| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.02.2025 | Rippling partners with Innovation Bay for global expansion | - |
| 31.12.2024 | The New Frontier: Global Companies Adapt to Changing Landscapes | In a world where change is the only constant, companies are learning to pivot. The global stage is shifting, and businesses are scrambling to keep up. Two recent stories illustrate this trend: Jieya Biologic Technology’s investment in a U.S... |
| 26.12.2024 | 8seats secures AUD $2m funding for global expansion plans | 8seats, a messaging platform aimed at revolutionising workplace communication, has raised AUD $2 million in seed funding to support its development and expansion.
The funding round, led by Black Nova and supported by notable investors such ... |
| 10.12.2024 | FinTech Australia appoints Ross & Imam to its board | FinTech Australia has announced a series of new appointments to its board following its Annual General Meeting.
Jodi Ross, currently serving as Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Tiimely, has been appointed as a new board member. With ove... |
| 31.07.2020 | Australia’s givvable wins Xccelerate2020 venture program of X15 Ventures, bags US$ 300K from CBA and Microsoft | givvable is a tech platform for sustainability professionals, procurement managers and employees making buying decisions. It helps users find suppliers quickly, while also judging and tracking the impact of their spending. The startup lifts... |
| 14.09.2018 | Change flows into Innovation Bay | Almost four years after arriving in Perth, Innovation Bay’s local operations will now be headed up by a fresh face.
For more than 15 years since being founded in Sydney, the passionate investor group has been running everything from pitch e... |
| 31.05.2018 | Four Pitches and a Dinner | I was pleasantly surprised by my first Innovation Bay dinner: good businesses, solid pitches and a wholly supportive atmosphere from the angel investors present …
Having attended many a pitch night (“Eeh lad, I’ve ‘ad me more pitches as ye’... |
| 15.03.2018 | Student Edge – on the way to One Million Users | How four Willetton school friends have turned an idea into nearly a million members..
If you haven’t heard of Student Edge, you’re either not in the Perth startup scene or you weren’t a student back in 2003 when Jeremy Chetty, Craig Chetty ... |
| 11.04.2017 | Innovation Bay Call For Pitches | Innovation Bay is a great funding source for Perth startups. They hold regular Angel Dinner pitch events that put startup founders in front of investors. The latest Angel Dinner event is open for applications.
The format is simple: investor... |
| 09.08.2016 | Innovation Bay Gets New Sponsors | Innovation Bay has now been running in Perth for 18 months. During that time they have had 34 companies submit funding applications. In the first 12 months, 10 companies pitched and 3 have received funding totalling $800k. They are announci... |
| 01.03.2016 | Pollenizer marks eighth birthday with large expansion plans | Sydney-based startup incubator Pollenizer has marked its eighth birthday by unveiling large expansion plans that will take the organisation to Melbourne and south-east Asia.
Bringing the innovation and startup consultancy to Melbourne is a ... |
| 23.02.2016 | Innovation Bay Speaker Breakfast: The Exit Journey | Innovation Bay are holding another one of their Speaker Breakfasts, where speakers are invited to talk about their area of expertise. This time the discussion is about Exits.
There’s a lot of discussion with startups around finding the righ... |
| 04.11.2015 | Innovation Bay Angel Dinner Accepting Pitch Applications | The Innovation Bay Angel Dinner events have been a great success in connecting early-stage startups with investors who are interested in funding them. Their next dinner will be on the 8th December 2015, and you can apply to pitch now.
The s... |
| 29.09.2015 | Host of angels: Innovation Bay dinner set for Melbourne | With a change in leadership and an increased focus on innovation and startups, it’s an exciting time for angel investing in Australia, Innovation Bay Melbourne organiser Jodie Imam says.
Imam, the founder of Occasional Butler which was acqu... |
| 16.09.2015 | Innovation Bay Breakfast with Grant Grosser | Innovation Bay’s next Speaker Breakfast is with Grant Grosser of SEQTA Software talking about Innovating in Edu-tech.
Grant is the Founder of of SEQTA Software, an award winning suite of web-based applications offering the world’s first ful... |
| 16.08.2015 | Xero sum game: List early to avoid “blood-sucking” venture capitalists, Takor founder says | Rob Drury knew he needed a “shit-tonne of cash” to get Xero off the ground, but he also wanted to maintain control.
The founder of the cloud-based accounting software company thought bringing on international venture capitalists would only ... |
| 14.08.2015 | Xero sum game: List early to avoid “blood-sucking” venture capitalists, Takor founder says | Rob Drury knew he needed a “shit-tonne of cash” to get Xero off the ground, but he also wanted to maintain control.
The founder of the cloud-based accounting software company thought bringing on international venture capitalists would only ... |
| 13.08.2015 | Xero sets its sights on world domination | The next level of automation, fuelled by the amount of data available in the cloud today, will be one of the most profound technological changes the world has seen, according to Xero founder and chief executive officer Rod Drury.
“The first... |
| 12.08.2015 | Xero sets its sights on world domination | The next level of automation, fuelled by the amount of data available in the cloud today, will be one of the most profound technological changes the world has seen, according to Xero founder and chief executive officer Rod Drury.
“The first... |
| 06.08.2015 | FinTech Pitchfest an opportunity for five startups to impress investors | Innovation Bay and the FinTech Summit are partnering to expose five early fintech startups to investors next month.
The FinTech PitchFest competition is looking for Australia “most exciting, high-growth potential fintech startup”.
Gardiner ... |
| 24.07.2015 | Innovation Bay finally makes it to Melbourne | Innovation Bay is finally launching in Melbourne.
The series of networking events, which helps introduce startups to investors, has been operating in Sydney for the past eight years. In the past 12 months it has expanded to San Francisco an... |
| 11.06.2015 | Innovation Bay Finds Funding For Scancam | Innovation Bay, the angel pitching and networking event series, has its first win!
Scancam was founded in Perth by Eoin Byrne and Anthony Schmidt and is a cloud based solution that provides smart technology to detect and deal with fuel thef... |
| 01.05.2015 | Innovation Bay Pitch Applications Due 6th May | Innovation Bay’s first Angel Dinner in Perth is happening on the 21st May, and applications to pitch close on the 6th May.
Derek Gerrard, organiser of the program in Perth, gave us some more details on the format:
Each pitcher needs to subm... |
| 06.03.2015 | Innovation Bay in Perth | Innovation Bay has come to Perth, but what does that actually mean? We take a look at what it offers.
Innovation Bay has been running successfully in Sydney for 10 years, according to the press release. The format is actually fairly standar... |
| 04.03.2015 | Competition heats up in delivery space, as Shippit battles Parcel Point | Missing a parcel will become a thing of the past if Shippit gets its way.
By integrating with online retailers and courier companies, the startup enables users to pick a three hour delivery time slot between 7am and 10pm. Buyers can track t... |
| 18.12.2014 | Innovation Bay Comes To Perth | Innovation Bay is a unique network, that brings together extraordinary people passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship and technology. It has been running successfully in Sydney over the last 10 years, helping raise over $10m in seed i... |
| 18.12.2014 | Innovation Bay hopes to tap rich seam of potential investors in Perth | There’s money and an appetite for risk amongst investors in Perth but it’s mining ventures, not startups, that are benefiting.
Entrepreneurship network Innovation Bay hopes to change that when it launches in Perth early next year.
“We want ... |
| 23.04.2014 | Watching your children leave home | Earlier this month, Sydney video streaming company VioCorp changed leadership with founder Ian Gardiner stepping down as CEO.
For Gardiner, the decision was tough and in a blog post he described how the company was founded and grew and why ... |
| 27.09.2013 | Start-up pitching competition at upcoming angel investor event | Start-ups will be able to pitch their idea to an exclusive angel investor dinner in Queensland in November, in an event run by start-up networking group Innovation Bay.
Previous angel dinner success stories include group buying site Spreets... |
| 07.08.2012 | Start-up investors give their top 10 pitching tips | Delivering the perfect pitch might sound like an impossible task, but the harsh reality is that the difference between an average pitch and an outstanding one could decide the future of your start-up.
The angel investors at Innovation Bay k... |
| 24.05.2012 | Five top Australian start-up pitching events | The founder of Dolphin Tank, a new support network for female entrepreneurs, caused a bit of a stir this week by claiming that start-up pitching events were male-centric.
Wendy Simpson singled out Startup Bus – a concept that involves cramm... |
| 06.12.2010 | Sentralize.com.au | Byron Teu put his career as a doctor on ice to work full-time on his start-up Sentralize.com.au, an “intelligent digital curation tool” that provides aggregated content-filled websites to clients.
Teu spoke to StartupSmart to explain why he... |
| - | x15 seeks fintech start-ups for young hearts Down Under | Australia’s x15ventures is calling for clever fintech start-ups with the chance to win AU$150,000 ($111,000) in funding.
The venture is a Commonwealth Bank (CBA) powered investment vehicle and has launched its second Xccelerate pitch event ... |
