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Advanced Navigation CEO Chris Shaw.

The soaring financials behind Australia’s newest deep-tech unicorn

Airtree and the NRF led a $158 million round in March that valued Advanced Navigation at over $1 billion. Documents lodged with ASIC reveal a sharp rise in revenue and a fall in losses in the lead up to that unicorn round.

  • By Daniel Van Boom
  • Business Journalist

LinkedIn has declared war on AI slop

Opinion: Many of us have grown wary of AI-generated content and polished corporate sameness, argues Carlii Lyon. It’s time to welcome the return of human individuality online In a recent blog post, LinkedIn announced a crackdown on AI slop, after complaints that the platform was becoming more of a social media hub for bots than humans. Advanced, […]

  • By Carlii Lyon
  • Contributor

Sydney’s Oli procures $6.5m to monitor the leading cause of preventable maternal death

Maternal monitoring platform Oli has closed a $6.5 million Series A3 round – drawing funds from Scale Investors, the University of Sydney, and Clare Ventures – to address postpartum hemorrhage, which globally takes the life of one mother every 8 minutes.

  • By Shivaune Field
  • Business Journalist
Linktree co-founder Alex Zaccaria. Credit: Linktree.

‘Talent will move elsewhere’: Why this Linktree co-founder is rethinking Australia

Alex Zaccaria, the founder of unicorn Linktree, is among the Australian founders aggrieved by proposed changes to the capital gains rate. He believes the Government is well intentioned, but that the result will be more and more Australian startups shifting their centre of gravity to the US.

  • By Daniel Van Boom
  • Business Journalist

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Diraq

Diraq strikes $53m agreement with US Government – and is eyeing up to $420m more

The quantum computing startup will receive up to $53 million to establish a supply chain in the US. Later this year it hopes to progress through a US Defence initiative that could score it an even bigger windfall. Andrew Dzurak first received grant funding from the US Government when he was a quantum academic in […]

  • By Daniel Van Boom
  • Business Journalist

‘Banana republic territory’: Founder says CGT changes will leave Aussie startups ‘captive’

Michael Biercuk was one of many startup founders who joined Allegra Spender’s roundtable on capital gains tax reform.

  • By Daniel Van Boom
  • Business Journalist

Sydney uni dropout behind $432M startup teams up with Beckham to outsmart aging

An Australian law school dropout is leveraging a $43 million Series A round, and an alignment with David Beckham’s supplement company, to scale preventative longevity.

  • By Shivaune Field
  • Business Journalist

Alix Earle has mastered marketing. Now she takes the founder seat

14-million-follower-rich Alix Earle has been a gold mine for other brands. Now the challenge is to see if she can use her influence to scale her own startup.

  • By Zoya Hasan

Three Aussie innovators chosen as 2026 Cartier Women’s Initiative fellows

Now in its 20th year, the Cartier Women’s Initiative provides a leg up for social entrepreneurs around the world. Three Aussie women made the cut in 2026 and will join 26 other global CWI fellows in Bangkok this June.

  • By Shivaune Field
  • Business Journalist

The Melbourne doctor who built a $660m health AI company just launched hardware

Leveraging Point72 and Blackbird’s backing, Melbourne-founded Heidi evolves its AI-driven health solutions.

  • By Shivaune Field
  • Business Journalist
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