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Australia's quantum future hinges on women's inclusion, with three key shifts urged to boost participation in this strategic technology.

Women founders are closing the start-up gap, but with VC still lagging, visibility and public storytelling are now vital growth capital.

Women power the NHS but are sidelined in healthtech, leaving the tools meant to transform care shaped in rooms they rarely occupy.

Women bear the brunt of chronic illness, but a new wave of female-led health tech aims to tackle root causes and close the gender health gap.

With women-led start-ups securing just 2.3% of 2024 VC funds, Cristina Fonseca says closing tech's gender gap is vital for growth.

Carta acquires ListAlpha and launches Carta CRM, unifying front-office relationship tools with back-office fund data for private capital firms.

Cicada opens applications for its 2026 Tech23 deep tech week, seeking 23 startups as alumni funding tops USD $280 million nationwide.

Women in tech are more visible and ambitious than ever, but unequal capital, fragmented support and poor data still block true equality.

UpGuard debuts Risk Automations to link cyber risk findings with security workflows, promising faster fixes after USD $75 million raise.

Scalare revenue jumps 360% to AUD $7.13 million as its integrated founder platform delivers first half of positive operating cash flow.

In tech and marketing, women are excluded not just by bias in code or funding, but by domestic load and male-coded networking rituals.

As AI reshapes tech, women still battle entrenched bias; only a deliberately human lens can turn this revolution into real inclusion.

Generative AI is levelling the creative-tech field, giving women a rare chance to shape rules, narratives and power from the ground up.

Australian construction tech startup Veyor raises AUD $11m Series A to fuel rapid US expansion as American revenues surge past 30%.

Rainforest adds PayPal, Venmo and PayPal Pay Later to its unified checkout for vertical software, aiming to shift users from cash and cheques.

Open-source lab Sentient has launched Arena, a vendor-agnostic sandbox to stress-test autonomous AI agents in complex, capital-sensitive tasks.

On International Women's Day, Pip Stocks urges leaders to fix skewed startup funding and AI-era careers, not just celebrate progress.

Australian DART AE hypersonic aircraft hits above Mach 5 in landmark NASA-backed test flight from Wallops Island, Virginia, US.

Moderne unveils Bauhaus, a selective programme backing startups building lifecycle infrastructure for an agent-driven dev future.

Komodor triples ARR and doubles Fortune 500 reach as AI-fuelled SRE, automation and cloud cost pressure reshape reliability operations.