Startups

After years of working in marketing and advertising, and exploring the impact of non-profit work, Frankie Layton founded sustainable laundry liquid business, The Dirt Company.

Tracie Thompson launched her startup HackHunter to protect organisations and small businesses from falling into malicious Wi-Fi traps.

Having bootstrapped for the best part of six years, mattress startup Sleeping Duck is now seeing revenues in the tens of millions.

Murthy Muthuswarmy is a natural problem-solver. But it was the experience of working with a builder on his own home that led to a breakthrough idea.

Community startup Juggle Street has grown slowly and steadily, attracting 95,000 users and $3 million in funding. Now, founder David James is raising funds from the crowd.

Sydney entrepreneur Nicole Liu has left her job at consulting firm McKinsey & Company to start up her own fertility empowerment startup and online contraceptive pill delivery service, Kin.

Paul Harrison has a dream. He wants to feed the world with sustainably produced fish. And that’s just what he’s doing with MainStream Aquaculture.

Sometimes, all it takes to empower women is a little support, a big hug and a space to ask for help — although an interest-free loan wouldn’t go amiss.

Last weekend, Melbourne hosted a sextech hackathon, and an all-women team emerged victorious with a product gamifying sex education for pre-teens.

Hima Tk had a successful career in management consulting before realising she needed to do something more challenging and impactful.