From Canva to Clove: AI recipe startup cooks up $4m raise
Anna Guerrero and Sam Killin met while developing Canva’s disruptive marketplace program. Now, the dynamic duo are partnering to cook up a recipe sharing storm.
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Paramount shares skyrocket after reports of potential takeover
The company’s A and B Class shares were both up more than 10% on Friday.
Commercialisation has won AI. What comes next?
The battle over the past week at OpenAI – the creator of industry-changing ChatGPT and DALL-E AI products has been described as many things.
Harvey family office backs Aussie scalp-care brand in $4 million raise
Scalp-care company Straand has raised $4 million in funding from Harvey Norman’s family office and Unilever Ventures.
NZ All Blacks performance coach on moulding champions on and off the field
Dr Nic Gill is the head of performance for the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team and sits on the performance advisory board of functional fitness gym Fitstop. With a PhD in human performance, Gill claims physical exercise can help you train qualities like discipline and goal setting – and improve your performance in the boardroom.
The car might be – but the business case for Musk’s Cybertruck isn’t bulletproof
Dubious environmental benefits aside, billionaire Elon Musk’s polarising Cybertruck may be a strategic misfire given its price, big R&D costs and murky sales outlook.
Meta launches end-to-end encryption for messages on Facebook and Messenger
The major privacy update means Meta will no longer be able to see the contents of messages and brings Facebook and Messenger in line with the company’s other platform, WhatsApp.
Quick takes: Three entrepreneurs on our innovation radar
Forbes Australia has picked out three of the entrepreneurs who have been making waves in the startup scene as of late – and they’re ones to watch.
700 million images: Aussie GenAI startup banks $47m to ‘democratise creativity’
An Australian generative AI content production platform, Leonardo.Ai, has already amassed 7 million global users – who are creating 4.5 million images each day on its platform. Now, it’s raised $47 million to keep users creating.
New Lark CEO distils his whisky strategy: ‘Growth is the name of the game’
Lark Distilling spent the last three years maximizing production capacity. Now that it has increased supply, the new CEO aims for 80% of its whiskey to be sold abroad.