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The Techboard Directory … An Update

Peter van Bruchem

Startup and Tech Company data is at the very core of what Techboard is. Central to Techboard's data collection and monitoring efforts is the Techboard Directory. Once we have added a company to the directory we start tracking traction and growth metrics on the company, such as funding events as will be featured in our upcoming Annual Funding Report out soon. Since the beginning of 2017 we have been working hard to grow the directory from a Western Australian focused directory to a truly national directory of Australian startups and young tech companies. 

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National Angel Awards 2018

Peter van Bruchem

EDIT: Entries for the National Angel Awards 2018 closed on Friday 17 August 2018.

We announced earlier this month we have partnered with the Angels of Australia to present the National Angel Awards 2018.  We are pleased to announce that categories and entry criteria have been finalised and entries are now open for the National Angel Awards. The awards will be presented on the Angels of Australia Cruise from 11-14 September 2018.

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Techboard’s Australian Startup + Tech Mapping Project

Peter van Bruchem

We are excited to release our first ever national startup and tech map. While we have previously published maps of the Western Australian landscape, this is our first national attempt. We believe it is one of the most ambitious visual mapping exercises conducted of the Australian startup space to date, and so we’re naturally excited about it. It is not perfect. There are noteworthy companies not included in the map, and (hopefully not too many) embarrassing omissions.

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New Additions to Techboard Directory

Peter van Bruchem

The team at Techboard has been busy adding companies to Techboard, the largest directory of Australian Startups and Tech Companies. this latest batch takes the number of company profiles to just shy of 2500. The more companies we have in the Directory the more we are monitoring to enable Techboard to become the data provider of choice on the Australian Startup and Tech Ecosystem.

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Coming Soon: Techboard’s Annual Funding Report

Peter van Bruchem

EDITED: the FY 17/18 Techboard funding report is now available.

The 2017/18 financial year is drawing to a close and the Techboard team is working towards its first Annual Funding Report covering funding events by Australian startups and young tech companies confirmed during the 2017/18 financial year. This will be the most comprehensive annual funding report covering the Australian Startup and Tech Ecosystem ever.  We want to make sure we cover as many funding events as possible so we are calling on the support and assistance from companies, advisors, investors/funders and others to help supplement our dataset.

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Property Investment Brick by Brick: Techboard talks with Anthony Millet CEO of BRICKX

Peter van Bruchem

Our latest interview sees Techboard correspondent Bradley Delamare from Tank Stream Labs make a switch from interviewee to interviewer (see the Techboard interview with Bradley). Bradley, spoke with Anthony Millet, CEO of residential property crowd-investment platform BRICKX following their $9M capital raise. We recently caught up with Anthony at the Myriad Launch Party in Brisbane where he was demonstrating his snake wrangling skills.

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The Juggling Solo Founder – Techboard talks to Paul Towers

Alex Kohn

Techboard’s very own Alex Kohn, who also works for our partners the Polyglot Group, recently sat down with Paul Towers, founder of Startup Soda, a daily newsletter focused on Australian startup stories and best practices as well as distributing Techboard content (both company announcements and Blog posts). Paul also founded Task Pigeon, a software as a service business providing a simple, yet powerful, task management application for small to medium teams. Paul is also a member of Techboard’s Panel of Experts for New South Wales. Alex spoke to Paul about being a juggling entrepreneur and his refreshing approach to sharing the challenges of being a startup founder.

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