Monday, October 19, 2026

Business

Paediatric medtech Navi raises $6.8 million

The round was led by $4m from ANZ healthcare VC KP Rx, supported by existing investor Innovation (formerly Breakthrough) Victoria and Pacific Chan. Navi previouslysupported by Medtech Actuator and Artesian VC, as well as the Victorian government fund. The medtech startup,...

Origin knew of hack 3 weeks before 900,000-customer breach was revealed

Origin Energy admits it was aware of a purported hack three weeks before a mass data breach, but decided the threat was not credible. The personal data of almost a million current and former customers was leaked in a major...

TravelAI Brings Sonder Home with Brand Acquisition

Vancouver-based TravelAI has acquired the Sonder brand and relaunched Sonder.com, giving one of Canada’s best-known travel-tech names a second life following the collapse of its former operator. Through parent company UpNext Ventures, TravelAI acquired the Sonder word mark, more than...

A study asked people to spend fifteen minutes a week walking outdoors while deliberately looking for things that amazed them, and by the eighth...

There is something wonderfully strange about a psychology study that finds part of its answer in the way people frame a selfie. In 2020, a team led by Virginia Sturm at the University of California, San Francisco published a study...

Telus Reveals Leadership Changes as ‘First Step’ of Business ‘Transformation’

Since 2022, the value of shares in Telus are down by more than half, even amid broader market rallies. To help buck the trend, the venerable Vancouver telecom titan has unveiled changes to its executive leadership. This includes David Fuller rejoining...

Vayu by Prana Labs Wants Smartwatches to Do More Than Measure Stress

Wearable devices have become good at telling people when they are stressed. Vancouver’s Prana Labs wants them to help people do something about it. The startup is behind Vayu, a wearable-first breathwork platform that combines biometric monitoring, artificial intelligence, and...

Here are the finalists in the 2026 Startup Daily Best in Tech awards

More than 265 entries were submitted across 15 categories, which features three new awards in 2026 – Best Startup Marketing, Startup Employee of the Year, and Best accelerator, Incubator or Startup Workspace. Once again the most popular categories were once...

Ambition doesn’t fade in your 40s — a Gallup analysis suggests it quietly redirects, from wanting to be seen as impressive to wanting to...

The cliché about midlife is that ambition softens. That people in their forties stop pushing, stop reaching, settle into the shape of whatever they’ve built. It’s a comforting story if you’re twenty-eight and worried about running out of runway,...

Sendle reborn after logistics company buys brand from liquidators

Andrew McKenna, managing director of logistics business McKenna Worldwide Services and general manager, ANZ for Quantium Solutions, has acquired the Sendle brand, trademarks, and domain name. The deal’s value was not disclosed. The purchase, revealed at the Online Retailer Conference &...

ARENA backs sustainable aviation fuel startup with $32 million

ARENA has given $12.5 million for the initial phase, for engineering and development work to build an integrated supply chain, with a further $19.5 million for front-end engineering design once HAMR has secured co-funding.  It’s the first investment by the government’s...
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AI factory maintenance startup Syncrowin bags $3 million pre-seed

The round was led by New York’s Collide Capital, with participation from Hustle Fund, POV Ventures, Australia’s Co-Ventures and...
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