SmartCompany’s most-read stories of 2024
Our most-read stories of the year included the CBA cash payment ban, financial teardowns, and our weekly startup funding roundups.
Our most popular startup stories of 2024 included our weekly funding roundups, Canva’s acquisition of Leonardo.ai and Finder’s redundancy round.
Meet the top five AI startups we’ll be watching closely in 2025. All of them had a stellar year, from funding to major acquisitions.
From quantum computing to quesadillas: Top 12 biggest capital raises of 2024
In a tough economic environment, Australian businesses across the tech, financial services, and restaurant sectors all secured major funding.
Seven Australian startups to watch in 2025
This list of seven startups highlights some of the most exciting tech companies Australia has to offer.
Tailor your AI training and deployment strategies to build confidence and skills, reduce resistance, and enhance the human potential of your workforce.
In our webinar, SmartCompany editor Eloise Keating and our panel of experts will explore the challenges SMEs face and how to overcome them.
Trending
Five Aussie AI startups we’re excited to watch in 2025
The DIY mindset is holding Australian startups back
Eleven savage gen Z out-of-office messages we dare you to use
Shark Tank Australia: How the $400,000 Clutch Glue deal is changing off-camera
Seven Australian startups to watch in 2025
Seven Aussie startups that raised $155.5 million this week
Winners announced
The Smart50 Awards recognises the fastest growing companies in Australia. See this year’s top 50 who made over $912 million in FY24.
Rewarding night for Pay.com.au as financial services star wins the 2024 Smart50 Awards
Pay.com.au has been crowned the fastest growing Australian SME during a packed awards night at SmartCompany’s annual Smart50 Awards in Melbourne.
From retail stars to community heroes, judges celebrate “brilliant” Smart50 category winners
Category winners in the 2024 Smart50 awards “truly wowed” the judging panel, earning plaudits for their “remarkable resilience” and “brilliant” innovation, through to “epic” commitment to their community.
The Smart50 2024 Community Hero Award winner: First Nations Foundation
The First Nations Foundation provides access to culturally relevant resources and information, such as the organisation’s flagship financial literacy program, My Money Dream, which has reached more than 3,000 individuals both online and face-to-face.
Growth Summit
Hear from global innovators, government ministers and venture capitalists to turbocharge your growth.
Research suggests the tense we use affects how helpful reviews are, and more importantly, how persuasive you can be in your written communications.
Efforts to collect small business tax debts must be “proportional”, Independent MP Allegra Spender says, echoing concerns from fellow ‘teal’ MP Zoe Daniel that small businesses are struggling to cope with the Australian Taxation Office’s current compliance approach.
It’s Shark Tank Australia’s final episode for the season and everyone’s feeling it.
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.
Our Reporters
-
-
-
David Adams
Senior Business Journalist
-
Mrinaal Datt
Production Editor
A Code signed into effect by the current Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations admits employing staff is a tricky matter indeed, and that genuine confusion can contribute to wage underpayment.
Leanne Faulkner reviews The Business Bible by She’s On The Money podcast host Victoria Devine in the latest edition of our monthly book review.
Webinar: Reducing burden and streamlining growth
Australian SMBs drawing renewed confidence from AI evolution
Accountancy firm boosts efficiency and professionalism with new cloud-based phone system
Small business owner Chryssie Swarbrick thinks she might have worked out the secret to going viral.
