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Anastasia Santoreneos

Anastasia Santoreneos reports on innovation, technology, business and wealth. She also compiles Forbes Australia's lists. Email Anastasia at anastasia.santoreneos@forbes.com.au.

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Tkay Maidza is taking over: New albums, global tours, and her next big move

She’s dropped a new album, finished a 20-date tour in North America and Canada and played a festival tour – just in the last six months. Zimbabwe-born, Australia-raised musician Tkay Maidza has had a whirlwind rise to success – and it’s just the beginning.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

The future of Aussie news? Hannah Ferguson’s got the Cheek to make it happen

Hannah Ferguson really, really hated studying law at university. And that had nothing to do with the course material, but rather the culture she was suddenly surrounded by. 

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

Meet Davie Fogarty: Australia’s $600 million retail shark

Davie Fogarty is perhaps Australia’s most well-known young retail mogul, thanks to the viral success of his sleepwear brand, The Oodie. Now, with $600 million in sales, a coaching business, a Shopify course and a seat on Shark Tank Australia, he’s on hisway to becoming a household name. 

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

A robot and a billion-dollar dream: Inside Grace Brown’s quest to revolutionise aged care

24-year-old mechatronics engineer Grace Brown has been building robots since she was just 15. But her hobby became a business in 2022 when she launched Andromeda Robotics with a view to deploying the first empathetic robotic throughout nursing homes in Australia: Abi. 

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

How Sam Crowther turned a high school gig into an international bot-blocking empire

A tech-whiz-turned-bot-blocker, Sam Crowther, is behind Kasada, a tech platform that helps organisations mitigate bot risks. So far, the company has raised $39 million to continue its mission and was recently recognised as one of the most significant solutions in the industry. 

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

Meet the tech duo behind Updoc: 200K patients and a $20 million milestone

Computer science whiz Dylan Coyne sparked up an idea for a telehealth platform in 2021 when he realised working a 9-5 didn’t leave you with much time to see a doctor. Three years later, Updoc, the company he co-founded with Clifton Hodgkinson, has served more than 200,000 customers to date and banked $20 million in funding.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

This 23-year-old banked $1.2 million to build the ‘Duolingo for AI learning’

23-year-old Annie Liao has had a few careers in her young life: a data scientist, consultant, venture capitalist, community builder and now start-up founder. Liao talks about Build Club, a community-turned-accelerator-turned-AI-education-platform, which has just closed its first capital raise. 

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

Chanel Contos’ $3.5 million mission to change consent, violence against women

From an Instagram story to a petition that garnered 44,000 signatures and eventually the launch of an NGO, Chanel Contos has championed change in consent curriculum across the nation. Now, with $3.5 million in grant funding, Contos and her 10-strong team are distributing social media resources that aim to reduce violence against women and children. 

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

‘I still pinch myself that I pulled it off’: What’s next for Jess Fox?

Born in France and raised in Sydney’s west, Jessica Fox made her Olympic debut in canoe slalom in the 2012 London Games. Fox is now a reigning champion, having taken out gold in Tokyo, backing it up with two gold medals in Paris.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

How Oscar Piastri turned a remote-control-car hobby into a lucrative F1 career

Young, talented and very, very fast: 23-year-old Oscar Piastri is one of the hottest drivers on the F1 grid – and he’s only in his second season.  

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff
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