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Let's make this silly season a small business season

Dec 5, 2024 | smartcompany.com.au | Julie Collins |Joan Westenberg |Chryssie Swarbrick |Katarina Throssell

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and terrific to spend some of it in Adelaide. The South Australian capital is playing today to a meeting of the country’s Small Business Ministers today — my fifth in two-and-a-half years as minister.
'Every dollar we raise, we treat like our last': Zeller's Ben Pfisterer on building a unicorn fintech with venture capital

Nov 7, 2024 | startupdaily.net | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz |Matthew Jane |Simon Thomsen |Katarina Throssell

When Zeller CEO and cofounder Ben Pfisterer raised $100 million in a Series B that valued the then two-year fintech at $1 billion, he was talking to his US investor from behind a $19 IKEA desk. Pfisterer has spent his career in payments, including six years building Square in Australia for Jack Dorsey, and has a very simple rule for startup success.
Crowdfunding platform Equitise placed in voluntary administration

Nov 7, 2024 | startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Katarina Throssell |Leonard Bernardone |David Tuffley

Crowdfunding platform Equitise has been handed to voluntary administrators after cofounder Jonny Wilkinson failed in his own attempts to raise a $500,000 bridging round. Administrators Damien Mark Hodgkinson and Mohammad Mirzan Bin Mansoor from Sydney firm Olvera Advisors were handed the books on October 31. An initial creditor’s meeting will be held on November 12. The administrators did not respond to requests for comment.
An under 16s ban on social media is coming to Australia

Nov 6, 2024 | startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Katarina Throssell |Leonard Bernardone |David Tuffley

Albanese previously announced a $6.5 million trial of age assurance technology in May, but the tender for the plan has yet to be awarded it will not begin until 2025. The prime minister said he has “things popping up on my system that I don’t want to see” let alone children. “These tech companies are incredibly powerful. These apps have algorithms that drive people towards certain behaviour,” he said.
Why the health data gap for women is a big opportunity for femtech founders

Nov 6, 2024 | startupdaily.net | Katarina Throssell |Simon Thomsen |Leonard Bernardone |David Tuffley

This is the second edition of Giant Leap’s deep dive series, where its investment team explores the technologies and approaches addressing global problems of climate, health and people with commercial solutions (the 1st edition on the future of sustainable aviation here). In this deep dive into femtech, senior investment associate Katarina Throssell share her insights on where they see the greatest opportunities and challenges toward progress.
The heat is on, but there's good news to celebrate this Earth Day

Apr 21, 2024 | smartcompany.com.au | Katarina Throssell

Today, April 22 is Earth Day, and if you’re reading this, we’re probably on the same page about the urgency of the climate crisis. It can be very easy to feel like your news feed is dominated by a seemingly endless string of bad news updates about how things are going from bad to worse – we know, it gets us too. That said, one of the most important things you can do to fight the climate crisis is to talk about it.
Impact and Generative AI offers great opportunities, but we also need to manage risk

Jun 20, 2023 | startupdaily.net | Katarina Throssell

In the final week of March 2023, the Future of Life Institute made headlines with its open letter, signed by some of the biggest names in tech, calling on all artificial intelligence (AI) labs to “immediately pause the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4”. It cited the need to allow safety research and policy to catch up with the “profound risks to society and humanity” created by the rapid advancement in AI capabilities.