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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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”.

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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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It has been another big fortnight for Techboard since our last update. Following the meltdown of our website on the release of our 4th ranking we have successfully transitioned our hosting to a new more stable provider courtesy of our sponsors, Visible as a result, the Techboard website survived the flood of visitors for the 5th ranking with no problems. Read More

Techboard has been running the Techboard Ranking, a fortnightly listing of Western Australia’s trending startups and technology companies since September. The event, sponsored by PwC is a celebration of WA’s trending startups and tech companies.

As part of the event we will be running a panel session on raising the profile of WA’s startups and tech companies facilitated by Charlie Gunningham from Business News. The panellists are all founders of unlisted startups and listed tech companies: Russell Francis from Velpic, Miles Burke from 6Q, Brian Leedman from ResApp Health, Andrew Hagen from Cycliq, Marcus Holmes from //Startup News and Becky Lee from OneVR.

A number of awards will be presented on the night including the Startup Award
sponsored by Eve Investments.  We are also pleased to announce that the Chief Scientist Professor Peter Klinken has agreed to present the Community award to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to Startups in Perth.
We will be putting this award to the vote in coming weeks.

EVENT DETAILS:

Time: 5.00pm for a 5.30pm start until 7:30pm
Date: Thursday 3 December 2015
Venue: PWC, Brookfield Place
Cost: Free

Register for this event HERE and come along and help celebrate the companies that have been performing well in the rankings and get some insights on raising the profile of your startup.