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Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks named Best New Founder as Ovum scales women’s health AI

For too many women, getting answers about their health requires navigating a system where concerns are dismissed, patterns overlooked and getting the right answers can take years. Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks is setting out to give women a stronger voice in...

Do Budget changes to family trusts mean they’re dead for tech founders? What you need to know

It was flexible, it offered some asset protection, and it let you decide each year who received income and capital gains. For a founder whose company might be worth nothing or might be worth nine figures, that optionality was...

VoltSafe Completes Safety Testing for Innovation on 140-Year-Old Tech

VoltSafe announced this week that it has successfully completed safety certification testing for its marine shore power solution. The Vancouver-based upstart is aiming to reinvent the electrical plug—arguing it hasn’t evolved significantly in nearly 150 years—replacing prongs with patented magnetic...

Thinkific Trims Workforce as Part of ‘Strategic Realignment’ to Find Growth

Thinkific went public in 2021 on the TSX with shares rising as high as $19.47 in 2021, giving the B.C. tech firm a peak market capitalization of over $2 billion. However, Unicorn status was fleeting. By the time the first...

The NSW tech minister overruled an Investment NSW recommendation to fund startup festival Spark, cutting a $40,000 grant to nothing

The decision led to Investment NSW double-checking with minister Chanthivong’s staff, concerned about the “reputational risks from the startup ecosystem” given that it “aligns with the objectives of the Innovation Blueprint” and that Spark’s application was “assessed as strong...

Victoria is introducing a 150-metre setback rule for data centres the industry claims could make them unviable

Victoria’s new data centre rules could make some projects economically unviable and send investment interstate, an industry body has warned. The Victorian government’s Sustainable Data Centre Action Plan introduces new requirements covering energy, water and community effects. The rules would prevent...

Intiveo Launches Command Center to Keep Dental Teams on Track

Vancouver-based Intiveo has launched Command Center, a real-time operational system designed to help dental practices deliver a consistent patient experience as staff, shifts, and locations change. The new addition to its patient experience platform turns a practice’s data into a...

Photonic, Microsoft Combine ‘Collective Strengths’ to Co-Innovate Quantum

Photonic is collaborating with Redmond tech titan Microsoft in order to advance quantum resource estimation for future large-scale quantum computing systems, the companies recently revealed. As quantum computing scales beyond a single processor, developers and enterprises need ways to understand...

Why fear is kryptonite for Australia’s startup ambitions

Fear of failure changes behaviour. Founders become less willing to attempt the things most likely to matter, and investors make safer bets, optimising for avoiding losses rather than finding outliers. Australia’s venture ecosystem is growing up just as the technology...

7 startups share $15.6 million in the latest round of government-backed dementia research grants

The solutions in the second round of CUREator+ Dementia & Cognitive Decline grants, backed by government’s Medical Research Future Fund, range from gene editing for childhood dementia to tools for earlier detection. The program supports early-stage therapies, diagnostics, medical devices,...
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Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents

Haptics tech company Taction sued Apple in 2021, alleging it infringed two of its patents. Now a federal jury...
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