Entrepreneurs

Most successful businesses don’t begin with a master plan, argues Bernadette Schwerdt, who has interviewed more than 100 entrepreneurs.

Opinion: The new luxury property buyer isn’t an inheritor or corporate executive. Economist Atom Go Tian explains how founders are reshaping Australia’s prestige property market. Behind every luxury property transaction is a person. For decades, the very top of the market was largely the domain of corporate executives reaching the peak of long careers or […]

Opinion: Australia has no shortage of climate innovation. What it lacks are enough businesses willing to buy it, argues Asha Kayla, forcing many businesses to look overseas.

The best startup founders aren’t asking whether to stay in Australia or leave, argues David Burt.

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.

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, […]

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.

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.

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 […]

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