Aussie rich-listers back new $13.5 million female-only venture fund
Aliavia Ventures has closed its $13.5 million fund, which it says is focused exclusively on backing female-founded startups in Australia and the US.
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Seventy-seven deals were announced in the third quarter of 2023, with total funding this year slightly outpacing 2020 – but still well below 2021 and 2022, Cut Through Venture’s Australian Venture Capital Funding Report reveals.
NASA plans to build houses on the moon by 2040
The US national space agency, NASA, is planning to build houses on the moon by 2040 – and Mars could be next.
Sam Bankman-Fried goes on trial: What you need to know
Bankman-Fried, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, will stand trial in what prosecutors are calling one of the biggest frauds in US history.
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Revealed: Top 20 startups in Australia
Web3 platform Immutable tops the list of Australia’s top 20 startups, as revealed by LinkedIn in the platform’s seventh annual analysis of the industry.
Netflix found guilty of patent infringement in Germany
Streaming provider Netflix has been found guilty of infringing a patent held by Broadcom by the District Court of Munich.
Generative AI wars ramp up as Open AI launches new voice tech
Microsoft-backed Open AI – the company behind generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tool ChatGPT – has rolled out a slew of new voice and image capabilities on its flagship platform.
Qantas commits an extra $80 million to ‘customer improvements’ – but warns of rising airfares
Qantas, which has faced a number of blows to its reputation in the last month, says it’s looking to address customer pain points – but flight prices aren’t one of them.
Two sisters took over a $300 million business. Here’s how they run it as co-CEOs
When Dominique Lyone, founder of the $300 million Australian workplace product solutions firm COS, stepped down from his role as CEO of the company in 2021, daughters Belinda and Amie knocked their heads together to figure out who was best suited to the job.