Perth Startup Agworld has now raised $12m in total

Agricultural startups continue to get funding.

Education Industry Vertical SydStart 2014

We are pleased to announce a range of activities for the Education Industry Vertical at SydStart including lightning talks and profiling education startups. We will have a number of startups at the Expo and also a major Education Meet-up run by Sydney Edu Tech on the morning of the conference. This is part of a larger set of…

Brigade raises $9m James Windon at SydStart 2014

A social network truly for the people by the people? Sean Parker is renown for being a cofounder of Facebook and being played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network movie about the world’s largest social network – Facebook – which Parker co-founded. But some of his less well known projects also have mega impact. So it…

NSW Govt International Video Prize at SydStart 2014

This international prize will be awarded by the NSW Govt | Trade and Investment to the best short film made at SydStart on Sept 2nd.

SydStart Tickets

Tickets are nearly sold out for SydStart 2014, grab your ticket now.

Round 3 – 70 Photos from SS14QD3 – SydStart 2014 Series Qualifying Day 3 at ASX

With over 20 companies pitching last Thursday,  SydStart 2014 Qualifying Day 3 was always going to be big. These try outs are effectively the SydStart 2014 semi finals and the standard was high indeed. Here are the photos from the ASX Sydney by our favourite photo journalist Torsten Blackwood. He has captured the passion of…

Meetups at SydStart 2014

8am on conference day will see 8+ extra meet-ups happening in the hottest industry verticals.

The Startup Bus at SydStart 2014

This is big. SydStart are proud to be a founding partner of StartupBus Pacific bringing the globally successful StartupBus to Sydney Australia for the first time in Asia. Tech entrepreneurs build startups literally on the road on a real moving bus to prove their skills and build an amazing community under extreme conditions of scarcity…

JetRadar raises $10m Max Kraynov CEO Speaks At SydStart 2014

We are pleased to announce Max Kraynov Global CEO of international travel startup JetRadar  will speak at SydStart 2014 on Sept 2nd at the Sydney Hilton. JetRadar recently raised $10m from international investors and Max will be presenting his international lessons learned across their four brands from the capital raising as reported earlier this year on Tech Crunch and…

Round Two – 60 Photos from SS14QD2 – SydStart 2014 Series Qualifying Day 2 of 3 for at ASX

Pitch ‘try outs’ on Thursday June 26 at the ASX were awesome. This was round 2 the semi-finals, our second screening day of pitching in the lead up to the big day in September. Here are the photos, please share with hashtag #sydstart to spread the joy! With thanks again to international photo journalist Torsten Blackwood…

Round One – 55 Photos from SS14QD1 – SydStart 2014 Series Qualifying Day 1 of 3 for at ASX

Pitch try outs last Thursday May 22 were a blast. Here are the photos, please share with hashtag #sydstart to spread the joy! With thanks to the award winning legendary international photo journalist Torsten Blackwood here are the highlight photos (in random order each time you load the page) from our first ever pitch qualifying…

Sydney Startup Cognea Acquired By IBM

Liesl Capper and John Zakos cofounders of Cognea (formerly MyCyberTwin) has sold their business for an undisclosed sum to IBM, specifically the IBM Watson group focused on cognitive intelligence and virtual assistants with synthetic speech amongst other capabilities. The founders both studied at Griffith University and have worked on their business in Sydney, Brisbane and San…

Announcing the judges for SydStart 2014

  We are pleased to announce the panel of experts reviewing pitches for the SydStart 2014 series in Sydney, from qualifying days starting May 22nd and then once a month at the ASX until the finals at the Hilton on September 2nd. Some of the most connected and informed specialists in our industry have kindly volunteered their time and…

Pre-SydStart Qualifying Day 1 at ASX

  Ring That Bell! Pre-SydStart Qualifying Days to be held at the ASX Tickets are now available for the first of three Pre-SydStart Qualifying Days to be held at the ASX (Australia Securities Exchange) Theatre in Bridge St Sydney. Qualifying Day 1 is May 22nd 2014. The best will make it onto the big stage…

Blue Jelly

BlueJelly Event – Free For Startups Something for startups to do on May 2nd now that Sydstart has moved to Sept 2nd. A jelly is a casual working day in a home, office, cafe, or in this case, startup incubator. Sydstart has been rescheduled from the original 2nd May date to September 2nd, leaving some of…

SydStart is moving – up in the world – new dates and venue

New Dates & Venue – September 2nd 2014 It has been a big few weeks in SydStart land. NSW Government Trade & Investment has agreed to sponsor. We have been flooded with pitch applications. Best of all we agreed a deal with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to help raise the profile of Australian startups.…

Matt Symons SocietyOne At SydStart 2014

We are pleased to announce Matt Symons CEO and founder of Society One will be speaking at SydStart 2014. SocietyOne is Australia’s first peer to peer lending platform. A disruptive innovation marketplace to connect borrowers and lenders directly by-passing the banks but potentially enabling bank products into the mix. SocietyOne recently raised $8.5m Series A…

Torsten Blackwood at SydStart 2014

We are extremely pleased to announce world renown photographer and photo editor Torsten Blackwood will be the official SydStart photo journalist this year. Search for Torsten on major image sites and you will find hundreds if not thousands of iconic and history defining images from the world cup to wars, from Apple’s Wozniak to Google’s Schmidt…

Lord Mayor Clover Moore at SydStart 2014

We are pleased to advise the City Of Sydney Lord Mayor – Clover Moore – has agreed to officially open SydStart 2014. Clover Moore has been the Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney since 2004 and was an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 2012, representing the electorates…

Mike Cannon-Brookes Atlassian At SydStart 2014

How often do you hear from true global leaders first hand? We are pleased to announce Mike Cannon-Brookes from Atlassian will join us on the big stage at SydStart 2014 in Sydney. Grab your tickets now. Mike is a legend in the Sydney startup scene and known globally for disrupting the enterprise software market along with…