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Investing in People and Products: Opportunities in pre-IPO investment in Australia. Techboard speaks with Alium Capital’s Rajeev Gupta

25/10/201709/11/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Rajeev Gupta is a technology-driven investor who has worked in the industry for more than 20 years. In 2016, he co-founded Alium Capital – a cross-over investment fund focused on technology and innovation, with his 2 partners Jason Rich and Michael Considine. Alium has secured almost $100 million in capital commitments since its founding – seeking to capitalise on the growth of the Australian tech-industry, while helping to propel these same companies into their next stage of development. Alium’s portfolio includes names such as Healthengine, Unlockd and Titomic (who have either topped or placed in the top 5 in a Techboard Ranking) as well as Nitro, StockSpot, Hit100, Credible and Bitcoin.com.au. MichelLake’s Robin Block sat down with Rajeev to discuss investment strategies and understand what sets Alium apart.

Techboard Report reveals over $665M in funding for September quarter

16/10/201702/11/2017 Peter van Bruchem

This funding report only includes funding events (including equity, debt, acquisition, and grants) confirmed in the September 2017 quarter, involving startups and young tech companies which are eligible for a listing on Techboard. Data is collated by the Techboard team from public sources and through its relationships with investors, VCs and angel groups across the country. In particular Techboard would like to thank Melbourne Angels, Brisbane Angels and Perth Angels for their on-going collaboration.

By Rafael Kimberley-Bowen

After B2B Rocks – Join startup founders and business angels to discuss Emerging Markets in Sydney!

16/10/201716/10/2017 Alex Kohn

A new edition of Startup&Angels is taking place in Sydney on Thursday 19 October 2017 from 6pm to 9pm, , at WeWork, 333 George Street for its 7th Edition. It is the perfect opportunity to discover the founders of promising startups while networking with fellow investors and entrepreneurs around some wine, beer and tasting delicious products after short and sharp presentations.

West Tech Fest Startup Challenge – Submissions EXTENDED 1 WEEK TO 30 OCTOBER

13/10/201726/10/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Techboard is pleased to have partnered up with the upcoming West Tech Fest a week of events celebrating Innovation, Investment and entrepreneurship across the Asia Pacific Region running on 4TH – 10TH DECEMBER 2017… including the Techboard 2017 Awards (WA Edition)… but more on that later.

Techboard can offer registration to the main event of the Festival on 7 December, a 1 day conference incorporating the finals of the Startup Challenge at the heavily discounted rate of $85 for genuine Startups (a significant discount over the regular price of $125/$150. Contact us to get the discount code.

Techboard Company Traction Report September 2017 – the Month in Australian Startup and Tech

10/10/201716/10/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Welcome to Techboard’s Company Traction Report for September 2017. In these reports we highlight traction by Australian startups and young technology companies, broken into the three headings of News coverage, Milestones and Funding events. We collect this data as a major input into the monthly Techboard Ranking.

This month we have news mentions, milestones and Funding events for 316 Australian startups and tech companies. The companies are listed in the order in which they appeared in the September Techboard Ranking.

Since last month we've added a further 100+ companies - we're now profiling 1,680 companies.
Among other metrics, we captured 769 press mentions (globally) of Australian companies, 221 milestones, 57 funding milestones, over 27,000 tweets and 10,000 Facebook posts, over 300 iTunes apps and 200 Google Play apps, and employee counts at 1,080 companies.
More than half of the top ten are ASX listed, including those newly listed during the month (Titomic and Schrole). 91 (or 5%) of our total companies are ASX listed. The top performing (share price wise) ASX company in August was GetSwift, up 145%.
Four acquisitions occurred during the month: NuSkope (Superloop), OpenLearning (Prestariang), Babyology (Kinderling Kids radio) and ServTech Global which sold its rent roll business to Summit Development Corporation and Housemart Real Estate.

Techboard Ranking September 2017

05/10/201707/11/2017 Peter van Bruchem

By Rafael Kimberley-Bowen

Firstly, some stats and insights on startups and tech companies in September:

Since last month we’ve added a further 100+ companies – we’re now profiling 1,680 Australian companies.
Among other metrics, we captured 769 press mentions (globally) of Australian companies, 221 milestones, 57 funding milestones, over 27,000 tweets and 10,000 Facebook posts, over 300 iTunes apps and 200 Google Play apps, and employee counts at 1,080 companies.
More than half of the top ten are ASX listed, including those newly listed during the month (Titomic and Schrole). 91 (or 5%) of our total companies are ASX listed. The top performing (share price wise) ASX company in August was GetSwift, up 145%.
Four acquisitions occurred during the month: NuSkope (Superloop), OpenLearning (Prestariang), Babyology (Kinderling Kids radio) and ServTech Global which sold its rent roll business to Summit Development Corporation and Housemart Real Estate.

ASIC issues guidance on Initial Coin Offerings

05/10/201706/10/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Australian companies are increasingly looking to crypto currencies as an option for raising capital for their ventures. We finally have some guidance from Australia’s Corporate regulator which does not by any means ban Initial Coin Offerings, as we have heard Chinese Authorities have done. However this guidance does little to provide any great degree of certainty as to when an ICO is permissible under Australian Law.

Democratising Equity Investment: Equitise’s Chris Gilbert on the changing landscape of investment in Australia.

03/10/201715/02/2018 Peter van Bruchem

Chris Gilbert is building a business to change the way average Australians invest. Co-founder of Equitise, Chris and his partner Jonny Wilkinson created an equity crowdfunding platform so novel that they couldn’t initially launch it under Australian lending regulations. In his latest interview for Techboard Robin Block from MitchelLake sat down with Chris to understand the inspiration for Equitise and gain insight into how digital platforms are changing the relationship between investors and entrepreneurs. Read More

Hyper Anna tops Techboard’s Sector Spotlight on Data Analytics – August 2017

22/09/201724/09/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Anywhere, Any Product, Any Service, Anywhere in the World: Marketplacer’s Jason Wyatt speaks with Techboard about bringing online trading to every imaginable product

21/09/201715/02/2018 Peter van Bruchem