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Five New South Wales solar panel and battery recycling and reuse projects share $7.4 million in state government Circular Solar grants, funding new recycling facilities in Sydney and Albury plus reuse research.
Volt, Australia's first licensed neobank, is closing its deposit-taking business and handing back its banking licence after global capital raising failed, telling customers to move funds; the article recalls Xinja, 86 400 and Judo outcomes.
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Gold Coast lender Funding.com.au has launched a broker portal for lodging and tracking loans, following its Series B raise and a new debt facility with MA Financial, plus team expansion.
Australian neobank Volt Bank is shutting down its deposit-taking business, returning customer deposits by early July 2022 and giving up its banking licence, with APRA monitoring the wind-down.
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CyberCX has invested an undisclosed sum in Adelaide-founded whitelisting vendor Airlock Digital to support its push into the US and Europe. The piece also recalls CyberCX's earlier acquisitions of Tracer Cloud, Consegna Cloud and Xello Australia.
Managed services provider Advent One has acquired networking firm Layer 8 Networks to strengthen its hybrid cloud offering, with Layer 8 gaining sales, marketing support and access to Advent One's customers.
Two Queensland defence firms have delivered their first three Warfighter unmanned ground vehicles, built with grant money from a Defence Department capability scheme and fitted with a Canberra supplier's remote weapons station.
Thermal storage maker MGA Thermal has opened the first stage of its Newcastle manufacturing facility, with early output supporting a green hydrogen partnership backed by a federal government grant.
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Tidal Ventures' investment note explains why it led car-subscription software firm Loopit's seed round, covering market tailwinds, the platform, the Higgins brothers' background and the business model.
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Breakthrough Victoria launched a $100m program with nine Victorian universities to fund university startups; its first $7.5m went into Melbourne's $15m Genesis Pre-Seed Fund, and RMIT spin-out Atmo Biosciences recently raised $9.6 million.
News startup The Daily Aus has raised a $1.2 million seed round led by former Nine CEO David Gyngell, with Canva executives and Untitled Group also investing, to grow its newsroom and expand internationally.
Computer vision startup Black.ai has raised a $5.4 million Seed+ round led by Jelix Ventures with Right Click Capital and angels, taking its total funding to $8.55 million to double headcount and expand industries.
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Mining major Rio Tinto has joined Bill Gates' fund and other industrial and cleantech backers in a US$198 million Series B for hydrogen electrolyser developer Electric Hydrogen; Fortescue's electrolyser investments are also noted.
PropHero marks one year since incorporation, listing milestones including a pre-seed raise, an award, overseas expansion and hiring, and sets goals for its second year.
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Techboard's monthly roundup cataloguing April 2022 Australian startup funding: megadeals, seed rounds, grants and crowdfunding, nine acquisitions, several ASX listings, and venture firms' fund news.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup covering funding rounds for Rohlik, HappyVore, WayCool and others, Mondelēz's agreed purchase of Clif Bar, cloud kitchen Kune Food closing down, and a new McWin foodtech fund.
Property funds manager EG has launched proptech incubator EGX, which already holds a nine-figure portfolio and backs Willow, Reveal and FLNT, with fintech expansion flagged.
A republished impact-investing newsletter covering climate mapping tools, games for crisis thinking and science fiction, plus two newly launched Australian investment funds and a program launch for women of colour entrepreneurs.
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A Brisbane electronics manufacturer has spent close to $4 million on automation and inspection equipment, aided by Queensland and federal grants, and now supplies defence customers including EM Solutions and Rheinmetall.
An Australian off-grid energy startup has raised US$2.1 million in a round led by SDGx to expand in Nigeria and Haiti, and is now opening a Series A targeting a further $6 million.
A UNSW-backed quantum computing startup says it has built the world's first atomic-scale processor and has launched a $130 million Series A to push toward a commercial quantum computer by around 2028.
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Australian digital broker Stake launches Stock Lending, letting customers earn income on lent US shares, with the article recalling its recently completed $90 million Series A round.
Just Analytics' co-founder discusses its January acquisition by Rackspace Technology, the April integration, and how its data capabilities feed Rackspace's Elastic Engineering managed services framework.
Energy software firm Evergen has closed a $15 million round led by FRV-X to grow its solar and battery optimisation platforms, crediting the new federal government with restoring investor confidence in Australian clean tech.
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Square Peg's investment note covers its backing of Indonesian e-commerce software firm Desty's pre-A round, alongside earlier supporters East Ventures, Jungle Ventures and 5Y Capital.
Startupbootcamp Australia profiles SparkUp Studios, whose SportzFan platform helps sports teams engage and monetise digital fan communities, as a member of its 2022 Sports and EventTech accelerator cohort.
Adelaide e-invoicing firm Link4 is expanding into the United States, backed by a South Australian government export grant, and projects the move will generate substantial revenue and local jobs over three years.
A Startupbootcamp blog profile in which HAMR Energy co-founder Alex Smith reflects on pivoting to also produce hydrogen during the Energy Next program, and applications for the next intake are announced.
Australian gaming studio Lumi Interactive, founded by Lauren Clinnick and Christina Chen, has raised a US$6.75 million seed round led by a16z to grow its wellbeing-focused mobile game Kinder World.
Parpera reports rapid member growth to 500 businesses and A$3.5 million in transactions three months after launching its debit card, and has begun a seed fundraising round.
Republished AFR report on funeral startup Bare banking a ten-million-dollar round from Perennial and Ord Minnett, plus rival Willed's June raise from Thorney, Ellerston and a Bell Potter investor.
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ASX-listed Trajan has announced it will buy US lab consumables maker CRS, funded by a placement, bank debt and cash; the article also recalls its earlier acquisitions.
Mandalay Venture Partners' sustainability-focused agrifood tech fund has secured over $21 million in commitments toward a $50 million target, with NRMA as cornerstone investor plus personal commitments from Phillip St Baker and Angus Cameron.
Online home loans marketplace Joust adds Virginia Marshall and Stuart Stoyan as non-executive directors, drawing on their banking and fintech backgrounds at Westpac, SocietyOne, MoneyPlace and Fintech Australia.
Melbourne social banking app Chippit has launched a closed beta in Australia and raised pre-seed money from venture capital firm Antler.
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Live-event food delivery app Snackr has raised a $915,000 seed round led by BetterLabs with Woodside Energy, Eastcourt Capital and Spacecubed Ventures, to grow across more Australian and UK venues.
Australian web3 gaming firm Immutable launched a $500 million fund backing web3 games and NFT companies, collaborating with investors including Animoca Brands and BITKRAFT, after a March Series C led by Temasek.
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Video platform Vloggi has drawn an angel commitment toward its sought $1 million seed raise, reporting rapid growth and customers across entertainment, politics and retail, with a larger institutional round planned.
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GM Ventures led a Series A of up to US$10 million in Norway's Wind Catching Systems, whose floating wall of offshore wind turbines it plans to develop and commercialise, alongside a strategic collaboration agreement with General Motors.
University of Melbourne launches a $15m pre-seed fund with Breakthrough Victoria and a $100m fund run by Tanarra Capital for research commercialisation; the piece also recalls ANU's Instaclustr sale to NetApp.
Startupbootcamp Australia introduces HomeGround, an AI cricket training platform, as a participant in its 2022 Sports and EventTech program, describing its mission and the founders' goals during the accelerator.
SME funding platform Swoop has raised a Series A round to grow its Australian and global operations, expand its team, and build out its advisor product for accountants.
Write-up pointing to a video interview in which the oral hygiene products maker's chief executive discusses company milestones, the $3 million raised to date, and an active US seed round for American expansion.
A Victorian investment manager teams with a university to launch a pre-seed vehicle backing commercialisation of academic research, with the university contributing capital and the manager matching it over five years.
Mirae Asset and its subsidiary Global X ETFs have completed their acquisition of Australian ETF issuer ETF Securities, gaining its product lineup and assets as Mirae Asset expands into the Australian market.
Virescent Ventures' post points to AFR reporting that MicroTau, a Sydney maker of drag-reducing aircraft skin films, has won backing from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation through Virescent-managed funds.
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Lynas's American subsidiary has received roughly US$120 million from the US Defense Department to cover construction of a Texas plant processing heavy rare earths, part of a trend of offshore processing by Australian producers.
NSW government backing for Morse Micro's HaLow Wi-Fi expansion in Tech Central is still subject to a formal agreement, UTS plans a defence-compliant vault, and five scaleups are named as first recipients of accommodation rebates.
Quad Lock co-founder Rob Ward hands the CEO role to former Nike executive Andrew Poole, becoming chief growth officer, as the Melbourne phone-mount maker marks ten years and passes $100 million in sales.
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