Entrepreneurs

Kelly Bayer Rosmarin’s Aigentsphere startup raised $4 million from VC Main Sequence earlier this year.

Metacognition AI raised $10 million from Main Sequence in a round ten times the size of Australia’s pre-seed average.

Parton’s legacy includes the Imagination Library, inspired by her father, who could not read or write. It started as a local act of love and grew into a global literacy movement that has mailed more than 270 million books to children.

OpenAI will be a foundational customer of two AI Factory data centres Australian company Firmus is developing. Key Takeaways Key Background Founded by Oliver Curtis and Tim Rosenfield, Firmus has rocketed almost out of nowhere to become Australia’s third largest data centre company by valuation. It has raised US$2.5 billion ($3.5 billion) so far this […]

Will Scully-Power has for the past two been investing in Australian space startups. Now he’s looking to launch a VC fund.

As it reshapes its core creativity products around AI, Canva is also hoping more prosaic productivity features can drive subscriptions.

Two proposed amendments to superannuation will be a boon for the startup sector, predicts King River Capital.

The Sydney startup will setup a basic quantum computer in an Equinix data centre by October, it said on Tuesday, as it moves to commercialise a technology that’s been in R&D phase for decades. Key Takeaways Key Background   Proponents of quantum computing say it could be a US$200 billion industry that will enable fundamental breakthroughs […]

As the global tween skincare market charges toward $8.1 billion, entrepreneur Judd joins startup alcheMe to protect Gen Alpha’s skin barrier.

Over 70 per cent of eligible shareholders voted against the Xero board’s decision to award Sukhinder Singh Cassidy a target pay package of $25.5 million amid the company’s stock struggles. Key Takeaways Key Background   Earlier this week Xero’s board rewarded chief executive Sukhinder Singh Cassidy with a 22 per cent pay rise, lifting her target […]