{"id":478779,"date":"2026-02-14T04:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478779\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T04:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:48:27","slug":"origin-energys-kraken-bet-faces-ai-market-timing-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478779\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin Energy\u2019s Kraken bet faces AI, market timing challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Origin Energy boss Frank Calabria may have made one of the best venture capital bets in Australian corporate history, but it\u2019s hard to see how it could be the right time to spin it into listed markets any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>If his utilities software bet Kraken Technologies was worth $US8.65 billion ($12.16 billion) in December, and we\u2019re talking about a public markets valuation to be achieved at an initial public offering, it would be worth 20 per cent or 30 per cent less today.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Origin Energy boss Frank Calabria may have made one of the best venture capital bets in Australian corporate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-478779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}