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‘Be ruthless with systems and kind with people’: How Chanel Contos is leading the consent movement

Contos was just 21 years old when she started the Teach Us Consent movement. The activist shares her knowledge on how to build a social impact platform.

  • By Shivaune Field, Journalist
  • Business Journalist

Why is it so hard to find exit education? Three things founders should consider

An exit is a very attractive vehicle, but like any vehicle, you first need to learn how to drive it, writes Beste Onay.

  • By Beste Onay - Contributor

Startmate launches Ladymates to address pipeline of female founders

60% of founders in Startmate’s latest accelerator cohort are women, and 45% of cohorts have been female in the last 5 years. The company is now launching a new initiative it is calling Ladymates.

  • By Shivaune Field, Journalist
  • Business Journalist

$140 million: Inside the deal room with Kristy Chong

ModiBodi founder, Kristy Chong, successfully exited her leak-proof underwear business back in 2022, when it was acquired by Swedish retailer Essity for $140 million. Ahead of her appearance at the Forbes Australia Women’s Summit, we go inside the deal room to hear how she did it.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

BindiMaps: The Aussie app to help you find your way indoors

Entrepreneur Anna Wright started BindiMaps in 2017. The app provides indoor maps for airports, shopping centres, hospitals, office buildings, libraries, sports grounds, and events.

  • By Shivaune Field, Journalist
  • Business Journalist

From a Netflix prison to the Australian coal coast: Meet Yael Stone

Sydney-born Yael Stone spent 7-years starring in Netflix’s Orange is the New Black. When she returned home in 2019, Stone settled on the NSW Coal Coast and began a new role – training Aussies for the jobs of the future.

  • By Shivaune Field, Journalist
  • Business Journalist

With funding down 70%, here’s what fintech’s high flyers are worth now

The estimated value of 11 leading private fintech startups shows declines as high as 79%. But a few have started to recover.

  • By Jeff Kauflin

‘We lost everything’: Inside Kikki.K’s collapse – and how its founder is plotting her next multimillion-dollar business

Kristina Karlsson was 22 when she borrowed $3,000 from her partner, Paul, to launch iconic stationery brand, Kikki.K. But decades later, Karlsson faced every entrepreneur’s nightmare when Kikki.K entered administration not once, but twice

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

Disney Channel actress launching space data startup

Bridgit Mendler, an actress and singer best known for her roles in Disney Channel’s “Good Luck Charlie” and “Lemonade Mouth,” is adding a CEO title to her resume with her satellite data startup Northwood Space.

  • By Conor Murray
  • Forbes Staff

How two former spies cracked the $11 billion cyber insurance market

Fintech startups Coalition and At-Bay, founded by security and spy-agency veterans, are using their tech smarts to transform the fast-growing business of protecting companies against hackers.

  • By Jeff Kauflin
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