Canva expands platform to integrate AI coding and smart sheets
Canva has moved beyond pretty pictures to pull the threads of AI together into an easy-to-navigate, user-friendly platform for creativity.
Shivaune Field
Shivaune Field is a business journalist with Forbes Australia reporting on tech and innovation. She has reported extensively in the U.S. and Australia across print, digital, television and podcast platforms. She regularly interviews founders, C-suite executives, leaders, entrepreneurs, and company builders. Before Forbes, Field was a journalist with Bloomberg Media based in Los Angeles covering innovation and the business of media and entertainment. She spent 16 years living in California and recently returned from Arizona where she reported on the 2024 US election. Field writes for the bi-monthly Forbes Australia magazine and Forbes.com.au. She covers Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Netflix among many other companies. She is the editorial lead for Forbes Women in Australia.
DeteQt clutches $750,000 pre-seed raise for ‘diamond-on-silicon’ approach to quantum
Australia’s deeptech fund Main Sequence and the ATP Fund in Austin invested the pre-seed funds into The University of Sydney quantum computing spin-out.
The 5 Australians on Forbes’ list of the World’s 200 Richest
Mining, property, and technology have made the fortunes of Australia’s wealthiest people. Here are the 5 Australians that rank in the Forbes global list of richest people. Whether it is taking things out of Australian dirt, building housing on top of it, or reimagining the way we work and collaborate with teammates, billions of dollars […]
How the 50/30/20 rule can help manage your budget
Sacrificing a percentage of your post-tax income for long-term goals can have immense impact on your long-range financial security. Is saving 20 per cent of each paycheque too much or not enough?
The tenacious trio behind Treasury Wine Estate’s female-focused Drop of Sunshine
Seeing a gap in the market for a female-focused wine, TWE and Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine teamed up to introduce a new wine brand to US and Australian audiences. The red, white, and sparkling results are just as sunny as you might imagine.
The faces of gender equity change: Nicola Forrest’s $160m investment in Co-Impact
The co-founder of Australia’s Minderoo Foundation has allocated $160 million to philanthropic organisation Co-Impact, to tackle the root causes of gender inequity.
Blackbird vaults AI startup Springboards forward with $5m seed raise
The Queensland-based startup, founded by husband and wife ad executives Pip Bingemann and Amy Tucker, is using AI to enable ad agencies to ‘supercharge their creativity.’
‘Every right to protect its borders’: Forrest family commits another $5m to Ukraine
The WA-headquartered Minderoo Foundation, founded by the billionaire Forrest family in 2001, has given $25 million to aid the Ukrainian people and support the country’s fight for sovereignty against Russia.
MyPass Global swipes $7.5m series A for its Skills Passport
Founded in Sydney in 2015, MyPass Global is accelerating product development and expanding further into the Americas. The company counts Shell, Woodside and BHP as customers.
PropHero propelled by $25m Series A
Founded in 2021, PropHero manages more than $1.2 billion in real estate assets between Australia, Spain, Ireland and the Indonesian property markets, and serves 8,000 users in 40 countries