Meet Nick Mathers: The Aussie who built an empire selling our lifestyle
Meet Nick Mathers, the man who built an empire exporting the Australian lifestyle Stateside.
Entrepreneurs
New XPrize will award $101 million to innovators who can reverse aging
The new contest aims to spur innovation into longer ‘healthspans’ with treatments that can actually reverse age-related degradation in body, mind and immune system.
Mark Cuban quits ‘Shark Tank’ after over 10 years
Cuban joined the show as a guest and eventually became a mainstay by season 3.
This Nvidia cofounder could have been worth $70 billion. Instead, he lives off the grid
If Curtis Priem, Nvidia’s first CTO, had held onto all his stock, he’d be the 16th richest person in America. Instead, he sold out years ago and gave most of his fortune to his alma mater Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Betting on botanicals: Australian DMT research scores $4.5 million
Psychae Therapeutics bagged the raise from Tin Alley Ventures and the University of Melbourne’s pre-seed investment fund.
Who is Emmett Shear? What to know about OpenAI’s interim CEO
In a surprise decision Sunday night, OpenAI’s board of directors picked former Twitch boss Emmett Shear as the company’s interim CEO following the dramatic firing of Sam Altman on Friday.
Is OpenAI ‘dead to businesses building with it’? Altman ouster has customers seeking alternatives
Startups built on OpenAI’s technology are looking for new options after the boardroom coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman.
Aerologix raise takes Aussie drone company to new heights
The Sydney-based drone company landed $2 million in a pre-Series A raise. The funds have facilitated the acquisition of Brazilian mapping firm Mappa and the global launch of AerologixMaps.
A day inside a VC office taught me more about business than a lifetime in the boardroom
I flew from New York to Miami recently, invited to spend a day inside a VC office. This brief trip with Fuel Venture Capital was a masterclass in the relentless spirit that drives the top businesses to succeed.
Block founder Jack Dorsey’s $3m pledge to Indigenous entrepreneurs
The $3 million investment into First Australians Capital was made through Block’s social impact fund. Block is the Dorsey-founded parent company of Australian fintech super unicorn Afterpay.