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Natasha Gillezeau

December 4, 2024

How Anh Van combines art with science for her sustainable packaging company La Foundary

Do you know that feeling when you accidentally feed food waste to fungi, and two weeks later realise you’ve stumbled upon an innovation that could fundamentally change how sustainable packaging is made? Oh… no?

November 26, 2024

Undergraduates with a family income below US$200,000 will be able to attend MIT tuition-free from September 2025

Undergraduate students with a combined family income below US$200,000 will be able to attend MIT tuition-free from September 2025, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of U.S. households meet this income threshold.

November 19, 2024

Kic co-founder Laura Henshaw on what it takes to build a generational health and fitness company

October 29, 2024

Stripe’s head of information Emily Glassberg Sands on what it takes to break into data science

From rural Montana to a tech unicorn, Emily Glassberg Sands breaks down her journey into data science and how other women can embrace similar opportunities in technology.

October 25, 2024

Meet Ingrid Rodriquez, a dental hygienist turned oral health entrepreneur set on transforming our understanding of how our gums work

Brush your teeth twice a day, floss daily, visit the dentist once a year. To truly transform the global population's net oral health standards, this founder says we need to start thinking differently.

October 23, 2024

Lucy Mort on what it takes to build an app to rival Instagram and OnlyFans

Sunroom has raised $10.4 million to support its team of seven in creating a brand new way for women to make money from their sexuality, emotional labour, and expertise online. Lucy's humble, she's ambitious, and oh boy – does she have a ton of founder wisdom to share.

September 21, 2024

Tandem co-founder Lauren Humphrey on knowing when to pivot

"I’ve started to realise that whatever I feel in my gut doesn’t have to be right, but it needs to be considered. Knowing we needed to pivot - it felt like something was wrong."

September 18, 2024

Meet Heba Khamis, the CEO enabling robotic dexterity through a sense of touch

Did you know humans have 2000 touch receptors in their finger pads to help them grab, touch, grip, and recognise various objects? Yeah, we didn't either. To take robotics to the next level, it turns out robots also need sensors. That’s where Contactile, led by engineer and CEO Heba Khamis, comes into play.

September 13, 2024

Constantinople co-founder Di Challenor on the power of grit and how she pulled off the largest seed round raise in Australia

From cutting her teeth in tech sales at 19, to raising $32 million in a seed round to help make her banking software company Constantinople a reality, Di Challenor presents a founder masterclass in never giving up.

August 20, 2024

Ella Noah Bancroft on living between two worlds

In many ways, Ella is a reluctant entrepreneur. But her life-affirming organisation The Returning is a creative and expansive response to the challenge of connecting predominantly Indigenous women with culture, country, and deeper forms of healing.
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