Yolanda Redrup

Kic co-founder and CEO Laura Henshaw is handing over the reins to serial founder Jane Martino, who will lead the company through a major wellness expansion.

In this week’s episode of How I Made It, Rich List editor Yolanda Redrup finds out how a passion in high school became the technology phenomenon Xero.

Female founders are still struggling to receive funding, but Grace Brown’s robotics start-up Andromeda just banked a $23 million series A funding round.

Aussie VCs back cocaine-busting defence tech’s $21m raise

Skutopia was turned down by all the big VC firms, but its founders have proved its robot-filled warehouses work, and closed a $38 million funding round.

The businessman founded and sold A Cloud Guru to an American giant for $2 billion. His new venture helps small brands feed “the social media beast”.

Diana Williams was a stay-at-home mum when she started Fernwood, Australia’s first women-only gym, in 1989. It’s still going strong.

Chris Wirasinha has already had one successful company in Pedestrian, now he’s creating a new model of content marketing to benefit publishers and brands.

The future of state-owned Breakthrough Victoria will likely be determined by a review, but new CEO Rod Bristow’s mission is to make the VC fund self-sustaining.

The future of state-owned Breakthrough Victoria will likely be determined by a review, but new CEO Rod Bristow’s mission is to make the VC fund self-sustaining.

Flavia Tata Nardini always wanted to be an astronaut. Now her space-tech firm is on its way to joining the ranks of unicorns, but she almost ran out of cash, twice.

A comprehensive new study shows that creating a start-up business can lead to stress and emotional exhaustion – at far higher rates than many other industries.

A group of successful Australian entrepreneurs who have built ‘unicorns’ including Aconex, A Cloud Guru and Go1, have joined forces to form a new VC firm.

A dinner conversation with famous chef Stephanie Alexander prompted one of Australia’s richest women to make a multimillion-dollar donation.

After four years in the public spotlight, Brittany Higgins is returning to work, saying advocacy remains a “passion...but is not a self-sustaining career”.

Gina Rinehart has topped the Financial Review Rich List for the sixth consecutive year, despite her fortune falling by $2 billion.

The Wollemi Capital Group chief executive said in year 6 that she wanted to own a team in the sport. Little did she know that one day, she would.

The global payments group has raised $467 million from investors, who include all three of the country’s major venture capital firms.

Cameron Adams and his wife, Lisa Miller, have signed The Giving Pledge and the Founders Pledge, to send most of their wealth to environmental causes.

It was promised as an event to promote female artists, but the would-be attendees of EmpowHER have been left angry and out-of-pocket by the Aussie organisers.