entrepreneurs

Inspiretek has just closed a $2.5 million seed round, and is already gearing up for a Series A that will value the business at $50 million.

Here’s how Erika Cramer created a community of like-minded women on Instagram and a thriving business in the process.

In my 32 years, I’ve moved 34 times, had three kids by 26. I’ve moved cities, left jobs, started businesses and coped with parental abandonment, divorce, and death.

I’d decided to start my own business but the thought of leaving the safe cocoon of the corporate world had me feeling overwhelmed and afraid.

Whether it’s drawing up a new contract, trademark protection or entering into a lease, establishing a business can come with a myriad of legal hurdles.

For female entreprenuers, there is no side hustle. There is hard work, compromise and regular doses of mother’s guilt.

It took me about six months to adjust to a very different way of operating. I went from having a defined role to wearing many different hats.

At 15, Naby Mariyam was at university. At 23, she arrived in Australia with a new baby. By her late 20s, her career in academia had peaked.

The largest local health-tech funding round has been taken out by Manuri Gunawardena’s Aussie health-tech platform startup HealthMatch.

More often than not, it’s assumed female entrepreneurs want to escape inflexible corporate working hours, or to pursue a creative interest or passion,

A group of predominately women-led businesses are spearheading an urgent campaign calling on the Government to make early childhood education and care free.

Yemi Penn was 24 and had just graduated from her dream degree in mechanical engineering when to her own disbelief, she found herself homeless and pregnant.