Brown Brothers

Meet the sisters reshaping one of Australia’s fastest rising wine brands

As wine tastes shift and female consumers take the lead, Brown Brothers is being reshaped by a generation that doesn’t quite match the name on the bottle. This story features in Issue 23 – out now. Tap here to secure your copy.  Patricia Brown had a little corporate culture hack. She’d heat the teacups in the […]

BubbaDesk founder Lauren Perrett

Keep your colleagues close, and your babies closer

Founded after a new mother’s difficult return to work, BubbaDesk has built a 12,000-person waiting list by offering parents something traditional childcare can’t. This story features in Issue 23 – out now. Tap here to secure your copy.  Jessie Glew had barely settled in as a first-time CEO when she found herself facing a personal crunch. […]

Why Tim Cahill is backing a startup that wants to reinvent sportswear

How a buck’s party, an Instagram scroll on the loo, and overpriced jerseys saw the football great come on board rag-trade tech startup Nardo. Tim Cahill has just become the first Australian to kick a goal at the football World when he gets a call from Giorgio Armani Armani’s people. They want to meet. “I’ll […]

Everlab

Marc’s father died without warning. Now investors value his startup at almost $500 million

Marc Hermann set out to build a healthcare company focused on catching disease before it strikes. Investors have backed that vision with a $65 million funding round. Everlab has raised $65 million at a valuation approaching $500 million, marking what appears to be Australia’s largest medtech capital raise of the year, cementing the Melbourne-based preventive […]

Stille Patty Cripps and Cameron Falloon's longevity retreat

First look inside Patty Cripps’ longevity bet

The Carlton captain has joined BFT founder Cameron Falloon and a group of investors backing Stille, a $10 million Melbourne wellness club that promises elite-athlete recovery tools for everybody – at $200 a week. Patty Cripps spends plenty of time thinking about how to squeeze a few more years out of his AFL career. The […]

The Aussie biotech betting on life after Ozempic

Former pharma executive Karinza Phoenix is raising $5 million and preparing an ASX listing as Myopharm advances a diabetes drug it hopes can complement the GLP-1 giants. Karinza Phoenix hasn’t found it hard raising the $6 million that’s got her biotech firm, Myopharm, onto the fast-track approval process for its Type 2 diabetes drug. “How […]

Why Phil Kearns quit the ASX for a country concrete startup

A chance conversation on a golf course has drawn the former Wallaby and listed-company CEO into a regional manufacturing venture aiming to decarbonise one of the world’s dirtiest industries. Former Wallaby great Phil Kearns was no great fan of Scope 3 emissions requirements and all the other rigmarole he’d had to go through as CEO […]

He watched drone operators drown in data. Now his start-up is worth $100 million

Melbourne defence-tech start-up Arkeus has raised $25 million on its technology born from a founder seeing the frustration of drone operators hunting drugs in the Colombian jungle. Key Takeaways Key Background Simon Olsen was in the jungles of La Macarena, Colombia, where the Andes and Amazon meet, looking for drug operations, when the realisation hit.   […]