Michelle Battersby on creating a safe space for dangerous nipples. There was always a question in Michelle Battersby’s mind while she built the Australian business of the dating app Bumble. As the app went through a million Australian registrations, two million, then three million, the question remained: “Am I really good at this?” Or was […]
How two colleagues went from whiteboard to 25 countries with their sunscreen beauty brand Ultra Violette So what do you do when you’ve got an idea for a new business, but the one person in the world you’d want to start that business with is your boss? Ava Matthews says she doesn’t have much of […]
Architect James Davidson wants to move the dial faster on making homes safer, insurance cheaper and enabling communities to rebuild better when nature devastates cities and regions. Australia has always seen extreme natural events, doused with flooding rains, burnt by bushfires, scorched by drought and buffeted by cyclones and dust storms that smother regional areas […]
Move over Google Wing: Melbourne-based drone services company Swoop Aero is changing the drone services game and attracting global attention. Swoop Aero co-founder Eric Peck broke the speed of sound the day before his 21st birthday. He also received his Hercules aircraft captaincy two weeks after turning 25. He is somewhat “miffed” by that fact, […]
After experiencing extreme highs and lows with his previous company, SKINS, Jaimie Fuller has taken his “what not to do” in business and applied it to his wearables sports tech business, eo. After years heading up the global sports compression clothing label SKINS, there aren’t many professional athletes and international sporting teams that Jaimie Fuller […]
The metaverse is here whether the world is ready for it or not. Tech leaders say timing is of the essence as companies decide what role the technology will play in their future. The metaverse – or a shared virtual reality space – might sound to a like a far-off tech concept straight out of […]
The CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub explains why artificial intelligence is revolutionising the way coding works. In a world where software plays an increasingly central role in day-to-day life – from producing sophisticated business reporting functions to driving a car or choosing the next series to binge on, the shortage of software developers is cause for concern, […]
Venture capital firm AirTree recently doubled down on its investments into the company with a $15 million co-investment with one of its LPs. In 2014, Nasir Ahsan was part of a deep ocean expedition to map the seabed four kilometres below the earth’s surface using a robot. The marine robotics expert was on the vessel […]
Earlier this year, Alisha Geary zoomed in from Paris to the weekly Dream Venture Masterclasses ahead of a shark-tank style pitch against other Indigenous start-ups. Everyone there was vying for a slice of the $150,000 from Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation and, perhaps more crucially, for the attention of the venture capitalists in the […]
91-year-old theoretical physicist Heinrich Hora and material scientist Warren McKenzie, the co-founders of HB11 Energy, believe they can radically change the future with a high-powered laser and a few protons to create viable nuclear fusion. Now, they say, they just need a $100 million laser of their own to prove it, and the Australian government […]