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20 stories this week from 1 outlet in Australia.

  1. HEX launches workplace simulator to tackle the graduate experience gap
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    HEX’s WorkSim throws students into AI-era remote teams to close the internship gap.

  2. Carry that weight: CGT changes could hit VC managers harder
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    VC carry faces a tax ambush: startup gains keep the 50% CGT discount, but other payouts could jump to 47%.

  3. Canva launches a home-grown AI image generation model
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Canva bets on Craft, its cheaper home-grown AI image model, to defend 250M users from chatbot design creep.

  4. Cheque-in: 3 startups bank $25.1 million this week
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Cuttable, Syncrowin and SupaHuman bank $25.1m to kill ad grunt work, dumb industry systems and stale training.

  5. In the AI era, the crucial questions all founders dread are more important than ever
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    AI made building cheap; trust and brutal customer questions now decide winners.

  6. What the truck, Musk? Tesla finally abandons plans to launch its cyber ute in Australia
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Tesla kills Australia’s Cybertruck dream after seven years, refunds deposits and offers FSD bait.

  7. Swipejobs founder Katrina Leslie named Australia’s EY Entrepreneur Of The Year after building billion-dollar recruitment business
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    After spending three decades challenging the way businesses hire, Swipejobs founder Katrina Leslie has been crowned the 2027 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year.

  8. The Treasurer says the new startup tax rules will drop next week
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Chalmers drops startup tax bill next week—CGT carrots, R&D cuts and VC tweaks.

  9. Role Call: New people at EatClub, Cicada Innovations, Budgetly and OpenAI
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    OpenAI stacks its Aussie AI watchdog bench as EatClub, Cicada and Budgetly poach growth firepower.

  10. Victoria’s government-backed Alice Anderson Fund for women founders scores another $10 million
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Victoria doubles Alice Anderson Fund with $10m for women-led startups.

  11. The datacentre games: NextDC tumbles, Firmus scrambles, Pocock pounces and WinDC BFFs Nvidia
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Australia’s AI data-centre boom hits the wall as NextDC tanks, Firmus sweats OpenAI, and WinDC courts Nvidia.

  12. Sam Kroonenburg’s adtech, Cuttable, adds $20m million Series A
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Cuttable grabs $20m to make AI ads learn from every flop and winner, not just churn content.

  13. Anthropic just posted a whopping half-yearly loss of $114 billion – and its valuation has plunged too
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    The loss and trillion-dollar compute appetite torch IPO hype as valuation hopes sink.

  14. IPOs, messaging and the illusion of control – the lessons for founders
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Founders, stop worshipping your pitch deck: IPO markets buy proof, reputation and belief, not your script.

  15. F5 Collective wants women to put their economic contribution on the record
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Women’s economic power isn’t niche; F5 is collecting the receipts with a national survey.

  16. GAMING: 6 of the best indie games from the PAX Australia show floor
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    From hands-on demos to hidden gems, Silvi Vann-Wall shares her top game picks from PAX Australia.

  17. Escrow plans for existing investors sank Firmus float: report
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Firmus’ $44bn IPO imploded as backers dodged lock-ups, leaving new investors holding the AI hot potato.

  18. Icehouse Ventures 3rd fund tops target at NZ$180m
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Icehouse blows past its NZ$150m target, pulling NZ$180m for Kiwi growth bets like Halter and Supabase—see how KiwiSaver is reshaping VC.

  19. Australian laws are tougher on hacked companies than rogue AI doing it – here’s what needs to change to make agents accountable
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Rogue AI can hack Australia with fewer penalties than hacked firms face.

  20. Innovation Victoria is offering uni researchers $150k to turn their work into a startup
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Innovation Victoria is dangling $150k to turn uni research into startups - apply by April 2.