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Where’s the beef? Blackstone just answered the AI question.
In 1984, a fast food ad asked a question that became a catchphrase. Where’s the beef? Jon Gray, President of Blackstone, used that line this month in front of global LPs. It is the question every capital allocator is asking about AI. Trillions of dollars are going into chips, data centres and power. That is […]
Capital Insights
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THE TAX CHANGED. NOW THE PRODUCT IS CHANGING TO MATCH.
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The Algorithm Re-Dosing Cancer Treatment: Inside the University of Melbourne Spin-Out Rewriting a 60-Year-Old Formula
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Asset over thematic: Centuria’s Andrew Essey warns against ‘blanket strategies’ as global capital eyes Australia
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Material gains: Swinburne spin-out EntroMat takes aim at $160b global market
Executive Interviews
The Best of Both Worlds: How Omnique Fund is Rewiring Real World Assets via Tokenisation
For decades, the playbook for Australia’s wholesale investors has remained relatively unchanged: pick between the slow-moving, illiquid reliability of tangible assets like property and gold, or chase the frictionless, high-velocity liquidity of public equity and digital markets. But as macroeconomic volatility spikes and a structural housing deficit reshapes private debt demand, sophisticated investors are demanding […]
Australia has not held 90 days of fuel since 2012. The fix may start at a sewage plant.
A decommissioned council treatment site in Bundaberg is being built into a $188.9 million biorefinery. Its managing director is candid that the largest revenue line is not yet contracted. Australia has not met its international 90-day fuel reserve obligation since 2012. Around 90 per cent of the country’s liquid fuel is imported. Andy Whitmore, Managing […]
Forget Startups: Why Magnetic Alliance is Betting on “Boring” Mid-Market Turnarounds
While Australia’s venture capital scene spent years chasing unprofitable tech startups and speculative high-growth plays, Mark Lim was quietly taking a radically different path. The Managing Partner of Magnetic Alliance Capital sees the nation’s richest investment opportunities hiding in plain sight: inside thousands of unglamorous, profitable, but operationally sluggish mid-market businesses. Speaking on Wholesale Investor’s […]
Capital Insights
Where’s the beef? Blackstone just answered the AI question.
In 1984, a fast food ad asked a question that became a catchphrase. Where’s the beef? Jon Gray, President of Blackstone, used that line this month in front of global LPs. It is the question every capital allocator is asking about AI. Trillions of dollars are going into chips, data centres and power. That is […]
THE TAX CHANGED. NOW THE PRODUCT IS CHANGING TO MATCH.
Changes to the 50% capital gains tax discount are shifting Australian private capital away from growth and into high-yielding wrappers. Fund managers are actively redesigning products across private credit and property to capture the incoming capital rotation
The Algorithm Re-Dosing Cancer Treatment: Inside the University of Melbourne Spin-Out Rewriting a 60-Year-Old Formula
Oncology specialists are still calculating toxic chemotherapy doses using a formula from the era of the Ford Model T, leading to a system where seven out of eight patients are routinely overdosed. University of Melbourne spin-out PredicTx is dismantling this legacy approach, utilizing advanced AI to analyze existing patient CT scans, deliver precision medicine to the bedside, and return a massive 100x financial rerate to hospital networks.
Company Updates
Everything is now competing for the same dollar
Key takeaways As recently as 2022, Germany and Japan could borrow for 30 years at close to zero. That world is gone, and AI is now bidding for what is left. Over the past fortnight, I listened to founders, operators and allocators describe where their industries are heading. They covered four very different frontiers. Each […]
The asset class where the market has no vote
Litigation funding returns are decided in a courtroom, not a cycle. Knightsbridge’s Head of Capital is careful to call that a different risk rather than a lower one, and his answer to it is spread, not concentration. Most alternative assets still answer to something. Property answers to rates. Private credit answers to defaults. Even the […]
The listing fee vendors pay whether the house sells or not
Australia’s property portals collect more than $2 billion a year while national listings sit flat. An Australian-built AI platform is targeting the economics, not just the interface. An Australian vendor listing a home pays a vendor-paid advertising fee on top of agency commission. Rama Dwarapudi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of RealSearch, puts a typical […]
Reinventing the Condom: How an Australian Deep-Tech Startup Plans to Disrupt a $12 Billion Market
For more than half a century, the global condom industry has remained fundamentally unchanged, constrained by standard materials like latex and solid synthetic polymers. Despite widespread consumer demand for better alternatives, product design has treated the device strictly as a mechanical barrier, sacrificing feel for function. Sydney-based Eudaemon Technologies is setting out to upend that […]
The Biofilm Breakthrough: How An Australian BioTech Firm Is Tapping Indonesia’s $45,000-a-Kitchen Bottleneck
Australian sustainability and deep-tech firm Altair International Pty Ltd is commercialising plant-based clinical hygiene technology, targeting a prime operational bottleneck in Indonesia’s massive national free meals program. Every few years, an Australian deep-tech company emerges combining proprietary science with a transformational anchor contract, the kind of business that quietly creates an entirely new market category […]
Capital Is Flowing – Just Not to Everyone: Inside Australia’s $1.8 Billion Q1 2026
Australia’s startup ecosystem opened 2026 with a number that demanded attention. In the first three months of the year, $1.8 billion was raised across 81 venture deals and 26 accelerator rounds. That makes Q1 2026 the strongest start to a year since the 2022 boom, up 63% on Q1 2025, and more than double the […]
Venture Investor Interviews
Australia’s 60,000 Business Succession Crisis: Why Good Companies Will Close Their Doors
The Australian Business Growth Fund identified approximately 162,000 privately held businesses in Australia with revenue between AUD$2 million and AUD$100 million. More than two-thirds are owned by people of retirement age. When surveyed, another two-thirds do not have a succession plan in place. The mathematics are stark. 60,000 businesses owned by someone of retirement age […]
Targeting the Untouchable: The High-Stakes Race to Outsmart ‘Invisible’ Tumors
Percheron Therapeutics is developing the drug HMBD-002 to target the VISTA protein, aiming to make previously “invisible” cancers visible to the immune system. The company is preparing for its critical Phase 2 human trials in 2026 after successful Phase 1 results showed tumor shrinkage.
The 2026 Family Office Briefing: The Great Professionalisation
The days of the family office as a “cottage industry” are over. As complexity overtakes capital, ultra-wealthy families are rapidly professionalising, shifting their focus to direct private markets, integrating AI as an operating system, and hiring non-family, institutional talent. Discover the four strategic imperatives—from navigating the $124 trillion succession crisis to adopting new governance frameworks—that are driving this era of Family Office Professionalisation in 2026.
Australia’s Trillion-Dollar Defence Tech Boom: A Call to Action for Founders
The global defence technology landscape is no longer a niche for the select few. For Australian founders, it represents a monumental, yet frequently underestimated, investment opportunity. Fuelled by escalating geopolitical tensions and a fundamental re-prioritisation of global spending, this sector is experiencing an unprecedented tailwind. According to Steve Baxter, Lead Investor at Beaten Zone Venture […]
Cryptos New Frontier: Institutionalisation, Real-World Assets, and the End of Wild West Investing
The cryptocurrency landscape, once characterised by rapid cycles and speculative frenzy, is undergoing a profound transformation. As global institutions and high-net-worth individuals increasingly look to allocate capital to digital assets, the focus is shifting towards maturity, regulatory clarity, and the integration of blockchain technology with traditional finance. A recent at the Emergence Singapore 2025 panel […]
Moving to Venture Investing 3.0
The next ten years are going to be the most disruptive – and potentially the most profitable – in the history of venture capital. Learn what technologies and techniques you need to adopt in order to become a successful, next-generation private market investor from this keynote presentation by Hatcher+ Managing Partner John Sharp. Looking for […]
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