Friday, November 13, 2026

Business

UNSW medical robotics spinout raises $8.6m for US ambitions

The round for UNSW spinout Vexev was backed by existing investors Blackbird, Neotribe, Startmate and Horizon, with TreeArc Investment Group, TEN13, Bioshore and Alumni Ventures also joining the cap table. Vexev was founded in Sydney in 2018 by John Carroll...

Research suggests that the most warm and generous people are sometimes the loneliest, and the explanation isn’t that kindness pushes people away, but that...

You will probably know someone like this. Possibly you are someone like this. They are the friend everyone calls when something has gone wrong. They remember your birthday, ask after your parents, notice when you seem off, and turn...

Enrola’s pivot to AI sales-tech lands $2.1 million Seed

The round was led by Purpose Ventures, with support from existing backers Antler, AfterWork Ventures and Skalata. As an education comparison platform, it previously raised $800,000 in a pre-Seed round in late 2024, having initially launched as part of the...

ProcurePro secures shot at $1.4 million Startup World Cup prize

Tim will join the winners of the Sydney and Melbourne finals, travelling to San Francisco in November to compete against startups from around the world for the Startup World Cup title and its US$1 million investment prize. The Australian group...

Attraction behaves less like a fixed physical fact than a running judgement: in one study an unpleasant personality made people rate the same face...

The genre of advice about killing attraction treats it as a fixed asset you can squander: be too keen, too available, too anything, and you drain a fund of desire the other person arrived with. It is a tidy...

People who seem naturally composed are usually doing one of two different things: rethinking the situation, which genuinely calms them, or just hiding the...

Every office has one: the person who takes bad news without a flinch, fields a hostile question without heat, and generally seems built from calmer material than the rest of us. We tend to file them under temperament, as...

The Myers-Briggs test is described everywhere as being based on Carl Jung, but its two authors had no training in psychology, one of its...

Ask almost anyone where the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator comes from and you’ll get the same answer: it takes Carl Jung’s theory of personality types and turns it into a proper test.  That framing is everywhere, in corporate training slides, career...

Researchers studying leaderless groups found that the single strongest predictor of who got nominated as leader wasn’t intelligence, experience, or personality — it was...

In an unstructured meeting, the person who talks most often begins to look like the person leading it. A 2020 paper in The Leadership Quarterly tested this pattern with 256 university students placed into 33 temporary groups. Speaking time was...

Crime, Climate, Cost: EstateBlock Shines Light on More Data for Homebuyers

A real estate agent based out of Vancouver has launched a listings platform that shows more data than the rest. “Real estate sites all show the same thing,” laments Dan Marusin—a set of photos and some basic listing information. But there’s...

Your MVP might be lying to you: what founders should measure

We hear much less about how these terms came to be and the market forcing functions around how they came to be understood as viable gauges for a successful startup. You can hear them at any pitch night event...
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What Huang’s resignation means for chipmakers and AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced his resignation after it was reported that he had an affair with a businesswoman...
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