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Canva has completed its acquisition of London data-visualisation startup Flourish, adding 44 staff and 800,000 customers, after earlier 2021 purchases of Kaleido and Smartmockups; terms were undisclosed.
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New Zealand sole-trader accounting platform Hnry raised $15 million led by Left Lane Capital with EVP and new backer Grant Rule, after a $4.1 million round last May, to fund Australian growth and hiring.
Battery developer Energy Renaissance has appointed Dr Howard Lovatt, a longtime CSIRO researcher, as its chief technology officer to lead technology strategy and support its factory plans.
Coterie Capital announces it acted as financial advisor to Simple on Simple's acquisition of Automaton, combining the marketing operations businesses; Automaton founder Darin Lloyd comments and client brands are listed.
Ahead of his National Press Club speech, the Prime Minister is set to unveil a multibillion-dollar plan to commercialise Australian research, featuring a top-up for CSIRO's venture arm and new PhD and fellowship schemes.
Serial investor Josh Liberman is launching a new US$100 million venture capital firm targeting Israeli technology, to give Australian investors access to Israeli startups; he previously backed Seek and Canva.
Private equity firms Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital have agreed to acquire software vendor Citrix for US$16.5 billion, with plans to combine it with Vista portfolio company Tibco.
Raiz Invest has appointed experienced director Philippa Taylor as a non-executive director, effective February 2021, adding governance and executive expertise as the fintech pursues growth across Australia and Southeast Asia.
Aura Group reports BNK Banking Corporation has agreed to sell mortgage aggregator Finsure to MA Financial Group for $151.6 million, with APRA approval received and completion expected in early February 2022.
CX assurance software firm Cyara, co-founded in Melbourne, has shelved ASX listing plans and instead raised US$350 million from K1 Investment Management, with existing backers PeakSpan and Greenspring selling down stakes.
Dragonfly Enviro Capital announces it has invested in Water and Carbon Group, an Australian business developing environmental infrastructure that incorporates natural assets. No amount or stage is disclosed.
Block has completed its purchase of Afterpay, and Square is rolling out Afterpay's buy-now-pay-later option to its online sellers in the US and Australia, with a free trial until May 2022.
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Technology advisory firm Bluewave says a $75m investment from Columbia Capital will speed client-service improvements, team growth and further acquisitions at the New Jersey company.
Main Sequence's blog reports a $150 million commitment to CSIRO for the innovation fund it manages to speed research commercialisation, plus background on the firm's 2017 formation and its 39 deep tech investments.
AfterWork Ventures explains why it joined SwingVision's $2 million seed round led by Tennis Australia's Wildcard Ventures, alongside Roddick, Blake and the MyFitnessPal co-founders; the app brings pro-grade tennis analytics to amateurs.
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Sydney venture firm AirTree has raised A$700 million across three vehicles — an early-stage fund, a web3 fund and a growth fund — with superannuation funds as backers. Its portfolio includes Canva, Linktree and Immutable.
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Gold Coast logistics software firm CartonCloud has banked $12 million from MA Financial to fuel its US and Canadian push, alongside recollections of a 2017 $1 million raise and a government grant.
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SAP announced its intention to acquire a majority stake in working capital management provider Taulia, which will keep its brand and CEO, while J.P. Morgan maintains its alliance and equity stake. Financial terms undisclosed.
Tidal Ventures explains why it backed Checkbox, a no-code expert process automation platform, recounting the pre-Series A round raised alongside Sequoia India's Surge and the founders' execution.
Podcast episode and feature profiling female founders tackling women's health, covering Ovira's funding journey, ANDHealth's female-founder numbers, the FemTech collective and Women's Health Road's new care model.
Australian payments firm Till Payments has acquired Ziosk's ZIPS payment processing unit to expand in the US, with Kevin Brown becoming Till North America's Head of Strategy; Till raised $125 million last year.
NSW government grants hydrogen storage startup Lavo $5 million to build a Hunter region manufacturing facility, with the article recalling Gowing Bros' earlier equity stake and unit order.
Square Peg Capital led a US$40 million Series B in education technology company Cialfo, founded by Rohan Pasari, Stanley Chia and William Hund, with SEEK investing for the first time alongside existing backers.
Australian landlord tool RentBetter has picked up $1.9 million from unnamed backers including wealthy individuals and industry partners, with plans to hire, build product and market itself.
Payments company Till Payments buys ZIPS, the payment processing unit of Ziosk, gaining North American partners and staff, forming a strategic partnership with Ziosk, and hiring Kevin Brown as Head of Strategy.
No-code platform Checkbox has landed fresh backing from Tidal Ventures and Sequoia India's Surge to speed overseas growth, while Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is named as a customer.
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South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution's shares nearly doubled in their Korean Stock Exchange debut, valuing the company near A$125 billion in Asia's second-largest IPO.
Melbourne construction procurement platform EstimateOne has raised its first external capital, $35 million from Potentia Capital and investor Leigh Jasper, whose firm's partner and managing director now join the company's board.
Sydney telehealth company Eucalyptus has raised a $60 million Series C led by US venture firm Bond, adding to $30 million raised in mid-2021, and is hiring across its five health brands.
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Eaton Square's quarterly review summarises eight featured Australian and New Zealand technology acquisitions from the December 2021 quarter, including Unity's purchase of Weta Digital, and introduces its Sydney-based technology M&A advisory team.
Virtual reality studio Alta has secured a $12.4 million seed round backed by Makers Fund and Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the Sydney-founded company at $62 million to build content and expand its team.
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Swiss digital asset bank SEBA completed a CHF 110 million Series C in January 2022, co-led by Altive, Ordway Selections and Summer Capital, with DeFi Technologies, Alameda Research and existing investor Julius Baer participating.
DigitalX says it has been chosen for an initial grant to extend its Drawbridge platform so the securities regulator can spot undisclosed price-sensitive information, with a larger second-stage award possible for some recipients later.
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AfterWork Ventures explains why it invested pre-seed in Samphire Neuroscience, a neurotech startup whose headband eases menstrual symptoms, alongside hardware accelerator HAX, profiling the Oxford-founded team and the women's health opportunity.
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Seventeen Australian startups and SMEs share $1.6 million in federal BRII grants for feasibility studies cutting regulatory burdens, including livestock welfare monitoring and real-time analysis of listed-company market disclosures.
Blackbird interviews AskNicely co-founder and CEO Aaron Ward about the customer-feedback company's origins, its expansion from New Zealand to the US and Europe, and its recent investment round.
Ebury's Australian arm has hired Toby Farrow as Queensland sales manager and opened a Brisbane office, expanding its foreign exchange and trade finance services for the state's importing and exporting small businesses.
EQ Resources received a $600,000 Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre grant for a tungsten ore-sorting project with Tomra, Plotlogic, University of Queensland and Cronimet Australia; the project's total budget is $1.97 million.
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Perth-founded, now Wales-based wave energy developer Bombora Wave Power has received a £3.54 million investment from Japanese shipping group Mitsui O.S.K. Lines to commercialise its mWave technology and progress hybrid wave-wind projects.
Five South Australian defence research projects led by Flinders, UniSA and the University of Adelaide with industry partners receive the latest Collaborative Research Fund grants from the Defence Innovation Partnership.
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Seventeen unnamed startups and small businesses share federal grant funding for feasibility studies aimed at reducing regulatory burdens, under the latest round of a government innovation program.
Australia's corporate regulator is partnering with five regulatory-technology startups awarded government grants of up to $100,000 for feasibility studies, and two may later receive up to $1 million to build proof-of-concept tools.
WA angel group Perth Angels has opened applications for its first 2022 funding cycle, with pitches due 16 February; it recently deployed $250,000 across three startups at its previous investor night.
The Graph Foundation brought in $50 million by selling GRT tokens to five funds including Tiger Global, money earmarked for grants, protocol R&D and recruiting more development teams to decentralise web3.
Profile of Lagrange.AI, co-founded by Hassan Mirzahosseinian and Aghil Rezaei Somarin, whose AI platform integrates fragmented supply chain data; the founders credit Antler's program with helping them validate the problem and find product-market fit.
Car-sharing platform Car Next Door has been bought by Uber for undisclosed terms. The piece retraces the company's decade-long journey, including a 2016 Shark Tank pitch and backing from Hyundai, Caltex and Investible.
Canadian flow battery maker Zinc8 will install a demonstration zinc-air storage system at a New York apartment complex with Digital Energy Corp, supported by a NYSERDA grant of US$460,400.
PropHero has hired Ping Du from McKinsey into a new Head of Operations role, based in Sydney, working alongside co-founders Mickael Roger and Pablo Gil Brusola.