Startups
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.
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.
Eucalyptus’ $1.6 billion sale to Hims & Hers is a massive win for the company and Australian VC. But it’s another example of a homegrown startup story cashing out offshore.
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.
Conversation-capture tool Contented is already being used by over 200 customers globally to speed up documentation.
The former Optus and Seven West Media executive is eyeing up to 20 investments in Australia and abroad.
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.
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.
We have the talent to lead in tech and innovation. What we're short on is the incentives needed to turn ideas into global success.
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.
Triple Bubble’s Brian Collins has been appointed CEO of Tasmania’s startup organisation, Enterprize Tasmania. He wants to the island state to produce Australia's next unicorn.
Australia’s agtech funding is held up by long validation timelines. Farmers2Founders is using real-world deployments to produce clearer traction signals.
For all our talk of productivity and sovereign capability, we’re overlooking one of the smartest investments we can make.
Australia's top VCs are sitting on record dry powder as the AI boom continues to reshape the investment landscape.
