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Startups

## Eight ANZ startups that raised $113 million this week

Keep reading to learn more about the eight Australian and New Zealand startups that collectively raised more than $113 million this week.

Eloise Keating AND Simon Thomsen Oct 31, 2025

Technology

Startups

### From emails and forms, to design-led AI: Canva’s 10 new features, explained

The blockbuster new system features new Canva’s own large language model trained specifically for design, and permanently free access to professional design tool Affinity.

Eloise Keating Oct 31, 2025

Marketing

Business Advice

### The art of reinvention: What Betts, Burberry and Pepsi teach us about brand comebacks

From century-old shoemakers to soda giants, these brands are proving that revival is an art form — one that begins with respect for history.

Jessica Hatzis Oct 31, 2025

Smart50 Awards 2025

### Inspiring stories, serious growth: The 2025 Smart50 award category finalists, revealed

SmartCompany is proud to announce the category finalists for the 2025 Smart50 awards, recognising Australia’s fastest-growing businesses and their inspirational founders.

David Adams Oct 9, 2025

Business Advice

### Growth Summit returns in 2026; Melbourne tickets on sale now

Presented by SmartCompany and Startup Daily, Growth Summit is Australia’s premier event for ambitious startup and SME founders and leaders.

Eloise Keating Oct 15, 2025

Partner Content

Growth

### Inside Icon Group’s Southeast Asian playbook: Partnerships, localisation and cross-border care

Cross-border mentoring and staff mobility both work to lift capability in-market and feed learnings back into Australia.

The Australian Trade and Investment Commission Oct 16, 2025

Partner Content

Artificial Intelligence

### Webinar recap: Want to scale faster? Start with better data

In a fast-moving, cash-tight market, the ability to make faster, smarter decisions will give SMBs a competitive edge. And unified, trustworthy data is the only way business leaders can make those decisions with confidence.

Salesforce Oct 13, 2025

Marketing

Retail

#### Aussie brands Eva and Nala aren’t afraid to take a stand — or a billboard — on national debates

Two Australian retail brands have turned to mobile billboards to have their say on some of the hottest topics of national conversation.

Morganne Kopittke Oct 31, 2025

Startups

Health

#### Former Canva employees raise $8.5 million for patient care startup Human Health

Patient care platform Human Health has raised $8.5 million as it looks to expand its global reach.

Simon Thomsen Oct 30, 2025

Business Advice

Industrial Relations

#### Is my worker an employee or a subcontractor?

Recent High Court decisions in Personnel Contracting and Jamsek have reshaped the way these relationships are assessed, and the ATO’s updated guidance now reflects a much more contract-based approach.

Natalie Lennon Oct 30, 2025

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Hospitality

#### US burger chain Wendy’s opens Brisbane flagship in next step towards 200 Aussie venues

Eloise Keating Oct 29, 2025

Business Advice

#### How business owners can turn rent into a tax-free dividend

Jason Andrew Oct 30, 2025

Technology

#### From emails and forms, to design-led AI: Canva’s 10 new features, explained

Eloise Keating Oct 31, 2025

Transport & Logistics

#### Waymo wants to start testing self-driving taxis in Australia, starting with Sydney

Cam Wilson Oct 29, 2025

Opinion

#### Financial teardown: How Adrian Portelli built LMCT+ into a $1 billion empire

Jason Andrew May 20, 2025

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Startups

#### Former Canva employees raise $8.5 million for patient care startup Human Health

Simon Thomsen Oct 30, 2025

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## Smart50 Awards 2025

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Smart50 Awards 2025

### Vote for the Smart50 Founder of the Year

The Founder of the Year Award celebrates the founder of a fast-growing Australian business who demonstrates excellence in business leadership, successful business outcomes, and influence in their industry.

Eloise Keating Oct 13, 2025

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Smart50 Awards 2025

## Inspiring stories, serious growth: The 2025 Smart50 award category finalists, revealed

SmartCompany is proud to announce the category finalists for the 2025 Smart50 awards, recognising Australia’s fastest-growing businesses and their inspirational founders.

David Adams Oct 9, 2025

Smart50 Awards 2025

Sustainability

## Smart50 alumni Calyx and Goterra prove green business is big business

Two Smart50 alumni Calyx and Goterra are proving that sustainability isn’t just good for the planet — it’s good for business.

Morganne Kopittke Sep 8, 2025

## The Smart50 Awards Ceremony

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Events & Training

### Event: TikTok Works

Join TikTok’s exclusive hands-on workshop series designed to help Australian e-commerce brands turn TikTok into a powerful growth engine.

Tue 21 Oct to Wed 5 Nov, 2025

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#### The Future of Commerce

Thu 6 Nov, 2025

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#### Ripple Festival

Wed 12 to Thu 13 Nov, 2025

Melbourne

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#### The 2025 Smart50 Awards night

Thu 13 Nov, 2025

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## Tax

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### ATO to refer to ‘clients’ as ‘taxpayers’ as it returns to compliance-based approach

Julian Bajkowski Oct 30, 2025

#### Small businesses included in ATO’s new vulnerability framework

David Adams Oct 22, 2025

#### “Overwhelmingly negative”: Tax watchdog calls on ATO to improve special phone line

David Adams Oct 17, 2025

#### Labor pulls unrealised gains tax from super reforms after fears for small business

Treasurer Jim Chalmers dropped a policy that could have squeezed small business owners holding commercial property in self-managed super funds.

David Adams AND Simon Thomsen Oct 13, 2025

#### Seven reasons your ATO tax refund could look smaller this year

Seeing a smaller refund from the tax office? Accounting expert Natalie Lennon explains why your result at tax time can swing from one year to the next.

Natalie Lennon Oct 13, 2025

## Business Advice

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Business Advice

#### How business owners can turn rent into a tax-free dividend

Jason Andrew Oct 30, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Business Advice

#### The biggest pitfall in your AI strategy? Ignoring your people

The companies seeing business-changing results are not just buying the latest AI tools; they are empowering their teams to work smarter, think bigger, and deliver more value.

Gavin Debono Oct 27, 2025

Business Advice

Marketing

#### “Emotional buying isn’t impulse buying”: Understanding the new era of women’s spending power

Jessica Hatzis unpacks how culture and commerce move together, and why brands that don’t understand women’s emotional codes risk being left behind.

Jessica Hatzis Oct 24, 2025

## Shark Tank

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### The 10 biggest investment offers on Shark Tank Australia 2024

Eloise Keating AND David Adams Dec 12, 2024

#### Flashback: $500,000 Shark Tank deal develops off-camera as founders look at the big picture

David Adams Dec 12, 2024

#### Friendships and exclusive Slack channels: How Shark Tank Australia contestants stay connected

David Adams Dec 12, 2024

#### Shark Tank Australia recap: Season finale sees the Sharks go all-in on Swiff Spray

It’s Shark Tank Australia’s final episode for the season and everyone’s feeling it.

Glenn Peters Dec 12, 2024

#### Black Friday and Shark Tank frenzy pushes Little Potion Co into pre-orders

The Little Potion Co, which creates sparkling, bubbly ‘magic’ kits for children, informed customers that all online sales from Monday, December 1 will count as pre-orders.

David Adams Dec 2, 2024

## Startups

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SmartCompany Exclusive

Health

#### Mental health startup Tala Thrive reveals $500,000 pre-seed raise as it moves back to Melbourne

Mrinaal Datt Oct 30, 2025

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Startups

Sustainability

#### Uluu raises $16 million Series A to replace plastics with seaweed-based alternatives

David Adams Oct 30, 2025

Startups

#### Superfast plane startup Hypersonix raises $46 million, with federal government tipping in

Eloise Keating Oct 28, 2025

Startups

Health

#### Melbourne’s ENA Respiratory raises $34 million to fight viruses with nasal spray

Mrinaal Datt Oct 27, 2025

Startups

#### Two Aussie startups that raised $8.2 million this week

Eloise Keating AND David Adams Oct 24, 2025

Startups

#### Melbourne startup 2cloudnine bags $7.5 million to take workforce management tech worldwide

Eloise Keating Oct 22, 2025

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##### Mental health startup Tala Thrive reveals $500,000 pre-seed raise as it moves back to Melbourne

## Opinion

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Opinion

Finance

#### Why Australia’s small businesses are suddenly being told “no” by banks

Kim Woodward Oct 27, 2025

Opinion

Startups

#### Why women-led startups are an undervalued asset class

Women-led startups are outperforming their male counterparts by every metric. So why are they still getting less than 0.5% of Australia’s venture capital funding?

Lisa Teh Oct 20, 2025

Opinion

Artificial Intelligence

#### Deepfakes, Dev Day, and domination: Inside OpenAI’s race to own the future of AI

OpenAI’s recent weeks looked chaotic — launching a deepfake-filled social app days before unveiling serious enterprise tools at Dev Day. But beneath the noise lies a clear strategy.

Jack O'Neill Oct 17, 2025

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Partner Content

Retail

### Turning peak sales periods into long-term loyalty

Klaviyo Oct 29, 2025

Partner Content

Artificial Intelligence

### Your last all-human team: A leader’s guide to the agentic workforce

Salesforce Oct 28, 2025

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Partner Content

### Ask Us Anything: Connecting you to expert mentors

Optus Oct 22, 2025

Partner Content

Artificial Intelligence

## Don’t wait: How to supercharge your business for 2026

Here are three critical areas entrepreneurs can’t afford to ignore.

Xero Oct 21, 2025

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#### The 2025 Smart50 Awards night

### February

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#### Growth Summit Melbourne 2026

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Finance

#### No surcharging clarity until 2026 as RBA pushes out review

David Adams Oct 24, 2025

Finance

#### Financial teardown: KKR’s $3 billion garage door jackpot and the employees who cashed in big

Jason Andrew Oct 21, 2025

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Finance

#### Investor bias, visa chaos and a $500,000 win: The reality of raising capital as a POC founder in Australia

Mrinaal Datt Oct 20, 2025

Economy

Finance

#### The small business exemption in Australia’s mandatory cash acceptance plan

David Adams Oct 20, 2025

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Startups

Finance

#### GXE raises $3.3 million to help solve pain points for fund managers

Eloise Keating Oct 15, 2025

Startups

Finance

#### Birchal report says equity crowdfunding is more diverse than VC

Tegan Jones Oct 9, 2025

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