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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.

Mark Maloney on Balanced Success

01/09/201721/05/2019 Peter van Bruchem

Disruptive Parcels: Sendle’s James Chin Moody on the importance of focus in an ever changing technological landscape.

23/08/201730/08/2017 Peter van Bruchem

In Techboard’s latest feature interview Robin Block speaks to James Chin Moody. James is the Founder & CEO of Sendle who were ranked fifth in the June Techboard Ranking. Sendle is a parcel delivery service that is changing the face of shipping in Australia by making door-to-door delivery affordable. Sendle has grown at near 20% per-month for the last two years and is the second high-growth technology startup James has founded since leaving his position on the executive team at CSIRO in 2012. Techboard Contributor Robin Block from MitchelLake sat down with James to gain his perspective on the disintermediated economy and understand the methods employed to accommodate Sendle’s rapid expansion. In this interview we gain insight into the importance of culture and bringing to bear both the intellectual and emotional brain to fully understand big decisions.

What Investors Seek – 8 Lessons from Entrepreneur Investor Rajeev Gupta

18/08/201730/08/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Techboard Ranking Sector Spotlight for July 2017: Augmented/Virtual Reality Companies

16/08/201718/08/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Techboard has been publishing its monthly Techboard Ranking which shines a spotlight on the highest trending Australian startups and Young Tech Companies. In order to highlight the work of more great companies, starting this month we have decided that in-between our monthly rankings we are going to publish a list of the top ranked companies in a particular sector. The first cab off the rank is for us to have a look at Companies in the augmented and virtual reality fields. A big thanks to Rafael Kimberley-Bowen and the rest of the Techboard team for their hard work that goes into producing the Techboard Rankings and commentaries.

B2B Rocks 2017 & 1st Startups Awards – 28 September 2017

15/08/201711/09/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Our friends at B2B Rocks have run conferences on B2B & SaaS startups since 2003, with three conferences in Paris and the first in Sydney last year. B2B Rocks are bringing their conference series back to Australia for a second time. It is shaping up to be a great conference.

Come along to B2B Rocks 2017 and learn from world-class experts, pickup fast on latest insights and techniques and meet doers shaping the B2B ecosystem. The conference will feature leading founders, investors and experts in the B2B and SAAS space, including Jason Wyatt from Marketplacer, Chris Gilbert from Equitise, Bridget Loudon from Expert360, who came 4th in the July Techboard Ranking, Nicolas Chu from Sinorbis and many more. The conference will take place in Sydney, Thursday 28 September 2017 at Lendlease Headquarters in Barangaroo. Over the coming week we will be bringing you a series of interviews of speakers from the conference. See the interviews below.

Techboard Company Traction Report July 2017

10/08/201711/08/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Welcome to Techboard’s Company Traction Report for July 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 have news mentions, milestones and Funding events for 200 Australian startups and tech companies. The companies are listed in the order in which they appeared in the July Techboard Ranking.