and investor Bill Bartee.
He says if Au... |
| 16.02.2013 | Andrew Dowling – founder of Tapestry | A holder of multiple patents, Andrew has been a pioneer of Australia’s technology industry for the past two decades, with a career spanning software and technology through to strategy consulting and everything in between. He has lived and w... |
| 12.11.2012 | Co-working growing pains | A growing number of start-ups are claiming co-working spaces to be their secret weapon, giving them a competitive edge in their quest for world domination.
For as little as $120 a week; or even less; landlords are offering start-ups their o... |
| 24.02.2012 | Co-working hub Fishburners launches new space for start-ups | Sydney co-working network Fishburners has launched a new space for start-ups, partnering with the City of Sydney to roll out the Darlinghurst facility.
Fishburners, which already houses around 100 budding entrepreneurs at its Ultimo co-work... |
| 14.02.2012 | Protecting your IP in a co-working space | Entrepreneurs have always jealously guarded their ideas. Self-righteous rage is usually the response whenever they feel someone has encroached upon their intellectual property.
Legal action isn’t uncommon over “stolen” business ideas, as ev... |
| 19.09.2011 | Collaborate to innovate | The age-old notion of artists collaborating in a central space has been given life in the 21st century as start-up businesses champion the practise of co-working with each other.
What started almost a decade ago in Silicon Valley – when lon... |
| - | Antler scales up its portfolio with $425 million fund for later-stage startups | Source: Antler
Startup accelerator Antler has announced a new $452 million ‘Elevate’ fund designed to take its investments beyond the early-stage startup phase through to Series C.
Started in Singapore in 2015, it now has offices globally, ... |
