Apple's "Staff Favourite" app joins the ranks of Australia's top startups
Announcement posted by Make Tonight Count Pty Ltd 02 Apr 2012
Aussie startup behind the Tonight iPhone app selected for the PushStart Accelerator Program
Just weeks after returning from SXSW in Austin, Texas, Aussie startup, Make Tonight Count has
been selected as one of eight startups to join the PushStart Accelerator Program inaugural class.
Make Tonight Count is the startup behind the acclaimed “Tonight” iPhone app. The Tonight app,
which shortly after its launch in late December 2011 claimed the top spot on Apple Australia and
New Zealand’s prestigious “Staff Favourites” list, lets you share what you’re doing tonight and
discover what your friends and other interesting people across your city will be getting up to.
Whereas Facebook and other social networks are great for being social online, Tonight is all about
being social offline. “We want to help people squeeze the most out of every night by connecting
them with their friends and their city”, said Make Tonight Count Co-Founder Robert Kawalsky.
The Pushstart program is based in Sydney and connects startups up with over 40 of Australia’s
most successful tech entrepreneurs including Matt Barrie of Freelancer, Mitchell Harper of
BigCommerce and Rod Johnson of SpringSource who has recently returned to Australia after selling
the business he co-founded to VMWare for $420M. Each startup receives $20,000 in cash and over
$100,000 in free services from Microsoft, Ninefold, Deloittes and DLA Piper.
The Tonight app has attracted a loyal following of users across Australia and New Zealand and
thousands of plans have been shared to date. The Tonight app is free to download on the iTunes
App Store.
ABOUT TONIGHT
Tonight is an iPhone app which lets you share what you're doing tonight and gives you a
personalised live feed of what your friends and other interesting people are getting up to. Tonight
lets you see which venues are worth checking out and who will be where before ever stepping out
the door. By knowing what's happening ahead of time, not only do you know where you should go
(and where you shouldn't!), you also have time to actually do something about it and not miss out.
Tonight is free to download on the iTunes Australia and New Zealand App Store.
ABOUT PUSHSTART
PushStart is a new set of community-focused, mentor-driven activities to help grow Australian
tech (Web and Mobile) startups, and the Australian tech startup community more generally, 365
days a year.
Combining top Aussietech startup people, seed funding and community events, we plan to give
local tech entrepreneurs help to start, grow & succeed.