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OpenAI’s Asia-Pacific startup lead came to Adelaide with credits, a warning about viral growth, and a case for why the fundamentals of building a good business haven’t changed.

The story of how Koala became the accidental talent incubator behind Eucalyptus, one of Australia’s biggest venture exits.

US-based Superpower is licensing Australian nasal spray technology from an ASX-listed biotech, and funding clinical research Big Pharma won’t touch.

The Sydney software giant was renowned for its people-first culture, generous perks and ‘open company, no BS approach’. But last week’s job cuts follow months of internal unrest.

It was an agonising 20 minutes this morning for staff at Australia’s most celebrated tech company, as they awaited their fate after months of AI driven turmoil.

Anthropic is setting up shop in Sydney, turning months of quiet groundwork into a local office as Claude adoption climbs across Australia and New Zealand.

Jessy Wu has caught the startup ecosystem’s attention before. This time, it’s with an 80,000-word novel featuring a longevity startup scandal — and a sex scene or two.

The longevity platform founded by former iflix CEO Mark Britt has closed its first VC round — backed, in large part, by its own members

When a VC firm with no Australian registration, no public profile and no obligation to explain itself keeps backing unicorns, it’s worth asking where the money comes from.

Marbruck Investments has quietly backed some of Australia’s most recognisable startups. But very few people know who is behind it, or where the money has come from.

The design giant has pushed back against suggestions job cuts at the startup it acquired in 2024 could be imminent as part of a restructure.

SafetyCulture founder Luke Anear is returning as interim CEO after the AI revolution made running a platform rebuild from New York untenable.

The Eucalyptus sale is the biggest Australian startup exit in years. It’s also proof that the local ecosystem can build globally competitive companies, back them properly and actually get paid.

With roughly half of $40m locked in, Archangel is betting the pre-seed and seed gap is a tailwind for small VCs.

Melbourne’s Heidi Health is betting that winning the AI scribe race won’t be enough — and the real prize is becoming the layer across the entire clinical encounter.

Blackbird and Airtree are counting extraordinary returns from the $1.6 billion Hims & Hers deal — and the sector is watching closely as paper gains finally start converting to cash.

Australia’s biggest VC firms won’t be able to co-invest with the government’s newly established defence tech investment fund. Their critics say that’s a problem.

The Hims & Hers acquisition of the telehealth startup will benefit VCs and advisers, but will also trigger the biggest staff payout in the Australian ecosystem to date.

Seek is selling its stake in Employment Hero, one of its best-performing investments. Turns out the lawsuit was just couples therapy.

Mitchell Hughes says universities are producing brilliant young founders — so he built a fund to find them first. Some of Australia’s top VCs and founders are now supporting it.

The Australian-led startup has been accused by a rival of inflating biomarker claims, doctoring a Reddit post, and fostering a culture where employees inject each other with experimental compounds “for fun”.

The USD8 billion legal software startup’s president Gabe Pereyra is better placed than most to explain what the AI panic gets right — and what it gets wrong.

The company behind Claude is wooing VCs and other figures in the ecosystem— but taking a markedly different approach in Australia to its rival OpenAI.

AI coding tools are lowering the barriers to build startups, giving more women, like Lucent's Alisa Rae, a clearer path to become solo founders.

The Sydney venture capital firm has been ordered to put up security funds to continue pursuing Strong Room defendants as its bid to recover $10.4 million grinds through the courts.

AI dominated the Super Bowl as rivals traded shots. Behind the scenes, a Sydneysider is helping push OpenAI and Anthropic towards unified agentic AI standards.

From a skunkworks experiment inside Block to a 130-company coalition including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft: how Sydney's Manik Surtani brokered a truce to keep agentic AI open.

The departure of one of the most well liked figures in Australian startups, James Tynan, from a coveted role at Square Peg surprised many. It ultimately came down to a simple factor.

While OpenClaw and Moltbook stole headlines over the past week, the real shake-up was in the AI coding tools quietly redefining how startups are built — and how many people it takes to build them.

Paul Bassat's venture capital firm has completed the first close on Fund 6 and Opportunities Fund 3, and has already begun deploying capital — including into portfolio star Airwallex.

The USD300 billion alternative asset manager has become one of the world's biggest players in AI infrastructure, but has also been at the centre of market bubble jitters.

Australia's top VCs are sitting on record dry powder as the AI boom continues to reshape the investment landscape.

With more than 300 open roles — about 5% of its workforce — Canva is pushing ahead with expansion even as the broader tech sector retrenches.

As AI tools spark a global SaaS sell-off, Australia’s top VCs say the business model isn’t dying, but being reshaped, repriced and rebuilt for a new era.

CEO Michael Biercuk says Q-CTRL has addressed aviation's GPS jamming crisis with quantum sensors, while predicting quantum computers will achieve commercial viability by 2028.

State agency Destination NSW pulled funding after Penske Media Corporation refused to offer a discount on the licensing fee for the US festival franchise.

Didier Elzinga is stepping down as Culture Amp CEO after 15 years. In an exclusive interview, he told Capital Brief why “congrats” is the right response.