We attended the Perth Angels breakfast event Insights into Investing in High Growth Ventures on 21 June 2017.  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?”  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. 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 issues you would like addressed OR if you would like to contribute a guest blog post please contact us.
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Techboard Company Traction Report May 2017
Welcome to Techboard’s 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.  From next month if you want to have access to this report you must be logged in.  If you sign up you will also receive these reports straight to your inbox.
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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!
Crowdfunding update – Equity Crowdfunding to be Extended to Pty Ltd Companies
Back in March we reported that the Australian Senate had passed Crowd Funding Legislation. That legislation which will come into force on 29 September 2017 was criticised for not enabling private companies to use the new regime.  However at that time The Treasurer, Scott Morrison stated that work was already underway to enable Pty Ltd companies to equity crowdfund. Well Yesterday it was announced that Equity Crowd funding (or Crowd-sourced Equity Funding) would be extended to proprietary companies and that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission would be funded to the tune of $4.5M over 5 years to “implement and monitor” the changes. Read More
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