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This drone startup bagged BHP, Rio Tinto as customers. Now it’s raised $25m to tackle defence spending boom

Emesent, a drone tech startup spun out of CSIRO, has raised $25 million in a round that includes NGS Super, Hostplus, Main Sequence and the NRF. CSIRO-spinout Emesent has raised $25 million in fresh funding, including $10 million in venture debt from the National Reconstruction Fund, as it aims to jump further into the exploding […]

Is fat flavour? Neil Perry’s verdict on the new vegan ‘animal fat’

Chef Neil Perry tasted food-tech startup Nourish Ingredients’ first product – a vegan animal fat made with precision fermentation – unveiled at SXSW Sydney yesterday.

The unicorn navigating from a Perth garage to the moon

Fresh from a billion-dollar valuation, Advanced Navigation is shooting for the stars with a new plant to increase its production tenfold. Advanced Navigation is guiding all the thousands of robotic Amazon trucks driving between warehouses in the US. Its technology steers satellites and will be guiding a lander to the moon in 2025. It is […]