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AGL Energy has agreed to buy two leading Australian commercial solar firms, Solgen Energy Group and Epho, in separate deals signalling consolidation of the booming commercial and industrial rooftop solar market.
Payments company Monoova has hired Lionel Beraldi, previously at WeWork, Houzz and Foodora, as Head of Growth, while CEO Christian Westerlind Wigstrom notes strong growth and Jacaranda Finance joining its clients.
Melbourne AI startup Sonnant secured a seed investment from broadcaster Southern Cross Austereo to support its LiSTNR audio platform, improving content discovery through transcription and machine learning.
Roundup: Square takes majority control of Jay Z's Tidal for US$297 million; WeLab banks a US$75 million Series C led by Allianz; construction software startup Mastt raises $2.2 million.
Sydney-based accelerator Antler Australia will open a Melbourne office in mid-2021 after running online programs, having backed 40 companies in two years, and plans extra staff for its June launch.
US nonprofit The Nature Conservancy has taken undisclosed stakes in five soil-health startups through iSelect's fund. The piece also recaps earlier raises by Growers Edge, PatternAg, Stony Creek Colors, SwarmFarm and Kula Bio.
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Two Australian startups, Amentum Aerospace and SensaWeb, are going global with help from ANSTO's nandin centre, a NSW export program, a Queensland grant, and SensaWeb's entry to the ATI Boeing Accelerator with Boeing investment.
Seafood trading platform ShoreTrade has raised $8 million led by Investible and Luxem, with Vulpes participating, to fund international expansion and new features; founder Peter Manettas previously raised $2 million in 2018.
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Brandon Capital's blog republishes an AFR report on Azura Ophthalmics' encouraging phase 2 dry-eye results, recalling the Israel-founded biotech's US$38 million raised, among it a US$16 million round that Brandon Capital's fund co-led.
Company update on wave energy developer Wave Swell Energy, whose King Island project has received funding from the US Department of Energy's marine renewable energy program, as it seeks investors.
Azura Ophthalmics reports positive phase two results for its dry eye ointment and moves toward registration studies; the Brandon Capital-backed biotech has raised US$38 million, including a US$16 million round co-led by MRCF.
Roundup: Airwallex wins approval to acquire Hong Kong fintech UniCard; Vestiaire Collective raises €178 million to become a unicorn; Hopin announces a US$400 million Series C at a $5.65 billion valuation; Google ends user tracking.
The Prime Minister and industry minister toured Energy Renaissance's Tomago battery plant site in NSW, where the company is building a $28m facility, with a grant from the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre.
Daily roundup covering Xero's acquisition of workforce platform Planday, Volocopter's Series D air-taxi raise, DigitalX's institutional placement, Q-CTRL joining a lunar mission consortium, and a cannabis NFT stunt.
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Manufacturing briefs roundup: Magnis and Charge CCCV report encouraging battery cell test results, Nova Eye starts United States testing of its glaucoma catheter, and Noxopharm collects a government research rebate.
New Zealand wine-tech startup Winely has joined South Australia's Landing Pad program and received an $80,000 award to support its expansion, with several local wineries already using its fermentation sensor technology.
KPMG's annual review reports Australian fintech investment of US$1.4 billion in 2020, featuring eNett's acquisition, raises by Judo Bank and Brighte, a cryptocurrency-backed IPO, and global fintech trends.
Car loan comparison platform CarClarity has raised $1 million in a round led by Equity Venture Partners, with angel money from lending executives, and an EVP associate is set to join its board.
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Roundup covering Instacart's US$265 million raise, Xendit's Series B, EZZ Life Science's ASX debut, Grimes' NFT art sales, Service NSW app usage figures, and a Cicada Innovations women-in-STEM event.
A weekly roundup reporting fresh raises by Deferit, Karbon, VendorPanel, Symple and Thrive, plus Klarna's US$1 billion round at a US$31 billion valuation.
EMVision is named the second Australian SME granted $8 million by the Australian Stroke Alliance from its $40 million Medical Research Future Fund grant, to develop microwave stroke imaging; Micro-X earlier received $8 million.
Presence detection firm Foresense Technologies has raised over $2.7 million ahead of a planned 2021 listing, with CEO Glenn Weiland discussing its retail sensor technology and expansion plans on Startup Daily TV.
Data analytics firm smrtr secured A$2.5 million from Stockland, an existing client and earlier backer whose 2020 investment accompanied smrtr's merger with Greater Data, with funds earmarked for expanding data commercialisation and industry coverage.
Klarna, the Swedish buy-now-pay-later bank backed by Commonwealth Bank, has secured new funding of US$1 billion at a US$31 billion valuation; CBA confirmed its participation, and two earlier raises are recalled.
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Defence manufacturer XTEK posted a half-year gross loss of $3.2 million on R&D spending and US acquisition integration, while disclosing a $12.1 million raise and $1.8 million in government grants for its Adelaide plant.
A OneVentures blog stub that only links out to an AFR piece; its headline reports an unnamed HR tech company raising $45 million during a remote-working boom, with no article text on the page.
Queensland industrial IoT startup GreaseBoss joined Y Combinator's accelerator remotely after winning a $100,000 state government grant, having earlier raised pre-seed backing, and plans a seed round.
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Adelaide X-ray firm Micro-X will put its $8 million share of a $40 million Medical Research Future Fund grant toward developing a portable brain CT scanner for pre-hospital stroke diagnosis.
A brief OneVentures blog post that simply links readers to a New Yorker feature on engineering an artificial heart; the post itself states no funding, deal, or company news.
Mortgage tech firm Effi partnered with broker community Finance & Coffee to offer a discounted Effi Lite tier, a deal that follows the firm's recently announced $1.2 million raise for development work.
Roundup: Split Payments promotes a new C-suite; Hubilo raises a US$23.5m Series A; Next.e.GO banks €30m; Lexer lands a $33.5m Series B; Zip posts a heavy loss; Kogan.com adds two directors.
v2Food's plant-based Whopper is now sold at Burger King in South Korea, its fifth regional market. The CSIRO spin-off's backers include Jack Cowin, Main Sequence Ventures and Sequoia China; China is next.
New Zealand timber construction startup X-Frame completed a first capital raise of $485,000, supported by Adelaide incubator Innovyz and Green Industries South Australia, with funds earmarked for product and platform development.
Perth-built mapping app Snapgo intends to crowdfund equity via Birchal, targeting as much as $1.3 million at a dollar a share, while co-founder Steve Brechany recounts its pandemic setbacks and recovery.
Blackbird partner Rick Baker explains why the firm is leading customer data platform Lexer's Series B, describing the product, its founders' backgrounds, and plans to expand the team.
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Battery technology developer Relectrify has released its ReVolve second-life EV battery storage product for commercial and industrial customers, with rollout support from ARENA; the article also recalls CEFC's earlier investments in the company.
Supplement maker ATP Science has received a Queensland government grant towards a $3.2 million equipment upgrade, expecting 33 new jobs, after an earlier federal manufacturing grant.
Australian bill-payment platform Deferit has raised AU$15 million in an oversubscribed Series B round, led by returning backer Carthona Capital with new participant Alceon Group, to fund marketing, partnerships and hiring.
Sydney vehicle-hire platform TradieSpec has completed a $500,000 seed round, a year after cancelling its raise during COVID-19, having doubled its fleet and expanded to Melbourne and Brisbane.
Wholesale Investor profiles Incomlend, an invoice trading platform offering credit-insured short-term receivables to investors, recalling its USD20 million Series A led by Sequoia India and later backing from Singapore's EDBI.
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Three Australian manufacturers receive Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority grants totalling just over $2 million to build welding, robotics and precision capabilities that reduce Defence's reliance on foreign suppliers.
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Westpac will share its banking licence with lender SocietyOne, its second fintech partnership in five months after Afterpay, and a senior executive expects more such deals this year.
Payments firm Novatti has launched Lifepay, a consumer mobile banking and payments platform using Novatti's technology, which has secured a Series A round of up to $2.5 million at a $20.5 million pre-money valuation.
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Lending fintech SocietyOne joins Westpac's 10X digital banking platform, following Afterpay, giving its customers transaction accounts from late 2021. Westpac has backed SocietyOne since 2014 via Reinventure, alongside other Australian backers.
Partner-content profile of lingerie startup The One Two, co-founded by Margot Balch and Maria Golushko, an Antler portfolio company from its June 2020 cohort, preparing a pre-sale launch of personalised bra fitting.
Zetifi, a Wagga Wagga wireless networking firm and AVST grant recipient, is seeking NSW and northern Victorian farmers to trial Wi-Fi calling, offering 50 subsidised installations where mobile coverage is poor.
Redarc Electronics announced an Industry 4.0 project backed by a $399,770 Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre grant, working with partners including Swinburne University, and expects up to 35 new jobs.
Gaming influencer education platform GGWP has closed a pre-seed round backed by women-led investors, with Startmate's accelerator topping up the amount, as founder Jacquiline Garrett plans a marketplace launch and a larger future raise.
Hospitality ordering platform Ordermentum, started by a Hey You co-founder, has banked $5 million with Pure Asset Management at the helm, as venues and suppliers digitise after COVID disruptions.
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