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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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:
Black Friday Update
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
PERTH 2.0 – Map 1: Joining the Dots
Download the full map and report here: PERTH 2.0 – Joining The Dots.
Introduction
This mapping exercise is the first in Techboard’s Perth 2.0: After the Boom series, through which we hope to offer a variety of perspectives into Perth’s nascent startup and technology company ecosystem.
The startup and technology sector has the potential to drive future economic growth in this state, and as such is deserving of our attention. In this first map we focus on the inter-connectedness of the ecosystem.
Please get in touch with any comments or feedback on this map, or if you are interested in collaborating on future reports.
Techboard 2015 – Invitation
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.
Techboard Onboarding Session on 15 October 2015
Techboard is running more Onboarding sessions to help Companies with owned profiles get the most out of Techboard but also for us to get feedback on company’s experiences with Techboard to date and seeking their input into our future initiatives.
There are still places left for our onboarding session on Thursday 15th October from 4.45pm for a 5pm start til 7pm at the offices of our partners the Beacham Group. We are offering a free video interview to any of the companies that come along. Just like the ten videos we have on the front page of Techbaord. The last two session we had was great with excellent feedback from the participants which will all feed into making Techboard as effective as possible a tool to help WA Startups grow.
If you would like to attend the event on the evening of the 15 October 2015 Register Here.
Please note these sessions are only open to companies that have claimed their company profile on Techboard. Don’t worry if you haven’t claimed yours yet it is free and only takes a few minutes.
Want to know more about claiming ownership of Profiles? click here.
The Techboard Team
Tech Co-Founder Pitch Night 16th October 2015
Techboard Sponsors and partners Beacham Group and StartupNews are running this event in conjunction with Bloomlabs and the ACS.
It is aimed at assisting aspiring startup founders to find a co-founder. Sounds like it might be a great night.
For more information click here
The Techboard Team
Techboard is Running Onboarding Sessions
Techboard is running more Onboarding sessions to help Companies with owned profiles get the most out of Techboard but also for us to get feedback on company’s experiences with Techboard to date and seeking their input into our future initiatives.
Our next Onboarding session is on Thursday 17 September 2015 from 4.45pm for a 5pm start til 7pm at the offices of our partners the Beacham Group. We are offering a free video interview to any of the companies that come along. The last session we had was great with excellent feedback from the participants which will all feed into making Techboard as effective as possible. We will also be running a session on 1 October 2015.
If you would like to attend the event on the evening of the 17th September or 1 October 2015 please get in contact.
Please note these sessions are only open to companies that have claimed their company profile on Techboard.
Want to know more about claiming ownership of Profiles? click here.
The Techboard Team
Techboard Partners with Visible
Techboard is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Highgate-based web-design and digital marketing firm, Visible.
Visible will provide support in design and development of the platform in conjunction with the Techboard team. Matt Hanham from Visible said “We are confident that Techboard will enhance the visibility of the Perth startup community and success stories which often go untold. As a director of Spacecubed for the last 3 years, it was an easy decision to get behind this initiative as a further commitment in support of the local startup scene”.
With the the expert help from the guys at Visible Techboard looks forward to bringing further refinement and new features to the Techboard platform commencing with the introduction of video content in the form of founder interviews coming from a recent onboarding session.
The Techboard Team
Friday 4 September 2015
