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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

Keeping Your Start-up DNA: Prospa’s Beau Bertoli talks to Techboard about how to manage a high-growth scale-up

20/09/201712/12/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Beau Bertoli and Greg Moshal, co-founders and joint-CEOs of Prospa, are changing the way small businesses find loans by taking Australian SME lending online. Prospa is using proprietary software to provide SMEs with capital at the speed with which they operate. In February, they were awarded the Lending Innovator of the Year Award in the inaugural FinTech Business Awards, and are still annually achieving triple-digit growth rates. Propsa also won the Highest Trending Company Award in the Techboard 2017 National Awards and topped the Techboard Ranking of Trending Australian Startups and Young Tech Companies twice in 2017 including in July 2017. Robin Block from MitchelLake sat down with Beau to discuss how Prospa is set to change the way Australian b2b lending operates before expanding internationally and into other financial service markets.

Revolutionising the Consulting Profession: Techboard speaks with Bridget Loudon

14/09/201714/09/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Bridget Loudon is an entrepreneur turned management consultant turned entrepreneur, again. In 2013, she co-founded Expert360, a platform that allows companies to find and engage top vetted consulting talent for project work. Expert360 has more than fifteen-thousand high-quality consultants, has raised more than $18 million in venture funding and is poised to expand internationally. Expert360 came 4th in the Techboard Ranking for July. MitchelLake’s Robin Block sat down with Bridget to understand the roots of Expert360 and provide insight into how online marketplaces are set to change the world of consulting.

Bridget is speaking at B2BRocks Sydney on 28 September 2017. Read more about or book tickets to B2BRocks. Techboard has partnered with B2BRocks and will be bringing you more interviews with some of the great presenters who will be presenting at the Conference. Sign up to make sure you don’t miss out on some more great interviews.

Investing in ‘Good Humans’ – Dr. Elaine Stead speaks with Techboard about the future of Venture Capital in Australia

11/09/201723/03/2018 Peter van Bruchem

In his latest interview for Techboard Robin Block from MitchelLake sat down with Dr. Elaine Stead to understand the role she sees Blue Sky and herself playing in the future of Australian business. Elaine is a builder of businesses and Head of Venture Capital at Blue Sky — a venture fund that is at the forefront of Australian Capital Investment. Last year, Blue Sky secured the management of a $50 million venture fund for the South Australian government. The firm manages over $3 billion in investment across a number of industries. Elaine is one of many high profile presenters who spoke at the Startup Investing Conference series which was brought to you by our friends at Capital Pitch in Sydney on 12 September and in Melbourne on 12 October 2017

Building a Digital Bridge to China: Techboard speaks with Nicolas Chu

11/09/201719/09/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Nicolas Chu is the CEO & founder of Sinorbis — a ‘cloud based marketing platform that enables western companies to do digital marketing in China.’ Sinorbis is seeking to both accelerate and capitalise on the rise of Asian consumer markets — working to create a bridge between the world and 751 million Chinese internet users that sit within a unique, highly regulated and difficult to crack online ecosystem. Founded at the end of 2015, Sinorbis has raised $3.9 million in two rounds of funding and is entering a period of exponential growth. Robin Block from MitchelLake sat down with Nicolas to understand the opportunities and challenges in the Chinese market, and the solutions on offer at Sinorbis.

Nicholas is speaking at B2BRocks Sydney on 28 September 2017. Read more about or book tickets to B2BRocks. Techboard has partnered with B2BRocks and will be bringing you more interviews with some of the great presenters who will be presenting at the Conference. Sign up to make sure you don't miss out on some more great interviews

Techboard Company Traction Report August 2017

08/09/201719/09/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Welcome to Techboard’s Company Traction Report for August 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.

In August we profiled 1,571 companies. Among other metrics, we captured 570 global news mentions of Australian companies, 149 milestones, 41 funding milestones, over 27,000 tweets and 10,000 Facebook posts and employee counts at 965 companies. This month we have news mentions, milestones and Funding events for 248 Australian startups and tech companies. The companies are listed in the order in which they appeared in the August Techboard Ranking.

Powerledger Powering up the August Techboard Ranking

06/09/201719/09/2017 Peter van Bruchem

By Rafael Kimberley-Bowen

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

In August we profiled 1,571 companies.
Among other metrics, we captured 570 global news mentions of Australian companies, 149 milestones, 41 funding milestones, over 27,000 tweets and 10,000 Facebook posts and employee counts at 965 companies.
We’re now also capturing downloads and reviews of over 500 Australian apps on iTunes and Google Play.
The big banks played a significant part in two of Techboard’s top three companies in August, with NAB and Westpac providing debt and equity respectfully to NEXTDC and zipMoney.
Five of the top ten are ASX listed.
Telecom and fintech were the dominant categories in the top ten.