OLEG VORNIK, a Russian kid from New Zealand, took American start-up DroneShield to Australia to make anti-drone defence systems that are now used all over the world, including the conflict in Ukraine.
The Zambrero Mexican restaurant chain accounts for just half of Sam Prince’s $1.57-billion fortune. And after an existential shock in 2016, he’s pivoted his priorities back to business, with plans to make much more from what he says will be entrepreneurship’s next big thing. Forbes Australia Issue 7 is out now. Tap here to secure […]
It’s taken more than 20 years, a bucket of grit and a rare ability to find help across the globe, but Daniel Timms is poised to make heart transplants a thing of the past. This story featured in Issue Seven of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. Billy Cohn is a world-renowned heart […]
The $39-billion design juggernaut will pay you for helping to train its new AI suite – Canva Magic.
Australia’s film-industry disruptor, Blackmagic Design, has released a suite of new products it hopes will propel it back to its pandemic highs – including a free app for shooting cinematic, feature-film-quality video on your iPhone. CEO and founder Grant Petty takes aim at those who tell him he shouldn’t be giving it away. “I always […]
Fresh from a billion-dollar valuation, Advanced Navigation is shooting for the stars with a new plant to increase its production tenfold. Advanced Navigation is guiding all the thousands of robotic Amazon trucks driving between warehouses in the US. Its technology steers satellites and will be guiding a lander to the moon in 2025. It is […]
Melbourne biotech startup ENA Respiratory has demonstrated how its flu-and-Covid fighting nasal spray had stimulated a host of immune-related genes in its trial on 123 human subjects, it announced Monday. But it’s pivoting to a new formulation. ENA Respiratory spun out of the University of Melbourne in 2015 but came of age in the depths […]
Dubbed the “origami of death”, Melbourne-made flatpack drones assembled with glue and rubber bands have been hitting targets inside Russia since June, most recently destroying US$100 million worth of aircraft. Family-owned Australian company SYPAQ Systems has been sending 100 cardboard drones a month to Ukraine for the last year. Designed to carry more benign payloads, […]
Melbourne biotech Aravax is in the middle of peanut allergy drug trials which, if successful, promise to open up an estimated US$4-billion global market. In a Nutshell It takes courage to tackle peanut allergy. In the 1990s, a child died during a clinical trial after an injection of peanut extract. It was a dosing error, […]
Michelle Zatlyn’s company, Cloudflare, handles 20% of the world’s web traffic. Here’s why she’s giving it away.