Finance

Despite gender diversity pledge, Blackbird Venture's last 11 public investments have been into all-male founding teams. What's going on?

Melbourne-based digital B2B marketplace Platform Zero, which allows supermarkets to sell surplus or rejected produce, diverting tonnes of daily food waste from landfills, has won $30,000 in equity-free funding as the winner of the 2023 Kickstarter Challenge.

You can split a main, but you can't split a name. Just ask restaurant ordering startup Mr Yum, which has officially dropped its branding after a blockbuster merger with former rival me&u.

After nearly seven years of success, Birth Beat is entering a new, exciting chapter as the business has been acquired by leading medical technology company, Device Technologies.

Venture capitalists and smaller investors who want to live more sustainably or have a clear conscience about how goods are made often turn to the licensed equity crowdfunder Birchal.

Bizpay, the Australian fintech offering buy now, pay later services for business-to-business invoices, has fallen into voluntary administration.

The number of millennial and gen Z small business owners is on the rise according to research released by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Australia's gender pay gap has had its biggest single-year drop in almost a decade, but women are still earning much less than their male colleagues.

For businesses wanting to take advantage of machine learning, human habits can be the weak link.

Fresh commentary from Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michelle Bullock has one barbershop founder "in shock", after she suggested lower spending at hairdressers and salons could help the fight against inflation.

Kayla Itsines and Tobi Pearce will once again lead the Sweat fitness empire they founded, after buying back the company they sold to US firm iFIT for millions.

The fund will offer matched funding grants of between $500,000 and $2 million to established SMEs to undertake projects in regional Queensland.