Startups

Somewhere in most Australian venture term sheets, between the board seat and the information rights, sits a quieter ask: the right to appoint a board observer. An observer attends board meetings, …

At some point between seed and Series B, most startup boards gain their first outsider: an experienced operator, a domain expert, someone who has seen the movie before and can tell the founders how it …

If your startup sells a generative AI product — a chatbot, a drafting assistant, an AI-powered analytics tool — a question has probably crossed your mind: when the model gets something wrong, who …

Your shareholders’ agreement was signed on day one by the founders, the company and maybe a seed investor. Two years later the register looks nothing like that signing page: an angel came in …

Nobody in your startup has printed a contract in years. SAFEs, employment agreements, shareholders’ agreements, board consents — everything goes out through DocuSign and comes back signed in an …

Modern slavery reporting sounds like compliance for miners and supermarkets. Most founders file it under “problems we’d love to have” and move on. But the trigger in the Modern …