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Battery developer Li-S Energy collected $20 million from sophisticated investors ahead of a planned stock market float, valuing the business at $300 million, with PPK, Deakin University and BNNT Technology involved in development.
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Brisbane diagnostics developer AnteoTech has won European CE marking for its rapid COVID-19 antigen test, opening export and distribution talks abroad, backed by an earlier Queensland government grant while local regulator approval is still awaited.
Vantari VR, an Australian medical VR training startup, received an Epic MegaGrants award and is seeking further capital, having earlier won grants and joined an accelerator cohort.
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Common Bank's venture scaling entity x15ventures has invested $1 million for a minority stake in Payble, the bill-payments subsidiary of ASX-listed Identitii, its first minority equity investment, with Chris Austin joining Payble's board.
Twelve small businesses have received grants totalling $3.6 million under the first round of Defence's ICERA initiative, backing projects in cyber security, sensors, human performance and other priority technology areas.
South Australia's export accelerator has granted oyster system maker SEAPA Group nearly $30,000 in its eighth round, part of $107,550 shared among seven exporters to grow overseas sales.
Rapid Response Revival reports strong demand for its Series E, upsizing the offer's maximum, confirming $4.2 million received so far, and extending the close toward first New Zealand sales.
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Ignition Lane's weekly roundup covers Canva's US$71 million raise, several Australian payments acquisitions and mergers, local raises by Cyble, Enboarder, Rendr and Basiq, plus overseas deals including Plaid, Box, Ramp and Coinbase's listing.
New Zealand consumer lender NZ Fintech completed a $50 million capital raise and is launching Zooma, a digital vehicle finance platform, while also seeking further capital through Wholesale Investor's network.
Shearwell Capital announces it has invested in Fuel50's latest funding round, backing founders Jo Mills and Anne Fulton and their AI talent marketplace.
RAC's corporate venture fund BetterLabs has made four recent investments totalling over $2.7 million, backing three WA female-founded startups — The Volte, Digii Social and Hey Lady — plus US insurtech Waffle.
UK open banking platform TrueLayer has raised a US$70 million Series D led by Addition, with existing backers joining, to fund global expansion and grow its engineering and commercial teams.
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Australian corporate card startup Cape received a New South Wales government MVP grant to build a cash management platform, supporting product development and sales as it prepares for market launch.
Fuel50 has raised a US$15.5 million Series B with PeakSpan and Shearwater leading the round, bringing lifetime funding to about $28.2 million as the talent marketplace firm plans growth across three regions.
Melbourne payments firm Assembly Payments is set to merge into Irish cross-border payments platform CurrencyFair, driven by backer Standard Chartered. Terms undisclosed, approval pending, and CurrencyFair's chief executive will run the combined business.
Agthentic Group is seeking a 'Flywheel Operator' to run and grow the media platform backing its agtech advisory and investing activities.
Weekly funding roundup: Enboarder raises US$5 million, Rendr secures $2.1 million, Good Empire passes its crowdfunding minimum, Blackbird leads Cyble's US$4 million seed, and Uniphore lands a US$140 million Series D.
Daily tech roundup: Google wins its long-running copyright case against Oracle; Facebook user data leaks online; and HR startup Enboarder banks a US$5 million series A2 round with Next Coast Ventures leading.
Microsoft is trialling two-phase immersion cooling to cut data centre power use, building on technology from LiquidStack, which earlier in 2021 announced a US$10 million Series A and partnered with server maker Wiwynn.
ASX-listed EML Payments has agreed to buy Irish payments firm Sentenial Group for €70 million upfront plus an earn-out of up to €40 million, taking EML into European open banking.
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Standard Chartered, via SC Ventures, has made a strategic investment prompting payments companies CurrencyFair and Assembly Payments to announce a merger, to be led by CurrencyFair's CEO, pending shareholder and regulatory approval.
Canva's valuation reached US$15 billion after a new funding round led by T. Rowe Price, Dragoneer, Blackbird Ventures and Skip Capital. The article also recalls Canva's earlier US$60 million raise and Blackbird's first investment.
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Startup News recaps its ten most-read first-quarter stories: an ASX listing, a multimillion-dollar raise, grant wins, a startup program intake, a partnership and a general manager appointment.
Weekly agrifoodtech funding roundup covering raises by Nourish Ingredients, AlgiKnit, Allergy Amulet, Bluu Biosciences, Deep Branch, VFC, Waycool, Deliciou and MeliBio, plus Hanegal's acquisition of ready-meal maker Fairdig.
Wipro is buying Melbourne-based IT services firm Ampion for US$117 million to expand in the region. Ampion, formed in 2020 from the merger of Revolution IT and Shelde, will keep its brand during integration.
Roundup of overseas tech news: Deliveroo's London debut disappoints, Spotify acquires sports-audio firm Betty Labs, Apple posts record quarterly revenue, and Cameo's Series C makes it a unicorn.
Weekly funding roundup covering Batch Brewing's equity crowdfunding campaign, Vloggi's pre-seed raise and valuation, Startmate's Victorian government funding, plus large raises by Linktree, Baraja, Lumary and Nourish Ingredients.
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Gilmour Space and Fleet Space have partnered to launch six Australian-built nanosatellites in 2023, while Gilmour's chief executive criticises federal agencies for providing no funding or contracts to the local space sector.
Australian advice platform Lumiant announced several team appointments across communications, customer success and product, following an earlier capital raise of over $1 million run through Equitise.
Cut Through Venture's debut quarterly newsletter rounds up Q1 2021 raises across Australian and New Zealand startups, highlighting crowdfunding, fintech dominance, active investors, and two newly launched startups currently seeking backers.
Nine startups from Australia, India, the US and the Netherlands join the University of South Australia's Venture Catalyst Space program, each receiving $10,000 from the South Australian Government, with program alumni including Ping Services highlighted.
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Australia's competition regulator approved NAB's $220 million takeover of neobank 86 400, while warning the decision sets no precedent and that future bank-fintech mergers reducing competition could be blocked.
ASX-listed payments firm Openpay has lined up $67.5 million across a corporate debt facility, an institutional share placement backed by binding commitments, and a share purchase plan, funding its US, UK and Australian expansion.
Nine space startups from Australia, India, the US and the Netherlands have been chosen for the University of South Australia's Venture Catalyst Space program, each receiving $10,000 and support from the South Australian Government.
Roundup covering Deliveroo's cut IPO price range, ACCC clearance for NAB's purchase of neobank 86 400, Compass Education acquiring Momentum ESR, Victorian government funding for Startmate, and NSW's digital lost property system launch.
LaunchVic announces the Victorian Government's planned $1.8m backing of accelerator Startmate, including a three-year program for 30 local startups, a permanent office, and a $3m fund raising to back program graduates.
Nightingale Partners and Phoenix Development Fund have invested in Larki, a Melbourne and Sydney 3D site-data platform for architects founded by Simon Cookes and Daniel Moore; the amount is not disclosed.
Australian fund manager Holon Global joined the US$37 million Series A of Avanti Financial Group, a Wyoming digital-asset bank, closed 19 March 2021 and led by Trace Mayer.
SEA Electric orders batteries after a $54m raise; Baraja raises $40m for LIDAR, led by Blackbird; Stealth demos weed detection; Wattle Health lifts profit and sells its dairy arm; Hydac wins VR training grant.
AfterWork Ventures explains why it invested in Functionly, an organisational design tool, citing the founding team's track record, product-led growth, and the opportunity to replace spreadsheet-heavy HR processes.
Sydney video platform Vloggi raised a $500,000 pre-seed tranche at a $3.3 million valuation, lifting its total to $750,000, with ten founding investors taking part; a seed round is planned for later in 2021.
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Australian Strategic Materials has secured $65 million in investor commitments to advance its Dubbo rare earths project and a Korean metals plant, while an entitlement offer seeking further funds remains open to shareholders.
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OneVentures' blog post announces a $17 million investment in Lumary alongside Salesforce, pointing readers to full coverage in the Australian Financial Review.
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Australian pet microchip records startup VetDB has attracted MSD Animal Health, Merck's animal health arm, as a new investor in its third seed round, with funds earmarked for growth and national expansion.
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Daily briefing reporting Sequoia Capital India closing a $195 million seed fund, plus new funding rounds for Nuro, Greenwood, Linktree and Morphisec with their investors named.
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A roundup of recent Australian tech acquisitions: Vend, Neto, Powered Local, Insync and Earnd have been bought, while Xero is purchasing Planday and plans to acquire Tickstar.
Wholesale Investor profiles med-tech Tournicare's blood pressure monitor, its patents and trial progress, and its open SAFE offering; Artesian is named among prior backers, with a further tranche still sought.
Australian startup Nourish Ingredients, which engineers fats for plant-based meat, has raised $11 million from Horizons Ventures and Main Sequence Ventures. Founders Petrie and Leita met at CSIRO; the company employs 18 people.
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