A new app, Tern, encourages employees to cycle or walk to work by tracking their distance travelled and ranking them on a leaderboard.

The Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), has opened its new research and learning space at the Lot Fourteen innovation precinct in Adelaide.

Melbourne was ranked 11th in 2thinknow’s 2019 Innovation Cities Global Index, ahead of Sydney in 15th place.

Properlytics, an app that helps investors manage and track the performance of their portfolio, has been released and is now available on Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store.

YBF Ventures have joined with Honeywell Building Technologies to develop a PropTech community based out of YBF’s coworking space in Sydney’s 155 Clarence Street.

OpenSpace has raised $14 million for its AI mapping platform from a Series A led by Lux Capital.

After commencing its air delivery service in Canberra in April, Wing (A Google ‘X’ project) has announced that it will be expanding the service to Logan, Queensland.

The National Association of Realtors (NAR), through its strategic investment arm, Second Century Ventures, is launching the REACH Accelerator program in Australia.

Stone & Chalk has been announced as the anchor tenant and operator of the startup hub in Adelaide’s former Royal Hospital site. The South Australian government envisions this as a future innovation hub that will put South Australia on the world stage as an innovation city and state.

Melbourne-founded fintech startup Airwallex has hit a valuation of more than US$1 billion, claiming unicorn status after closing a capital raise of US$100 million ($140 million).

Asia’s largest fintech innovation hub has announced plans to launch a ‘mega-hub’ in the city’s growing innovation precinct, connecting its existing Sydney site with a new home at Melbourne’s Goods Shed North.

Californian based point-of-sale startup Square announced the launch of a new HQ and engineering hub in Melbourne last week, supporting the rapid global growth of the firm.

Federal budgets rarely have policies that directly impact startups. However, this year the government’s ‘investment in innovation’ will benefit both existing startups and those of the future.

EY and LaunchVic have published a report detailing the landscape of online marketplaces founded in Victoria.