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Why a Brisbane team is betting the future of everyday tech fits in your palm

Why a Brisbane team is betting the future of everyday tech fits in your palm

Pocket is part of a small but growing cohort of Queensland founders choosing atoms over apps — and shipping hardware from Brisbane.

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Why the next billion-dollar agtech company is being built north of Rockhampton

Why the next billion-dollar agtech company is being built north of Rockhampton

Cattle telemetry, cane-field imaging and a quietly world-class sensor supply chain are converging in regional Queensland.

25 Aug 2026 · AGTECH

The Brisbane seed market is no longer a discount market

The Brisbane seed market is no longer a discount market

Valuations at seed have converged with Sydney for the first time. We looked at 62 rounds to work out whether that is warranted.

18 Aug 2026 · CAPITAL

Gladstone's hydrogen build-out is creating a software market nobody priced in

Gladstone's hydrogen build-out is creating a software market nobody priced in

Every gigawatt of announced capacity drags along a long tail of monitoring, compliance and workforce software.

11 Aug 2026 · CLIMATE

A sober look at Queensland's defence tech pipeline

A sober look at Queensland's defence tech pipeline

There is real capability here. There is also a lot of capability theatre. We tried to separate them.

4 Aug 2026 · DEFENCE

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Queensland startup brief, once a week. Insights, founder stories and case studies. 

QLD CASE STUDIES

The stories of how Queensland companies were built and what you can steal from them.

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Allovium

Allovium · Industrial materials

Allovium's bet that the hardest problems are still made of metal

A deep-tech alloy company proving that Queensland's resources heritage can produce genuine IP businesses.

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Go1

Go1 · Education / SaaS

How four school friends from Logan built Queensland's clearest unicorn

Go1 turned a corporate training aggregation idea into the default content layer for enterprise learning worldwide.

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Meridian

Meridian · Health AI

Meridian took the slow road through the public health system and won

Three years of clinical validation looked like stagnation. It was actually the moat.

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Ridgeline

Ridgeline · Agtech

Ridgeline sold for a good price and almost nobody noticed

A quiet, capital-efficient agtech exit that says more about the sector than most funding announcements.

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