How a buck’s party, an Instagram scroll on the loo, and overpriced jerseys saw the football great come on board rag-trade tech startup Nardo. Tim Cahill has just become the first Australian to kick a goal at the football World when he gets a call from Giorgio Armani Armani’s people. They want to meet. “I’ll […]
Marc Hermann set out to build a healthcare company focused on catching disease before it strikes. Investors have backed that vision with a $65 million funding round. Everlab has raised $65 million at a valuation approaching $500 million, marking what appears to be Australia’s largest medtech capital raise of the year, cementing the Melbourne-based preventive […]
The Queensland cattle farmer’s daughter behind Swipejobs spent 30 years studying how people get hired. Now Katrina Leslie is reinventing the system. This story features on the cover of Forbes Australia: Issue 23 . Tap here to secure your copy. Jane Hussey remembers meeting Katrina Leslie in 1994 – two women in their 20s, solid […]
The Carlton captain has joined BFT founder Cameron Falloon and a group of investors backing Stille, a $10 million Melbourne wellness club that promises elite-athlete recovery tools for everybody – at $200 a week. Patty Cripps spends plenty of time thinking about how to squeeze a few more years out of his AFL career. The […]
Former pharma executive Karinza Phoenix is raising $5 million and preparing an ASX listing as Myopharm advances a diabetes drug it hopes can complement the GLP-1 giants. Karinza Phoenix hasn’t found it hard raising the $6 million that’s got her biotech firm, Myopharm, onto the fast-track approval process for its Type 2 diabetes drug. “How […]
A chance conversation on a golf course has drawn the former Wallaby and listed-company CEO into a regional manufacturing venture aiming to decarbonise one of the world’s dirtiest industries. Former Wallaby great Phil Kearns was no great fan of Scope 3 emissions requirements and all the other rigmarole he’d had to go through as CEO […]
Melbourne defence-tech start-up Arkeus has raised $25 million on its technology born from a founder seeing the frustration of drone operators hunting drugs in the Colombian jungle. Key Takeaways Key Background Simon Olsen was in the jungles of La Macarena, Colombia, where the Andes and Amazon meet, looking for drug operations, when the realisation hit. […]
From BHP’s $300 million nickel crisis to the reinvention of private banking, Geraldine Slattery and Susie Grehl reveal why the most dangerous move a leader can make in an era of rapid disruption is doing nothing at all. When Geraldine Slattery was making her way up through the ranks at BHP, her mentors encouraged her […]
Tetratherix built a $255 million ASX company around a single injectable polymer. Now that same material is being used in everything from dental surgery to prostate cancer treatment and GLP-1 delivery. Tetratherix grabbed the market’s attention in March when it announced its patented polymer was going to be used for the slow release of GLP-1 […]
Julie Inman Grant once taught “social media self-defence” to women in public life. Then came the online pile-on from Elon Musk’s followers – and she found herself taking her own advice. When eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant was branded Australia’s “censorship commissar” by Elon Musk in 2024, the fallout came fast: 75,000 posts in 24 […]