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Australian start-up community Fishburners has appointed senior leader and "social enterprise champion" Nicole O’Brien as its new chief executive.

Not-for-profit start-up entrepreneurial group StartupAUS, has appointed foundation board member and former founding director of technology co-working space Fishburners, Peter Bradd, as its first chief executive.

Optus has launched a fund to invest seed capital in Australian startups in conjunction with parent SingTel's Innnov8 venture capital arm.

Instagram's $1 billion Facebook deal has proved a hot topic among the most recent crop of Y Combinator graduates. Among them is Nikki Durkin, the 20-year old Australian founder of 99dresses, which secured $17,000 from the most recent round of funding from the legendary Silicon Valley incubator, and who is currently in the US meeting potential investors.

The Australian cloud computing and public cloud storage company, Ninefold, has further extended its cloud booster program by including the Sydney-based not-for-profit Fishburners community of startups.