After 7 years of R&D, VentureCrowd portfolio company Morse Micro is on track to produce “hundreds of millions of semiconductor chips” in the next few years, chips that have 10 times the range of conventional Wi-Fi technology and last many years on a single battery! ?  VentureCrowd investors sit alongside high profile venture capital investors including Malcolm Turnbull, Lucy Turnbull AO, Blackbird, The CSIRO's Main Sequence, and superannuation funds HESTA, Hostplus & UniSuper demonstrating once again that crowdfunding is growing up. ?  No longer limited to mum & d ..read more

A new-look MVP Ventures Program has finally been announced — with the aim  to support innovative businesses throughout their commercialisation journey.  The program provides funding to help startups progress from the proof of concept stage to the MVP stage of development within the product lifecycle.  Businesses can receive up to $50,000.  The new maximum cap of $50,000 will enable the program to assist at least sixty businesses across NSW with the commercialisation of their products and processes.  Don't miss the first round of applications Applications Ro ..read more

They have both been acquired by Atlassian to strengthen its Jira base!  What does Airtrack do? Founded by Mike Jones and Fulvio Inserra, AirTrack Software, a cloud-based platform for monitoring databases, it gives a complete and accurate picture of a company’s  assets, services, and all critical assets within their organisations, minimising operational risks, costs and attack surfaces,”  The AirTrack acquisition builds on Jira Service Management’s rapidly growing customer base which currently sits around 50,000 globally. It will provide them with  a f ..read more

Founded by the cybersecurity legend Alisdair Faulkner - Fraud and Cyber Security startup - Darwinium has raised an  $18M USD Series A ($28.4M AUD)-  featured in TechCrunch (https://lnkd.in/exu3_9sU) After a  $10M seed round with investors including Dean McEvoy ,  Naval Ravikant,  Niki Scevak from Blackbird, James Cameron from AirTree , Bardia Housman and Matt Farnell. Alisdair Faulkner, Ben Davey, Rebekah Moody, Alex Forss, Ed Whitehead, Michael Brooks, Caleb Moore, Colin Goldie, Elias Bizannes. and Ananth Gundabattula , Ph.D What Darwinium ..read more

2 startups in the hospitality industry Mr Yum and Me&U- who both started on 2018 and negotiated Covid and investment of $165m are doing a cashless merging to become the #1 mobile order & pay platform on the planet - with Over $2bn in transactions per year in 6,000 venues, across 3 continents.  A host of the who’s who of investors and advisors have been involved - and are looking for a unicorn type payday! The team  Kim Teo (Mr Yum’s co-founder & CEO) as CEO of the merged business, Steve Premutico (me&us founder ) will sit on the board as a non-executive di ..read more

Edwina Forest and Adrian Norris, the co-founders of AJE have  developed one of Australia’s fastest-growing fashion brands - 15 years in the making of an overnight success - A brand that is often compared to Zimmermann,  AjE (an acronym for “Adrian joins Edwina”, ) is for women in touch with their inner girl and  now employs about 500 people and turnover  over $100m with healthy margins  (By comparison, Cue has 1200 employees, Zimmermann has 900.)  Beth Glancey is the new chief executive of AjE. (Whose sister is chief of staff at Atlassian ..read more

Who can relate ? Being an entrepreneur you go through more emotions than the weather during a day in Melbourne!  I’m excited Ugh this is hard - I shouldn’t have  It’s working Shit - I messed up This is awesome  I think I’m going bankrupt - how to pay the wages I’m good - why do I doubt myself I shouldn’t have - I sick  I’m an overnight success - life is great!  ..read more

Australia is leading the way with a global collaboration between  institutional investors and the Australian governments on global climate change   25 organisations with approximately US$8 trillion (AU$12.2 trillion) in assets under management are identifying ways on how we can create a net zero global economy . So who are some of the Investors ?   Aviva Investors, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Brandywine Global, HESTA, Nordea, Robeco and Schroders are facilitating the collaboration - supported by  Achmea, Ardea Investment Management, Brown Advisory ..read more

Apple’s first investor mike markkula - who invested $250k for  1/3 of Apple - the investment would Morle be worth $930billion  He invested in Steve Jobs - he believed in Steve and invested in him and his idea…. had trust courage and faith that Steve would succeed and boy - did he ever!!  Do you have someone that you believe in - and have invested in?  ..read more

Innovafeed (founded in 2016 ) is a bug business cofounded by  Bastien Oggeri, Aude Guo & Clément Ray.  that has raised a fresh  $260m in a raise led by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fundmaking total raise $460m  Source: Innovafeed Other investors include  Paris-based Creadev  Singapore state-owned fund, Temasek,  global agricultural commodity traders ADM and Cargill,  Future French Champions (a joint venture between Qatar Investment Authority and Bpifrance),  ABC Impact, IDIA Capital Investissement and Grow Forward La Caisse ..read more