What happened at Wyatt Roy’s policy hack
There were Post-its, buzzwords and diagrams galore at the first ever technology industry and government policy hack, and even the occasional “but I love Australia” protest as teams faced the many regulatory disadvantages to building a tech company in Australia. The collaboration between federal Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy, accelerator program BlueChilli and peak lobby group StartupAUS brought almost 300 public servants, entrepreneurs, investors, scientists and educators together in Sydney. They were split into 10 teams to debate and identify solutions for a challenge that holds back Australia from having a booming tech industry to rival Israel, Singapore, London and even the United States. “Don’t get caught up with […]
Stone & Chalk names resident start-ups | afr.com
Congratulations to Stone & Chalk opening their doors last night. Well done and all the very best to all the great minds that are going to be working there and putting Australian FinTech companies on the world stage! The Google-backed, Silicon Valley-based fintech start-up Ripple Labs, which is developing new payments transfer technology, is among a group of 41 start-ups that have joined Stone & Chalk, the fintech hub in Sydney that was officially opened on Tuesday night. Source: Stone & Chalk names resident start-ups | afr.com
