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Proptech chatbot startup Propic has raised a $6 million Series A from Antony Catalano and Alex Waislitz at a reported $22 million valuation, and joined a US real estate accelerator program.
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OneVentures relays an InnovationAus report that Queensland's government has pledged A$20 million to a vaccine manufacturer the post never names.
The government agency announced a $15 million grant to RayGen for a world-first solar hydro power plant in Victoria; RayGen also completed a $27 million equity raise and holds an offtake agreement with AGL.
Hospitality augmented reality startup The Village Co raised a $1.2 million seed round from new and existing investors including PKF, funding growth of its Grub Lab children's product, with partners Simplot, Crowne Plaza and the NRL named.
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Australian health company MediKane has opened an equity crowdfunding campaign to fund growth of NutriKane D, its clinically proven blood-sugar-lowering product, led by co-founders Rod Lewis and Malcolm Ball.
Australian social platform Memories raised a $31 million Series A to fund growth, a year after a $10 million raise and its acquisition of memorial brand HeavenAddress.
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Six manufacturers share $3.7 million in grants from the AMGC Commercialisation Fund; Alcolizer receives $742,363 for a rapid Covid-19 test, having earlier won a $150,000 IMCRC grant.
Antler has put pre-seed money into 13 Australian startups, its fourth local cohort, with 46% led by a female founder-CEO. Each company receives $190,000 for 12% equity, taking its local portfolio to 53.
Brisbane AI IT-support startup Tribu has raised over A$1.25 million in seed funding from Brisbane Angels and the Launch syndicate founded by Jason Calacanis, after completing the San Francisco accelerator's remote program.
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Australian wealth app Tanggram raised $5 million in a Series A led by the Raye family. The app lets users invest shopping rewards through partner funds La Trobe Financial and Trilogy.
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Melbourne bubble tea kit startup Bubble Tea Club has launched a Birchal equity crowdfunding raise, setting an Australian record for expressions of interest, with nearly 3000 people pledging and $2 million in shares offered.
Weekly roundup covering ANZ trade sales including A Cloud Guru's multibillion-dollar sale, several Australian raises, Tenacious Ventures' agritech fund close, Xero and Cochlear appointments, and global deals such as Etsy buying Depop.
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Event and venue management software company Ivvy has raised A$7 million ahead of a planned ASX listing, led by Thorney Investment Group with Gandel Invest, with founder Lauren Hall saying funds will drive US and European expansion.
Fashion tech app Mys Tyler, founded by Sarah Neill, has closed a seed round above one million dollars from Mirvac Ventures, Antler Global and angel Brian Hartzer to fund product development and global growth.
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Brisbane hydrogen storage startup Endua has raised AUD 5 million from Main Sequence, CSIRO and Ampol to commercialise electrolysis technology developed at CSIRO, with Ampol as industry partner.
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Profile of customer-feedback platform Hearsay, founded by Pip Stocks, which raised $100,000 from Skalata Ventures to build a tool helping researchers run and analyse customer conversations.
Trajan Scientific and Medical lists on the ASX, raising $90 million at $1.20 a share, with a stated $220 million market capitalisation.
Square Peg's podcast interviews GoTerra founder and CEO Olympia Yarger about her Canberra robotics venture using maggots to convert food waste into livestock feed, plus her entrepreneurial journey and fundraising experiences.
Weekly roundup of startup funding: raises by Paytron, Kanopi, Listing Loop, Driva, Tixel, Alt Saints, Travello, Hey Bud and Volt, Tenacious Ventures closing a $35 million agritech fund, and Forter's Series F.
Profile of the Australian Business Growth Fund, set up with $540 million from the federal government and major banks to make minority equity investments in growing Australian SMEs, now nearing its first deal.
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Agrifoodtech venture firm Tenacious Ventures has completed the final close of its debut fund at A$35 million, with CEFC and Grok Ventures as cornerstone backers, and has so far backed six startups including Goterra, Nori and Vow.
Analysis of buy now, pay later financials comparing recent quarterly results from Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm, alongside fresh capital raises by Divido and Zilch in a sector growing fast but still unprofitable.
Neobank Volt raises $15 million from mortgage group AFG to expand its Banking-as-a-Service offering, with white-labelled products planned for AFG's broker network. The piece also recalls sector turmoil, including Xinja's closure and 86 400's sale to NAB.
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Saudi Aramco, through its SAEV venture arm, has taken a strategic stake in Swiss gravity-based energy storage company Energy Vault to speed global deployment of its technology.
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Payments startup Paytron has raised a seed round to launch its multi-currency bill payment product for small businesses, backed by an Australian venture fund and a German investor, with two former banking executives as co-founders.
Neobank Volt announced a strategic alliance with mortgage aggregator AFG, including a $15 million equity investment extending its Series E to $85 million, to deliver white-label mortgage products through AFG's broker network.
Drug developer George Medicines has named Stefan König, previously a senior Takeda executive, as its chief executive, while chief business officer Karl Roberts moves into the chief operating officer role.
George Medicines has named Stefan König, previously a Takeda franchise head, as its new CEO, while Karl Roberts moves from Chief Business Officer to Chief Operating Officer. The company also announced US FDA clearance to begin Phase III trials of GMRx2.
Pluralsight is acquiring Melbourne cloud-training firm A Cloud Guru in an undisclosed deal rumoured at a billion dollars. The article recalls A Cloud Guru's 2019 raise, AirTree's participation, and its 2019 purchase of Linux Academy.
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Finnish ecommerce personalisation platform Nosto has acquired Stackla, the Australian user-generated content marketing startup, on undisclosed terms, with backer Bailador's stake converting into Nosto shares.
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A brief OneVentures post linking to newspaper coverage of a needle-free COVID-19 vaccination patch showing promise, with a related item about Vaxxas opening a manufacturing facility for its patch.
Case study of a Deakin PhD candidate whose APR.Intern placement at a Victorian biomedical startup advanced blood-clot device R&D, leading to a full-time research engineer role.
Australian car finance comparison platform Driva closed a A$3 million seed round led by Carthona Capital, with angels Stephen Dash and Nicolas Scudamore-Smith joining existing backers Peter and Daniel Gammell.
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Australian travel social network Travello raised $6.5 million in Series A funding from industry figures including Jim Goldburg, Andrew McEvoy and Phil Gunter after a pandemic-era pivot; it had earlier acquired Backpacker Deals.
Wholesale Investor and Hatcher+ plan a joint $10 million fund backing 50 seed-to-series-A startups across Australia, New Zealand and beyond, with investor pre-registration open but nothing yet committed.
Solar technology company 5B has closed an oversubscribed funding round, drawing fresh backing from Malcolm Turnbull and Simon Holmes a Court alongside existing investors, to speed product development and enter overseas markets.
Tenacious Ventures closed its debut agrifood tech fund oversubscribed at A$35 million, after a March 2020 first close of just over $20 million backed by the CEFC's Clean Energy Innovation Fund and Grok Ventures.
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Six Australian small manufacturers have received Defence Global Competitiveness Grants totalling $837,000 to build export capability, including work supporting the F-35 fighter program.
Weekly roundup covering CBA's strategic stakes in Little Birdie and Amber, several Australian funding rounds, Zip's BNPL acquisitions, Tritium's planned NASDAQ listing, Amazon's MGM purchase and other global tech news.
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Aura Ventures announces its portfolio company Superestate has agreed to be bought by Raiz Invest through 5.3 million shares, valuing Superestate at A$9.5 million, with completion expected late May or early June 2021.
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Australian HR tech company Pyn has raised $10.4 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Atlassian's Scott Farquhar and BambooHR's Ryan Sanders participating, following a $3.1 million seed round last year.
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Aura's portfolio company Ynomia announces its largest project yet, selected as technology partner for British constructor Kier on a UK prison build starting 2022.
Expense Check, rebranding as Kanopi, has closed a A$4 million round led by Hollard Insurance to fund team growth and a planned US expansion.
Yum! Brands has made an unsolicited, conditional offer to acquire Melbourne software firm Dragontail Systems for $93.5 million, with completion subject to court and shareholder approval later in 2021.
Brisbane EV fast-charger maker Tritium is merging with US SPAC Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corp II to list on NASDAQ at an A$1.55 billion valuation, anticipating up to US$403 million in gross proceeds.
Australian startup Pyn announced an $8 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Accel and two angels, to personalise internal employee communications.