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Fung’s task: Selling Airtasker equity for airtime

Founder Tim Fung has turned his jobs marketplace, Airtasker, into a household name thanks to shrewd deals giving media companies a slice of the action, but cracking the US hasn’t been quite so simple

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

Meet the founder trying to fix the problem 92% of mums experience

The Global Breastfeeding Collective set a target of 70% of infants being breastfed by 2030. As Lactamo’s founder experienced first-hand, breastfeeding is not always as easy as it sounds. She developed a class 1 medical device to aid and facilitate optimal breastfeeding right here in Australia.

  • By Shivaune Field
  • Business Journalist

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

Tech’s ‘sleeping giant’: Inside the $100 billion industry ripe for disruption

Two new-age insurers banked more than $100 million in funding in Q2, 2024. Forbes investigates whether this signifies a rising trend – or a bucking of.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Journalist & List Editor

Meet the new biotech billionaire putting pig hearts in humans

The planet’s latest billionaire is a helicopter-flying transgender woman who made a fortune saving her daughter’s life.

  • By Richard J. Chang

Inside Fintech’s newest unicorn: A credit card backed by your home

In 2019, Sadi Khan founded Aven. Five years on, it has hit a $1 billion valuation and is backed by big-name investors. But is it a good idea?

  • By Jeff Kauflin

The Candy Crush guys are secretly building a new startup

After selling Candy Crush developer for $5.9 billion, one cofounder Sebastian Knutsson has a new gaming startup.

  • By Iain Martin

Is this the next Canva? JigSpace lands $13m raise as Apple Vision Pro arrives in Australia

Melbourne-headquartered JigSpace is on a roll. It is being compared to Canva and completed its latest fundraising round in the same week Apple CEO Tim Cook called the company ‘incredible.’

  • By Shivaune Field
  • Business Journalist

Australia’s Redactive AI bags $11.5 million to grow ‘virtual AI engineer’

Blackbird and Atlassian Ventures led the $11.5 million seed funding round for Redactive AI – a Melbourne-based developer platform co-founded by former Atlassian product managers.

  • By Shivaune Field
  • Business Journalist

The NZ-born beauty brand seeing 190% growth in the UK – and booming in Australia

Emma Lewisham launched her namesake beauty brand in 2019 with a view to create luxury natural products. Five years on, she’s successfully penetrated the Australian and New Zealand markets – and sales are surging overseas.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Journalist & List Editor
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