Technology and startups
It’s not all about preserved brains, AI resurrections or living forever. Australian ‘death tech’ startups can change the way we deal with mortality – even if in more prosaic ways.
League of Geeks was one of Australia's biggest independent game studios – until Wednesday.
A new report lists the top five VCs investing in Australian AI – and they're not all the usual suspects. The age-old talent shortage problem, meanwhile, threatens to constrain the sector's growth.
Appen rode the big tech wave but landed with a thud. The company is now hitching its wagon to artificial intelligence, but investor patience is wearing thin.
Technological tensions between the US and China are rising — and Australia is caught in the middle.
The infrastructure opportunity and the funding challenge were key topics of conversation at a recent gathering of Australia's climate tech community.
Bitcoin prices are booming and some bulls are already tipping another supercycle. But individual investors badly burned last time may not be eager to play the crypto casino again.
There’s a lot riding on the success of the National Reconstruction Fund, including playing catch up to other countries that have nurtured sectors with committed government support.
Major bank partnerships, raisings and actual profits signal there's some optimism in fintech, but capital and startups are in short supply.
Digital infrastructure companies like US$77 billion giant Equinix are enjoying a bonanza thanks to AI. But boosting supply to meet demand is a struggle, and doing so in a green way is even harder.
The launch of the National Reconstruction Fund is being closely watched by the VC and startup industries, which have seen similar promises made before.
The rise of generative AI use has sparked concerns about industry disruption and job losses, but MinterEllison chief executive officer Virginia Briggs doesn't see it that way.
It's not often five directors abruptly resign from the board of a listed company just hours before its AGM. But that's what happened at electrification and defence play Rectifier Technologies this week.
The closing arguments of the Shiffman v Sleeping Duck trial served up a question familiar to all investors and founders: how do you value a startup?
