Neara

Unicorn watch: Meet Australia’s newest billion-dollar company

What began as a tool to troubleshoot power grids has pushed Neara into unicorn territory, as booming data centre demand reshapes how electricity networks are planned and supplied. Key Takeaways Big number 945 terawatt hours. That’s how much energy the world’s data centres are forecast to be chewing up by 2030, compared to about 415 […]

Sovereign Australia AI founders Simon Kriss and Troy Nielson

After accidentally building ‘Bogan AI’ these Aussies are raising $80M for a local ChatGPT-rival

Following an unpolished, swearing predecessor, the team behind Sovereign Australia AI is securing investment to deploy Australis – a platform built to insulate domestic information from foreign jurisdiction. The first proof of concept at building an Australian large language model came out sounding more like an argument in a North Queensland pub than a trusted […]

The songwriter turned billion-dollar boss of Songtradr

Paul Wiltshire swapped songwriting for software – and built the world’s biggest B2B music licensing platform. This story appears in Issue 20 of Forbes Australia – Out now. Paul Wiltshire wonders about the two competing sides of his brain, the creative one that wrote and produced songs for chart-topping performers, and the commercial half that […]

Robin Khuda AirTrunk

AirTrunk eyes world’s biggest data centre as AI boom accelerates

Less than a decade after launching AirTrunk, Robin Khuda is building data centres on a scale once unimaginable — and says the next decade’s AI infrastructure build-out will be “the biggest gold rush in human history”. AirTrunk founder and CEO Robin Khuda is set to announce a one-gigawatt data centre in the Asia Pacific in […]