Category: Startups

Companies today want to avoid the lock-in they faced in the past with a single vendor. As a result, they are hedging their bets with a multi-cloud strategy, but this creates a new problem around finding a single tool for managing it all. That’s where…

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. With a holiday-impacted week behind us, we hope that you are ready for the next few weeks of busy news. Because starting in…

QR code ordering at restaurants has been around for years, but the pandemic increased its adoption as social distancing and hygiene measures went into place. Mr Yum, a Melbourne-based mobile ordering and payments platform that was founded in 2018, announced today it has raised a…

Being in control of customer data is one of the ways retailers, like Amazon, Spotify and Netflix, are able to tap into consumer behavior and create customized experiences whenever a user logs in. Those are some of the reasons Amazon, in particular, is poised to…

The ability to purchase something at the point of discovery from digital content exists, but checkout technology company Bolt has the opportunity to give that its “one-click” treatment. It announced Monday that it made its first acquisition in Tipser, a Swedish-based technology company enabling direct…

Fintech entrepreneur Colin Porter is looking to tackle the growing problem of invoice payment fraud with a new B2B SaaS platform PayOK.  Porter, founder credit information bureau CreditorWatch and more recently Avenue Bank, which received its Restricted ADI bank licence, last month, has raised $3…

Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites could be legally liable for defamatory posts made by users unless the tech companies out the person responsible under new laws proposed by the Australian government. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the proposed changes to defamation law for…

Sydney-based asynchronous video messaging scale-up Vloggi, has opened its $3 million seed capital raise to international investors to align with its rapidly growing global customer base. Founder and CEO, Justin Wastnage said the A$3 million raise is in two tranches. The first A$1 million is…

Every SaaS startup wants to be the next unicorn. A new program run by the largest technology distributor in the world wants to help you get there. Scaling your startup poses a number of unique challenges. There’s the operational and technical issues around getting the…

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world.  Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems. This wrap goes…