Last year, the FoodTech Tasmania Program came to an exhilarating conclusion, leaving all our mentors and investors amazed. We had 10 passionate startups who took the stage and shared their creative pitches! Eager to learn where they are now? Want to know the deals they’ve closed? Interested in the companies they have partnered with? Read more!

DeFi is an emerging financial technology based on secure distributed ledgers similar to those used by cryptocurrencies. Learn how The Connecter is using it to innovate the fintech industry here.

In the wise words of Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, the big question of our time when it comes to innovation is not “Can it be built?” but “Should it be built?”. Many large Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies are going about the process of screening and testing ideas to develop, inefficiently. This article talks about the latest techniques in growth hacking and how to implement them digitally in the COVID climate.

Within the past year, the line between financial services and fintech has blurred as these two sectors increasingly intersect. We are in an age of digital transformation, where in the coming years, we may not use some of the traditional companies or resources we currently have available. For example, managing finances online is becoming increasingly easier through mobile banking, online transactions, and robo-advisors. What kind of impact is fintech creating? Read more here.

As we finish our third week of this year’s Sports and EventTech program, we are excited to introduce another member of the 2022 cohort- SparkUp Studios.  We met with SparkUp Studios founders Luke Santamaria and Matt Fenby to learn about their first product, SportzFan, and their mission to optimise fan communities.