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Latest News from the Gold Coast Innovation Hub

• Nominate Now for the Gold Coast Startup Awards!
  Have you ever wondered who the best startups are on the Gold Coast? Now is your chance to  nominate or be nominated as  a top  business, leader or contributor at the  Gold Coast Startup Awards. The Awards are organised by local community champions Baden Uren and Darren Rogan to celebrate all of the amazing work […]
• Opmantek Software Announce $62 Million Acquisition and a Commitment to Invest in the Gold Coast Tech Sector
  Gold Coast Innovation Hub (GC Hub) founding member,  Opmantek, has announced a $62M acquisition offer from ASX listed FirstWave Cloud Technology (ASX:FCT), a global cloud based cybersecurity technology company.  Danny Maher, Executive Chair of Opmantek, has described the acquisition as a win for the Gold Coast technology and entrepreneurial scene. “We’re thrilled with the acquisition […]
• Gold Coast Innovation Hub and Discover Northern Gold Coast partner to bolster support for SME’s and startups.
  The Gold Coast Innovation Hub has launched a new partnership with Discover Northern Gold Coast Inc, which will see more small business owners in the Northern Gold Coast region get help to grow their enterprise.  With this agreement, businesses can now access events, workshops, and business seminars as well as tailored mentoring from industry experts.  […]
• Do You Want To Learn More About How SheEO is Supporting Female Entrepreneurs?
  The SheEO Summit is a gathering of women and non-binary people working on the world’s to-do list. The Gold Coast Innovation Hub invite you to join us for an incredible day of learning from SheEO Activators + Ventures who are redefining business to create the change that we need in the world, now more than […]
• 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 […]