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Tech Reporter at Australian Financial Review

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Strongroom AI nears sale with assets transferred to entrepreneur

2 days ago | afr.com | Amelia McGuire

Apr 22, 2025 – 8.35pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The administrators StrongRoom AI are nearing a lightning fast sale of the failed pharmacy software start-up with filings indicating the majority of its secured debt has been transferred to a medical platform entrepreneur.
TikTok, Meta, Snapchat demand answers on government’s YouTube favouritism

3 days ago | afr.com | Amelia McGuire |Paul Smith

Apr 21, 2025 – 5.52pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? TikTok has led fellow social media giants Meta and Snapchat in demanding an explanation from Communications Minister Michelle Rowland over her favourable treatment for Google-owned YouTube, which is being exempted from world-leading social media age restriction laws.
StrongRoom AI boss Max Mito denies investor claim he admitted to fraud

1 week ago | afr.com | Amelia McGuire

The chief executive of StrongRoom AI has denied confessing to “willful fraud” in a board meeting with two of the collapsed start-up’s biggest investors last month. The pharmacy software developer is in the midst of a complicated dispute with its biggest investor, Sydney-headquartered venture capital firm EVP, which is attempting to claw back more than $10 million it invested earlier this year.
WiseTech’s Richard White becomes chief innovation officer in new $1 million role

1 week ago | afr.com | Amelia McGuire

WiseTech Global will continue to pay its controversial founder Richard White $1 million a year even though he was made to step down as chief executive officer, giving him a new role of chief innovation officer. The 70-year-old returned to the top of the $40 billion technology giant in February as executive chairman, after he had resigned following a string of allegations about his personal relationships and conduct at work. Loading... Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.
Australian start-up valuations increase but tech investors brace for Trump tariff disruption

1 week ago | afr.com | Amelia McGuire |Paul Smith

New data shows Australian technology start-up company valuations and funding volumes are on the rise again after a tumultuous three years, but venture capitalists fear US President Donald Trump’s tariff trade war may send the volatile asset class back into freefall.
StrongRoom AI attracts 10 prospective buyers despite dire finances

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Amelia McGuire

Apr 8, 2025 – 2.36pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Ten prospective investors are vying for StrongRoom AI despite the collapsed pharmaceutical software start-up’s complicated legal battle with its biggest investor and allegations that the founders manipulated its finances.
Sports stars Sam Kerr, Pat Cummins, Dylan Alcott back tech VC fund

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Amelia McGuire

Apr 7, 2025 – 5.11pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A group of about 100 sports stars including Matildas striker Sam Kerr and Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins are new investors in a venture capital firm, co-founded by an AFL player and a top basketballer, and also backed by Tesla’s Robyn Denholm and Square Peg’s Paul Bassat.
From a Moroccan villa to the courtroom: how StrongRoom AI’s good times went bad

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Amelia McGuire |Tess Bennett

Apr 5, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A now deleted Instagram post by StrongRoom AI’s lead designer Isabella Jorgensen in September 2023 captioned “Peter’s Moroccan extravaganza” with a brown love heart emoji left members of the company’s finance department seething.
StrongRoom AI allegedly failed to declare $4 million debt to investors

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Amelia McGuire |Tess Bennett

Apr 3, 2025 – 11.47am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Court documents show Melbourne start-up StrongRoom AI is accused by its lead venture capital backer of failing to declare more than $4 million in debts and lying about being profitable, despite losing more than $800,000 a month.
Canva shocks employees with AI-related job cuts

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Amelia McGuire

Apr 2, 2025 – 8.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? They should have seen it coming. An all-hands meeting held by Canva’s co-founders nine months ago directed employees to start using artificial intelligence programs wherever possible.