This Nvidia-backed AI startup is helping chip giants save time and money
Taiwan’s MetAI Technology uses digital twins to help chipmakers including TSMC avoid costly construction mistakes, with AI data center builders next in its sights.
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What I’d tell my younger founder self
If I could speak to my younger self about starting her career, I would tell her to do less, trust herself more and stop trying to live every chapter at once – by Hermione Olivia
How Alchemy Charge is transforming standard sockets into commercial EV chargers
Sydney founders Yasemin and Merrick Selvi created a solution to retrofit regular power points into commercialised EV chargers. Now, a partnership with Origin Energy and ARENA is helping scale Alchemy Charge across Australia.
They grew up amid blackouts. Now they’re developing AI to keep the lights on
Ash Kansakaar and Jaideep Upadhyay met in Melbourne after growing up in Nepal and India, respectively. They’ve raised $3 million for their Syncrowin startup, which develops AI to help power providers predict disruptions before they happen.
Sam Bankman-Fried bought his first startup. Now, Airwallex is betting millions on his next
Loong Wang’s Metal is a Melbourne-San Francisco startup that raised a huge $45 million seed round. The startup was incubated by Airwallex founder Jack Zhang himself, and the fintech unicorn is its biggest backer. It is no secret that cryptocurrency infrastructure has issues. Consider the retail experience: You walk to your local and buy a […]
Tim Doyle believed Eucalyptus could hit $10 billion. Here’s why he sold it for a fifth of that
Eucalyptus sold to Hims & Hers for $1.6 billion earlier this year. Co-founder Tim Doyle explains the rationale behind the sale.
How bootstrapped wellness startup KIC is building the female hydration market
KIC founders Laura Henshaw and Steph Claire Smith are entering brick-and-mortar retail, launching a hydration line specifically for women.
Firmus absorbed 70% Australian startup funding before attempted IPO
Q3 was the biggest fundraising quarter on record for the Australian startup sector. However, 69 per cent of funds went to Firmus.
Diraq scores $73 million in US defence race against quantum heavyweights
Diraq has progressed to the third and final stage of a quantum computing program run by the US Department of Defense. It comes with US$51 million in funding – with a possibility of another US$249 million.
Australia’s youngest billionaire Ed Craven places his next big venture bet
Maincode, the AI lab building Australia’s first sovereign LLM, is spinning up a venture capital arm its hopes will turn leaders in finance, healthcare and entertainment into disruptors.