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This $1.3 billion AI startup’s software watches employees as they work

Cofounded in 2019 by former consultant Jennifer Smith, Scribe’s software helps hundreds of thousands of companies record what their employees do so AI agents can take over repetitive tasks in the future.

  • By Rashi Shrivastava

The Gates Foundation is funding a startup’s plan to fight malnutrition with bacteria

Synthetic microbiomes to treat disease. Sea levels may rise faster than we thought. AI for scientific researchers. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype.

  • By Alex Knapp
  • Forbes Staff

Racist videos and payment problems: The dark side of this AI startup’s super-fast growth

Influencer marketing helped AI video company Higgsfield hit $300 million in annual revenue run rate in just 11 months. But misleading marketing tactics and a shock-based social media strategy has led to backlash.

  • By Rashi Shrivastava

This startup is racing Duolingo to replace human language tutors with AI

Founded by former Thiel fellows, AI language tutoring app Speak started its journey in Seoul, South Korea. But as it enters the U.S. market, it’ll have to compete with better-known rivals like Duolingo.

  • By Rashi Shrivastava

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This Irish drone startup is aiming for a million deliveries a year

Manna has raised $30 million to fund an ambitious expansion, taking on well-funded competitors like Amazon, Alphabet and unicorn Zipline. It could be first to scale a mass drone delivery operation.

  • By Jeremy Bogaisky
  • Forbes Staff

Australian climate-tech start-up Neara bags $45 million

Neara’s Series C round is set to accelerate the company’s global operations as it continues its mission to modernise energy infrastructure.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Journalist & List Editor

Australian start-up funding slumps to $695 million across Q3

Deal numbers might be high but the absence of those over $100 million has seen start-up funding tank to Q1 levels after a six-quarter high (in Q2).

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Journalist & List Editor

Top 20 start-ups to work for in Australia in 2024

What do an insur-tech, a fake meat start-up and quantum computing company have in common? They’re all on this year’s top 20 start-ups to work for list, according to LinkedIn.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Journalist & List Editor

Christina Cacioppo’s software startup just raised new funds at a $2.5 billion valuation

One of America’s most successful self-made women, Vanta CEO Cacioppo talks about navigating her company’s growth and putting herself and her company at center stage.

  • By Phoebe Liu
Raising money is tough in good times, let alone when the economic conditions aren’t necessarily ideal.

Quick takes: Three entrepreneurs on our innovation radar

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.

  • By Rosie Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff
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