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Elon Musk is once again the world's richest person. Image: Getty

The top 10 richest people in the world (November 2025)

After a volatile April for U.S. stocks, a guide to which of the world’s top ten richest came out ahead–and whose fortunes fell.

  • By Forbes Staff
With a new $10 billion valuation for their AI recruiting startup Mercor, the founders have become the youngest self-made billionaires ever.

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.

  • By Richard Nieva

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.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Journalist & List Editor

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.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Journalist & List Editor

Nvidia becomes first company worth $5 trillion

The company, worth $10 billion a decade ago, has reached record milestones driven by growing AI demand.

  • By Ty Roush
  • Forbes Staff
Wisetech founder Richard White. Image: Supplied

WiseTech offices raided by AFP and ASIC 

Shares of the Australian tech giant plunged on Tuesday after federal authorities searched its Sydney office over share trading allegations against founder Richard White and three other employees.

  • By Samuel Hussey
  • Head of News & Life

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.

  • By Brittany Fox

Apple tops Microsoft as world’s second-most valuable company after stock rally

The surge in shares was fueled by the iPhone 17 outselling the iPhone 16 in China and the U.S., according to a report from Counterpoint Research.

  • By Antonio Pequeño IV

Luxury stocks—Hermès, Prada, more—boom as LVMH earnings fuel rally

The luxury bellwether reported sales growth for the first time this year.

  • By Ty Roush
  • Forbes Staff

Australian start-up funding rebounds to over $1 billion across Q3

Despite a continued drought of mega-deals, Australia’s venture funding climbed back to the billion-dollar mark in Q3, driven by a surge in accelerator activity and heightened investor appetite for deep-tech and AI-focused companies.

  • By James McCreery
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