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• Gold Coast Startup’s and SME’s to gain greater visibility of funding options under new international partnership
  The Gold Coast Innovation Hub and Swoop Funding are excited to announce a new international partnership that will provide startups and SME’s with greater visibility into the grant, loan and equity funding options for their businesses. Swoop Funding, a newly launched Irish fintech in Australia, provides a unique platform which includes a matching algorithm that […]
• Futuristic Fashiontech Takes Centre Stage for National Science Week
  The Gold Coast Innovation Hub celebrated National Science week by supporting a week of Fashion Tech workshops on the Gold Coast. Participants were taken on a crash course in creativity and engineering with the workshops covering basic sewing techniques and an introduction to electronic circuits before inspiring the students to create a washable, light up garment […]
• Member News: GeoMe DriveThru Technology Helps Take-Away Businesses During Lockdown
  Our amazing GC Hub members have done it again! The new Gold Coast based tech startup, GeoMe  – founded by Rami Smair, has closed the gap between take-away food businesses and contactless delivery to customers. With Australians constantly coming face-to-face with the uncertainties that COVID-19 brings and the lockdowns that follow, more businesses and customers […]
• Partner Insights: Boost your tech business’s cash flow with government incentives
  Are you a tech business looking at strategies on how you can improve your cash flow? Our partners  over at RSM have released an article series all about tech startups, incentives and funding. Their article series will be covering topics such as structuring your tech start ups, underpinning the incentives which are available and the […]
• The PLAY Sportstech Accelerator Program kicks off on the Gold Coast
  Top technology companies seeking to revolutionise the way we participate in, interact with, and manage sport have gathered from around the world as the inaugural cohort of the Gold Coast Innovation Hub’s PLAY Accelerator series. Application assessors were set with a hard task in selecting participants as there was such an outstanding response from remarkable […]
• Brunch Like a Boss | July Event Recap 2021
  The female founders of the Gold Coast region came together on the 20th of July to meet for another aspiring Brunch Like A Boss held by the Gold Coast Innovation Hub. Although the air was fresh and a slight breeze was blowing, we were still joined by 32 happy and bubbly women who braved this […]
• Partner Insights: How to structure your tech company to get the most from your people
  Are you new to the tech startup world  and looking to know more about it? Our partners  over at RSM have released an article series all about tech startups, incentives and funding. Their article series will be covering topics such as structuring your tech start ups, underpinning the incentives which are available and the different […]
• Leading International Innovation Hubs Unite to Create Pathways for Sportstech Entrepreneurs
  The Commonwealth Games will again welcome some of Australia’s best sports innovators thanks to a collaborative partnership between the Birmingham Enterprise Community and the Gold Coast Innovation Hub as part of the PLAY Accelerator series. The partnership comes at a time when both the Gold Coast region and West Midlands region are emerging as hot […]
• You Could Be Claiming More Back On Your 2020-21 Tax Return. Here’s How!
  How time flies! We’re now in the second half of 2021 which also means its tax time! For some, tax time can be daunting, especially for small business owners who have the responsibility of lodging their business and personal taxes on time. But with the gradual increase of businesses and employees working from home due […]
• Pre-Register Your Interest to Join the PLAY Sportstech Accelerator
  Gold Coast startups – the PLAY Sportstech Accelerator is on the way!! A full announcement will be coming soon but we wanted to give our GC Hub community the first chance to register their interest and to be in the loop as we release updates and opportunities to optimise your chance of acceptance into this […]