WA-raised tech startup Humm has raised US$2.6 million (AU$3.7 million) from US-based investors, to further aid in the commercialisation of its wearable Edge headband technology.
Perth-based tech startup Ecocentric Energy completed a successful round of equity crowdfunding last week, exceeding its stated minimum target to raise $500,000.
Nuheara has announced a direct-to-consumer retail partnership with US-based pharmacy chain Walgreens, with its smart hearing products the only of its sort available from the retailer.
A Perth biotech company founded by Nobel Prize winner Barry Marshall has secured a promise of $1 million in federal funding for the commercialisation of its acoustic belt for gut monitoring.
Western Australia-based ag-tech startup Origo.farm has received $375,000 in commercialisation funding as part of the federal government’s Accelerating Commercialisation grant program.
The tech sector continues to shift through the gears as 2020 approaches, hurtling society towards an increasingly complex, digitised and mediated world.
OPINION: More than a decade after it entered the national debate, the national broadband network is about to be completed in the format – fibre to the node – that the reigning federal government committed to when Tony Abbott was prime minister.
Perth company Meercat, which counts some of Australia's largest businesses among its client base, is planning a global rollout of its RiskView software after being bought by Chicago-based VelocityEHS.
Bio-therapeutic company Orthocell has received commitments to raise $13 million from a share placement and up to a further $5 million from a share purchase plan, primarily to accelerate the commercialisation of its CelGro flagship product.
Robotic fish supported by machine learning are being developed to help rid WA waterways of invasive species, a project which illustrates the impact of the Forrest Fellowship program.
A move to use lasers to perfectly load rail cars is worth about $300 million to BHP and is an example of how the area around the town of Newman is world class in applying technology to resources.
Empired shares have risen more than 8 per cent today after the IT services provider forecasted an increase in net profit and earnings per share for the current financial year, on the back of a $200 million pipeline of multi-year contracts to contest.
Illuminance Solutions and the University of Notre Dame have announced a joint initiative to improve digital literacy among Indigenous Australians, to be piloted at the university’s Broome campus in early 2020.
Lateral has announced that it will partner with WAITTA‘s The INCITE Awards next year, with the Perth-based hardware and software developer coming on board as a naming rights sponsor.
Western Australia’s latest initial public offering has brought together an unlikely pairing – a tech company that has been strongly supported by venture capital investors and a stockbroking firm that has traditionally focused on the mining sector.
Medtech startup VeinTech has won first prize at this year’s Perth Biodesign course, for its invention of a device that improves cannulation, the process for intravenous vein access.
HBF chief executive John Van Der Wielen said the costs of medical technology and an ageing population are driving up health insurance premiums, as debate intensifies over sector reforms and how to keep price rises in check.
Subiaco-based tech company K2fly has signed a five-year contract with Rio Tinto for the provision and implementation of its RCubed resources software across 20 reporting sites.
Perth-based IT services provider Empired said it would replace revenue lost this year with recently signed management services contracts, delivering $5 million in recurring annual revenue for the company.
A local farmer, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the founder of an Australian technology unicorn have chipped in $16 million to a new venture capital fund focussed on agrifood tech.
West Perth-based Talga Resources is seeking to raise $6.25 million through a share placement and purchase plan, primarily to fund the development of its graphite project in Sweden.
Biotech company Phylogica announced it had increased its shareholding in Vision Pharma to 90 per cent, following a $15 million investment using funds it had raised through a recent rights issue.
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has announced a tender as part of a $70 million new supercomputing system to replace its existing Magnus and Galaxy supercomputers.
West Perth-based Sky and Space Global has revised its previously announced plans for a $15 million capital raising, with the funds to be raised through a placement and rights issue at 0.5 cents per share.
A focus on safety and efficiency has helped Tensa Equipment spin-off Roborigger win an unprecedented three of four sponsored platinum awards at this year’s Innovator of the Year ceremony, including the Business News ‘Great for the State’ award.
There are numerous words Steadyrack marketing manager Jeff Russell could use to describe the success of his company, so it’s curious that he opts to call it an ‘accident’.
The widespread use of herbicides such as glyphosate to control weeds in cropping systems has proved to be comparatively cheap and effective over many years, and the only practical solution for WA farmers.
