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Join startup founders and business angels in Sydney for the 6th edition of Startup&Angels!

After 5 successful previous editions in Sydney, Phnom Penh and Singapore, our friends fromĀ Startup&Angels are organising the 6th editionĀ on Thursday 6 July 2017, from 5.45pm to 9pm, at UTS:Hatchery, 622/632 Harris St, Ultimo NSW 2007 in Sydney. 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.

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Founder Institute Perth: How to build products people will love and actually pay for

Our good friends at the Founders Institute (Perth) have another excellent event coming up next week 6 July 2017. You my have seen and heard from Perth Locals Andrew Hall and Tim Brewer before... they are great presenters though.. grab this chance to hear from them on this great topic andĀ don't miss the opportunity to hear from Singapore-based Perth boy Michael Momsen from Rateit, a Startup with offices in Singapore, Perth, Melbourne Sydney and Bangkok.

The Founder Institute is the Worldā€™s premier idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program, originating from Silicon Valley, which has been running in Perth for the past 5 years. This August, the next instalment of Perth Founder Institute program will launch ā€“ providing a 14 week curriculum for early-stage and aspiring entrepreneurs: https://fi.co

The Founder Institute is holding a series of free events in Perth in the lead up to the program and would like to invite you to join them on Thursday 6 July from 6pm at Flux (Basement) to hear from successful entrepreneurs on: ā€œHow to build products people will love and actually pay forā€.

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ASIC releases consultation papers on regulation of equity crowdfunding (edited)

Coming just one week after the making of theĀ Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding) Regulations 2017 onĀ 15 June the Australian Securities and Investments Commission released two consultation papers proposing guidance for public companies and intermediaries (i.e. crowd funding platform operators) to assist them in using the new crowd-sourced funding (CSF) regime commencing on 29 September 2017. The core part of the consultationĀ papers are two draft regulatory guides.

The Techboard TeamĀ recently attended an event by the Crowd Funding Institute of Australia (Perth Chapter)Ā Get updated with the new Equity Crowdfunding laws. There was a general consensus amongst the panel that the legislative settings along with new draft Regulatory Guidelines would lead to quite high capital raising costs under the CSF regime and that CSF would not likely be financially viable for capital raises below around $500K.

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Insights into Investing in High Growth Ventures

We attended the Perth Angels breakfast event Insights into Investing in High Growth Ventures on 21 June 2017. Ā At the event the Perth Angels presented a panel of industry experts across the investment spectrum to discuss the quintessential angel investor question, “how do you pick winners in high growth early stage ventures?” Ā We put out a call for free tickets to this event at the Techboard table and were overwhelmed with the level of interest, particularly from companies on Techboard wanting to know more about the investment ecosystem.Ā Over the coming months Techboard will be bringing insights from a variety of different sorts of investors to its readers. If you have any suggestions as to issuesĀ you would like addressed OR if you would like to contribute a guest blog post pleaseĀ contact us.

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SPECIAL OFFER: Insights into Investing in High Growth Ventures

Our friends at Perth Angels are holding a breakfast event on Wednesday 21 June and Techboard has secured a table. We are giving away five ticketsĀ to attend this event... so if you want to join our table get in Quick.

The Perth Angels present a panel of industry experts across the investment spectrum to discuss the quintessential angel investor question, "how do you pick winners in high growth early stage ventures?"

This breakfast will be invaluable if you are an investor, or considering investing, in early stage ventures or just fascinated by the burgeoning startup world.

Western Australia is incredibly innovative and already competes on the world stage mining, medical and financial technologies and has scope for further expansion.

These investment insights will also guide entrepreneurs to prepare themselves and their projects to be "investment ready".

Come together to meet like minded people with Perth's only not for profit Angel investor organisation.

Date: 21 June 2017

Time: 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Perth Arena, 700 Wellington Street Perth WA

Techboard Company Traction Report May 2017

Welcome to Techboard’sĀ Company Traction Report for May 2017. In this report we have highlighted 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. The companies are listed in the order in which they appeared in the May Techboard Ranking. Ā From next month if you want to have access to this report you must be logged in. Ā If you sign up you will also receive these reports straight to your inbox.

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Unlockd leads Techboard Ranking for May 2017

As part of its ongoing evolution Techboard announced this week that we haveĀ changed the name of ourĀ ranking to the "Techboard Ranking". This month close toĀ 100 companies have been added to Techboard (by the companies themselves and the Techboard Team) taking the total number of companies included in our ranking to 1150. This Ranking is the second to cover Startups from Victoria and the first to have been topped by a Victorian Startup.

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FI Event: Starting Up in Perth and Raising Capital in Perth

Our fiends at the Founders Institute are running this great free event. The speakers includeĀ Derek Gerard fromĀ Go Capital (invested in Health Engineā€™s $27M round and iCetanaā€™s $8m round) andĀ Andrew Hal (raised $1M seed forĀ Formalytics and $200M across Ā variety of start ups).

Perth has a fast growing startup ecosystem, and entrepreneurs here are lucky to have so many resources available to help them in their journey. However, many people don't know about all of the resources available, the differences between them, or what resources are right for them. This beginner fundraising workshop will provide practical, step by step advice, and feature talks from entrepreneurs who have successfully raised money for their businesses, and investors actively funding businesses. Learn expert tips, big pitfalls to avoid, what investors are looking for, how equity works, and more. Join us for a great event!

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Calling QUEENSLAND and SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Techboard is coming to you!

Over the past months Techboard has extended its coverage to include New South Wales and Victoria. We added state-based Community Managers for each of those states, Alex Kohn and Rebecca Hoo respectively.

We’re excited to announce that next on the list is Queensland and South Australia. As such, we are now looking to appoint Community Managers in each of those states. This is a unique and exciting opportunity, for people who are passionate about startups and tech companies, well connected to their local communities, and who are keen to support their local startups. The role primarily consists of staying abreast of new and trending startups, attending startup events, reading the business press, collating metrics on companies, all in order to generate ecosystem reports and Techboard’s startup ranking, and to encourage engagement by companies with the platform. The role is best suited to a methodical, data-driven type of personality, balanced with an outgoing personality and appropriate amount of enthusiasm and people skills, as you will be networking and talking to entrepreneurs. This is a fantastic profile-building role through which you will meet and engage with a broad range of people and companies in your state and nationally, and further develop your existing network.

Expressions of interest should be emailed to [email protected]. Alternatively, you can call Raf for more information on 0439 829 898. Vesting equity will be offered to the right candidates.

If this role is not for you but you know someone who would be a good fit, please make the introduction, as we will reward a successful referral!