Entrepreneurs

Introducing Asia-Pacific’s young entrepreneurs who are finding innovative ways to navigate new business realities in the region and lead the transformation of various industries.

Vogt, who resigned from the self-driving car company amid a crisis just six months ago, landed a $550 million valuation for a new company that wants to sell robots for personal uses like cleaning your house.

Australian start-up Hysata revolutionised the common electrolyser back in 2022. Today, it’s just banked the biggest Series B round for a climate-tech startup in Australia to expand its production capacity.

Landfills are overflowing with plastic trash. Serial inventor Jonathan Rothberg’s Protein Evolution found a solution: using AI to create enzymes that can recycle old polyester textiles into a material that acts new. Now the three-year-old company needs to prove that it can scale up.

Startmate has invested in 230+ startups worth $3.5 billion since its inception in 2011. Here are the 10 companies to graduate from the 2024 cohort, now pushing forward into the Australian entrepreneurship eco-system.

Australian fintech company Airwallex is launching a program for local startups to boost their growth, with grants and perks on offer.

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.

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

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.

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.