SpringBoard Australia is a national accelerator for women-led businesses. Applications 
for the 2016 program are now open and close on March 30th. The bootcamp is run in Sydney from 16th - 18th May, followed by 8 weeks of mentoring.
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Vocus Upstart 2016 Launch Night March 15th
After the highly successful 2015 program, Vocus Upstart is back for round two.
Vocus Upstart brings a world-class startup accelerator program to Perth and is all about helping you build a great tech start-up.
You bring the passion, your idea for the next big thing in tech, and we'll help you bring your idea to life.
Register to attend the Vocus Upstart launch and information night on March 15th at Spacecubed where you will get the chance to find out key information, timelines, ask burning questions, network with other founders, and meet the mentors to get some early feedback on your ideas.
Unique opportunity for Perth’s healthtech startups
The Western Australian Angel Investors are hosting a healthtech investment education session on the evening of March 31st. The event will take place at the Northbridge Piazza with support from the City of Perth, and is targeting investors who are interested in investing in local health technology ventures.
There is an opportunity for one Techboard startup to take part in the panel session – 
the panel of esteemed speakers includes Dr Martin Blake (angel investor and Chairman Perth Radiological Clinic and Resonance Health Ltd), Dr Marcus Tan (angel investor and CEO HealthEngine), Kath Giles (investment manager Brandon Capital Partners) and others. This is a fantastic opportunity to raise the profile of your healthtech company within the investment community.
If you are interested please contact Rafael at [email protected].
NEW Students in Startups Program is Launching
The Students in Startups program aims to facilitate internships for university students in WA startups and help raise the profile of startups as a viable career choice for the next generation of tech talent. A pilot program is due to commence in February 2016. Any startups that are interested in being involved should send an expression of interest to [email protected] by COB Friday 15 2016. Expressions of interest should include a brief description of the Startup’s business, the nature of the role/assignment, the time commitment required (hours per week, remote or on site), and what is on offer to interns (payment, mentorship, etc). There is no fee for taking part.
Techboard is proud to be supporting this initiative.
The Techboard Team
Techboard 2015 Video
The video from Techboard 2015 recorded by our sponsors the Beacham Group is now available. The Techboard 2015 event hosted by PwC included a panel session on raising the profile of your startup which was supported by Visible as well as the Techboard 2015 awards.
Watch the whole video by clicking on the video below or select where you want to start viewing:
- Charlie Gunningham Introduces the Panelists 2:32
- Why do we need publicity? surely if you make a great product the customers will spread the word 12.39
- So lets talk about free publicity (Starting with PR) 20:06
- Social Media 29:29
- Lets talk about Blogging 40:00
Questions from the audience:
- If you were beginning your Startup journey again from scratch what would you do differently? 46:20
- What is the value in participating in a panel session 48.29
- In the startup world is there such a thing as bad publicity 52:03
- Is there one piece of advice you can give on one thing you have tried but doesn’t work…what not to do?53:00
- Which sort of startups do you think suit crowdfunding?54:30
- how important a role does the culture of the organisation ply in the promotion of a product or service? 56:35
Raf Kimberley Bowen introducing the Techboard 2015 Awards and discussing the Techboard Startup Ranking 59:07
And the awards 1:02:37
Techboard’s Overall Ranking for 2015
Incorporating fortnightly rankings #1-#7 to 2 December 2015.
On 11 September 2015 Techboard started releasing a ranking of the trending startups and tech companies for the previous fortnight with the purpose of increasing the profile of the great work being done by the companies in the local startup and tech company scene. Since then we have run 7 rankings on a fortnightly basis. On 3 December we held our inaugural event Techboard 2015 as the very first event in the West Tech Fest. For that event we prepared an overall ranking of startups and tech companies, based on the points scored by companies in our first 7 rankings.
Winners of Techboard’s overall Highest Ranking Startup and Listed Tech Company for 2015 were presented at Techboard 2015. As announced on the night, Norwood Systems took out the Highest Trending Listed Tech Company award for the year sponsored by PwC, having notched up the most points in successive rankings over the period. In the unlisted space, PayTradie took out the Highest Trending Startup award picking up a $1000 cash prize from Eve Investments. Congratulations to both companies for a great achievement.
Techboard is now pleased to release the top 100 trending startups and tech companies for 2015*. Norwood Systems this year topped Techboard’s overall ranking and PayTradie came in as overall number 2. Coming in 3rd was Ziptel which has been a solid performer in our rankings but has yet to take our top spot.
In 4th and 5th place were two companies that have each taken out the number one spot in previous rankings, Healthtech Startup, ResApp Heath and EdTech startup Velpic, respectively. So in the top 5 we have 4 spots taken by listed companies but an even split between listed and unlisted in the top 10.
Here is a taster of the top 100 in Techboard’s overall startup ranking for 2015* Read More
New WA Startup Report Released
Today StartupWA released the preliminary report on the startup ecosystem in Western Australia. It is certainly well worth a read and highlights both the extent of the opportunity and challenge for this state from innovation. It should provide a sound basis for key decisions to support the startup and tech sector.
One thing the Startup WA report does is list 422 Startups, alive and dead. 
Unsurprisingly there is a very strong correlation between startups identified in that report and the 545 startups and technology companies that are listed on Techboard. We should note that Startup WA’s approach is narrower than the reach of Techboard with the Boundlss report targeting young digital technology firms whereas Techboard does not discriminate on age of the company or technology. From our work on Techboard we know first hand what is involved in putting together such a list, validating, categorising and making calls for whether you feel they should be listed so congratulations go out to the Boundlss team.
Download the Report
The Team at Techboard applauds the efforts of Boundlss to date and looks forward to seeing the final report in February. The Boundlss team and StartupWA welcome feedback on the Preliminary report.
About Techboard
Techboard.com.au is the place for Western Australian Startups and Tech companies to get noticed. Companies can claim their profiles or create their own for free. They can also use the Techboard announcements platform to share their successes big and small with the growing Techboard crowd.
The Techboard Team
Techboard 2015 Awards
Last night Techboard opened the 2015 West Tech Fest with an evening of celebrating the accomplishments of our local startups and tech companies. Norwood Systems took out the Highest Trending Listed Tech Company award for the year sponsored by PwC, having notched up the most points in successive rankings over the period. In the unlisted space, PayTradie took out the Highest Trending Startup award picking up a $1000 cash prize from Eve Investments. Congratulations to both companies for a great achievement. Next week we’ll be publishing our top 100 companies of 2015.
New Features Update November 2015
Following Companies
New to Techboard – You can now follow companies and get notified when they update their profile or make an announcement.
If companies making announcements want to notify their followers of a profile update all they need to do is to tick the box – “notify my followers of this update”.
Techboard 2015 – Community Award
At the Techboard 2015 event on 3 December an award will be presented to the individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the Startup Ecosystem in WA. The shortlisted candidates have been picked by our panel of experts. We are putting the final choice out to the Techboard Crowd. The award will be presented by The Chief Scientist Professor Peter Klinken.
The Nominees are:
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