Xceptional is a technology platform that recognises, celebrates and harnesses the unique strengths of people with autism, and then channels those skills into business technology positions.  Founded by Mike Tozer after witnessing his sister struggle to find employment due to her perceived differences. Xceptional aims to place 1,000 people with autism in meaningful roles……

It is pretty well understood, that any business starting today or hoping to grow into tomorrow, without a deep sense of purpose built into their foundations is missing both the point and the boat. To put it as simply as Forbes did — “Companies that ignore purpose are becoming irrelevant.” We know that values drive consumer decision……

  KidsWantU is a new app empowering families to bond over shared activities, away from computers, phones or TVs. The informational app was founded by mother and entrepreneur Anne-Marie Walton, as a way to support parents to maximise time with their children and to build healthy, happy and positive relationships.   KidsWantU is for every family,……

  Do what you love is a phrase we hear often. Self-help books are full of advice on why you should follow your passion and the best ways to go about doing it. The prevailing sentiment seems to be that as long as you’re genuinely passionate about something, the money will follow. But, is passion……

Fishburners kicked off its inaugural Fempowered program in partnership with Google for  Startups this week, with a 12-week program providing intensive support to nine women founders.  As a flagship pilot for next year’s national and open-to-the-public program, Fempowered fast-tracks women founders with external expert support to overcome the key pain-points Fishburners sees affecting startups.  Business……

  Over 100 founders and entrepreneurs gathered at Fishburners for Mental Health Day yesterday, in recognition of the distinctive stress felt by those involved in startups.  With the World Health Organisation citing stress as the leading cause of disability globally, Blisspot, Mealpal and Fishburners came together to create an event that equips the startup community……

Uprise is the new Employee Assistance Program (EAP) app, disrupting the traditional therapy model and transforming the way workplace mental health issues are identified and treated. Founded by clinical psychologist Dr Jay Spence, Uprise uses an evidence-based, technology-first approach to support employees, and focus on proactive prevention methods, rather than the treatment of crises. Via……

  What do you get when you pair up the nation’s best of breed scientists and one of Australia’s most prolific food industry pioneers? v2food.  This week celebrated the official launch of Australia’s newest plant-based meat startup, v2food, an innovative partnership between CSIRO, Main Sequence Ventures, and Jack Cowin’s Competitive Foods Australia. v2food is a……

  Driven is an AI-powered virtual coach that’s scientifically proven and aims to enhance mental health through building resilience on a global scale. Founded by Jurie Rossouw and Luca Busin while both were working at Commonwealth Bank, Driven was created to take a preventative approach for mental health by streamlining their combined knowledge of neuroscience,……

  Radiant is the easy way to find the right support through tough times or when you need a hand working on your mental fitness. Led by Jon Davies in partnership with Relationships Australia NSW and recipient of Google.org support and funding, Radiant is the inspirational social enterprise bridging the gap between those seeking mental……

Your logo is the face of your business and will create instant recognition. Regardless of what stage your business is at (idea, side hustle, MVP or capital raise) a well-executed logo will help your business appear professional, sharp, and interesting to customers, new hires and investors. It’ll be used everywhere – on your website, on……

Starting a business is always hard work – but the startup boom has seen growth in businesses servicing startups’ needs. This means it’s never been easier to achieve scale and professional quality, especially in the early days, with very little effort (and money). In order to get your startup sorted, here are my top 10……

19th August 2019, Sydney: Fishburners, Australia’s largest startup community and co-working space, has recently appointed industry leaders Annie Slattery, co-founder and CEO of ConX and Rod Bishop, co-founder and Managing Director of Jayride to their board.  ConX, Australia’s biggest platform for construction contractors to find and win work, is one of Fishburner’s most successful and……

  myWhanau, (pronounced myfarno) is the exciting new Australian start-up, founded by entrepreneur Michelle Forster, offering affordable virtual home assistance in order to help reduce household stress and give valuable time back to parents.  After recognising the common and severe imbalance within homes when it comes to managing and monitoring family tasks, Michelle set out……

Skoutli is the emerging Australian start-up, founded by entrepreneur Caroline Lepron, connecting privately owned locations and vehicles with influencers, photographers and producers.  In April this year, after recognising the difficulties involved with accessing aesthetic backdrops for content creators, Caroline set out to create a simple solution.  Based at Fishburners, Australia’s biggest start-up coworking community, Skoutli……

The network of highly qualified and experienced professionals who live in regional, rural and remote areas in Australia is enormous according to Jo Palmer of Pointer Remote Roles, a job-matching platform for remote workers. Palmer says that moreover, 8 times out of 10, these professionals are women, many of who have previously worked in senior……

At Fishburners we’re more than just a work space, for us the community always comes first and we take the health and wellbeing of our members seriously. That’s why we’ve launched a new Health and Wellness Room to support and remind members that it’s okay to take a break and recharge your batteries. The new……

Australia’s largest startup community, Fishburners, has officially launched a new Virtual Membership. The membership allows founders unable to access existing Sydney and Brisbane hubs to tap into Fishburners’ world class network of events, mentors, perks and community. New parents, people with disabilities, living in rural areas or those who simply can’t afford to rent desk……

With thanks to our Burners Driven who gave us permission to publish Resilience for startups – what are the differences for founders and staff? written by Jurie Rossouw – CEO of Driven The startup rollercoaster is a concept that founders are painfully familiar with. One moment you feel elated as a clear path opens to……

After being selected as top 10 finalists in the Google.org Impact Challenge just a few weeks ago, Fishburners startup Xceptional took out one of the winning spots and received $1 million in funding from Google. Xceptional helps connect people with autism to life changing employment opportunities through their app and technology services company. The competition……

Anxiety-reducing autism app Xceptional and mental health social enterprise Radiant are amongst the 10 finalists in this year’s Google.org Impact Challenge. Now in its third year running, the challenge is open to Australian organisations whose innovative ideas for change are making an impact locally and globally. Both Fishburners finalists are in the health tech space,……

“Work-life balance”. A phrase that the startup community is sick of hearing, because everyone knows it’s necessary but hasn’t quite mastered how to put it into practice whilst juggling life as a startup founder. Removing this #basic phrase from our vocabulary here at Fishburners, we’ve decided to coin a new term for our ‘Burners with……

(Designbx Founders: from left to right: Emily Carding, Kerena Berry, Kylie Pratt)   Leading-edge online interior design service and veteran Fishburners members, Designbx, have been named as finalists in this year’s Telstra Business Awards. They are one of six finalists in the Emerging and Energising category chosen from thousands of nominees, and as State Finalists……

We are thrilled to announce that Fishburners will be partnering with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) over the coming three years: our first long-term university partner.

This week we take an elevator ride with Richard Savoie from Staybil as he shares a ride with our host Andrew Szwec from The Cognitive Company. What is Staybil? Staybil is a fantastic company that does data visualisation and optimisation here at Fishburners. Their first product is in the human resources space and helps optimise employees commute……

This week we’re excited to share Fishburners new Elevator Pitch video series. Each week we invite a new Fishburners startup to join us for a real-life elevator pitch, where we take them from the ground floor of the Sydney Startup Hub to Level 11 and during the elevator ride they share with us their startup……

Since 2011, Fishburners has been striving to support the Australian ecosystem as a partner, as a provider, as a co-working space, and as a non profit organisation that has backed so many tech founders. As a part of that, we’ve worked with hundreds of meetup events, covering every topic you could think of, from Ruby……

It’s with great regret that we share the news that Annie will be stepping down as CEO of Fishburners at the end of February. We would like to thank Annie for her contribution as CEO over the last six months. Although the time has been short, she has done an incredible amount to ensure that……

Before you build a website or send out marketing materials, you’ll want to clearly define your startup’s brand so you can apply it consistently across channels. Developing a strong brand will help you gain credibility and become recognizable as you grow. Here’s how to nail down what your brand represents and communicate it to your prospects and customers.

Just a few months in as CEO of Fishies and let’s just say it’s been a crazy time. We’ve grown to nearly full capacity in Brisbane in just one year, we’ve built a beautiful new office at Wynyard to move to AND we we’re named Best Co-working Space in Australia. But most importantly we’ve celebrated……

Fishburners is Australia’s first & largest tech co-working space with offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Shanghai. We’ve been operating for almost 7 years & in that time supported the start of nearly 1,000 companies which is pretty epic. We’re known for having a super strong community and we care deeply about making sure we help……

The best of the Australian startup ecosystem gathered in Sydney last week at the 2nd Australasian Startup Awards held by Startcon. The Awards recognise the best of the industry and we are delighted that Fishburners was named Best Co-working Space 2017. We are especially proud to have won this award from a public vote which……

Think you’ve got what it takes to face the Sharks of the Start Tank? Casting for Season 4 is underway now, so if you’re up for the challenge and for the opportunity apply here. What is the Shark Tank? A channel 10 television show,  Shark Tank is where passionate, every day Australians and budding entrepreneurs come to……

We’ve called Fishburners home now for 10 weeks and even before our first day we have been completely welcomed into the Fishburners bosom. Annie, Fishburners CEO tweeted us a warm welcome on our first day, we’ve filmed a one-on-one chat with Gen George, hosted Friday night pitches and was interviewed Kochie’s Business Builders and hosting……

We’re celebrating! Australia voted yes in the Same Sex Marriage vote, with 61.6 per cent in favour.  Love wins.      Fishburners has always supported equality, diversity and inclusion and we are proud to celebrate today with our members in Brisbane and Sydney. As a coworking collective of different businesses, people and teams, we don’t just……

Five years ago Mark Zmarzly,  attended a Global startup weekend in Nebraska that changed his life. During that weekend he found a team and started to work on an idea that would turn into his business, Hip Pocket. Fast forward to today, Hip Pocket has three products in market and has received grant and investment……

Four innovative Indigenous entrepreneurs have been chosen for Barayamal’s 3-month Budding entrepreneurs (entrepreneurship development) program at Australia’s largest community of scalable tech startups, Fishburners.    In May 2017, Barayamal organised Give Backathon – a national charity hackathon that helped four Indigenous charities by providing tech-based solutions to increase their social impact (click here – full story).   The……

We had a fantastic chat with Annie Slattery CEO of ConX,  Australia’s leading construction jobs platform and tendering software for builders and subcontractors. ConX has had a huge 2017, In October they close seed round of $1m and were one of 10 startups to feature in the StartupAUS report launched last week on Digital Foundations: How Technology is Transforming Australia’s Construction……

Following the success of Startup Weekend over the years, the event returns this year with a bigger line-up of mentors, investors and sponsors all at the ready to help you get started.  Fishburners in conjunction with River City Labs is hosting Global Startup Weekend 2017 in Brisbane this November where techs, marketers and innovators will……

Recently I opened up the Creative3 conference in Brisbane and for the first time in a while, I was actually nervous about speaking in front of a live audience. My chosen topic was the importance of diversity and inclusion in technology, and I was nervous for a whole heap of reasons. Taking on a big,……

Freya Hunter from our friends at Recomazing wrote this incredibly insightful post about her experience with anxiety. Working in startups is no doubt exciting and certainly challenging and the frantic pace can be relentless. Freya’s full post here  talks about anxiety and how entrepreneurs and those working in startups can be susceptible. We wanted to……

WithYouWithMe, the military talent incubator helping veterans get employed, has announced a partnership with Fishburners to help bring veteran business ideas to life. WithYouWithMe is establishing the first Veteran Start-Up Pathway – a program to assist veterans with a great business idea make their dream a reality. Veterans will submit their business ideas, with a……

Shaw and Cale are the founders of FairDealFX.  Cale has close to 20 years experience in financial markets and treasury.  Shaw is a seasoned technology professional who understands the links between business problems and technology solutions. Shaw wrote on his blog about his learnings on the startup culture and their journey since being in Fishburners for the week.

Welcome to our Weekly Human of Fishburners Member Stories!
Fishburners had a catch up with Josh and Prahlad from Magickraft, to talk about the story of how Magickraft started and why they started.

Brisbane, Tuesday, October 17, 2017: Fishburners Brisbane turns one this week and is celebrating as part of the The Capital’s 60 startups in 60 minutes event this coming Friday. In what has been a hugely successful first 12 months, Fishburners Brisbane has welcomed over 160 members and the creation of 100+ new companies. Fishburners CEO……

Want to use your events, marketing and social media skills helping Australian startups succeed? Fun, fast paced and dynamic team and culture We are looking for an Events and Marketing coordinator to join the team in Sydney. With well over 600 events every year held in Sydney alone, this is a hugely exciting job. You’ll……

One of our Burners James Banks, Co-Founder of Web3 and Lemodus, wrote about his top 30+ startup business tools and why. With thanks to Recomazing on their stack of recommendations and James Banks on his essential tools to getting started. Do you feel like you could be running your startup better? Are you overwhelmed by all……

  What is Tyroola? We are Tyroola.com.au – the largest tyre e-commerce shop in Australia. With access to more than 3 million premium, mid-range and budget products, 50+ brands, and more than 500+ fitting stations, we can deliver the perfect tyre for the customer’s needs straight to a tyre installer nearby. It’s really simple, you type in your size……

Leading technology startup hub River City Labs has partnered with Australia’s largest startup co-working space Fishburners to co-host the city’s annual flagship Startup Weekend event, Queensland’s premier tech bootcamp where future entrepreneurs are born. The 54-hour event in November will see the largest collaborative gathering of talented and passionate teams pitching their business ideas for……

Sydney, Brisbane, Friday, September 8, 2017: Australia’s largest community of startups, Fishburners has shown its support for marriage equality, proudly taking on the LGBTIQ rainbow and updating it’s tagline to “where all startups are equal.” The Fishburners’ Board and CEO Annie Parker were unanimous in their support for marriage equality. “The Australian startup ecosystem is……

Fishburners welcomes new CEO Annie Parker   Sydney, Thursday, July 20, 2017: Leading Australian startup community Fishburners has appointed Annie Parker as interim CEO, to lead its next stage of growth. Ms Parker takes the reins from outgoing CEO Murray Hurps and will begin her role on Monday, July 24. Under Mr Hurps’ leadership Fishburners……

An exciting new era for Sydney’s home for tech startups SYDNEY, July 13th, 2017: Australia’s largest community of highly-scalable tech startups Fishburners has partnered with Jobs for NSW as anchor tenant in Sydney’s new startup hub. Based in the “Transport House” and “Railway House” buildings above Wynyard station, the 17,000m2 Sydney startup hub will be……

Welcome to our Weekly Human of Fishburners Member Stories! Fishburners had a catch up with the Co-founder of Civic Ledger, Katrina Donaghy. She talks about how they started up and how being authentic is important when starting up.

We had a catch up with the Founder of Brew2Venue, Jeff Frampton. He talks about why he started Brew2Venue, a reality check he realised when starting up and some of his own advice when starting a start up.

We had a catch up with the Founder of One Entity, Dhawal who is our first resident here at Fishburners Brisbane. He talks about what inspired him to startup, the biggest mistake he went through legally and advice he got from a friend that changed his life. What is your Startup? One Entity is a……

We had a catch up with the Founder of China Checkup, Matt Slater. He talks about why China Checkup started, how he faced his challenges and some advice when getting started. What is China Checkup? We provide verification reports on Chinese Companies for companies worldwide. Where did it all start? I was living in Shanghai……

James talks with Fishburners about his startup journey, where Systemate came from and his advice when starting up a startup.

Start-ups are a buzz with creativity and innovation, but often have a lot on their plate like raising finances, finding good talent and securing customers. So it’s understandable that thinking about intellectual property (IP) management seems like a waste of precious time and money. However, finding ways to protect your IP is one of the……

Intellectual Property (IP) can be an invention, a brand, or an original work of art and IP rights like Patents, Trade Marks and Design Rights offer exclusive legal ownership over these assets. They can be bought, sold or licensed. Some IP doesn’t require registration. You don’t need to register your copyright interests – copyright is……

Fishburners had a catch up with the Co-founder of  Spur Projects, William Stubbs, to talk about his start up journey, overcoming life obstacles and sharing some advice he got from his father when starting up. What is Spur Projects? We started in 2011 as a non-profit grass roots awareness campaign. We started with a campaign……