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The Forbes 30 Under 30 alumnus became the first Italian to be named the world’s top-ranked tennis player earlier this year.

Eight new or new-to-Victoria venture capital firms have received $300,000 from LaunchVic. The goal is for the VCs to turn that $2.4 million into $300 million in funding for Victorian startups and founders.

Suppliers of magic-mushroom-derived psilocybin and MDMA, aka ecstacy, are rushing to meet the market created by Australia having allowed their clinical use. Two founders speak to Forbes Australia.

Lynch, a former Forbes billionaire, made his fortune as the CEO of Autonomy, a tech company acquired by HP in a sale that led to more than a decade of legal strife.

Payment company Shift4’s founder and billionaire Jared Isaacman is headed off on the Polaris Dawn mission, which is scheduled to take place from August 26. And, he’ll be one of the first private citizen’s to take a walk in outer space.

The South Australian government’s ‘Kanyini’ satellite is now in orbit, having launched on a SpaceX mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

WeightWatchers’ bold gamble: CEO Sistani fuses AI, GLP-1 drugs, and 60 years of trust into a revolutionary health tech platform to conquer the $377B weight loss market.

One of Australia’s most promising companies that builds no code software programs for the construction, oil, gas and mining industries, has acquired startup Nomad. Sitemate founder Harley Pike tells Forbes Australia exclusively how the Nomad will accelerate Sitemate’s mission

Of the Next Billion-Dollar Startups list’s 225 alumni, 131, or 58%, became unicorns, including DoorDash, Figma, Anduril, Benchling and Rippling. This year, the list is dominated by artificial intelligence.

Until last month, Jessy Wu was a Partner at a venture capital fund. In this piece, she explains how she made the decision to leave, and go all-in on building an AI-enhanced professional services company.