<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Canva co-founders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht remain at the top of the Australian Financial Review's Young Rich List for the sixth year running, and it doesn't look like their crown is going to be threatened any time soon.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The AFR's 2025 list, which ranks the wealthiest Australians under the age of 40, put the couple's estimated net worth at $18.5 billion.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Second on the list was Ed Craven, co-founder of online cryptocurrency casino site stake.com with an estimated $4.6 billion.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/ben-austin-young-cricketer-dies-after-training-accident-victoria/b55935be-0408-4938-a3e6-bb46b649c8b1" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>'Devastated': Teen cricketer dies after training tragedy</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>To put that in perspective, the AFR estimates Perkins and Obrecht grew their fortune by $4.5 billion in just the past year.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Robbie and James Ferguson of cryptocurrency and blockchain company Immutable are in third with a combined net worth of $1.7 billion, followed by businessman Adrian Portelli with $1.4 billion.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Combined, the fortunes of the top 10 hit $31.7 billion, up 9.7 per cent from $28.9 billion in 2024.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/afr-reveals-australia-young-rich-list-for-2025/cb9fa810-70fb-4de4-ac07-38f86a7dd4c3" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/accused-nazi-saluter-professes-love-for-australia/3526fcd1-a63d-44b4-8346-758dc1226b24" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>'I love Australia': Accused Nazi saluter faces court</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Outside the top 10, other familiar names appear.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Margot Robbie remains Australia's richest entertainer under 40, listed at 36 with an estimated fortune of $193 million.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Basketball star Ben Simmons (20th) is Australia's richest young sports star, worth a tidy $260 million.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/albanese-meets-trump-ahead-of-us-presidents-meeting-with-china-leader/c5490936-6780-4a45-b934-9f35bd1e2eb9" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Trump heaps praise on Albanese ahead of crucial meeting with China's leader</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Retired F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo (35th with $194 million), golfers Cameron Smith (41st with $176 million) and Jason Day (42nd with $167 billion), and F1 driver Oscar Piastri (56th with $122 million) also appear.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Piastri is one of 22 debutants on this year's list, a group collectively worth about $4 billion and which also includes </span><em><span>The Block</span></em><span> judge Marty Fox.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>To qualify for the Young Rich List in 2025, people needed a fortune of at least $44 million, up from $38 million in 2024.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The tech sector's dominance continued, contributing more than $28 billion, or 62 per cent, of the total net worth of the list in 2025.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's been another record-breaking year for the wealthiest Australians aged 40 and under, whose collective fortunes have risen 1700 per cent in the 22 years since the first Young Rich List was published by BRW," Rich List editor Yolanda Redrup said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"When the list launched in 2003, the total net worth of the 62 people featured was only $2.5 billion."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The full list will be available on the </span><a href="https://nine.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=769da63d542e4af279fedac5b&amp;id=dd4313d32a&amp;e=23a51e8eeb" rel="" target="_blank" title="AFR website"><span>AFR website</span></a><span> tomorrow.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h3><strong><span>The Financial Review Young Rich List 2025's top 10</span></strong></h3></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><ol><li><span>Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht, 38 and 39, $18.5 billion – Canva</span></li><li><span>Ed Craven, 30, $4.6 billion - Stake.com</span></li><li><span>Robbie and James Ferguson, 33 and 28, $1.7 billion - Immutable</span></li><li><span>Adrian Portelli, 36, $1.4 billion - LMCT+</span></li><li><span>Jack Zhang, 40, $1.3 billion - Airwallex</span></li><li><span>Nick Molnar, 35, $1.1 billion – Block</span></li><li><span>Andrew Tulloch, 35, $953 million - Thinking Machine Labs, Meta</span></li><li><span>Paul Stovell, 39, $637 million - Octopus Deploy</span></li><li><span>Jessica Sepel and Dean Steingold, 36 and 40, $486 million - JSHealth</span></li><li><span>Nik Mirkovic and Alex Tomic, 30 and 32, $470 million each - Hismile</span></li></ol></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: 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