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Techboard Launches in NSW and NT

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January 2017 sees lots of changes at Techboard. We have expanded coverage for our Startup Ranking, switched from fortnightly to monthly rankings and are tightening our criteria for inclusion in the ranking and listing on Techboard.

Our latest Startup Ranking covers Western Australia and New South Wales, with around 200 startups from Sydney and across New South Wales being added to Techboard over the last few days (this brings the number of company profiles on Techboard close to 1000.) The extension of the coverage of our Startup Ranking to New South Wales was made possible with the recruitment of a NSW Community Manager, Alex Kohn. Over the last couple of months Alex has been helping compile the Company data necessary for our NSW launch. He has also been central to assisting Techboard to recruit luminaries from the Sydney Startup Scene on to our Panel of Experts which provides critical input into our Startup Ranking.

MiPlan tops the First National Techboard Startup Ranking – January 2017

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2017 sees Techboard’s ranking go national, as we have now extended our coverage to New South Wales and the Northern Territory. It will take a while for our coverage of Sydney startups to become as comprehensive as it has been in Perth – which is why we need YOU the community to help make it better. If you know of a startup we may have missed suggest they set up a profile on Techboard. If you are a startup you can claim ownership of your company profile and make announcements, so that we know about your achievements. All of this is free to do.

We look forward to adding new states in the coming months, as we recruit local state community managers (get in touch if this should be you!). In addition, the ranking is now run on a monthly schedule, rather than fortnightly as before.

MiPlan is Techboard’s highest trending startup in January. The WA-based mine production management solutions company announced its acquisition by US-based Hexagon Mining for an undisclosed amount. In addition, the startup received two nominations from our panel of experts, and saw a large improvement in its website ranking.

$150 Million in Funding for WA’s Startups and Tech Companies

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Techboard has released its first Quarterly Funding Report. With a focus on funding deals involving Western Australian startups and tech companies, the report highlights the diversity of deal types which concluded over the past three months.

WA averaged two deals a week over the period. One third of the 25 total deals were angel or seed rounds for unlisted companies, belying the claims that it is hard for startups to raise money in Perth.

At the larger end of the market the top three deals (in value), which made up 62% of the overall total amount raised, were funded overseas. These included a $43m Canadian bid for a spinout of medicinal cannabis company MMJ Phytotech, and a $34m debt and seed equity round for fintech Enably, funded in the US.

The report only includes deals announced or confirmed in the October to December 2016 quarter, involving startups and tech companies which are eligible for a listing on Techboard.

The report is available for purchase in two forms:
· The Summary Funding Report is available for download for $99 – containing an itemised list of companies, amounts raised and deal types.
· The Detailed Funding Report is available for download for $249 – containing in addition to the above additional information on the company, a description of the funding event and identity of the investors where available.

Comprehensive Report
Summary Report

Fastbrick tops Techboard’s final Ranking for 2016

22/12/201622/12/2016 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

This is Techboard’s last ranking for 2016 and covers two ranking periods, since our last regular ranking on 25 November 2016. We skipped a fortnight for Techboard’s Night of nights Techboard 2016 and the release of our annual ranking which is available here. Have a great Christmas and we will be back with our Startup Ranking in 2017… and it will be going National.

Fastbrick Robotics is Techboard’s highest ranking company of the month. The recently ASX listed robotic bricklayer won the Mitsubishi Corporation WA Innovator of the Year award, and also completed a $8m capital raise from Hunter Hall Investment Management. The startup has been a strong performer all year, and was ranked sixth in the overall 2016 ranking.

“We have many things planned on the 2017 calendar that will define the direction of our Company. While we are pleased with everything we achieved in 2016, next year will be when we see the results of our hard work and we look forward to hitting our goals and achieving some great results for our stakeholders.” Mike Pivac, Fastbrick CEO

Top 5 ranked WA Fintech Companies

20/12/201620/01/2017 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

At Fintech Perth‘s December meetup, Techboard Co-Founder Peter van Bruchem announced Western Australia’s 5 top ranked Fintech companies for 2016 taken from Techboard’s 2016 annual ranking. The ranking reflects the combined scores for all Western Australian based or originated Startups tracked in Techboard’s fortnightly rankings that it has been running since September 2015.

Here is the top 5… and their overall positions in Techboard’s 2016 ranking.

The Top 5 West Aussie Sport Startups

15/12/201622/12/2016 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

Australians have a love affair with sport. It’s a national pastime. But when it comes to combining startups and sport it’s not something you hear about too often. To take this on face value would however be misguided. Because, although the online news publications may focus on the latest SaaS provider, or a new fintech app, there is plenty happening in the sports-tech space in Australia as we have seen at Techboard, with two Sporttech, or more specifically Sharktech startups in the top 10 of our Ranking for 2016, one of which took out our top prizes at Techboard 2016 for the Highest Ranked Unlisted Startup.

As we come into the home straight of 2016 we thought it was therefore only fitting to profile the top five West Aussie startups in the TechBoard 2016 rankings within the sport and recreation category.

Techboard 2016 Ranking Released

12/12/201627/06/2017 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

Carnegie Wave Energy takes out the top spot on the Techboard ranking for 2016

Following on from its annual showcase of WA's Trending Startups, Techboard 2016, Techboard now releases the full ranking of how WA companies have trended over the 12 months to December 2016.

Carnegie Wave Energy was Techboard's highest trending company for 2016. Carnegie also took out the award for Highest Ranked Listed Company at Techboard's annual celebration of trending startups Techboard 2016. The award reflects the cumulative score of each company over the calendar year. Read more about the Techboard 2016 awards.

The renewable energy company is currently in the process of changing its name to Carnegie Clean Energy, following its acquisition of Energy Made Clean. Carnegie is developing technology that converts ocean swell into zero-emission renewable power and desalinated freshwater. The cleantech has had a big year; as well as its acquisition of EMC, last month it received close to $10m of EU funding for a project off the coast to Cornwall. It's also trialling the world's first renewable microgrid power station using wave energy, on Garden Island.

40 Under 40 People’s Choice Awards – Support our Local Founders

09/12/201612/12/2016 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

Voting for the People’s Choice Award in the Business News’ 40 under 40 awards is now open. The People’s Choice award winner is determined by the public. This year eight local startup founders are up for nomination, including Techboard’s very own Rafael Kimberley Bowen. The founders nominated are:

Sarah Mateljan, Founder, CEO CourseGenius

Ryan Beckmand, Founder & Managing Director, Sciosity

Dennis Savic, Founder DESAV 2 electric motorcycles

Siobhan Lancaster, CEO/ Founder, Instatruck

Jamie Shaw, Co Founder, NECT

Timothy Lyons, Founder, Managing Director, One Atmosphere

Rafael Kimberley-Bowen, Co Founder/Director, Techboard / Sealz

Pankaj Sharma, Founder, eKarma

A little while ago we heard from Business News’ CEO, Charlie Gunningham, about the value of winning such an award. Read Charlie’s post here. Help support your local founder and their startup by voting for them now.

Go to the 40 under 40 site to cast your vote.

Voting closes Friday 13 January 2017

Techboard 2016 – Congratulations to the winners

07/12/201627/06/2017 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

Last night was Techboard’s night of nights for 2016, the aptly named Techboard 2016 where we celebrated the success of Western Australia’s highest trending startups. A big vote of thanks to everyone concerned, our gracious hosts and venue sponsors BDO, the award sponsors HealthEngine, Eve Investments, Steinepreis Paganin and Techinvest and our long time supporters Beacham Group who kindly video recorded the event.

The Techboard WA Startup Community Award was the first award of the night to be presented. The objective of the award is to acknowledge and celebrate individuals who work to support and improve the WA startup ecosystem. The award was for an an individual who has made an outstanding contribution by to the local entrepreneurship community.

Marcus Tan, founder of Healthengine presented the award sponsored by his company to a very worthy Matt Macfarlane. Matt has been a significant figure in Perth’s startup ecosystem for some years but recently he has been making an enormous contribution largely due to his voluntary mentoring activities through initiatives such as the Curtin University Accelerate program and the Vocus Upstart Accelerator.

Taking out the Highest Ranked Unlisted Startup Award was Shark Shield Pty Ltd, one of an increasing number of sharktech companies emerging in Western Australia. Shark Shield had topped the fortnightly ranking back in June of 2016. The award and a cash prize of $1000 was presented by Ben Rohr from Eve Investments, an ASX listed investment firm. Accepting the award for Shark Shield was Hudson Lyon.

The final award for the night which was for Highest Ranked Listed Tech Company which went to renewable energy stalwart Carnegie Wave Energy who have topped two of Techboard’s fortnightly startup rankings in recent times. Mr John Davidson, the CEO of Energy Made Clean which has only just been acquired by Carnegie accepted the award from Toby Hicks, Partner at Perth-based law firm Steinepreis Paganin who sponsored the award.

Techinvest will also be covering both company winners in its next edition of the magazine which will be out in March 2017.

Full coverage of the 2016 Annual Ranking will be available shortly sign up to receive full access.

The top 5 Edtech Startups on Techboard for 2016

05/12/201612/12/2016 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

Leading up to the big reveal of our highest ranking Startups and Tech Companies for 2016 on 6 December 2016 at Techboard 2016, guest blogger Paul Towers from Startup Soda provided us with an overview of the the highest ranked startups in our edtech category. Over the coming weeks we will be taking a look at other industry categories but next time we will let you know how the companies ranked on Techboard during 2016.

Since the publication of this post the full ranking for 2016 has been released and we have added the edtech companies’ overall 2016 rank below.

Increasing interest, engagement and retention is a key requirement in any learning environment, whether that be at school, university or the workplace. Over the past few years we have seen an explosion in the number of Edtech startups popping up to tackle issues in this area. Today, we take a look at the top five edtech startups on Techboard (not listed in order).