The faces of gender equity change: Nicola Forrest’s $160m investment in Co-Impact
The co-founder of Australia’s Minderoo Foundation has allocated $160 million to philanthropic organisation Co-Impact, to tackle the root causes of gender inequity.
Shivaune Field
Shivaune Field is a business journalist with Forbes Australia reporting on tech and innovation. She has reported extensively in the U.S. and Australia across print, digital, television and podcast platforms. She regularly interviews founders, C-suite executives, leaders, entrepreneurs, and company builders. Before Forbes, Field was a journalist with Bloomberg Media based in Los Angeles covering innovation and the business of media and entertainment. She spent 16 years living in California and recently returned from Arizona where she reported on the 2024 US election. Field writes for the bi-monthly Forbes Australia magazine and Forbes.com.au. She covers Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Netflix among many other companies. She is the editorial lead for Forbes Women in Australia.
Blackbird vaults AI startup Springboards forward with $5m seed raise
The Queensland-based startup, founded by husband and wife ad executives Pip Bingemann and Amy Tucker, is using AI to enable ad agencies to ‘supercharge their creativity.’
‘Every right to protect its borders’: Forrest family commits another $5m to Ukraine
The WA-headquartered Minderoo Foundation, founded by the billionaire Forrest family in 2001, has given $25 million to aid the Ukrainian people and support the country’s fight for sovereignty against Russia.
MyPass Global swipes $7.5m series A for its Skills Passport
Founded in Sydney in 2015, MyPass Global is accelerating product development and expanding further into the Americas. The company counts Shell, Woodside and BHP as customers.
PropHero propelled by $25m Series A
Founded in 2021, PropHero manages more than $1.2 billion in real estate assets between Australia, Spain, Ireland and the Indonesian property markets, and serves 8,000 users in 40 countries
Meet 5 foodtech innovators breaking new ground in rural Australia
Named as 2025’s ‘AgriFutures evokeAG Groundbreakers,’ these changemakers are working toward a sustainable and innovative agrifood future for Australia.
What does the RBA’s rate cut mean for you?
The Reserve Bank cut rates for the first time since 2020. So what now?
Business sentiment to shift positively with rate cut: Airwallex
The Reserve Bank of Australia will announce today if a much-anticipated rate cut will take place. If it does, it may buoy businesses, says Airwallex’ head of ANZ.
Meet 6 Aussie biotech startups vying to be the next CSL
Australia’s first bioincubator, Jumar, opened its doors 10 months ago. Here are six standout startups that went through its inaugural program.
Index lands $3.5m seed round from Blackbird and Bain
Just two months after coming out of stealth mode, the Sydney-headquartered company is valued at $30 million. Alumni from Atlassian and Canva founded Index in 2023 and are the first Sydney entrepreneurs to go through the US Y Combinator program.