Venture Studio Nakatomi pulls in $3.5m to ‘back and build’ Aussie startups
The founders of Leonardo.AI and Active Hotels chipped in on the raise, which will help to launch up to 4 new ventures a year.
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How can AI impact population-level mental wellbeing? Significantly.
If organisations and governments don’t prepare for coming changes, we risk AI giving us more time but less belonging, leaving societies lonelier, less trusting, and less resilient, writes Greta Bradman.
Australia’s innovation crisis: The case for a national tech scale-up ecosystem
Australia ranks below Botswana for economic complexity, writes Greg Miller. Our only hope for remaining internationally competitive is to grow the things we invent to a size that matters on the world stage.
From centre court to Silicon Valley: The big names betting on Startmate startups
Almost 15 years ago, 20 Australian founders reached into their pockets and created a $200k community fund. Over the last year, Startmate portfolio companies have added a billion dollars in value, and secured another international celebrity investor.
Alloy Robotics emerges from stealth with $4.5m pre-seed from Blackbird, Airtree and Skip Capital
Robotics is projected to be worth $165 billion by 2029. Alloy Robotics founder and CEO Joe Harris has found a way to dig through the firehose of data that robots produce to find the 1% that matters.
Motherhood is not a setback. It’s a superpower – and can drive the next femtech unicorn
Women aren’t a niche market; we are half the population. And motherhood isn’t a side issue; it’s one of the most universal human experiences, writes Michelle Battersby.
‘If we don’t build our own stack, we become someone else’s customer’: Australia’s AI warning
India, France, the UK and the UAE are already building sovereign AI. An Aussie LLM needs 30 billion parameters, and can protect against offshore policy shifts, price shocks, and opaque black-box systems.
5 ways to minimise distraction and maximise discipline
What you drink, how you sleep, and your ability to set worries aside can all help high performers achieve their goals. Here are 5 best practices you can follow.
Puralink dredges up $2.3m seed round for autonomous pipe robot
2025 has been a year for the books for three 25-year-old founders. After participating in Cicada’s founder program and the Startmate accelerator, the brains behind Puralink have closed an oversubscribed seed round led by Peak XV.
Andromeda’s animated approach to $100m Abi and AI
Having just secured a $23 million Series A fundraise, 25-year-old Grace Brown’s humanoid, Abi, is inspired by, and will soon be designed by, Hollywood animators.