His self-driving car startup hit $300m before crashing. Now he’s back for round two.

Cibby Pulikkaseril has raised a $3.5 million seed round for Zabidou, a deep tech second act after his first startup collapsed amid an attempt at revolutionising self-driving cars. Cibby Pulikkaseril remembers standing by the test track where the team at his first startup Baraja would trial the LiDAR tech it was developing to help self-driving cars […]

I help elite performers optimise their health. Here’s the truth about biohacking

Opinion: From cold plunges and cryotherapy to intermittent fasting and IV vitamin drips, biohacking promises sharper performance and a longer life. Performance dietitian Jessica Spendlove examines what the evidence says. Nearly three in four Australians now use complementary medicines, an industry forecast to reach $6.3 billion in 2025. Globally, the biohacking market has already passed US$20 billion and […]

Rocket Lab alum raises $10.5m to build ‘anti-gravity chamber’ for space manufacturing

Outlier Space has raised an unusually large $10.5 million pre-seed round to build a satellite designed to help companies manufacture pharmaceuticals, silicon and other advanced materials in microgravity. Space is becoming a new frontier of advanced manufacturing thanks to the wonders of microgravity. That may sound like sci-fi, but antipodean investors are betting it will […]