Business

Who Gives a Crap backs electrified freight startup in pioneering zero emissions supply chains for small business

- October 8, 2025 2 MIN READ

A Sydney climate tech startup looking to electrify heavy freight supply chains has shown what’s possible in a demonstration trial with impact toilet paper brand Who Gives A Crap. New Energy Transport (NET), founded in 2024, by Daniel Bleakley and Scania’s former head of innovation, Fredrik Pehrsson, is a trucking company delivering zero-emission heavy road… Read more »

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ASX-listed DroneShield is spending $13 million on R&D in Adelaide

- October 7, 2025 2 MIN READ

ASX-listed defence technology company DroneShield will spend $13 million developing a new R&D facility in Adelaide, South Australia. The investment covers three years of operational and capital expenditure. DroneShield sells protection against threats such as drones and autonomous systems as well as electronic warfare solutions and off-the-shelf counter-measures for terrestrial, maritime or airborne drone attacks,… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

An Australian gaming company’s court case just rewrote the rules on inventions by computers being protected by copyright

- October 7, 2025 3 MIN READ

Artwork created by generative AI (genAI) and other software could be eligible for copyright protection, after a seven-year legal battle ended with a Federal Court ruling that gaming giant Aristocrat can patent game features created by its software without human input. The latest ruling – which follows years of appeals and counter-appeals between Aristrocrat and… Read more »

Business

Why the multiples matter in business

- October 7, 2025 2 MIN READ

Hilton Misso’s new book, How to Manifest Success, provides 50 proven lessons for turning ambition into achievement. In this exclusive extract below, he looks at why the multiples matter in business. People often ask how and why we were able to sell Trilby Misso Lawyers for such a high price. There were many reasons, but… Read more »

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AI/Machine Learning

Tech giants lobby Australia’s government over AI as Amazon warns of a ‘two-tier economy’

- October 6, 2025 2 MIN READ

Balancing the merits of artificial intelligence with the risks it poses to workers and creatives is a debate which rages on, all while major US tech companies ramp up their public relations campaigns — warning of the emergence of “two-tier” economies without greater AI take-up. Amazon recently laid out its vision for a future Australia… Read more »

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South Australian startup WorkSafe Guardian acquired by UK risk management software firm Ideagen

- October 6, 2025 2 MIN READ

British risk management firm Ideagen has acquired WorkSafe Guardian, a smartphone safety app for lone workers. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition delivers an exit for South Australian VC Eastend Ventures just three years after investing in the decade-old Adelaide startup. WorkSafe Guardian was founded by Greg Lindner and Adam… Read more »

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Why Australia’s $5 billion Net Zero Fund needs to be more than an incentive for mining billionaires to do better

- October 3, 2025 2 MIN READ

The new $5 billion Net Zero Fund, announced last week as part of the Federal government’s plan to meet a 61% -70% emissions reduction target, could be the most important lever Australia has to accelerate our transition to net zero. But unless it is designed to take risks and back first-of-a-kind climate innovations, we risk… Read more »

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Startup 360: A ballsy idea: how a female founder solved her own problem by helping men’s fertility and testosterone with undies

- October 3, 2025 2 MIN READ

Brace for puns with week as Startup 360 talks to Saara Jamieson, founder of Cool Beans Underwear, about how her revolutionary way of taking care of man bits came about. Saara was a finalist in the Best New Founder category of Startup Daily Best in Tech awards (the winner was Rebecca Keeley from Yarn Speech),… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

Hollywood’s latest AI copyright war: But is there a better way?

- October 3, 2025 4 MIN READ

Last week Disney, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros Discovery jointly sued MiniMax, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, over alleged copyright infringement. The three Hollywood media giants allege MiniMax (which operates Hailuo AI and is reportedly valued at US$4 billion) engaged in mass copyright infringement of characters such as Darth Vader and Mickey Mouse by… Read more »

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AI/Machine Learning

Kiwi insurtech veteran Javln raises $6 million for Australian push

- October 2, 2025 < 1 MIN READ

Cloud-based insurance software-as-a-service scaleup Javln has raised A$6 million for its Australian expansion. The round was led by boutique fund manager Microequities Asset Management and alongside crossing The Ditch, will be used for R&D and entry into other markets New Zealand entrepreneur Dale Smith founded Javln in 2011. It simplifies clients, policies, claims, and document management… Read more »