The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem: Interview Series
Business:Entrepreneurship
In this episode, we explore the seed phase of the Australian startup ecosystem, tracing its roots to some of the earliest catalysts to what we see today. Australian pioneers started innovating well before anything resembled an ecosystem and before the term "startup" was used. We tell the story of trailblazers like the Nucleus Group in 1964, Fairlight in 1975, Computershare in 1978 and much more.
We look at how the macroeconomic conditions in the late 70s and early 80s encouraged the "first great wave" of Australian startups, only for global capital markets to collapse suddenly in 1987. As the new millennium approached, we highlight how the mainstream adoption of the internet gave rise to some of our most recognisable dot com juggernauts, the likes of Seek, REA and Carsales, leading up to the dot com boom.
This series was made possible by our sponsors and partners.
Thanks to MYOB, AWS Startups, Investment NSW & CSIRO.
We would like to acknowledge our earliest sponsors who decided to get involved with this story when it was just an idea on a piece of paper.
Special thanks to UTS Startups & Murray Hurps for being our first sponsor, Western Sydney University’s LaunchPad and the Guild of Entrepreneurs.
ANSTO, Canberra Innovation Network, Curtin University, University of South Australia, LaunchVic, The South Australian Government's Department of Industry, Innovation & Science, The University of Adelaide’s ThincLab, The University of Newcastle’s Integrated Innovation Network, Flinders University’s New Venture Institute, UNSW Founders, UQ Ventures & James Cook University.
And to our promotional partners who have helped get this series in front of the startup community.
Startup Daily, Fishburners, Spark Festival, River City Labs, Stone & Chalk and Spacecubed.
Mentioned in this episode:
NTP Technology Recruitment Company
NTP is the technology recruitment company that values community and who are invested in seeing the growth of Australia's local tech community.
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