Following Australian Startups and Tech Trends

Today we showcase the story of an exciting venture, from Sydney, Australia, Mogeneration - Mobile 2.0 Web & iPhone Development House , co-founded by Tom Adams & Keith Ahern In a recent email-based interview with Keith, he gave insights into how he is managing and juggling. This is what he has to say in his interview with us: • How long it took before it was up and running The co-founder Tom Adams and I had been talking about working together on iPhone and mobile projects for quite a while. In the end, it took about 2 months for a decision to launch. • Stage of Venture mogeneration started in October 2008 and launched "The Australian" on iPhone within a few weeks. We have offices in Brisbane and Sydney are still under 10 people. We have created 9 iPhone applications for Australian and US companies. • Which Market Segment We help companies and individuals get a presence on iPhones. We have worked with a wide variety of companies from News Ltd to small startups li...

Today we showcase the story of an exciting venture, from Melbourne, Australia, Debenu Pty Ltd , Document Management Tools for your Desktop, co-founded by Karl De Abrew. In a recent email-based interview with us, he gave insights into how he is managing and juggling. This is what he has to say in his interview with us: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I've spent time in my earlier years in the UK, Australia, the US, Ireland, and then back in Australia. I'm an avid technologist and have been for as long as I can remember. Back to the times when people would laugh at me for using a keyboard when they had their trusty ball-point at the ready. I enjoy working with my friends, and consequently, I try to involve them all at some stage in my businesses. I have managed to create a working environment that doesn't feel too much like hard work. Sure, the hours are long, but as an entrepreneur -- well, I've got a great boss. I also get a lot of freedo...

Today we showcase the story of an entrepreneur, Malcolm Allen, from Melbourne, Australia, founder of Glynx - Your World of Private Applications, i.e.; it is software you run on your PC to control your online identities and make your internet private. In a recent email-based interview with us, he gave insights into how he is managing and juggling. This is what he has to say in his interview with us: • How long it took to launch From the first concept to today six years old. We have had several goes at it, realising the problems are far greater than we initially anticipated, both technically and in terms of the competitive intensity. It would be true to say that I am not sure we would have started if we had known how hard it would be (and the amount of sacrifice required). For us it has really been a "force of will" - we are creating a business literally from nothing. We didn't even really believe the meaning of "we don't know what we are getting ourselves into...

In the ongoing coverage of exploring new startups coming out of Australia, today we explore a promising startup in the online collaborative tool segment - Cinergix  It was co-founded by Charanjit Singh from Melbourne Australia. In a recent email-based interview with Charanjit, he explained how he is progressing with his venture. • Please tell us about yourself, your background and your interests? See Profiles below - basically, we are all staunch believers of Internet innovation and spend most of our free time exploring new technologies, products and thought leadership blogs like TechCrunch, Read/Write Web, Mashable, IT|Redux, Guy Kawasaki, John Battelle, etc. • What is the name of your venture/company? Company: Cinergix Pty Ltd Product: Creately • Please tell us about your venture/company? Cinergix is the Australian start-up developing the Creately platform and its patent-pending KObject technology, which is changing the way we solve design and modelling problems. Creately is a ...

Today we explore an exciting venture in web-based content management software - Millstream . It was founded in 2006 by Adrian Lynch from Perth, Australia. In a recent email-based interview with Adrian, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I studied Graphic Design, graduating in 1990, and have run my own businesses since then. I have always been extremely interested in the technical side of 'design' especially developing automated systems to remove the incredible amount of wasted effort that goes into publishing. I still do a bit of design work, but I now spend most time coding or on system design. • What is the name of your venture/company? Millstream Web Software, our product is Spring CMS. • Please tell us about your venture/company? Since 2006 we have focused on turning Millstream from a 'web design company' into a product-based 'SaaS provid...

Today we showcase an exciting and successful venture founded by Grant Simonds from Melbourne, Australia, MComms TV - a software solutions company that specialises in live Mobile TV monitoring, digital audio/video mixing, transcoding and Mobile TV Ad Insertion for the telecommunications industry. Their products are used by network operators and content providers globally to deliver innovative Mobile TV services to subscribers. In a recent email-based interview with Grant, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about your venture/company? MComms Monitor enables video streaming operators to monitor the availability of multiple video streams on-screen and using SNMP traps. Provides a “Video Wall” for staff and customers to view available streaming content. MComms Transcode converts redundant live video streams from the internet, IPTV and analog/digital feeds into compatible Mobile TV video streams. A stream can...

Today we showcase an exciting and successful venture co-founded by, Mark Harbottle in 2008 from Melbourne, Australia, 99designs - it connects thousands of designers from around the world with clients who need design tasks completed fast, and without the usual high cost and limited choices you get from most traditional design firms. In a recent email-based interview with Mark, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I’m 34 years old. I have a degree in computer systems engineering. I started my wo rking life as a programmer, but I eventually found I was much better at online marketing, which back in 1995 was an area not many people had explored. I’ve worked with pure internet businesses for 13 years now. The first 4 years after I graduated I worked with one of Australia’s first internet companies, and the last 9 have been spent working on my own businesses. I started...

Today we showcase an exciting and successful technology business co-founded by Keith Lang, from Canberra, Australia. plasq - Best known for “Comic Life”, is a software company that creates applications for Mac and PC. It’s a bit over 3 years old and gained recognition in the Mac community when Comic Life was bundled with all-new Macs for a year. plasq has also won various awards for its software and works hard to design fun, intuitive and creative visual applications. In a recent email-based interview with Keith, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? Keith Lang, Co-Founder of Plasq. I’m a musician by training, with a Bachelor's Degree in Classical Music Composition. I was involved in audio software for quite some time, on the musician's side of things, before getting involved in the software side. • Who are the people behind this and how it started? Rober...

Today we showcase an exciting and successful technology business co-founded by Aram Mirkazemi, from Tasmania, Australia. Morfik - a commercial vendor of professional software development tools. Morfik was established to address the need for an integrated high-end development tool that empowers software developers to leverage their existing skills to build Rich Internet Applications without the need to master Web technologies such as HTML/CSS/HTTP/SOAP etc. In a recent email based interview with Aram, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I am a professional software developer with many years of entrepreneurial experience in developing commercial CAD systems and Web Application Development tools. My interests are Rapid Application Development (RAD), Integrated Development Environments (IDE), Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Using Ajax and emerging technologies, ...

In our ongoing coverage of startups coming out of Australia and interviews with CEOs, Media Personalities, Philanthropists, and VCs, today we showcase an exciting venture and story of an entrepreneur from the building industry, Malcolm Lambert founder of Intresto - Software for Intelligent Rearrangement of Stones I did an email-based interview with Malcolm to explore his thoughts on the progress of his venture and new emerging trends. This is what he has to say: • What is the name of your venture/company? Intresto Pty Ltd. The name is derived from “intelligent rearrangement of stone”, something people have been doing for thousands of years but only now do we have the computing power and computer science techniques to allow software to take over the difficult part of the procedure which is the 3d geometric shape fitting of irregular objects. • Please tell us about your venture/company? A self-funded tech start-up company developing software for use in the construction industry. • Who...