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Mixed martial arts brand Wimp 2 Warrior lands $7.5 million to digitise its gym program Simon Thomsen - July 4, 2021 2 MIN READ Photo: AdobeStock Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) program Wimp 2 Warrior has raised $7.5 million to go digital. The raise was backed by the News Corp Scaleup Media Fund, Mark Bouris, the Smorgon family’s Sandbar Investments, Altor Capital, Shaw & Partners, and Lucerne Investment Partners. The venture last raised $2 million two years ago from ex-MLC CEO Geoff Lloyd, for...

HowToo co-founders Lisa Vincent and Jenny Barltrop. Source: supplied. This week it was all blasting off in the Aussie space startup scene, with Gilmour Space securing a huge $61 million cash injection, and startup Spiral Blue launching its space computers into orbit aboard Richard Brandon’s maiden satellite taxi service. Closer to Earth, we saw student-focused fintech close its equity crowdfunding campaign, pocketing $1.15 million, while hypnosis healthtech startup Mindset Health secured $6....

Mixed martial arts (MMA) gym tech company Wimp 2 Warrior (W2W) has hired James Fleet as its first CTO, following an an oversubscribed $7.5 million fun...

Long Lost Small Caps Seeing The Light Three small cap ASX plodders now positioning for the home straight By Tim Boreham, Editor, The New Criterion Almost every small-cap investor knows the pain of investing in the next big thing, only to find their stock remains resolutely that: a small cap. Or even worse, the company ceases to be altogether, providing fodder for the ever-booming insolvency industry. Even more annoying is the regret of investors losing patience with a serial plodder, only for t...

Here are three industrial stalwarts that have long lost the patience of investors but look to be coming good.

Nicole Kidman has been riding out much of the global pandemic Down Under with her family.

Self-made millionaire Roxy Jacenko is the queen of PR.

☆☆☆☆☆ “Australia, meet Lord Alan Sugar,” Nine’s Celebrity Apprentice tells us. The British billionaire has been FIFO’d into Australia for a revival of the reality series last seen on Nine with Mark Bouris in 2015. Overlooking the fact we’ve already met him when Seven screened his British series between 2007 – 2010, he’s a very good get for Nine. Lord Sugar knows this format intimately and how to bark the lines and point his finger. “I haven’t got a bloody clue who y...

Share During an interview on Today on Friday, Ross, 44, spoke about how his excitement at being recognised by the billionaire soon turned to dread.  He just went, "I havent heard of any of you. Youre all bloody nobodies." And Im thinking, "Oh," and then he went, "Except him." And I went, "Oh, thats good!" and then I realised, that just painted a massive target on my back, he recounted. Today Im faced with a bunch of celebrities that I dont know. I havent got a bloody clue who any of you are. ...

Reality TV stars vs. celebrities While theyre playing happy families for the cameras, our on-set source says tensions grew between two very defined camps: the reality stars and the celebrities, with some of the more recognised names such as Anthony Callea, Michelle Bridges and Shaynna Blaze feeling there were way too many "reality rejects" joining them on the show. However, the reality stars stood their ground, with one telling our spy, "Anthony shouldnt forget where he came from. He might be ...