The world’s youngest self-made billionaires are a trio of 22-year-old AI founders
With a new $10 billion valuation for their AI recruiting startup Mercor, the founders are the youngest tech billionaires ever.
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Human Health raises $8.5 million to fix broken healthcare systems
With more than 200,000 patients worldwide logging health actions on the Human Health platform, co-founders Georgia Vidler and Kate Lambridis say they’re ready for the company’s next phase of global growth.
Uluu raises $16 million to scale seaweed solution
Backed by $16 million in Series A funding, Australian startup Uluu is scaling its seaweed-based plastic alternative from lab to industry, aiming to disrupt the $700 billion global plastics industry.
Inside the ‘human web’ connecting the minds behind Google Maps, Zoom and Canva
Lars Rasmussen and Bill Tai are the brains behind some of the most ubiquitous tech in the world. Now, they are funding entrepreneurs to follow in their footsteps. On stage at SXSW Sydney, they revealed that achieving spectacular outcomes like Google Maps, Zoom, and Canva takes immense grit, and the propagating power of a ‘human web.’
Forget search, Perplexity VP says answers, trust, and subscriptions are paramount
Ryan Foutty articulated Perplexity’s vision for the digital economy at SXSW Sydney. The economic structure of the internet is fundamentally realigning to prioritise quality, brand, and user efficiency over click revenue, he says
How Bill Fairies bootstrapped a $12.5m ‘conscious gifting’ model
Sitting atop the Ritz-Carlton in Melbourne, Bill Fairies co-founders Jenny Ghabrial and Sophia Symeou explain how a moment of financial struggle led to a bootstrapped tech company that turns gift-giving into practical financial support.
Why so few women get funded in Australia: the founder experience is broken
Opinion: Two per cent of global funding goes to women-only teams. Brittany Fox is an outlier, having raised a $1.2m seed round for her startup Neevam last month. Here’s why she still believes the fundraising journey is broken.
Why Bobbi Brown is still the original beauty influencer
Putting real women first, simplifying beauty, and telling it like it is has made Bobbi Brown a TikTok sensation and one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People.” Here is why she’s resonates with a new generation.
Venture Studio Nakatomi pulls in $3.5m to ‘back and build’ Aussie startups
The founders of Leonardo.AI and Active Hotels chipped in on the raise, which will help to launch up to 4 new ventures a year.
How can AI impact population-level mental wellbeing? Significantly.
If organisations and governments don’t prepare for coming changes, we risk AI giving us more time but less belonging, leaving societies lonelier, less trusting, and less resilient, writes Greta Bradman.