Mark Whittaker

It’s going to take 30 years and up to $368 billion for Australia to get just eight nuclear submarines. That’s a problem. Local start ups have a thousand solutions.

First, he built the brain that taught itself to play Pong. Now, Hon Wen Chong is focused on building a “body in a box” to support that grey matter and send it out into the world.

How a Shark Tank judge was inundated with requests from fellow business leaders to take them to the Amazon and make them one with everything.

Start-ups sealed a deal a day over the second quarter of this year, signalling that the “fog of fear” that had engulfed the start-up world was starting to lift. Key Takeaways Venture capitalists had a “significant mood shift” in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest survey of Australian VCs by Cut […]

Pooch supplying unicorn Pet Circle has kept its billion-dollar valuation with a $75-million capital injection from Prysm Capital. Mike Frizell, CEO and Founder of Pet Circle, is speaking live at the Forbes Australia Leadership Forum. Secure your seat here. The company that bills itself as Australia’s largest online pet retailer posted a loss of $31.8 million […]

Blainey North has designed interiors and furniture for everyone from Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe, to the Packer family, the Pratts and Kerry Stokes. She even did the mirror over Shane Warne’s bed. Here she riffs on the special relationships required to bring out the best in her and her clients. Subscribe to Forbes Australia […]

Global travel amenities company Buzz has bought cult Australian sustainable personal-care brand Single Use Ain’t Sexy, for an undisclosed sum.

Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation and the US State Department are backing a syndicate of indigenous Australian venture capital investors aiming to focus on seeding First Nations startups. The launch of Blak Angels by Minderoo comes hot on the heels of the announcement last week that the Forrests had donated a further $5 billion […]

Palmer Luckey sold his first business to Facebook for US$2 billion when he was 21. At 30, he’s bringing his defence disruptor to Australia to build submarines and much more. Subscribe to Forbes Australia for full access to this and all articles today Subscribe     Already a subscriber? Sign In  

Australian psychiatrists will be allowed to prescribe the active ingredients in magic mushrooms and ecstasy from July 1 bringing a range of risks and opportunities. And business is already setting off on its own magical mystery tour. Burning Man, the great heaving celebration of art, fire and acid in the Nevada desert, “would be the […]