Author: Peter van Bruchem

This is the second Month that Techboard has issued a Funding Bulletin giving a monthly breakdown and analysis of Australian Startup and Young Tech company funding.  Until our first such bulletin last month we had been compiling and releasing our data on a quarterly basis since 2017.  Back in April 2020 in order to enable us to deliver our insights to the Ecosystem and data to our data customers more rapidly and to track how the pandemic is impacting upon startup and tech funding almost as it happens we decided to move to monthly data collection and reporting. 

Techboard is soon going to be compiling its funding data for June 2020 and undertaking a detailed analysis for our Annual report for the 2019/20 financial year which will contain much more detailed analysis of funding over the year, with Sectoral, State, funding type, dealsize and investor breakdowns and more. We are also soon going to be making some exciting announcements about improved access to Techboard Funding and Investor Data.

The funding and investor data underlying this Bulletin is now available to Techboard's Commercial Subscribers. 

This is the second part of the writeup of Techboard’s Roundtable: Funding options for Aussie Startups. See Part 1: How Covid is affecting the available funding options for Startups.

In a wide ranging discussion our panel had some very useful advice for startup founders on issues including what founders should focus on in their communications with potential investors, timing of fundraising, company valuation and mechanisms to delay a valuation.

Techboard recently held its first virtual Roundtable on funding options for Aussie Startups in the Covid era. We had assembled a panel from across a variety of funding types to try to gauge how the current environment was impacting on a variety of funding types available to Startups. 

Our coverage of the Roundtable discussion will be in two parts. In Part 1 we will cover what the panelists were experiencing in the market across the different funding types. In Part 2 we will be covering some super useful tips for founders.

Techboard has been monitoring the growth of the Startup and Tech Ecosystem in Australia since 2017. We track all sorts of funding events, including venture capital and other private investment, public investment via the ASX, venture debt, equity crowdfunding and more. We have been tracking the growth of the ecosystem.  Unfortunately in the era of COVID 19 it looks like we might soon have to track its temporary leveling or even decline.