Innovation

NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid

Meet Matt Pearson, a man who has a dream to make flying cars a reality for all of us – but what better place to trial the concept than a racetrack in the sky. His theory: competition drives progress.

Emma Weston is a city lawyer turned farmer who co-founded the digital grain management platform AgriDigital. Her startup is helping transform the agricultural industry from the world’s least digitised to one that is more profitable, equitable and connected.

We’re launching Forbes in Australia at an interesting time economically. An environment in which young tech companies have never before operated in.

Emergency management needs real-time data to effectively communicate among the people involved, says Evacovation CEO Rashid Khan.

Together, we can make a louder noise and bring more people on the journey. The ecosystem we have created is open and easy. A small business can see what is relevant to them for their industry and size to help run the business so it looks after itself from an operational perspective and they can focus on the customer.

At 23, Hailey Brown has founded an assistive technology app that makes tourism more accessible for blind and low-vision travellers

DeFi is an umbrella term for a variety of financial applications in cryptocurrency, or blockchain, geared toward disrupting financial intermediaries. 

KOBA launched in November 2021 and is the first pay-per-kilometre car insurer in Australia to use a small monitoring device that plugs into a user’s vehicle. 

Paytime CEO Steven Furman is providing solutions for a growing movement in Australia that is wanting earned wage access. But don’t confuse it with pay in advance apps.