This drone startup bagged BHP, Rio Tinto as customers. Now it’s raised $25m to tackle defence spending boom

Emesent, a drone tech startup spun out of CSIRO, has raised $25 million in a round that includes NGS Super, Hostplus, Main Sequence and the NRF. CSIRO-spinout Emesent has raised $25 million in fresh funding, including $10 million in venture debt from the National Reconstruction Fund, as it aims to jump further into the exploding […]

Fintech unicorn Zeller’s latest product is also its AI guinea pig

Zeller founder Ben Pfisterer says AI is shortening product cycles from nine months to four weeks. The fintech’s latest point-of-sale system is both a swipe at Square, Stripe and Shopify – and a testbed for Zeller’s AI ambition. Zeller founder Ben Pfisterer says artificial intelligence is cutting product development cycles from nine months to just […]

Is Deep Tech the answer to Australia’s future?

The AI-native ecosystem grew 969 per cent between 2021 and 2025, according to Startup Genome’s new global report. Last year, almost 90 per cent of funding went to North American AI-native firms, predominantly in Silicon Valley and New York. Here’s where Australia’s innovation centres are placed.