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The top 5 Edtech Startups on Techboard for 2016

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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).

Techboard 2016 Panel Session: Funding for Australian startups a view from the West

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Power Ledger tops Techboard’s quarterly Ranking for September 2016

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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.

Techboard talks to Paytradie, our Highest Trending Startup for 2015

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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.

Your chance to vote on the Techboard 2016 Community Award

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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.

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).

Ben Sand (muru-D) confirmed for Techboard 2016

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We are pleased to announce that Ben Sand, Entrepreneur in Residence from muru-D is going to be guest speaker at Techboard 2016. Ben will be giving the eGroup forum presentation and will be sharing stories from his entrepreneurial journey. Ben is a graduate from Y Combinator, Co-founder of Meta and helped build a holographic computer, raise $23M Series A and build the foundation for the $50M Series B. Ben is also one of the speakers at The Ozapps WestTechFest.

Techboard 2016 is on 6 December 2016. For more information and to Register for Techboard 2016 click here.

For more info on Ozapps click here.

The Techboard Team

Techboard 2016 is on 6 December 2016

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Techboard 2016 is coming up next month as part of the OzApps West Tech Fest on the evening of Tuesday 6 December 2016 and will be brought to you by Techboard and our event partners, the Egroup and sponsored by BDO

The event will include:

eGroup Forum presentation from Ben Sand, Entrepreneur in Residence muru-D;

A panel session on Funding for Australian startups from a Western Australian perspective (more on this session here); and

The Techboard 2016 Awards – a celebration of highest ranking listed and unlisted startups from the combined scores from our Startup Rankings over the last 12 months. As we did last year we will again be having a Community award for an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to Startups in Perth voted on by the startup community.

The ATO’s view of Crowdfunding and Tax

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This article by Mark Pollock and Sherif Andrawes from our friends BDO and was first published here.

Crowdfunding is gaining huge popularity across the globe. In Australia interest in the various forms of crowdfunding is increasing rapidly. Soon we may catch up with the rest of world which means that our tax and corporate legislation will need to catch up too.

Crowdfunding Legislation

Expectations were high earlier this year as Australia appeared poised to enact legislation to improve the environment for equity sourced crowdfunding. However in the midst of election chaos the Bill lapsed at dissolution in the Senate. At the time there did appear to be broad support to move forward on equity sourced crowdfunding legislation. We should hear more on that later this year.

There has, however, been some progress in tax legislation. The ATO has recently released details on its current view on the tax implications of crowdfunding arrangements with the promise that as the industry expands and new developments arise, they will continue to review and update the information.
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Raising the profile of your startup as part of the capital raising process

04/11/201621/02/2017 Peter van Bruchem Leave a comment

We are pleased to report that a blog post by Techboard co-founder Peter van Bruchem was published by our friends at Capital Pitch. In the piece Peter highlights the importance of startups investing time in raising their profile even before they are ready to raise capital. Read the post on Capital Pitch’s blog.

Win an award that says something about YOU

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This week's guest blogger is Charlie Gunningham, CEO of Techboard's major Western Australian distribution partner, Business News. Before working at Business News Charlie founded his own startup Aussiehome.com which Charlie sold to REIWA.

When I ran my tech startup, back in the 2000s, I found that one of the best ways to promote my business was to win awards. I had little money for marketing, and found the editorial coverage and PR advantages from award winning immensely powerful.

When our business was a fragile 6 month old we won the ‘Best E-Commerce Innovation’ award at the grand sounding (but now defunct) WA Asia-Pacific IT&T Awards.