Ahead of Startmate Demo Day on May 2 in Sydney at Blackbird’s Sunrise, Startup Daily is profiling the 10 startups involved. Today it’s Everbility, which is using AI to cut the admin for allied health workers. When Angela Mariani and Mani Batra went on their first date in 2020, their shared passion for startups had them seeing sparks everywhere. Little did they know that they’d soon be saying “I do” not just to each other, but also to taking on the healthcare sector together. Angela and Mani are the co-founders of Everbility, a documentation AI co-pilot for allied health professi ..read more

Scott Farquhar, the kid from Sydney’s Western suburbs who became a billionaire after responding to an email from fellow uni student Mike Cannon-Brookes about starting a tech company, will step down as co-CEO role at the end of August The father of three sons called time on role after 23 years as Atlassian posted a profit in its quarterly results, posting net income of US$12.8 million, a major turnaround on a US$209 million net loss 12 months ago. Atlassian’s revenue for its third quarter was up 30% on a year ago to US$1.189 billion. Quarterly subscription revenue grew by 41% to $1.071 bil ..read more

Healthcare startup Mentwell and the Love Out Loud Foundation have joined forces to raise and distribute support to the victims, families and others feeling the impacts of the Westfield Bondi Junction attacks on April 13, which saw six people die. Mentwell, offers digital gift cards for health and wellness services. Love Out Loud Foundation is a charity that will accept donated funds and transfer them to Mentwell cards, to distribute to those who need them in the wake of the tragedy. They’ll be able to redeem the Mentwell cards with any Australian health and wellness providers. Mentwell fo ..read more

While Katherine Bennell-Pegg is not there yet, she’s now at least qualified for the career she wanted more than two decades ago in high school: astronaut. Adelaide-based Bennell-Pegg, 39, became the first qualified astronaut under the Australian flag this week after completing her training at the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Centre in Germany and now qualifies for a trip to the International Space Station (ISS). Oceanographer Paul Scully-Power was the first Australian-born person to fly into space aboard the Challenger shuttle in 1984. Following in his footsteps was Adelaide-born Andy Tho ..read more

Thinking of starting a small business? Exciting isn’t it? That was me nine years ago. I had an idea for a Registered Nurse led professional ear wax removal business using safe and gentle microsuction. In these nine years we have grown from one clinic opening four hours a week, to a nationwide business clearing the blocked ears of more than 5,000 patients a month, winning the National Telstra ‘Championing Health’ Best of Business Award for 2024 and driving positive change within our healthcare system. The question is – how did we do it? I hope share a little of what made our business become an ..read more

Victorian solar generation and thermal storage company RayGen has kicked off a Series D raise with $20 million from Breakthrough Victoria alongside a US$20 million (A$31m) follow-on investment from NYSE-listed SLB, as part of plans to expand offshore.  RayGen uses proprietary photovoltaic solar modules that generate nearly 2,000 times more power than traditional photovoltaic systems under a concentrated beam of sunlight. Combined with its thermal water-based storage system, which uses heat from water used to cool the modules, RayGen has developed a high efficiency, low-cost long-duration ..read more

Logistics scheduling software startup Veyor Digital has raised $2.75 million in a pre-Series A with its eyes on US market expansion. The round was led by Sydney VC Investible via its Early Stage Fund 2 alongside members of its Club Investible syndicate and other angel investors, as well as Aconex cofounders Leigh Jasper and Rob Phillpot’ via their family offices Saniel Ventures and Gravel Road Ventures. Veyor is a software platform that simplifies delivery and material management for loading docks and construction sites to cut congestion and delays, and prevent unauthorised access, and miscomm ..read more

Brisbane startup Biza.io, which help banks and others navigate the introduction of the Consumer Data Right (CDR) has promoted the company’s head of customer success, Jessica Booth, to the newly created role of chief operations officer (COO). Booth joined Biza in September 2023, having previously worked at cloud enterprise software startup Mastt, as well as holding leadership roles at AlayaCare ANZ and Telstra Health. Biza.io CEO and founder Stuart Low said Booth is a strong leader with a wealth of knowledge in building and maintaining highly successful customer relationships. “Jessica has ..read more

Five Australians have been arrested as part of a worldwide sting that took down a cybercrime platform acting as a “one-stop-shop” for phishing. Authorities from around the world teamed up to target LabHost, a cybercrime platform that offered users a “phishing kit” for a price, allowing them to steal the personal details and money of victims around the world, including in Australia. Five people were arrested in Australia and a further 32 taken into custody overseas. As part of the operation, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and state police authorities executed 22 search warrants in five sta ..read more

Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer “yes” to this question should perhaps also ask themselves whether they are equally happy for courts in China, Russia and Iran to determine what Australians can see and post online in Australia. This is the problem with global “take-down orders”, an issue we now must confront in light of the Australian eSafety commissioner demanding that social media platform X (formerly Twitter) remove videos of a violent stabbing at a church in Sydney. X agr ..read more