Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
Main Sequence announces a follow-on seed investment in Zabidou, an industrial vision-systems startup it earlier backed at pre-seed, and recalls its previous backing of founder Cibby Pulikkaseril's LiDAR company Baraja.
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Tabcorp has agreed a $283 million takeover of BetMakers, a Melbourne-based racing technology provider, in a cash-and-scrip deal the target's board unanimously backs, pending shareholder, court and regulator approvals.
Fabulate, an Australian creator-marketing platform, has completed an oversubscribed 4.5-million-dollar raise valuing it at 84.5 million dollars post-money, largely from returning shareholders, to fund Asia-Pacific growth.
Eaton Square announces its role advising Hydrobiology on the company's sale to SLR, congratulating the sellers and staff on the completed deal.
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MLA profiles Chief Nutrition, a maker of beef-based snack bars and supplements built from leftover meat cuts, now sold across 12 overseas markets; co-founder and CEO Brock Hatton credits consumer trust in Australian beef.
Global consultancy Sia has acquired Seven Consulting, an Australian business transformation firm, roughly quadrupling Sia's local headcount and adding major banking, government and retail clients.
US battery materials maker Sila has been conditionally offered a defence loan of as much as $1.4 billion; three other materials firms also won Pentagon-backed deals, after a July equity round.
Denmark's Novonesis has signed to acquire the rest of MicroBioGen, the Australian yeast-genetics company it has partly held since 2013, ending a 13-year partnership; price undisclosed, completion awaits regulator sign-off.
Melbourne agtech Bio-Gene Technology completed a A$3.28 million equity raise, closing the second tranche of a 2025 placement, with shareholders also approving options for participants and the deal's lead manager.
Ranch Bot, an Australian internet-of-things firm for ranch water and livestock management, has banked a Series B round from Lewis & Clark Partners and five co-investors, reorganising under a new US parent.
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Australian edtech ClassCover is bringing its casual-teacher booking service to Ireland, backed by €3 million, with a Dublin pilot, 20 planned roles and a rebuild for the local market.
Percheron Therapeutics has appointed Arovella Therapeutics' former leader Michael Baker as CEO from October, with James Garner departing for an overseas role while joining the board as a non-executive director.
Western Australia's government has shortlisted 23 companies for the 2026 Innovators of the Year awards across six categories; $310,000 in prizes will be shared in November, and past winners including Kanopy are recalled.
About page for waste solutions company Jerrara Environmental profiling its holdings and operating boards, with biographies recalling sector transactions including Cleanaway's sale to KKR and later acquisition by Transpacific.
The US Defense Department has conditionally committed a US$400m loan to Sunrise Energy Metals to develop its Syerston scandium mine in New South Wales, announced at a Washington meeting with President Trump.
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Weekly roundup: Firmus completes its $2.85b round; Procore acquires DroneDeploy; Atlassian rebounds while Canva cuts guidance; plus fresh raises for Zabidou, BioScout, Vexev, Enrola, Spacetalk and others.
Roundup of four Australian raises: Firmus Technologies' US$2 billion round at a $15 billion valuation, Eudaemon's $3.75 million, Zabidou's $3.5 million seed round, and Rampart's $2.3 million.
Firmus has secured a further US$2bn at a $15bn valuation from Coatue, Nvidia, Blackstone and Jane Street, taking its 12-month capital intake past US$3bn to fund Australian AI data centre projects.
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Ten13's post explains why it joined the robotics company's latest raise alongside Blackbird, Neotribe, Startmate and Horizons, covering its autonomous scanning device, dialysis focus, founders, and US rollout plans.
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A topic listing page aggregating multiple unrelated data centre news items; no single funding event with verifiable financial details extractable.
Australian SME lender BiiGGA hires Lee Slattery as chief commercial officer to own commercial strategy, distribution and growth after its strongest quarter on record.
Spirits giant Diageo bought British premixed cocktail maker Tipplesworth for £112 million in March 2024; the article examines the deal's rationale, the brand's retail growth, and planned expansion into Canada, Australia and the US.
French consulting group Sia has bought Australian business transformation firm Seven Consulting, adding roughly 130 consultants and East Coast offices. The deal follows Sia's earlier acquisitions and Blackstone's minority investment earmarked for expansion.
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Australian startup Enrola has banked seed funding to scale its AI sales agent after pivoting from an education marketplace, with a new growth head joining.
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Datapile logs an $8.6 million raise by Sydney vascular-ultrasound startup Vexev, led by TreeArc Investment Group with TEN13 among four backers, earmarked for regulatory approval and clinical rollout.
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Australian medical robotics firm Vexev has raised A$8.6 million to pursue FDA clearance and US commercialisation of its VxWave robotic ultrasound platform, with backing from existing and new investors.
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EnergyLab unveils ten hardware-focused climate tech startups joining its 2026 Climate Solutions Accelerator, supported by $1.64 million from ARENA; alumni Infravision, Renewable Metals, Orkestra and Amber later received ARENA funding.
A Western Australian maker of military drones has opened its bookbuild for a $40 million float, aiming for a securities exchange debut within about a month.
Silicon producer Simcoa will quit the United States from August 14 after Washington imposed steep new tariffs; Canberra says the trade dispute won't derail a critical minerals pact with Washington.
Australian FinTech introduces Canvas as a new member. Canvas builds infrastructure for tokenised securities, stablecoins and CBDCs, and took part in the Reserve Bank of Australia's eAUD pilot.
Collections platform InDebted adds Gillian Findlay, ex-COO of SafetyCulture and Immutable, as a non-executive director, joining founder Josh Foreman, Reinventure's Danny Gilligan and Carthona Capital's Dean Dorrell on the board.
Profile of BioOra CEO John Robson covering the cell-therapy company's $15m raise last year, a live round with about $20m committed, a Cincinnati hospital partnership, and Christchurch manufacturing plans.
MatrixOrigin announced completing a Series A above $10 million with HAND, AsiaCom and Australian-headquartered Artesian among the backers; the piece also recalls a 2025 Pre-A+ round and six earlier institutional investors.
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A fintech serving international students in Australia has secured A$3.5 million, with DoxAI leading, to grow its verified-funds platform already used by La Trobe University in student visa checks.
Jungheinrich, a German equipment maker, is buying Sydney's All Lift to grow its Asia-Pacific rental business; 2026 also saw it take stakes in EP Equipment and Navflex.
IT services firm Fuse Technology has bought WA provider Infinitum Technologies, gaining a foothold in Perth and the Mid West; staff move across and the brands will merge over the next two years.
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Space CoLAB will test its HaloCore quantum communications hardware on Orbit2Orbit's high-altitude balloon flight from Queensland in November 2026, checking how components handle near-space conditions ahead of later orbital missions.
BioScout, an Australian maker of AI spore-detection sensors for crops, has raised a seed round from Demea Sustainable Investment, Astanor and others to expand its sensor network and European presence.
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AFR cybersecurity topic page rounding up recent stories: Origin Energy's data breach investigation, Point Wild's planned ASX float, AI models hacking companies, and a CyberCX–Monash University cybersecurity degree partnership.
Solo developer Can announces his agent-management runtime Herdr has joined Y Combinator's F26 batch, intends to grow a small team, and will keep the open-source runtime free under an Apache licence.
Catalysr, with Vaurora Social Impact and Victorian government backing, is taking applications for a program that will send up to ten Indian-Australian founders to build market links in Mumbai and Bangalore.
Australian grid digital-twin startup Neara raised a $90 million Series D led by TCV, reaching unicorn status amid rising data centre power demand.
Melbourne fitness chain STRONG Pilates partners with Poland's Xtreme Brands to enter Central and Eastern Europe; the piece also recalls bValue Fund's roughly $17.5m investment in the Polish operator.
Perth-based drilling and exploration software company CorePlan raised a follow-on round led by existing investor EVP to fund global expansion.
Firmus Technologies received a $100 million strategic investment from Maas Group Holdings, taking total funds raised past $900 million in under five months.
Australian grid-modelling startup Neara raised a $90 million Series D led by TCV, valuing the company above $1 billion, funding ML and expansion.
Sydney cleantech PlasmaLeap raised a US$20m Series A to build fertiliser hubs and expand green ammonia reactor technology for farmers.
Sydney navigation startup Advanced Navigation raised a large Series C led by Airtree Ventures, with Quadrant Private Equity and NRFC, to expand PNT technology globally.
Melbourne AI advertising startup Cuttable raised $5.7 million at a doubled $100 million valuation, expanding to New York amid growing US demand.