Archive - Small Steps by Giant Leap

AI in Education: Who’s holding the pen? ✏️

Small Steps Vol. 118: AI is here, but teaching is still a human craft. This month, we dig into where the tools help, where they don’t and why it still…

Jul 2

June 2025

Inside Australia’s Impact Startup Ecosystem

We unpack three years of Australia’s impact startup landscape and what's coming next in Climate, Health and People.

Jun 18

Workplaces, classrooms and climate: the systems we’re rethinking

Small Steps Vol. 117: Our investment in Foremind, plus fresh signals from the systems shaping how we live, work and care.

Jun 4

May 2025

What connects sleep, sea and sky

Small Steps Vol. 116: From bedtime science 🛌 to cargo emissions on the high seas 🚢 and climate experiments in the clouds 🌥.

May 1

April 2025

Quiet Moves, Loud Signals

Small Steps Vol. 115: From sovereign wealth tracking nature risk 🍃 to AI in classrooms 🎓 and femtech pushing back 👩🏻‍⚕️ – what this week’s quiet…

Apr 3

March 2025

Rethinking Menopause: The Blind Spot Costing Billions in Health and Productivity

Small Steps Vol. 114: A deep dive into the billion-dollar opportunity to transform midlife healthcare 🍎; women leading the way in gen-AI adoption 💪…

Mar 5

February 2025

AI in overdrive: DeepSeek, Nvidia and fixing the blind spots

Small Steps Vol. 113: Giant Leap’s impact thesis for Ovum.ai 👩🏻‍⚕️; the state of Aussie startup funding 💸; and climate tech predictions for the year…

Feb 5

December 2024

That's a wrap on 2024

Small Steps Vol. 112: China’s sanitary pad scandal sparks debate on women’s health equity 🩸; talking waste and circular economy at Christmas 🌱; and…

Dec 11, 2024

November 2024

Giant Leap's FY24 Impact Report

Small Steps Vol. 111: Sharing our portfolio's impact on people and planet 👐 🌏

Nov 20, 2024

Your health data doesn’t include you – but femtech can fix that

Small Steps Vol. 110: The health data gap is a moral oversight and a market failure. We dive into why it’s also a problem for every single AI healthtech…

Nov 6, 2024

October 2024

Clearing the skies for sustainable aviation

Small Steps Vol. 109: The path to decarbonising aviation is encountering turbulence - we dive into the five things that need to align for it to become a…

Oct 2, 2024

September 2024

Too hot to handle - the new reality of extreme heat

World-first research on how long humans can survive in wet bulb temperatures 🔥; soap that can treat skin cancer 🧼; and Small Steps’ upcoming makeover…

Sep 5, 2024

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