Startup Daily

19/01/2026

The Melbourne design software platform specifically for mass timber construction was founded in 2023 as CLT Toolbox.

19/01/2026

Construction engineering platform SPEC Toolbox has raised $3 million in a pre-Series A.

The Melbourne design software platform specifically for mass timber construction was founded in 2023 as CLT Toolbox.

19/01/2026

Touch Ventures (ASX: TVL), which invested more than $36 million into Sendle over several years, wrote down the value of its stake to nil in the weeks before the logistics startup’s abrupt closure.

The downgrade sheds light on how one of Sendle’s major financial backers responded to worrying claims about its new merger partner.

19/01/2026

We may only be a couple of weeks into January, but the Australian startup funding tap is already starting to trickle.

This week Australian startups saw $25.85 million raised across the AI security, fitness and deceased estate management spaces.

18/01/2026

NRF is co-leading the round with OIF Ventures, taking a preferred equity stake in the ongoing $36 million Series D.

18/01/2026

The National Reconstruction Fund (NRF) has invested $20 million in neuroscience startup Omniscient Neurotechnology as part of an ongoing $36 million Series D.

NRF is co-leading the round with OIF Ventures, taking a preferred equity stake in the ongoing $36 million Series D.

18/01/2026

Woolworths has announced a partnership with Google to incorporate agentic artificial intelligence into its “Olive” chatbot, starting in Australia later this year.

Agent-based shopping systems are designed to nudge behaviour in ways that differ markedly from traditional advertising.

16/01/2026

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15/01/2026

Attempts at communicating what generative artificial intelligence (AI) is and what it does have produced a range of metaphors and analogies.

Generative AI is always just calculating. And we should not mistake it as capable of doing more, argues linguist Eldin Milak.

15/01/2026

The Australian Energy Market Operator estimates data centres will consume 6% of Australia’s grid-supplied electricity by 2030.

Data centres are energy-hungry behemoths. Here's how Australia could promote the clean energy to support their growth.

15/01/2026

As wall calendars are replaced and the fireworks smoke dissipates, our colleagues at SmartCompany put together an annual list of startups they’ll be paying close attention to in the year ahead.

The list includes 3 startups with women cofounders, and span rockets, robots, AI, carbon capture and helping parents with autistic children.

15/01/2026

From emotional journeys to classic platform fun — these were 2025’s standout games according to Harrison Polites.

The savviest games industry critic could not predict just how good this year would be for videogame fans. It was destined to be a year where everything was overshadowed by the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6. What we instead got was a watershed year for gaming, with some of the best titles we’ve seen...