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Larry Diamond and Peter Gray enjoyed early success with their buy now, pay later company Zip, formerly Zip Co, when it launched in 2013. By 2019, their company had reached a $1 billion valuation. But as investor sentiment around the buy now, pay later industry soured, so did the company’s share price. It’s now near […]
Artisse AI: Aiming to help guys get more dates … and destroy the photography, modelling and advertising industries while it’s at it. Artisse AI founder William Wu was in South Korea working with a K-pop agency trying to create a virtual idol for his blockchain gaming business, Catheon Gaming, when the idea hit. The images […]
From ChatGPT to facial and voice recognition, autonomous vehicles to robotics, artificial intelligence is the talk of the town. Meet the investors trying to gain real exposure to the sector and the companies poised to benefit from its meteoric rise. Subscribe to Forbes Australia for full access to this and all articles today Subscribe Already a […]
The Zambrero Mexican restaurant chain accounts for just half of Sam Prince’s $1.57-billion fortune. And after an existential shock in 2016, he’s pivoted his priorities back to business, with plans to make much more from what he says will be entrepreneurship’s next big thing. Forbes Australia Issue 7 is out now. Tap here to secure […]
It’s taken more than 20 years, a bucket of grit and a rare ability to find help across the globe, but Daniel Timms is poised to make heart transplants a thing of the past. This story featured in Issue Seven of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. Billy Cohn is a world-renowned heart […]
Australia’s film-industry disruptor, Blackmagic Design, has released a suite of new products it hopes will propel it back to its pandemic highs – including a free app for shooting cinematic, feature-film-quality video on your iPhone. CEO and founder Grant Petty takes aim at those who tell him he shouldn’t be giving it away. “I always […]
Australia has some of the world’s best space technology companies and yet contributes just 1% to the global space sector. Experts say there’s an imbalance between our technical and sovereign capability. Regardless, they believe the future is bright for the country’s burgeoning space industry. As billionaires continue to launch their rockets into the stratosphere, the space […]
Just 0.7% of all venture capital in Australia goes to 100% female-founded and led businesses. For US-owned VC fund, F5 Collective – which has invested in seven APAC, female-led businesses over the past year – it’s a huge opportunity. In fact, it wants to invest in 1,000 female founders by 2030. It’s no secret that […]
The concept of non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) and their potential value was difficult for many people to get their heads around. It turns out the global scepticism was warranted. A new study has found 95% of NFT collections are worthless. When it comes to cryptocurrency, NFTs have been dubbed the rising stars of the growing market over […]
New Zealand-based CarbonScape is set to commercialise the production of biographite – a new, cleaner graphite alternative for lithium-ion batteries. CarbonScape, which began developing its clean graphite alternative, biographite, in 2016, recently banked $18 million in an investment round led by Europe’s largest supplier of wooden construction material, Store Enso, to commercialise its materials throughout […]