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.
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.
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.
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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).
A summarised version of this story appeared in the new investment-focused Tech Magazine Techinvest which had its first edition circulated with the Australian Financial Review on Wednesday 23 November 2016. Here is the full story along with the top 25 from that ranking period.
This and many more interesting stories on some of Australasia’s most innovative technology and innovation can be found in Techinvest, Australia’s most widely distributed technology and innovation focussed magazine which saw its first edition circulated via today’s Australian Financial Review to around 70,000 readers.
Techboard will be releasing its full year ranking following our Annual Night of Nights celebrating our highest trending Startups and Tech Companies on 6 December 2016 at Techboard 2016.
Ahead of our annual celebration of top trending startups Techboard 2016, Techboard Co-founder and Chief Startup Evangelist Peter van Bruchem talks to Brendon Ross, the founder Paytradie, winner of Last year’s highest trending unlisted startup at Techboard 2015 who took home the prize of $1000 from Eve Investments. Eve Investments is an ASX listed investment company focused on investing in technology start-ups.
Each year at Techboard’s Annual Celebration of the highest trending startups and tech companies, this year creatively entitled Techboard 2016, we also like to recognise an individual for their contribution to the Startup Ecosystem. We don’t pick the winner. That is down to you the community.Â
The Techboard WA Startup Community Award celebrates an outstanding contribution by an individual to the local entrepreneurship community. The objective of the award is to acknowledge and celebrate individuals who work to support and improve the WA startup ecosystem. Last year the award went to Greg Riebe (from Perth Angels / eGroup).
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