Anastasia Santoreneos

Hatch has closed an oversubscribed seed round to scale its AI-powered jobs marketplace aimed at Gen Z.

Kristo Käärmann launched Wise (formerly TransferWise) back in 2011 with the aim of helping users move cash around the world – without the marked-up fees charged by banks. Since then, the company has gone on to process more than $48 billion in cross-border payments and save customers more than $2.9 billion

Parker Conrad is bringing Rippling, his US$11.25 billion work management platform to Australia, nearly a year after Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse forced the business to liquidate $130 million to process its customers’ payrolls.

While many of us were stockpiling toilet paper in 2020, Jaimee Lupton was busy developing a product to disrupt the shelves of Coles and Woolworths. What she launched would go on to be coined liquid gold – and is on track to bring in $300 million in retail sales this year.

In a two-hour interview with ex-Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin says Tesla founder Elon Musk can’t be stopped.

After remaining invite-only since its launch in 2023, Jack Dorsey’s social media platform, Bluesky, is open to the public.

YouTube has claimed its Partner Program has paid out more than any other creator monetisation program, with over US$70 billion flowing to creators, artists and media companies in the last three years.

The Meta Oversight Board has upheld the company’s decision to leave up manipulated video of US President Joe Biden that claims he is a pedophile.

Start-up funding in 2023 was similar to COVID levels, topping just $3.5 billion compared to $7.4 billion in 2022, the latest State of Australian Startup Funding Report found.

Amazon’s proposed acquisition of Roomba maker, iRobot, has been scrapped over EU antitrust regulatory concerns.