Daniel Petre once worked with Bill Gates and has achieved amazing tech success – along with the riches that come with it. Here he shares what the real meaning of having money is, and what he’s doing with his. I wasn’t wealthy growing up. My parents were Romanian immigrants who came to Australia after… Read more »
The Emerging Tech Unpacked podcast unpacks emerging tech topics with diverse perspectives. Host Lucy Lin shares what she learnt about deepfake technologies and a life in intelligence. In our latest episode of Emerging Tech Unpacked, I had the privilege of interviewing one of the most fascinating guest I’ve ever met – Emerald Sage. She’s a… Read more »
Welcome to the Startup 360 product launch! We hope you like our MVP with cohosts Kayla Medica and Simon Thomsen. We want to have founder fun and find out what makes people tick – it’s not about GTM strategies and the next raise, it’s all about staying human. In our first show, Kayla and Simon… Read more »
ASX-listed WiseTech Global’s billionaire founder Richard White has been subject to more two confidential complaints , from an employee and supplier, the company conceded on Monday following media reports of more allegations of inappropriate conduct. “These are being considered in the ongoing Board Review,” the logistics software company said in a statement to the market.… Read more »
The Victorian government’s $2 billion investment fund, Breakthrough Victoria has appointed Rod Bristow as its new chief executive officer. Bristow previously spent four years as CEO of early stage and climate-tech VC Investible, building out its Asian presence, and as well as raising a $32 million climate tech fund a $51.6m 2nd early-stage fund, and a new… Read more »
Startmate’s Summer’25 Accelerator cohort is its biggest yet, involving 16 wildly different startups seeking to make a big impact is profoundly varied ways Driving them are 28 hungry, fast-moving, relentless founders who see a different future: one where Gen Z’s are more connected than lonely, where commerce is collaborative, and where the 4 million tonnes… Read more »
The tech and innovation ecosystems are dynamic and interconnected networks fuelled by startups, investors, institutions, corporates, individuals and other entities. Startup Genome suggests that ecosystems are often defined within a 100km radius from a central city, providing governments with data-driven insights to benchmark success and focus their efforts. But what really happens inside an ecosystem?… Read more »
“Call it, 2.16pm on 3 February 2025” – the words from the Administrator sitting in a bleak Melbourne boardroom, ringing out the date and time that the company that sat in my head 8 years ago was pronounced dead. Not dead in literal terms, as a deal to bring the company out of voluntary administration… Read more »
Diversity and gender equality might be a dirty words in some political and business circles right now, but not for AirTrunk founder and CEO Robin Khuda, who sold his 9-year-old data centre business last year for $23.5 billion. The freshly minted billionaire, who arrived from Bangladesh nearly 30 years ago as a teen to study… Read more »
A Tasmanian senator best known for her campaign to ban transgender people from women’s sport has been named by Opposition leader Peter Dutton as the Coalition’s spokesperson for government services, the digital economy, science and the arts. Senator Claire Chandler will be shadow minister stalking current science and industry minister Ed Husic in the forthcoming… Read more »
University of NSW Professor Veena Sahajwalla, founding director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT) was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day honours list in recognition of her distinguished service to science as an engineer and inventor, sustainable materials research and technology and waste management.… Read more »
Former Square Peg senior investment associate Casey Flint has made the switch to the tech side, joining AWS where she’ll focus on AI. Flint has spend the last few years exploring and unpacking artificial intelligence (AI), explaining her findings and thinking in the excellent series Artificially Intelligent. After four years at the VC, the decision… Read more »
In April 2024, I started my eighth business, CapXcentric, a pre-seed to Series A capital raising coaching business. And I made a deliberate decision: I’m not scaling it. I know, it sounds ironic. CapXcentric exists to guide founders through the capital raise process, often for high-growth, hyper-scale startups. But despite working in a space that’s… Read more »
Clean tech founder and investor Monique Conheady has added another directorial arrow to her corporate quiver, joining the board of Wollongong hydrogen electrolyser startup Hysata. Conheady was cofounder of the pioneering carshare startup Flexicar, acquired by Hertz Australia, and now chairs companies Energy Safe Victoria and JET Charge, as well as being a Breakthrough Victoria… Read more »
Canberra has a new think tank for tech policy founded by three women to offer advice on the way forward in a digital world. The Tech Policy Design Institute (TPDi) bills itself as Australia’s first non-partisan, independent think tank focused on best practice technology policy. Its cofounders, Johanna Weaver, Zoe Jay Hawkins and Sunita Kumar, said… Read more »
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