This Month
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- Start-ups
Employment Hero makes $112m acquisition to break into Canada
Like the Australian software start-up, Humi makes cloud-based software which handles hiring, payroll and employee benefits for small and mid-sized businesses.
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- Tess Bennett
December 2024
‘Unicorn’ tech firm spent $43m to buy its founder’s other company
Heavily backed HR technology firm Employment Hero paid $43.4 million for a company owned by its co-founder Ben Thompson, a new regulatory filing has revealed.
- Tess Bennett
October 2024
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Chanticleer’s 10 legends of marvellous Melbourne
Melbourne has always been Chanticleer’s spiritual home. As part of the column’s 50-year celebrations, we name 10 big characters from the past five decades.
- James Thomson
September 2024
Albo keeps it in the family at the AFL commissioner’s lunch
You can’t buy a ticket to Aussie rules’ most exclusive grand final function, so there are few better tests of relevance than trying to score an invitation.
- Myriam Robin
April 2024
‘What Paula wants, Paula gets’: Lindsay Fox’s $152m birthday surprise
A high-profile birthday singalong broke out on billionaire Lindsay Fox’s birthday at the official opening of new $152 million Paula Fox Melanoma and Cancer Centre in Melbourne on Friday.
- Patrick Durkin
March 2024
Break or breakthrough: the red flags at Victoria’s VC fund
Breakthrough Victoria was formed after its now-chairman, John Brumby, called for the establishment of such a fund.
- Myriam Robin
February 2024
Broker pressures Seek to unlock VC fund’s $2.3b valuation
Analysts from Morgan Stanley argue the job classifieds site and VC investor should make major changes to maximise shareholders’ perception of its value.
- Nick Bonyhady and Tom Richardson
October 2023
Embattled Richard Goyder farewells Gil McLachlan. Again
You know you’ve drawn a power crowd when not only doesn’t the prime minister get to speak, but his presence rates only a passing mention.
- Joe Aston and Myriam Robin
April 2023
Bizoids bust out the tartan at court of Fox
The trucking tycoon turned 86 on Wednesday, and marked the day as extravagantly as any self-respecting billionaire could be expected to.
- Myriam Robin
February 2022
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- Funding
New Aussie ‘unicorn’: Employment Hero scales $1.25b
After eight years building a globally successful HR, payroll and benefits platform, Employment Hero has cracked the billion-dollar valuation, raising $181m.
- Paul Smith
October 2021
GS handles $48m SEEK stake for Andrew Bassat
There was some surprising selldown news out of SEEK Ltd on Thursday.
- Anthony Macdonald, Yolanda Redrup and Kanika Sood
September 2021
Top tips for success gleaned from leaders over 21 years of BOSS
Take time to think, learn to read people, document your week and keep learning are among the pieces of advice from Australia’s most successful business leaders.
- Sally Patten
July 2021
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- Funding
Brisbane’s Go1 becomes Australia’s newest ‘unicorn’ with mega-raise
The online training marketplace, founded by four former high school friends in 2015, is now worth more than $US1 billion after raising $US200 million.
- Paul Smith
March 2021
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- Funding
HR tech firm raises $45m amid remote working boom
Employment Hero has been valued at more than $250 million after a new funding round led by SEEK. It accelerated its international expansion in the pandemic.
- Paul Smith
Andrew Bassat’s billion-dollar plan for VC dominance
The Seek co-founder is stepping back from the demands of running a publicly listed company to lean into his plans to make its venture capital arm, Seek Investments, a billion-dollar giant.
- Natasha Gillezeau
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- Earnings season
Invest big to ‘break away from the pack’: top CEOs
Companies must reinvest in their operations and reinvent their companies more aggressively or risk squandering the advantage handed to them by Australia’s adroit management of the pandemic.
- Lucas Baird, Sally Patten and Natasha Gillezeau
February 2021
Visa platforms bidder Sayers has Liberal investor
Through Sayers Capital, a bevy of high-profile shareholders are exposed to the bid. Most noteworthy: Andrew Burnes, the former Liberal Party treasurer.
- Myriam Robin
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Seek empowers Ian Narev’s makeover
From the dumped CEO of Commonwealth Bank of Australia to boss of one of our most successful tech platforms - Ian Narev is a man remade.
- Tony Boyd
Narev to Bassat: ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’
Seek’s new chief executive, Ian Narev, checked in multiple times to make sure his outgoing boss Andrew Bassat was really ready to let go of the reins. But for the latter, the timing ‘just felt right’.
- Natasha Gillezeau and James Thomson
SEEK eyes a split as Bassat hands reins to Narev
Co-founder Andrew Bassat is stepping down from his chief executive role to be succeeded by former Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev.
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- Natasha Gillezeau