His self-driving car startup hit $300m before crashing. Now he’s back for round two.

Cibby Pulikkaseril has raised a $3.5 million seed round for Zabidou, a deep tech second act after his first startup collapsed amid an attempt at revolutionising self-driving cars. Cibby Pulikkaseril remembers standing by the test track where the team at his first startup Baraja would trial the LiDAR tech it was developing to help self-driving cars […]

I help elite performers optimise their health. Here’s the truth about biohacking

Opinion: From cold plunges and cryotherapy to intermittent fasting and IV vitamin drips, biohacking promises sharper performance and a longer life. Performance dietitian Jessica Spendlove examines what the evidence says. Nearly three in four Australians now use complementary medicines, an industry forecast to reach $6.3 billion in 2025. Globally, the biohacking market has already passed US$20 billion and […]

Rocket Lab alum raises $10.5m to build ‘anti-gravity chamber’ for space manufacturing

Outlier Space has raised an unusually large $10.5 million pre-seed round to build a satellite designed to help companies manufacture pharmaceuticals, silicon and other advanced materials in microgravity. Space is becoming a new frontier of advanced manufacturing thanks to the wonders of microgravity. That may sound like sci-fi, but antipodean investors are betting it will […]

Atlassian warns more AI use will not magically lift productivity

Fortune 500 companies are embracing AI, but few can measure a tangible return. Atlassian’s chief people and AI enablement officer says widespread adoption means little unless businesses redesign the processes around it. The executive in charge of Atlassian’s internal AI tooling says the world’s biggest companies are struggling to see productivity gains from AI, and […]