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Josh Simons’ family is the stuff of music legend. His grandfather was an early partner in Leeds Publishing, which went on to become what’s today known as Universal Music Publishing Group. Today, Simons is at the helm of Australia’s only ASX-listed music business, Jaxsta. With an acquisition and launch under its belt and a cash […]
Dubbed the “origami of death”, Melbourne-made flatpack drones assembled with glue and rubber bands have been hitting targets inside Russia since June, most recently destroying US$100 million worth of aircraft. Family-owned Australian company SYPAQ Systems has been sending 100 cardboard drones a month to Ukraine for the last year. Designed to carry more benign payloads, […]
Melbourne biotech Aravax is in the middle of peanut allergy drug trials which, if successful, promise to open up an estimated US$4-billion global market. In a Nutshell It takes courage to tackle peanut allergy. In the 1990s, a child died during a clinical trial after an injection of peanut extract. It was a dosing error, […]
The first episode of Shark Tank proves that a good idea that solves a common problem, combined with a healthy dose of sheer determination is sometimes all it takes to start a fast-growth company. Key Takeaways Skincare entrepreneur Davey Rooney was the first entrepreneur to face a new panel of judges on the latest season […]
Tennis Australia has revealed its AO Startups incubator has accepted its mid-year intake. Among the seven global start-ups accepted into the program is one Australian business, digital wayfinder PAM. Forbes Australia meets the founder. Tennis Australia’s start-up incubator, AO StartUps, has announced its mid-year intake, with the start-ups accepted set to pilot their technologies during […]
Amanda Healy is an indigenous woman who employs 850 people at her engineering business. And she’s bent on straightening out what’s crooked in the land of opportunity. Amanda Healy was working up near the Arctic Circle, doing human resources for BHP as they built Canada’s first diamond mine when she faced a problem no male […]
Alphinity’s Global Portfolio Manager, Mary Manning, started as an investment banking analyst working in New York, London and Moscow. She has also worked for Soros Funds Management and Oaktree Capital. The Alphinity Global Fund has about $10 billion in funds under management. She speaks about the offshore investment landscape, why earnings are important, why you […]
Lidia Morawska is a Distinguished Professor at Queensland University of Technology, a TIME 100 Most Influential Person and now a L’Oréal – UNESCO For Women In Science Laureate. She speaks to Forbes Australia about her life’s mission to improve indoor and ambient air quality – a problem that costs the global economy trillions of dollars. […]
Kym O’Leary founded her business, COgear, a decade ago after working nearly the same time in the mining industry and watching her female colleagues wear men’s gear. There was no alternative, so she created it. Kym O’Leary was in a meeting with her then manager at Anglo American, who was heavily pregnant, and seven other […]
If there was ever a case for entrepreneurs being born and not made, Ruslan Kogan is it. He talks exclusively to Forbes Australia about his journey from being a migrant kid in housing commission flats in Melbourne to one of the country’s most successful tech entrepreneurs. At the age of six, for example, he discovered […]