Quick Takes: Three entrepreneurs we’re watching right now – Issue 25

Forbes Australia picks out three Australian entrepreneurs who are making waves in the startup space right now. This story features in Issue 25 – out now. Tap here to secure your copy.  Marloo  After seven years building investing platforms, Hardy Michel and Shakeel Lala kept running into the same problem: customers wanted to know what to do with their money.  “In […]

Pearl dynasty: Meet the heir designing Paspaley’s new era of luxury

Pearling, including retailing now accounts for 70% of Paspaley’s business, and creative director Christine Salter is keeping the 90-year-old family name synonymous with luxury, drawing on its wild Kimberley origins to win a new generation of customers. This story features in Issue 25 – out now. Tap here to secure your copy.  Christine Salter, the […]

A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Why luxury is digging into its past

I recently sat down with Dr Frank-Steffen Walliser, CEO of Bentley, and we discussed what makes a brand truly luxurious and what it takes to retain high-end customers when the market is tough and flooded with cheaper alternatives.  This editor’s note features in Issue 25 – out now. Tap here to secure your copy.  His answer was simple: horsepower is easy; […]

The ASX wants Australia’s unicorns. So why hasn’t it won them over?

Silicon Valley’s VC sector birthed eight of the US’s 10 biggest listed companies. Australia’s new ventures have grown to $100 billion over the past 15 years – but have often found the local market broadly “hostile”. Now – days after Firmus pulled what was supposed to be the biggest float since Telstra – the ASX […]

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How Arkeus crossed defence tech’s ‘valley of death’

Arkeus was already selling its hyperspectral sensor to the US military and Coast Guard. Now the Melbourne startup has finally cracked the Australian Army. For all the money Australia pours into defence innovation, there is a stubborn gap between building a piece of military technology and getting the Australian Defence Force to use it. Melbourne […]