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MoneyMe Tops Techboard Ranking for November/December 2017

Peter van Bruchem

Topping off a big year, this is Techboard’s final Ranking for 2017. We normally close off our rankings at the end of the Month but the end of November and beginning of December were massive for the Techboard Team. We had our Techboard 2017 National Awards in association with StartCon in Sydney on 30 November, followed by the StartCon Conference itself. then the Co-founders headed back to Perth for a hectic Week in the Perth Startup Calendar with the West Tech Fest which also incorporated our own event in collaboration with StartupWA incorporating the WA version of the Techboard Awards. So we decided to do our final ranking for the year covering November and the first half of December. Here it is… and have a Merry Christmas.

Peter van Bruchem

Editor and Co-Founder

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Techboard’s top 100 for 2017

Peter van Bruchem

Over the course of 2017, Techboard has been tracking metrics on Australian Startups and publishing monthly rankings that rank companies on the extent to which the metrics indicate they are trending or gaining mindshare.  For the Techboard 2017 Awards we compiled a special ranking which included all ranking scores for companies we had been tracking.  For the National Awards we applied certain weightings to the scores in recognition that Techboard did not have a full years data on all companies it had been tracking. For the Western Australian Awards we did not apply any weightings due to having more complete data.  We are now pleased to release the list of the top 100 trending companies for 2017 utilised for the National Awards.

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Fintech Startups Prospa and Credi take out the top spots in the Inaugural Australian National Techboard Awards.

Peter van Bruchem

Over the course of 2017, Techboard has been tracking metrics on Australian Startups and publishing monthly rankings that rank companies on the extent to which the metrics indicate they are trending or gaining mindshare. The Techboard 2017 National awards are a culmination of those monthly rankings and comprised two company categories, the highest trending company overall and the highest trending up and coming company.  Techboard held the event at the Sheaf in Double Bay, Sydney, in conjunction with StartCon, Australia’s largest startup and growth conference with the backing of leading sponsors MYOB.

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Join startup founders and business angels for the 8th edition of Startup&Angels in Sydney!

Alex Kohn

Techboard's partners Startup&Angels are running the 8th edition of their series of Networking events on Thursday, 14 December at BlueChilli (125 York Street) from 6pm to 9pm. It will once again be a great opportunity to meet the founders of promising startups while networking with fellow investors and entrepreneurs and tasting amazing products.  At the event 5 speakers will introduce their startups, give some insightful advice of share their vision of Emerging markets.

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Introducing Our Innovation Fund: Techboard speaks with Laurence Schwartz and Jerry Stesel

Peter van Bruchem

Recently, our Techboard correspondent Matthew Parker from MitchelLake, was able to sit down with leading Australian venture capital fund – Our Innovation Fund, LP. Jerry Stesel and Laurence Schwartz (who is also on Techbaord’s Panel of Experts for New South Wales) were only too happy to talk about the creation of the fund, it’s already significant traction, and the broader start-up ecosystem in Australia.

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Techboard 2017 WA Awards top 10s announced

Peter van Bruchem

In one week’s time we will be announcing the winners of the The Techboard 2017 WA Awards.  We are pleased to release the top ten trending and top 10 trending up and coming Western Australian companies on Techboard for 2017.  To be the first to find out which if these great companies win their category come along to the Techboard 2017 WA Awards on 5 December in Perth in conjunction with StartupWA. More information on the event is available here. Registrations are also now open for the free event which is part of the West Tech Fest. 

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Techboard’s Community Awards – Your favourite Startup Icon needs your support.

Peter van Bruchem

Techboard’s annual Startup Community Award celebrates an outstanding contribution by an individual to their local entrepreneurship community. The objective of the award is to acknowledge and celebrate individuals who work to support and improve their local startup ecosystem.

While in the past we have held this as a Western Australian initiative, this year for the first time we have opened the award up nationally - in line with Techboard's national expansion in 2017.

We have asked the 70+ members of our Panel of Experts in each state to collectively nominated individuals in their own states they deem worthy of the award. From these nominations we have put together a shortlist of 12 very worthy candidates - and it is now over to you, for a public vote!

VOTING CLOSES MIDNIGHT 28th November 2017

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A budding industry – Techboard speaks with Adam Miller, CEO of Budding Tech about the future and opportunity of medical Cannabis in Australia and around the world.

Peter van Bruchem

With StartCon fast approaching (1st/2nd December), we all eagerly anticipate listening to the leaders in global technology discuss the opportunities at our fingertips. One such opportunity globally, and in Australia, is medical Cannabis. Our Sydney correspondent, Matthew Parker from MitchelLake, was able to sit down with Adam Miller, the founder of Budding Tech, Australia’s first medical cannabis accelerator. Adam will be at StartCon, but we were able to spend some time with him to discuss the opportunity for medical Cannabis in Australia, and around the world. Tickets to StartCon are still available and can be purchased with Techboard's Discount code here.

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