Entrepreneurs

From micro-investment apps to startup accelerators and early-stage VC funds, this year’s Finance & Venture Capital listees are reshaping their industries.

Connecting people and seeing the ripple effects is profoundly rewarding; it can steer new directions and change lives. SXSW Sydney is looking to provide international opportunities to Australian talent to create a year-round node of connections. Global expansion in business, whether you’re selling a product or promoting talent, is often slow. It’s expensive, and tricky […]

The funding comes as deal count for AI agent startups is up more than 81% over the last year, with more than US$8 billion invested in the space. Key facts Key background Relevance AI was launched in 2020 by Jacky Koh, Daniel Vassilev and Daniel Palmer as a platform to help businesses build AI workforces of […]

The Australian author and food blogger behind RecipeTin Eats, Nagi Maehashi, has made copyright infringement allegations against Penguin Random House claiming there are plagiarised recipes in Brooke Bellamy’s best-selling book, Bake with Brooki.

Persona helps companies like OpenAI, LinkedIn and Reddit verify the identities of millions of users at a time when AI agents have made it increasingly difficult to do so. Now, it has $200 million in fresh funding from top VC firms.

Australian-born Miranda Kerr is the founder and Managing Director of KORA Organics, a certified organic skin care line she launched in 2009. What began in Australia has since gained international recognition, with KORA products now available in over 25 countries worldwide.

Founders launch businesses no one wants every single day. They ignore warning signs and barrel forward on gut feel alone. But nobody cares about your brilliant idea. What if you could validate your concept before wasting months building something nobody will buy?

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.

Founded in 2007, Alo Yoga has become a hit with such celebrities as Taylor Swift and Bella Hadid. It’s also made a fortune for two childhood best friends from Los Angeles

Manna has raised $30 million to fund an ambitious expansion, taking on well-funded competitors like Amazon, Alphabet and unicorn Zipline. It could be first to scale a mass drone delivery operation.