Entrepreneurs

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.

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.

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.

Melbourne’s Finn brothers are on the ride of their life. Their startup Roller recently landed a private equity raise of $78m from U.S Insight Partners. Now their sights are set on 100,000 other leisure attractions around the globe.

Nick Mathers oversees 1700 staff across his 12 U.S. restaurants. There will be six more venues in 2024. Mathers tells Forbes Australia that his company is on track to bring in $120m this year. By 2026, it will be $200m. Then, maybe an IPO.

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.

Cuban joined the show as a guest and eventually became a mainstay by season 3.

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.

Psychae Therapeutics bagged the raise from Tin Alley Ventures and the University of Melbourne’s pre-seed investment fund.

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.