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A brain implant. That treats cancer. With electricity. 🔌 Sounds too wild to be true, right? That's exactly why Ben Woodington and Elise Jenkins sat down with Sachin Shah and Adam Miller for 90 minutes. Some ideas need room to breathe. The team got exclusive access to Coherence Neuro's Palo Alto lab, watched a live BCI demo, and came away with the clearest explanation yet of what Ben and Elise are building - a tiny implant that sits inside the skull after tumour surgery, monitors cancer in real time, and delivers electrical stimulation to fight it. Not science fiction. Electrical cancer therapy is already clinically proven. We backed Ben and Elise at pre-seed in 2023. Their first-in-human trial at Royal Melbourne Hospital is happening this month. And next week, they're on the Sunrise stage 🌅 ⬇️ Link to the episode in comments. Worth your time. https://lnkd.in/gZ4c3-CC

🌅 In one week, the doors open. The full program schedule is live. And today, one final voice joins the lineup. Cliff Obrecht (Co-founder & COO of Canva) will take the stage to share how Canva is rebuilding as an AI-native company - and what it takes to disrupt yourself before the world does. (This session replaces Tim Doyle’s previously announced talk.) If you’ve been thinking of joining us, this is your last moment. Only a handful of tickets remain. 🎟️ Explore the full program & get your tickets 👉 www.thesunrise.live 🌅 Sunrise Australia 2026 🗓️ Thursday 30 April 📍 Carriageworks, Sydney #SunriseAUS26

We recorded this episode of Wild Hearts with Jekaterina Viktorova a few months ago. At the time, Syenta had just come through one of the hardest periods in the company's short life - six weeks from zero, no term sheets, a top US semiconductor giant telling them they'd never hit the milestones. Today: $26 million raised. The NRF invested. Three governments on the cap table. And former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger joining the board. None of that is surprising to anyone who listened to this episode. Click on the link in the comments to hear why 👇

🌅 Sunrise is next week. Where some of the most magical moments aren't just found on stage. ✨ The Stripe Recharge Space is one of them. Refuel with coffee. Recharge your devices. Stay a little longer in the conversations that matter. 🎟️ Get your tickets 👉 www.thesunrise.live 🌅 Sunrise Australia 2026 🗓️ Thursday 30 April 📍 Carriageworks, Sydney #SunriseAUS26

Sunrise is a gathering in motion. Ideas moving. People crossing paths. Futures unfolding across borders. At Sunrise, find your way to the Deel Delights Hub to step into that flow. With free bubble tea, made fresh. Travel gifts, personalised for you. A space to connect and pause in between it all. A small expression of a bigger idea - that the best teams aren’t bound by place, and building them should feel just as fluid. See you there? 🎟️ Get your tickets 👉 www.thesunrise.live 🌅 Sunrise Australia 2026 🗓️ Thursday 30 April 📍 Carriageworks, Sydney #SunriseAUS26

In 2013, we wrote Canva a $250,000 cheque. Melanie and Cliff had a mission, no product, and absolute conviction that design should belong to everyone. Today, from LA, we watched them do it again. But this time with AI. Canva's AI tools are already the third most used in the world, behind only OpenAI and Google. What launched today isn't a design tool with AI features. It's an AI platform that does design, built from the ground up on proprietary infrastructure and for the 260 million people who already call Canva home. The mission hasn't changed. The mountain has ⛰️ Read more from Rick Baker in the comments ⬇️

In 2024, Tom Humphrey saw something shifting in how the best software companies were being built and gave it a name: SaiS. Two years on, it's making headlines. Four stages. One framework. And a question worth asking: where does your company sit? Tom's full piece in the comments 👇

Two weeks to go. The room is already beginning to take shape - founders, builders, dreamers finding their way toward each other. At Sunrise, connection doesn’t wait for the day. Our Sunrise festival & networking app (Brella) uses AI-powered matchmaking to help you find your people early. See who’s coming. Connect with fellow Travellers. Book 1:1 meetings ahead of time. And when the day arrives, step into the Global Connections Zone, presented by HSBC Innovation Banking, where your dedicated 1:1 meeting tables are waiting for you. A huge thanks to HSBC Innovation Banking for powering connections at Sunrise. Book a meeting through the Brella app or meet the HSBC Innovation Banking team at the Global Connections Zone. This is your moment. Join us? 🎟️ Explore the full program & get your tickets 👉 www.thesunrise.live 🌅 Sunrise Australia 2026 🗓️ Thursday 30 April 📍 Carriageworks, Sydney #SunriseAUS26

In just two weeks from now, we’ll gather. To stretch what feels possible - together. At Sunrise, the Visions Stage is a window into the horizon - where big ideas and bold visions of the future are shared by those building them. Here are the minds shaping that space: ✨ Tim Doyle | CEO & Co-founder at Eucalyptus ✨ Angela Jiang | Head of Product, Platform at Anthropic ✨ Katelyn Lesse | Head of Platform Engineering at Anthropic ✨ Dr. Thomas Kelly | Co-founder & CEO at Heidi ✨ Jacky Koh | Founder at Relevance AI ✨ Guillaume Princen | International Head of Startups, Digital Natives & Mid-Market at Anthropic ✨ Lucy Yueting Liu | President & Co-founder at Airwallex ✨ Ben Woodington | Co-founder & CEO at Coherence Neuro ✨ Aaron Blabey | #1 New York Times Bestseller Author ✨ Danielle Strachman | Founder & General Partner at 1517 Fund ✨ Julia Reisser | Co-founder & Co-CEO at Uluu ✨ Michael Kingsbury | Co-founder & Co-CEO at Uluu Final tickets are moving - this is the moment to join us. 🎟️ Explore the full program & get your tickets 👉 www.thesunrise.live 🌅 Sunrise Australia 2026 🗓️ Thursday 30 April 📍 Carriageworks, Sydney #SunriseAUS26

The full Sunrise 2026 program is here. What’s been building is now visible - a gathering of conversations, ideas, and people that don’t just describe the future, but start to shape it. Across stages, sessions, and everything in between, this is the room we’re building: ✨ Tim Doyle | CEO & Co-founder at Eucalyptus ✨ Angela Jiang | Head of Product, Platform at Anthropic ✨ Dr. Thomas Kelly | Co-founder & CEO at Heidi ✨ Lucy Yueting Liu | President & Co-founder at Airwallex ✨ Katelyn Lesse | Head of Platform Engineering at Anthropic ✨ Danielle Strachman | Founder & General Partner at 1517 Fund ✨ Guillaume Princen | International Head of Startups, Digital Natives & Mid-Market at Anthropic ✨ Aaron Blabey | #1 New York Times Bestseller Author ✨ Ben Woodington | Co-founder & CEO at Coherence Neuro ✨ Maxine Minter | General Partner at Co Ventures ✨ Geoff McQueen | Founder at Accelo/@Teamscore.io ✨ Charlie Gearside | Youtuber & Founder at Gearside / Eucalyptus ✨ Jae Lubberink | Growth Manager at Eucalyptus ✨ Julia Reisser | Co-founder & Co-CEO at Uluu ✨ Michael Kingsbury | Co-founder & Co-CEO at Uluu ✨ Geoffrey Huntley | Inventor, Engineer & Investor at Ralph Wiggum Loop ✨ Jacky Koh | Founder at Relevance AI ✨ Arushi Srivastava | Senior Client Success Lead at ADAPT, MC at Debate Club ✨ Orsolya Tóth-Pál | Founder at Debate Club ✨ Hon Weng Chong | Founder at Cortical Labs ✨ Nonny Bell | Head of Startups, APAC at Vercel ✨ Jared Thompson | Senior Technical Sales Engineer at Vercel ✨ Alex Firestone | Solutions Architect at Vercel ✨ Lizzie Hedding | Co-founder & Creative Director at Project Planet ✨ Tegan Lerm | CEO at Project Planet ✨ Sonia Kaurah | Founder & CEO at Tala Thrive ✨ Joe Walker | Host at The Joe Walker Podcast ✨ Alby Churven | Co-founder & CEO at Clovr ✨ Niki Scevak | Co-founder at Blackbird ✨ Niel Reitmann | Growth at Eucalyptus ✨ Luca Milne | Co-founder at Lucky Sauna Hats ✨ Cameron Ensor | Co-Founder at Lucky Sauna Hats 3 weeks to go. 🎟️ Explore the full program schedule & get your tickets 👉 www.thesunrise.live 🌅 Sunrise Australia 2026 🗓️ Thursday 30 April 📍 Carriageworks, Sydney #SunriseAUS26