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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.

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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).

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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 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.

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Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.

Startup Weekend takes place at Spacecubed in the CBD on November 4th-6th. The event’s judges have just been announced:

• Kate Raynes-Goldie is a future oriented thinker, game designer, researcher and innovator. Kate has won multiple international awards for her work, including WAITTA Incite’s Achiever of the Year 2015/2016.

• Matt Birney became Opposition Leader in WA at age 35, and later founded the Bulls N Bears ASX release distribution platform. Matt was appointed as a director of Perth Racing and the 500 Club and as a director of Cannings Purple, the largest public relations firm in WA.

• Charlie Gunningham is passionate about innovation, transformation, startups and helping businesses make the most of the power of digital. He cofounded aussiehome.com and is CEO of Business News.
• Matthew MacFarlane is a venture capital investor and tech entrepreneur. Matthew is cofounder and Director of Yuuwa Capital and on the board of AEGIC, iCetana and Agworld.

Visit http://www.swperth.org/ to sign up.

Last Friday Night Morning Startup held a great party at the Claisebrook Design Community. Techboard was pleased to present a panel session on the night comprised of founders of companies who have topped Techboard’s fortnightly startup ranking.

A big thank you to the Panelists:

Marc Berryman from Rhinohide,

Sue Bahn from Tap into Safety

Anthony Manning Francis from Gigger,

Geoff Pocock from Hazer Group; and

Russell Francis from Velpic.

If you didn’t make it to the party or if you want to catch the panel session again you can see a video taken by our friends at Niche Interview here.  Thanks so much Jurgen.

The Techboard Team

18 October 2016