Looking for Australian startups to feature on my new blog

The Australian startup scene seems to have more 'startup hubs', startup accelerators, startup workshops, startup advisors, startup publications, would-be startup gurus, etc. as it has <i>actual startups</i>.<p>At times the mental image I have is of a tiny handful of miners surrounding by an enormous throng of hundreds of merchants eagerly promoting their particular brands of picks and shovels.

Stuart from Crowd9 here, we have a few products (plus quite a few unfinished ones):<p>StoreCrowd, Couponzor &#38; Thinng. Melb based, all bootstrapped, all profitable.<p>Check me a line on @thegyppo if you want to chat.

Nice one Will.<p>I've written a couple of lists that might be a good starting point though the first is a bit out of date being from 2009: <a href="http://www.mynameisned.com/awesome-melbourne-tech-startups" rel="nofollow">http://www.mynameisned.com/awesome-melbourne-tech-startups</a> <a href="http://www.mynameisned.com/australian-innovative-startups-keep-their-heads-down" rel="nofollow">http://www.mynameisned.com/australian-innovative-startups-ke...</a><p>We do a bit of inhouse product development though I wouldn't call them startups just yet: <a href="http://talkbackapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://talkbackapp.com</a>, <a href="http://fanbomb.com" rel="nofollow">http://fanbomb.com</a> + <a href="http://themepivot.com" rel="nofollow">http://themepivot.com</a>

I'm keen! I'm the founder of Goodfilms: <a href="http://goodfil.ms" rel="nofollow">http://goodfil.ms</a><p>We're based in Melbourne and building a site to help you figure out what films you're going to enjoy. We're about to step out from behind a private beta into a public one, and it's great to see such support for Australian startups.<p>You should check out our blog post about what we do and why we're different (<a href="http://blog.goodfil.ms/blog/2011/10/07/a-better-way-to-rate-films/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.goodfil.ms/blog/2011/10/07/a-better-way-to-rate-...</a>), and if you think we'd be good to feature on your blog, get in touch.<p>All the best, -Glen Maddern @glenmaddern

Hi William,<p>I'm the founder of TestPilot CI — Heroku for Testing.<p>We're based in Melbourne and gearing up for a launch in a couple of weeks. I'd be more than willing to take part in your blog and answer any questions about what we do, problems we've solved and the hard life of being a startup. Feel free to contact me (ivan at testpilot dot me) or @IvanVanderbyl

It would be great if you didn't include any clone me-too companies.

Hey I'm Andrew, co-founder of Noosbox (<a href="http://noosbox.com" rel="nofollow">http://noosbox.com</a>). We were one of the first batch of Startmate companies. Happy to share some insight and war stories. Reach me at ajessup _AT_ noosbox.com. We're based in Sydney @ Fishburners.

AJ has already plugged noosbox, but the other Startmate companies are<p>Chorus <a href="http://www.getchorus.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.getchorus.com</a> - in this batch at 500 Startups<p>Grabble <a href="http://grabbleapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://grabbleapp.com</a> - just sold to Walmart<p>IRL Gaming <a href="http://www.irlgaming.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.irlgaming.com/</a> - not sure what they're up to...<p>and us BugHerd <a href="http://bugherd.com" rel="nofollow">http://bugherd.com</a> - were in the last batch of 500 startups.<p>I'd also recommend getting on to Startmate directly, <a href="http://startmate.com.au" rel="nofollow">http://startmate.com.au</a> and speak to Niki. There is a new batch coming up in January (applications close in a couple of weeks).

Hi William, I'm the founder of Jasondb, a cloud NoSQL database based in Melbourne, although we have just registered in Delaware as Jasondb LLC. We have spent the past 2 years in dev mode and are planning to launch early next year. Went to SF as part of AnzaTech last year and to TechCrunch in SF this year, and I have to say the focus seems to be on startups that can whip something up in a week and launch in a month. After spending over 2 years in dev mode on a database written in C/C++, I have gotta say it seems that we are the exception rather than the rule in the startup space. Love to hear from anyone who has experienced similar. Our back story is at blog.jasondb.com

Hi William, I'm Co-Founder of Barkles (<a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/11/13/barkles-is-twitter-for-debates/" rel="nofollow">http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/11/13/barkles-is-twitter-for...</a>) based in Australia.Would love to answer a few questions for a different angle of what we do.<p>I would recommend getting in touch with these places (all on Twitter) @inspire9, @yorkbutter, @angelcubemelb and @startupaus. There are so many amazing Australian Startups coming out of the woodwork through these hubs and teams and they will surely give you enough companies to profile.<p>A great time to feature Aussie startups - The melb scene especially is on the rise.<p>You can reach me @diesellaws on Twitter if needed.

Excellent idea for a startup hub. I'm the founder of Axle Technologies : <a href="http://www.axletech.com.au" rel="nofollow">http://www.axletech.com.au</a> - GPS Vehicle tracking and fleet management for the masses (Web based, that's where the fun is right).<p>Based out of Brisbane we've spent the last 12 months in software development, hardware development, penning legal paperwork and sourcing customer feedback for features. Bootstrapped through self funding, personal savings and some rusty dreams. We've just finished all our new advertising material designs and are going straight into launch next week.<p>If you want a chat you can get in touch with me through our contact form on the site.<p>-Leon

I work for what you'd have considered a start-up but we're successful now so I don't know what you call us? <a href="http://envato.com/" rel="nofollow">http://envato.com/</a><p>We still qualify I think, we're one of the ones that made it! We've been featured on 37signals' Bootstrapped, Profitable &#38; Proud series: <a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2594-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-envato" rel="nofollow">http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2594-bootstrapped-profitable-...</a>

We're an education aggregator and reseller out of Sydney <a href="http://coursesnow.com.au/" rel="nofollow">http://coursesnow.com.au/</a><p>Also checkout <a href="http://wearehunted.com/" rel="nofollow">http://wearehunted.com/</a> out of Brisbane.<p>BTW, we have an awesome shared office space at Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast. Balcony, 100m from surf, cool tunes. Space for a couple extra people if anyone is interested.

Hi,<p>We launched <a href="http://www.cheapstart.com.au" rel="nofollow">http://www.cheapstart.com.au</a> last month to help small business select cloud software. We're Melbourne based. Being the dreaded 'business-guys' (70%) from a tech background, we crowdsourced everything very successfully, which is busy spawning the next startup! Happy to chat about how to tackle the technical side.

Hey William - nice idea. I'm Jenna, Stanford Institute for Entrepreneurship 2011 grad, PhD Clinical Psychology dropout and Aussie Founder of early stage E-Mental Health startup <a href="http://recoveryrecord.com" rel="nofollow">http://recoveryrecord.com</a>. Would love to chat about the Australian startup scene, and my experiences in it.

Hi William. Great to hear the booming Australian start-up scene getting some deserved dedicated coverage. I work for Flippa.com - worlds largest website marketplace (over $61M websites sold so far) and BRW Fast Starter + SmartCompany Innovation Award Winner. We're based in Melbourne so happy to shout lunch if you're ever in the area!

What kind of startups are you looking for? My father runs Tyro Payments (<a href="http://tyro.com" rel="nofollow">http://tyro.com</a>) and I could try to get in touch with Mike Cannon-Brookes (Atlassian), although I don't know if he would be willing. Are those startups too old/big?

Just so you know your contact form is broken, "Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by another method."<p>Since I couldn't post it there I shall here.<p>Sydney based here. Currently running <a href="http://searchco.de/" rel="nofollow">http://searchco.de/</a>

Are you including New Zealand startups? There's lots going on over here, Wellington especially.

Hi,<p>I'm the Founder of Lexim (<a href="http://www.lexim.com.au" rel="nofollow">http://www.lexim.com.au</a>), eLearning software designed for teachers not CIOs. We're based in Melbourne, and would love to help.<p>Feel free to reach out to me at michael.shimmins@lexim.com.au or @michaelshimmins on twitter.<p>Cheers,<p>Michael

Hi William, I have contacted you by email.<p>I would love to discuss with you about <a href="http://goalstribe.com" rel="nofollow">http://goalstribe.com</a>, a startup that helps people achieve their goals (and democratize coaching).<p>We are based in Sydney.<p>Thanks!

Of course @kaggle (Melbourne-launched, though I hear they're at least part moving to SF) would be a highlight for your start, given they just raised $11m from some very high profile investors in the Valley.

Hi great idea.<p>I've currently moved to Perth and I'm looking for any regular meetups / shared office space. I'm bootstrapping 2 products right now.<p>I think I'd benefit massively from some type of shared work space. Anyone know of anything?

Hey, Tom here, co-founder of Bindle (<a href="http://bindle.me" rel="nofollow">http://bindle.me</a>)..<p>I'm based in Melbourne---the other founder is in SF. Happy to catch up whenever/however. tom _at_ percolatestudio.com

Looking forward to reading the blog. It'll do a lot of good to give the Aussie startup scene some exposure. We've just formed a team, with one founder based in Melbourne, Australia and me in Boston, US...<p>Good luck!

Awesome news. So much going on in the Australian tech scene at the moment, the coverage it can get the better. We're launching our beta Friday (ggBet.net), if you need content :)

Setkick.com<p>Online pre-production for film and television. Helping to schedule shooting and communicate with cast and crew.<p>We are in private testing right now.<p>I'm a co-founder and happy to talk about anything. Thanks.

I work for Pollenizer (@pollenizer on twitter) - I'm engineering lead on Pygg. I do a lot of stuff out of work hours too, would be more than happy to chat.<p>I'm @arcwhite on Twitter

Cool. I'm Alex from OrionVM. I just sent you a message on your contact form. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email me. Talk to you soon.

Check out FilterSquad (makers of the Discovr apps), they are based in Perth. <a href="http://discovr.info/" rel="nofollow">http://discovr.info/</a>

hi - we are a boot strapping startup, <a href="http://geodica.com" rel="nofollow">http://geodica.com</a> Our touchpass product helps business &#38; individuals conduct eCommerce more securely. We can certainly provide insight into starting a business on the side, registering patents, the constant decisions and tradeoffs of a new start and the Australian market place Cheers Ben

I would love to see more sites like this. Please don't let it end up in a graveyard of empty wordpress sites like I have on my server!

Excited for a this exact thing. Is there any other resource which lists Australian Tech Startups in a readable and up-to-date manner?

I'll double check, but I'm pretty sure <a href="http://99designs.com" rel="nofollow">http://99designs.com</a> would be interested.

We're always up for a chat. Sydney based, been in the marketplace since Q1 2011.<p><a href="http://pinion.gg" rel="nofollow">http://pinion.gg</a>

A friend of mine is a cofounder of Rome2Rio.<p>They are in Melbourne, nominally. At the moment I think they are in LA, or Florida or somewhere.

Great! Looking forward to reading this.

I've enjoyed working with <a href="https://stillalive.com/" rel="nofollow">https://stillalive.com/</a>

Hey mate! Great you are doing this! XHTMLized.com and X-Worlds.com are some to add to the list.