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This AI startup hit $12B in just 8 months – here’s what investors see in it
OpenAI just became the world’s most valuable startup at $500 billion. But Thinking Machines Lab’s rapid rise to $12 billion shows AI’s venture capital boom continues unabated.
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Canva joins the ranks of the $1b Unicorn Club
In closing its latest funding round, Canva has seen its valuation surpass US$1 billion mark, making it the second Australian startup after Atlassian to obtain Unicorn status. [See also: Let’s Talk… Growth (Is there anything wrong with aspiring to be a unicorn?), “We’ve only achieved 1% of what we know is possible,” says CEO of […]
Two in three Victorian startups are exporters
A new report into Victoria’s startup landscape reveals that a majority of ventures are revenue positive within the first two years but are not giving thought to an exit strategy. Commissioned by LaunchVic in collaboration with Startup Victoria and dandolopartners the report – titled Mapping Victoria’s Ecosystem – defines a startup as any business with […]
A great business idea is only the beginning
There are plenty of people out there with brilliant ideas and concepts.You hear about them every day, pitching to investors or trying to get funding to make their startup dream happen. You see them on TV shows like Shark Tank, trying to convince the judges their idea is the next Uber of… you can fill […]
Aspire to be like a cockroach, start-ups told
Investors are quickly waking from the unicorn dream to the reality of a start-up world where only the ‘cockroaches’ will survive, StartCon manager Cheryl Mack told Dynamic Business. Held at Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse on 26 to 27 November, the 2016 StartCon conference features an international line-up including Elena Verna (Survey Monkey), Nate Moch (Zillow), Annabell […]