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It’s arguably the most notable initial public offering of 2024 thus far.

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.

Varda Space Industries successfully manufactured a sample of HIV medication on board its spacecraft and returned it safely to Earth.

Paramount is reportedly weighing another offer from Skydance Media and David Ellison.

Founders Srinivas Njay and Bruce Kim bootstrapped interface.ai with $1 million of their own capital. Now the VCs are calling—but they’re waiting for the right partner.

Entrepreneur Anna Wright started BindiMaps in 2017. The app provides indoor maps for airports, shopping centres, hospitals, office buildings, libraries, sports grounds, and events.

The Inevitable Games Fund (IGF) is the first-of-its-kind ecosystem-agnostic fund, with a view to identify high growth opportunities for investors.

Toyota announced its Woven City project in 2020. In 2021, it broke ground on construction at a site close to the foot of Japan’s Mount Fuji. Three years later, Woven City says Phase 1 of the development will be complete by the end of the year and trials will start in 2025.

After raising $1.3 billion last year, Inflection is pivoting to focus on business-to-business APIs, as Suleyman jumps to lead consumer AI at Microsoft.