Yolanda Redrup

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.