Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
Profile of Our Leg Up, a fintech helping low-deposit buyers purchase sooner while letting established homeowners earn returns on property equity; Antler backed the founder and the capital raise is over half filled.
ENA Respiratory has begun a Phase 2a influenza-challenge trial in the UK of its INNA-051 antiviral nasal spray; the article also recalls its Series A backing by Brandon Capital, Minderoo Foundation and Uniseed.
SmartCompany covers the launch of PlantForm, a local accelerator for plant-based meat ventures, and rounds up recent sector raises by Change Foods, Fenn Foods, Eighth Day Foods and All G Foods.
ENA Respiratory has begun dosing healthy adults in a UK influenza challenge trial of its INNA-051 antiviral nasal spray, with a COVID-19 study to follow; the release also notes the company's earlier Series A backing.
Bridging-loan fintech Bridgit closed a 7.7 million dollar round with OIF Ventures and Perennial Partners, following earlier venture debt, to expand its rapid loan approval technology.
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Perennial's page for its Private Ventures Fund No. 1, a wholesale vehicle intending to back later-stage private companies, mostly in Australia and NZ, over seven years.
BidFin has launched a product that pre-funds most contract value upfront for Australian IT service firms, easing cashflow; the fintech also recently landed a $6 million capital raise for growth and hiring.
AfterWork Ventures' first-birthday post recalls its founders' angel record, a 2019 micro-fund, a ten million dollar first close five months in, and the launch of its NFT project.
Manufacturing roundup: Amaero appoints Guggenheim to review strategy, Cann completes its Mildura facility, ADN lines up a $4.5m placement, Imugene starts an MSD cancer trial, ABT collects an R&D tax refund.
Trading and superannuation startup Superhero has hired Chris Whitnall, previously a media executive at ABC and agency strategist, into a newly created senior marketing role to lead strategy across its teams and agency partners.
Blackbird's blog post advertises an open Head of People role, describing the people-and-culture remit, the author's current internal work, and the firm's growth from 12 to 61 staff.
Kinde, a developer-infrastructure startup founded by ex-Atlassian and Campaign Monitor staff, has raised a $10.6 million seed round led by Blackbird Ventures with Felicis Ventures, to build tooling that spares SaaS startups repetitive groundwork.
Grains and cotton research bodies GRDC and CRDC announce a $5.5m, five-year partnership with agtech firm Goanna Ag to build a network of weather stations warning growers about hazardous spray conditions.
Epi-Minder has completed a $16 million bridge round with its existing shareholders to fund expanded clinical trials, product development and manufacturing of its long-term epilepsy monitoring device.
Australian fintech BidFin has launched a recurring revenue funding product for MSPs and ISVs, and recently completed a AU$6 million capital raise to drive growth, expand its debt facility, and hire additional staff.
Square Peg Capital announces its pre-seed investment in Earlywork, an early-career talent community with a job board, backing founders Dan, Marina and Jono alongside Archangel Ventures and PhaseOne Ventures.
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Schneider Electric has finished buying Aurtra, a University of Queensland power-asset-monitoring spinout. Its sensor technology and team, including co-founder Terry Woodcroft, now sit inside the French group's digital transformer services business.
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Construction software firm Mastt has banked $9.5 million from OIF Ventures and other backers, including the Aconex founders' fund, to fuel its push into the United States and Middle East.
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OIF Ventures says it led a $9.5 million Series A in Mastt, a SaaS platform for construction project management, citing the founders' experience, product-led growth pricing and international expansion potential.
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Sun Cable has raised A$210 million in Series B funding from existing shareholders, led by Mike Cannon-Brookes' Grok Ventures and Andrew Forrest's Squadron Energy, for its giant solar, battery and subsea cable project.
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Gold Coast stakeholder management startup Cake Equity has raised a $3 million seed round co-led by Jason Calacanis and Rampersand, with angels including Airtasker's Jonathan Lui, to support global expansion.
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New Zealand workflow automation company Flowingly raised NZ$4.5 million in a pre-Series A round led by GD1 with Icehouse Ventures, to fund US expansion and double headcount.
Building products marketplace ArchiPro has landed a Tiger Global-led Series A to fund hiring and features across Australia and New Zealand, having previously taken $4.7 million from backers Ruslan Kogan and Hezi Leibovich.
Sydney consumer appliances group Breville has bought Italy's LELIT, which makes coffee machines, grinders and barista tools, for $201 million in cash and shares, with LELIT's management joining Breville.
Andi Health, a Sydney digital health startup, secured $600,000 in a pre-seed round led by Brenteca Investments to develop its subscription health-coaching platform, with hiring planned ahead of a 2023 launch.
Two Bundaberg manufacturers have received Queensland government grants: NewFresh Foods $1.91m for crop-extraction machinery, and Aletek $1.36m for a laser scanner and CNC machines, under the Made in Queensland program.
SpaceDraft, a Perth visual-logistics startup, has raised a Seed+ round of $1.5 million from three angel backers, lifting its lifetime funding to $2.7 million as it plans national expansion and new industries.
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Manufacturing roundup covering Hexagon's blue hydrogen plans, Tritium appointing a new COO, a Fortescue-Airbus green hydrogen alliance, and Calix gaining registration for its crop protection product.
Melbourne cybersecurity firm Cydarm raised $3 million in a round led by InterValley Ventures, with Five V Capital and returning backer Right Click Capital, to hire staff and expand internationally.
Federal and state ministers announce government backing for a Saab Australia defence combat-systems hub in Adelaide, presented as an election sweetener ahead of the March state vote.
TechCrunch profiles Strong Compute, a Sydney startup optimising ML model training, covering its Y Combinator acceptance, claims of large speed-ups, a new engineering hire, and customer feedback from MTailor.
Boutique manager Perennial is gathering $200m toward a debut growth-stage fund, with cornerstone backing secured; its earlier private bets include Emesent, Lumi, Koala, Animoca Brands, Xpansiv and Songtradr.
Block Earner appoints Apurva Chiranewala as general manager, with other senior hires named, as the blockchain fintech prepares to launch its decentralised finance platform for Australian consumers.
Profile of Sunroom, a subscription platform letting women and non-binary creators earn from content, started by two dating-app veterans and backed in a seed round by Blackbird.
Op-ed by HEX chief Jeanette Cheah for International Women's Day, recounting her recently closed debut raise and praising peer-investing group Afterwork Ventures, women-led funder shebacks.me and migrant talent agency DivTal.
Sydney NFT gaming firm Immutable raised a $280 million Series C valuing it at $3.5 billion, led by Temasek with Tencent and Animoca Brands, six months after an $82 million raise.
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Techboard's monthly roundup reports February 2022 raises including Scalapay's A$692m Series B, Employment Hero's $181m and Karbon's $93m, My Rewards' ASX listing, and investor deal notes on OwnHome, Kepler Analytics and Blakthumb.
An International Women's Day feature argues media coverage overweights fundraising as a success measure for women founders, featuring perspectives from several women business owners and noting HEX's recent seed round.
Comparison platform CIMET has raised $26.6 million from ASX-listed iSelect as part of a strategic partnership, funding expansion into new financial verticals and international markets.
Sydney procurement software firm Portt has been bought by UK company Advanced for an undisclosed sum, fourteen months after Portt raised $4 million in venture funding.
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Ignition Lane's weekly roundup: Zip's deal for Sezzle, Zeller's unicorn raise, several Australian funding rounds, Startmate backing Provvy, a space manufacturing grant, NZVC's first close, and tech's response to Russia.
The federal resources minister awarded a $7.5 million grant to Sweetpea Petroleum for Beetaloo Basin gas drilling and $2.1 million to the Northern Land Council, citing Europe's energy crisis; Empire Energy's earlier grant is recalled.
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Building software startup canibuild has banked an $8 million Series A, with EVP leading and Regal Funds Management also taking part, to fuel its expansion across existing and new markets.
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A Gippsland manufacturing co-operative has won government grant money of nearly a quarter-million dollars to develop portable power units for extreme weather, as one of nine projects backed in a regional energy program round.
FourthRev has raised an $11.2 million Series A to grow its university-partnered digital skills programs, after a prior seed round led by US investor Reach Capital.
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The former Future Fund private equity team's new firm, Potentum Partners, is pitching investors for its annual co-investment fund. No commitments are reported, so the raise remains in progress only.
A geotechnical consultancy is partnering with a university research group and a manufacturing research corporation to build compact, low-cost roadway monitoring sensors, with the work backed by support from a program grant.