By the numbers: Meet North America’s Forbes Under 30 class of 2025
Forbes crunched the numbers on our annual Under 30 list: $3.6 Billion in funding, 300 million social media followers, the biggest-ever cohort of Gen Z, and more.
30 Under 30
30 under 30 sports 2025: The US athletes breaking barriers
Just a game? Not to these young all-stars, who are fearlessly leading sports into the future.
The off-pitch evolution of on-pitch Mary Fowler
She won the hearts of Australians in the FIFA 2023 Women’s World Cup. Queensland-born superstar Mary Fowler played her first game for the Matildas at just 15. Off-the-pitch, the now 21-year-old changed how she approaches the game and is happier and more successful than ever.
Introducing Forbes Australia’s inaugural 30 Under 30 list
After trawling online nominations and tapping industry resources and alumni, we have identified 30 of the brightest young entrepreneurs, stars and leaders in their field.
Tkay Maidza is taking over: New albums, global tours, and her next big move
She’s dropped a new album, finished a 20-date tour in North America and Canada and played a festival tour – just in the last six months. Zimbabwe-born, Australia-raised musician Tkay Maidza has had a whirlwind rise to success – and it’s just the beginning.
The future of Aussie news? Hannah Ferguson’s got the Cheek to make it happen
Hannah Ferguson really, really hated studying law at university. And that had nothing to do with the course material, but rather the culture she was suddenly surrounded by.
Meet Davie Fogarty: Australia’s $600 million retail shark
Davie Fogarty is perhaps Australia’s most well-known young retail mogul, thanks to the viral success of his sleepwear brand, The Oodie. Now, with $600 million in sales, a coaching business, a Shopify course and a seat on Shark Tank Australia, he’s on hisway to becoming a household name.
A robot and a billion-dollar dream: Inside Grace Brown’s quest to revolutionise aged care
24-year-old mechatronics engineer Grace Brown has been building robots since she was just 15. But her hobby became a business in 2022 when she launched Andromeda Robotics with a view to deploying the first empathetic robotic throughout nursing homes in Australia: Abi.
How Sam Crowther turned a high school gig into an international bot-blocking empire
A tech-whiz-turned-bot-blocker, Sam Crowther, is behind Kasada, a tech platform that helps organisations mitigate bot risks. So far, the company has raised $39 million to continue its mission and was recently recognised as one of the most significant solutions in the industry.
Meet the tech duo behind Updoc: 200K patients and a $20 million milestone
Computer science whiz Dylan Coyne sparked up an idea for a telehealth platform in 2021 when he realised working a 9-5 didn’t leave you with much time to see a doctor. Three years later, Updoc, the company he co-founded with Clifton Hodgkinson, has served more than 200,000 customers to date and banked $20 million in funding.