Business

Celeste Barber backs accessible beauty tools startup ByStorm, giving the industry ‘a giant, glittery, lipstick-shaped middle finger’

- July 11, 2025 3 MIN READ

Storm Menzies knows better than most about the challenges of finding funding to back women-led startups. The founder of accessible beauty tools startup ByStorm Beauty set out to help more than 700 million women globally living with a disability to look and feel good, launching last month. Menzies has mild cerebral palsy, and after breaking… Read more »

Life hacks

Yeah but nah: Gen Z is getting a reputation for ghosting employers that’s now costing them jobs

- July 10, 2025 3 MIN READ

Younger job seekers are getting a reputation for ghosting workplaces even after they have landed a job, leading some employers to overlook Gen Z candidates entirely, a new report has found. Previous research has found Australian job hunters are increasingly being ghosted by recruiters and companies during the application process. But a survey conducted by Resume.org found… Read more »

Business

Meet the bootstrapped founder with 3.5 million followers every woman should be studying

- July 9, 2025 4 MIN READ

When Victoria Minell, founder of Recipes by Victoria first shared a video of sushi rice sizzling in a waffle maker, she wasn’t thinking about virality. She was just having fun. That video didn’t just go viral – it exploded, inspiring thousands of recreations and paving the way for her next sensation: sushi muffins. “That one landed me… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

Startup 360: How to use AI to go from idea to $1m revenue in 4 months, run a listed tech company & what makes great design

- July 4, 2025 2 MIN READ

Black Pearl Group founder Nick Lissette had an idea for a AI-driven sales agent for small business about five months ago. It took 90 days to develop and launch Bebop, the latest product from his New Zealand listed tech company, and within 45 days, it hit $1.2 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Black Pearl’s… Read more »

Life hacks

Startup 360: Shutting down, then starting again, why science discoveries matter, CSIRO’s startup triumph

- June 27, 2025 2 MIN READ

Ammonia is the second most-produced chemical on the planet and without it, we wouldn’t be able to feed the world. But making it has been energy intense – until an accidental scientific discovery at the University of Newcastle created the potential for a more environmentally friendly way to produce it. That discovery is a new… Read more »

Business

Canva’s plotting another $773m share sale at a higher $56 billion valuation – and becoming a US company is one reason why former employees may need to sell

- June 27, 2025 4 MIN READ

News emerged this week that Canva was looking at another secondary share sale, worth up to US$500 million (A$762m) with its valuation increasing by more than 15% to US$37 billion (A$56.2bn). It seem surprising with a US listing on the Nasdaq expected as soon as 2026. But in breaking the news The Information reported that… Read more »

Cyber security

Hacking at Western Sydney University that led to a former student’s arrest all began with discounted campus parking

- June 26, 2025 2 MIN READ

A former Western Sydney University student has been arrested and charged with allegedly hacking the institution over several years after initially seeking to exploit systems to get discounted parking. The 27-year-old woman was arrested at a property in the Western Sydney suburb of Kingswood on Wednesday, where she was charged with 20 offences including accessing… Read more »

Sally-Ann Williams
People

Sally-Ann Williams calls time as Cicada Innovations CEO

- June 18, 2025 2 MIN READ

Deep tech evangelist Sally-Ann Williams is wrapping up her leadership of Cicada Innovations after six years. Williams, previously head of R&D at Google Australia, signed on in mid 2019, and has transformed the veteran Sydney incubator, steering it deftly through the pandemic and expanding operations to Western Sydney and Melbourne. “This has been one of… Read more »