October
Australia’s 100 richest people under 40 revealed
The Young Rich List, now in its 20th year, shows shop owners are thriving in another patchy year for tech founders, and there’s a new young billionaire in town.
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- Michael Bailey
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- Funding
Canva won’t list before 2025, but investors will still get rich soon
The graphic design software company is such a success that guessing when its IPO will be held has become a parlour game for the Australian technology sector.
- Nick Bonyhady
September
Australia’s five most powerful tech leaders for 2023
From a funding winter to cyberattacks and the rise of artificial intelligence, it has been a big year for Australian techies.
- Paul Smith
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- Voice to parliament
Why Canva’s Melanie Perkins is finally backing the Voice
Even some of Australia’s most progressive companies have been wary of endorsing the Voice as No campaigners seek to portray them as “elites”.
- Nick Bonyhady
August
Super funds cash in as Blackbird sells down Canva stake
The company has been under scrutiny after local venture capital firms followed US investors in marking down their valuations by almost $US15 billion.
- Paul Smith
July
What Canva and SafetyCulture see when they look in the mirror
The promising start-ups star in a new self-made documentary, which gives an insight into how they seem themselves.
- Mark Di Stefano
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- Mergers & acquisitions
‘I’m the new Melanie Perkins’: Liven aims high with four acquisitions
Hospitality tech firm Liven has kept a relatively low profile for a tech start-up, but it has now completed a $152m acquisition spree and has big expectations.
- Paul Smith
Tech party is over as Canva and Atlassian get tough, and perks dry up
After years of their firms topping best places to work lists with enviable perks, Canva, Atlassian and their tech peers are using tough rankings and jettisoning the niceties.
- Mark Di Stefano, Jessica Sier and Nick Bonyhady
June
Forrest mega-gift to cajole other billionaires to give more
The $5 billion donation from Andrew and Nicola Forrest to their Minderoo Foundation will likely serve as a powerful exemplar for Australia’s peer-conscious billionaires.
- Michael Bailey
February
Inside Bill Gates’ $200 billion private dinner
The Microsoft founder secretly met with Australia’s richest tech billionaires to discuss how to give away their money.
- Mark Di Stefano
‘We want to be accountable’: Canva on its struggle to give money away
The path to setting up one of the country’s largest philanthropic funds is complex, says Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht.
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- Jemima Whyte
What Bill Gates regrets and the best piece of advice he’s received
White Lotus and Drive to Survive are among the billionaire’s favourite streaming shows.
- Paul Smith
January
Australia’s ban on nuclear is ‘political’: Gates
The billionaire and climate advocate says the country might have to sit out the next 15 years of nuclear energy development because of political wrangling.
- Paul Smith
How to lose $2.1 trillion in a year: 12 bad months for billionaires
The world’s richest people lost $2.1 trillion between them last year. The Australian losers included Melanie Perkins and Mike Cannon-Brookes
- Devon Pendleton
October 2022
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
APRA probes big super on Canva
The superannuation regulator has questioned a handful of industry super funds about their approach to valuing the high-profile tech stock.
- Tony Boyd
September 2022
Australia’s top five technology leaders for 2022
It’s a year when the most powerful are those who can keep the show on the road until markets recover.
- Paul Smith
Canva launches direct assault on Microsoft, Google
The design software company has shrugged off its recent valuation plunge, unveiling a major product expansion that puts it in direct competition with global giants.
- Jessica Sier
August 2022
Canva couple drop off top 500 billionaire list
Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht no longer appear on a real-time, international ranking of the world’s richest 500 billionaires.
- Andrew Hobbs
July 2022
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Blackbird reveals Canva’s $14b plunge in value
A key investor in Australia’s most valuable privately owned tech company, Canva, has slashed its valuation after adopting a “mark-to-market” methodology.
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- Tony Boyd
June 2022
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- Venture capital
Canva investor slashes value of stake by 58.5pc
US investment giant Franklin Templeton has cut its holding in the Australian tech darling by that amount in just four months.
- James Thomson
