Entrepreneurs

As of October 1, the ranks of the wealthiest people on the planet include 9 self-made Americans and a French luxury goods tycoon.

Athan Didaskalou and Richard Li, the co-founders of prestige luggage brand, July, started the business after tossing up a number of product ideas in categories primed for a shake-up. Five years later, July – the premium, design and innovation-focused luggage brand – is one of the fastest growing companies in a category that up until five years ago, was an outdated, dying category.

As social media’s poster boy approaches 40, he’s having his Bill Gates moment: mellowing (a bit), maturing (a bit more) and upending his company with staggering confidence. It’s a big bet on the future of daily human life—and his legacy.

There are now new pathways to art ownership that include private syndicates and immersive art fairs for investors.

Australian hospitality tech platform Ordermentum has acquired food marketplace Foodbomb and raised $16 million in a bid to accelerate its national growth strategy and to further digitise the food and beverage industry.

Instacart’s three cofounders cashed in about $100 million from the IPO while firms who bought into InstaCart’s 2021 funding round dealt with a near 70% unrealized loss.

Climasens was founded in Melbourne in 2017. The company and its partners received a grant this week from the Google.org Impact Challenge.

I have experienced what it is like to be famous. To be clear, I wasn’t the famous one, my clients were.

The biography of the controversial tech titan, written by Walter Isaacson, comes out Tuesday.

London-based e-commerce software startup Shop Circle has raised $120 million in Series A funding, the company announced Wednesday.