In the neon-lit glory of the 1990s, the dawn of the Internet era, I took my first steps into the world of entrepreneurship. A period defined by the dotcom bubble, the era was rife with burgeoning technologies, untapped potential, and a burgeoning belief that technology was an alchemical touch that [...]
Altman has an unsurprisingly optimistic view of human nature that will respond to the rise of AI, saying he doesn’t think people will “play video games all day long” while computers do their jobs. “If you give people better tools, they just operate at a higher level,” Altman told a [...]
What do Regrow Ag CEO and co-founder Anastasia Volkova and Skims founder Kim Kardashian have in common? Well, they’re both among the 20 industry leaders chosen by Time magazine for its list of the world’s 100 most influential companies. Regrow started in 2016, as part of Sydney University’s “Inventing the [...]
New Zealand carbon footprint management fintech Cogo, which partners with banks to help their clients measure and reduce their carbon impact, has raised NZ$1 million (A$910k) from existing impact investor Soul Capital. Souls NZ$20 million’Te Pae ki te Rangi’ Fund is aimed at helping Kiwi startups with their global expansion. [...]
In part one of this series, Britt Boxall of Folklore shared how to go about your first interaction with a VC, building on the insights she’s gained from reviewing countless pitch decks and screening calls. In part two, Folklore’s Sachin Samarawickrama offers tactical guidance to founders who want to keep [...]
Amid an ongoing effort to cut costs, Twitter has now refused to pay the bills to renew its multi-year contract with Google Cloud. Platformer reported. We’ve all heard of “the cloud— but what does it have to do with Twitter? And more to the point, what are the consequences for [...]
Midnight Health, an online prescription startup based in Brisbane, has raised $15 million in a Series B, with the ASX-listed insurer raising the money for the third time in 19 months to own more than three-quarters of the company. nib’s investment comes as regulators crack down on the industry, forcing [...]
Melbourne-based fantasy sports startup One Future Football (1FF) has raised $3 million in a pre-Seed round to launch a global football league of 12 virtual teams, including one from Sydney’s Bondi. The raise was led by Blackbird Ventures with international soccer players Chris Smalling, Patrice Evra and Jesse Lingard, as [...]
In the last week of March 2023, the Future of Life Institute made headlines with its open letter, signed by some of the biggest names in technology, urging all artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories to “immediately begin training more powerful AI interrupt systems”. than GPT-4”. It cited the need to enable [...]
The skills needed to thrive in an uncertain future are often thought to fall under the term ‘entrepreneurial mindset’, but New Zealand researcher Darsel Keane has found that there is little clarity about what an entrepreneurial mindset actually is. While the phrase has become increasingly popular in recent years, Keane, [...]