5 things you need to know in Australian tech today

Friday is finally here! Check out these tech stories before you head out for the weekend: 1. Health fund HCF has handed out a million bucks to an Australian startup. Curo Technologies, which monitors elderly folk in care facilities or their own home to let carers and family know how they’re doing, scored the investment after graduating from the health insurer’s Catalyst accelerator program.

7 start-ups enter River City Labs, muru-D accelerator program

A former Ironman triathlete, amateur astronomer, budding pilot and ex-NRL player are among the founders of seven start-ups accepted into the River City Labs Accelerator Program, powered by Telstra’s muru-D. Start-ups will be provided with seed capital, office space at technology startup hub River City Labs, mentoring, training, the opportunity to attend international trade missions, and high-level networking opportunities as part of the six-month program.

Behind the scenes with River City Labs’ second muru-D accelerator cohort

Like cheese in a mousetrap, the temptation of six months intensive mentoring, $60,000 funding, and introductions to top local and international investors proved too hard to resist for the teams who were announced last week as the second muru-D Brisbane accelerator cohort at River City Labs.

GP drug calculations set to get easier

What would you do with $2.6 million? If you’re a young, Brisbane-based company called DoseMe, you start expanding your software to make it useful for GPs. DoseMe uses a patient’s age, height and weight, plus extra information from pathology results, to calculate the right dose of a particular drug that should be administered to an individual patient.

The world is watching: River City Labs welcomes seven new startups into its accelerator program after most competitive application process yet – StartupSmart

The seven startups that will be taking part in the River City Labs and muru-D accelerator program have been announced following the most competitive and global application process yet. More than 80 teams from Denmark, Turkey, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Philippines and Australia applied for a spot in the Brisbane-based accelerator program.

Training day

“WE’RE excited to be here” is how driver relations manager Varya Foreman summed up GoCatch’s first foray into Muswellbrook this week. The rideshare platform hosted a training day in town on Wednesday to outline the requirements for licence holders and vehicle safety, as well as the online payment system.