Alexandra Cain

1 month ago | domain.com.au | Alexandra Cain

By Alexandra CainMarch 24, 2025Leading independent schools are embracing innovative approaches to using technology in the classroom, setting students up for success in a changing world. With campuses in Melbourne, Darwin, and China, as well as its online school, Pangea, Haileybury uses technology to develop learning materials that students can easily access across all its campuses. Thus, students learn about technology in every subject.

1 month ago | domain.com.au | Alexandra Cain

By Alexandra CainMarch 24, 2025A school’s culture is the fabric that connects its parts and is often the backdrop that informs its students’ sense of right and wrong. Kristy Kendall, Principal of Mount Eliza’s Toorak College (TC), says there is no greater reflection of her school’s culture and her students’ character than the feedback she gets when people stop her in the street. “They tell me our students look you in the eye; they have their shoulders back,” she says.

1 month ago | professionalplanner.com.au | Nina Hendy |Chris Dastoor |Alexandra Cain |Oksana Patron

Property investment and funds management group, Charter Hall is anticipating the end of the decline in commercial property valuations that has challenged the market for the past two and a half years. At the group’s half year results in February, group chief executive, David Harrison, said the market had reached an “inflection point”. “Looking 10 years ahead, Australia is forecast to see its population grow by 3.9 million people,” he told investors.

2 months ago | smartcompany.com.au | Eloise Keating |Alexandra Cain |Dickie Currer |Olivia Cleal

This week’s funding roundup includes startups deploying artificial intelligence to address healthcare, aged care, and the gender pay gap, and two homegrown ventures building specialty software tools. Elsewhere, one startup’s funding announcement coincided with its involvement in Super Bowl LIX, and another is pledging to make e-commerce sales more efficient. Keep reading to learn more about the startups that accumulated nearly $208 million in new capital this week.

2 months ago | smartcompany.com.au | Tegan Jones |Alexandra Cain |Dickie Currer |Olivia Cleal

Australian healthcare AI company Harrison.ai has raised $179 million in a Series C funding round, marking one of the largest capital raises in Australia’s medtech sector.  This follows a $129 million funding round back in 2021. The round was co-led by Aware Super, ECP, and Horizons Ventures, with new investors including the National Reconstruction Fund, Ord Minnett, and Wollemi Capital Group. They were also joined by existing backers Blackbird Ventures and Alpha JWC Ventures.