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Newcastle founder Storm Menzies' accessible makeup tools startup ByStorm Beauty won the federally backed Kickstarter Challenge, receiving equity-free prize money, with four runner-up startups also awarded smaller prizes at a Canberra grand final.
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Birchal lifts its charges and shrinks its team under a new chief executive; the piece also recalls past raises on the platform and the collapses of Zero Co and Equitise.
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Cleaning products maker Zero Co, backed by Square Peg and crowdfunded via Birchal, is closing down solvent and will hand leftover funds to shareholders after failing to find a workable path forward.
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Startup Daily's SUDS podcast episode features Adviser Ratings chief Angus Woods discussing crypto collapses, social media fraud and tech job cuts, plus conversations with founders from EarlyWork, Sidekicker and Gheorg.
Weekly tech wrap: cloud-market trends, Tiger Global's cheques into Stake, Shippit and Carma, new VC funds, several acquisitions, grocery delivery startups Send and Quicko collapsing, and Elaine Stead joining M8 Ventures.
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Startup Daily promotes its Money Milestones panel with SAP Concur, featuring founders of Zero Co, Unhedged and Her Black Book discussing revenue building and fundraising, recalling several earlier raises.
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Preview of the Startup Daily TV podcast covering a bid against AGL's demerger, reproductive-rights tech policy, VC conversations, a fintech fund raise, and interviews with Skedulo, Good & Fugly and One Key Access founders.
Birchal opens an equity crowdfunding campaign on its own marketplace, an industry first, chasing $3 million with Up cofounder Dom Pym committed, while marking $100 million raised and unveiling secondary trading plans.
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Profile of Sydney news-aggregation app Ukufu, which has passed 50,000 Android installs. Founder Kevin Garber discusses its AI-curated newsfeeds, planned premium and B2B versions, and its earlier seed backing from local angel investors.
Startup Daily's weekly SUDS podcast wrap: UK laws threatening jail for tech executives, interviews with founders of SpaceDraft, Flowingly and Book An Artist, Sun Cable's solar export ambitions, and NFT tax guidance.
Profile of Lagrange.AI, co-founded by Hassan Mirzahosseinian and Aghil Rezaei Somarin, whose AI platform integrates fragmented supply chain data; the founders credit Antler's program with helping them validate the problem and find product-market fit.
Profile of EZiD, a passwordless authentication startup whose three co-founders met in Antler's program, now preparing a private beta with eleven business customers signed on.
Profile of Patch, a Brisbane platform letting buyers make enquiries on any home off-market without an agent, founded by Mark Allen with co-founder Chris and backed by early-stage VC Antler.
Profile of Skoutli, a platform for finding and booking shoot locations, co-founded by Caroline Lepron and Jason McDermott and developed with support from investor Antler.
A weekly technology roundup reporting a New Zealand booking software firm's sale, an Australian beauty retailer's acquisition, several venture raises, executive share sales at an e-commerce firm, and a new government fund committee.
Ignition Lane's weekly roundup reports Tyro buying Medipass, several startup raises, ASX listings, Hey Tiger shutting down, Airwallex culture complaints, CSIRO's technology spending plan, and Musk's bitcoin antics.
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Partner-content profile of Portant, an automated reporting platform built with and backed by Antler, covering its product, traction, co-founders James Fyfe and Blake, and the start of its fundraising efforts.
Partner-content profile of lingerie startup The One Two, co-founded by Margot Balch and Maria Golushko, an Antler portfolio company from its June 2020 cohort, preparing a pre-sale launch of personalised bra fitting.
Profile of Flow of Work Co, a talent-matching platform founded by three former Randstad colleagues, which received Antler's backing and pitched at its Demo Day ahead of a planned 2021 launch.
Profile of Remote Social, a platform offering games and activities for remote teams, covering its Antler-backed founding, upcoming launch, beta customers and waitlist, plus applications opening for Antler's next cohort.
Profile of Sync Technologies, a construction-tech startup whose app digitises site quality checks, after receiving early-stage backing from Antler; covers its founders, pilot clients, a prospective AU$2m contract and expansion plans.
Startup Daily profiles Aurelius, an app supporting people before and after addiction rehabilitation, which has closed a seed round with Tempus Partners after launching within Antler and partnering with Turning Point.
Profile of Mys Tyler, a fashiontech platform matching women with influencers of similar body types, founded by Sarah Neill, ahead of its appearance at Antler Australia's online Demo Day.
Podcast interview with Nextdoor's chief executive about the neighbourhood social app, civility online and her career, including her CFO role in Square's listing; the piece recalls Nextdoor's series F raise.