- Source: StartupAUS
StartupAUS was an Australian national not-for-profit organization with the mission of transforming Australia through technology entrepreneurship.
Their key objectives were to build awareness for technology entrepreneurship and to advocate for better policy on behalf of technology entrepreneurs and investors.
StartupAUS was disbanded in 2021 and subsumed by the newly formed Tech Council of Australia.
Early History
In March 2013, Alan Noble, then at Google Australia, convened a meeting of 50 members of Australia's tech startup community. Everything was on the table as participants shared stories about the challenges and opportunities of nurturing tech entrepreneurs in Australia. A primary output was the recommendation to create an advocacy group, later dubbed StartupAUS.
In May 2013, StartupAUS was founded by Alan Noble, Peter Bradd (then at Fishburners) and Bill Bartee (then at Southern Cross Venture Partners). The board was later joined by Stephen Baxter (then at River City Labs), Jana Matthews, and others.
