Business Briefing: Edition 12
SmartCompany's monthly video briefing with Optus Business covers why local shops matter, Melbourne's Book An Artist expanding overseas, and an unnamed startup's $4.9 million federal funding win.
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Melbourne, VIC
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Girl Geek Academy raised.
Companies Girl Geek Academy acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Girl Geek Academy. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
SmartCompany's monthly video briefing with Optus Business covers why local shops matter, Melbourne's Book An Artist expanding overseas, and an unnamed startup's $4.9 million federal funding win.
Girl Geek Academy's FemTech project secured a $4.9 million federal grant under the Building Women's Careers Program, among ten projects sharing $45 million, to grow women's participation in tech.
SmartCompany's AI column interviews Jaimee's two co-founders about their women-focused AI companion, still in beta, covering gender bias in AI training data, privacy plans, guardrails and the Techstars Sydney program.
A profile of travel planning startup YouLi, whose co-founder Jen Fein describes raising $200,000 from angels and friends and family at a $1.6 million valuation, and the difficulty of finding her co-founders.
Girl Geek Academy opens applications for a games-industry career incubator aimed at women and non-binary people, backed by a Film Victoria commitment, focusing on individuals' careers rather than startups.