Denham Sadler

A new co-working space has launched in Melbourne with the aim of promoting “positive human collisions” and making the tech and startup world more inclusive and diverse.

Giving female founders a platform from which to be heard, and in turn inspire, is important in helping address the gender gap in tech, according to Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy.

Australian entrepreneurs are struggling to communicate properly with angel investors, leading them to be unable to extract the most value from these relationships, investors say.

Women-focused events are a necessary stepping stone in ensuring the stark gender gap that exists in the Australian startup community is closed, PowerhouseHQ founder Marina Paronetto says.

When a Melbourne-based social enterprise reached out to the managing director of Dropbox APAC they asked him one simple question: “Why is diversity important to Dropbox?” Diverse City Careers (DCC), an organisation helping women pursue IT careers, were so impressed with Charlie Wood’s answer and the startup’s workplace that they decided to team up with the global cloud storage firm in order to combat the lack of women in the tech sector.

Jo Burston wants to see an Australia where female entrepreneurs aren’t the outliers, but the norm.

After winning last month’s inaugural Policy Hack with an idea centred on fostering an entrepreneurial spirit in schools, Erin Watson-Lynn made a simple pledge.

“You can build anything – you just have to imagine it.

When Adriana Gascoigne joined a Silicon Valley startup in 2007 there was one big problem.

One of Australia’s biggest startup conferences has unveiled its first round of speakers for this year, and they’re all men.

Angel investor Renata Cooper has launched a new investment fund focusing on investing in and mentoring female-led tech startups.

Making entrepreneurship more visible and embracing it as a part of Australian culture, will encourage the next generation of Australian innovators, according to former Prime Minister Julia Gillard Gillard, now the chancellor of Australian education social enterprise Ducere, addressed a room of entrepreneurs and startup founders on Thursday night as part of a Startup Grind in Melbourne on Thursday night.