We waited about 90 minutes before we called it. After getting a taste of what Elden Ring Nightreign had to offer, playing with one other random online, we were sitting in the lobby area waiting to be matched with one other player for another game. The game pulled together our first party almost instantaneously. After… Read more »
Technologies to enforce the Australian government’s social media ban for under 16s are “private, robust and effective”. That’s according to the preliminary findings of a federal government-commissioned trial that has nearly finished testing them. The findings, released today, may give the government greater confidence to forge ahead with the ban, despite a suite of expert… Read more »
A major international conference in Auckland next month is focusing on how to better support female founders and highlighting wāhine Māori perspectives on entrepreneurship. The Diana International Research Conference, July 1-4, brings together researchers and industry experts from around the world to tackle funding inequities, structural barriers and discuss the future of women-led enterprise, with… Read more »
Veteran WiseTech director Charles Gibbon will leave the board next month, after 19 years, with major shareholder Michael Gregg also departing after less than a year into his second stint at the company’s AGM. The changes bring the board turnover in 2025 to six directors amid a power struggle involving former CEO and founder Richard… Read more »
Fintechs often complain quietly, lest they cop blowback, than one of the things that’s slowing the roll out of the Consumer Data Right (CDR), aka Open Banking, is that the major banks are dragging their feet. Well, the competition watchdog thinks so too, and National Australia Bank (NAB) has copped $751,200 in penalties after the… Read more »
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 »
A cybersecurity founder who had a $100 million exit is back with a new idea and a $9.2 million Seed round from Paladin Capital 
Reality bites for Blackbird-backed room rental startup Kiki as it departs the Big Apple 
‘Everything starts and lives in Notion now’: The AI workspace that OpenAI, Linktree and next-gen startups love 
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When I was an agtech founder, I made the mistake of thinking distribution was everything. I’d rack up thousands of miles driving from region to region, just to get our product in one more ag retail outlet. Each new dealer felt like a victory—proof that we were building something real, something that would make it… Read more »
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A US startup used extensively by Australian authorities to detect bushfires has raised a US$44 million (A$68m) Series B. The round for Pano AI included an undisclosed level of secondary share sales, with the surveillance platform claiming to have raised A$138m (US$89m) in its five-year-old lifetime. New investor Giant Ventures led the raise, supported by… Read more »
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