Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
Startup News reports Perth's snap lockdown lifting, alongside briefs on Space Angel's $1.75m spaceport grant, unnamed Innovation Booster Grant recipients, WA Innovators of the Year finalists and a schools challenge.
ARENA grants Jemena $1.6 million for a residential EV smart charging trial with four electricity networks, and recalls earlier support for EV charging projects by Origin, AGL, ActewAGL, Chargefox and Evie Networks.
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Aura's private equity arm announced a follow-on investment in Kim Health Care's US$24 million Series B, led by Singapore's ABC World Asia, backing the Vietnamese dental clinic chain Kim Dental and its laboratory Labo.
Canberra is funding development of ultra-precise sapphire clock timing for the JORN radar network, with a $4.8 million defence contract going jointly to BAE Systems Australia and oscillator maker CryoClock.
Cyber security firm Hyprfire has secured $2.25 million from prominent Western Australian backers and launched its Firebug monitoring tool, while former Navitas and iiNet chief David Buckingham joins as chairman.
Perth medtech Singular Health is completing an initial public offering on the ASX, priced at 20 cents a share, to fund growth of its platform turning 2D medical scans into immersive 3D models.
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Sydney e-commerce integration startup OneSaas, founded by Corneliu Tusnea in 2010, has been bought by Intuit Quickbooks for an undisclosed sum, supporting the new Quickbook Commerce product.
Audio startup Aflorithmic, based in London and Barcelona, has raised seed money from Australia's Crowd Media Holdings, which takes a tenth of the company to build cloned-celebrity video chats; an earlier pre-seed round is also recalled.
Field Solutions Group won a $2.1 million Western Australian government grant to expand its regional network into WA, alongside other round-three Digital Farm Grants Program recipients.
Digital lender SocietyOne is weighing a sharemarket listing this year to fund lending growth and new products, having passed $1 billion on its loan platform, after competitors Plenti and Harmoney listed in 2020.
Daily roundup reporting Databricks' billion-dollar Series G, Robinhood's emergency raise during the trading saga, DesignCrowd's $10 million pre-IPO funding, Xinja's wind-up vote, and record Australian venture capital in 2020.
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Brisbane diagnostics company Ellume signed a US government contract worth US$231.8 million to supply Covid-19 home tests and build a US factory, alongside earlier grants from the NIH and Queensland government.
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Bill-management app noobill raised $250,000 pre-seed via convertible notes and launched an equity crowdfunding campaign through Equitise that has already drawn $100,000 in pledges.
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Roundup covering Zip's new chair, 6clicks' $5 million raise, a Koala data exposure, Andrew Forrest's criticism of Elon Musk, and Melvin Capital's bailout.
Company profile of online grocer 2UGrocer describing its delivery model, local supplier focus, a planned capital raise, new distribution deals for Siqura sanitiser and transparent masks, and plastics recycling technology.
Australia's NERA has awarded seed grants totalling $1.75 million to thirteen unnamed hydrogen industry clusters nationwide to foster collaboration, supply chains and commercialisation in green hydrogen.
Australian design marketplace DesignCrowd raised 7.7 million dollars from five investors to fund product development and US expansion, with a possible future listing flagged.
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Adelaide-based ASX-listed x-ray maker Micro-X has secured $30.5 million in share commitments to fund a Seattle office, US security scanner work and in-house tube development.
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Bumble's founder has listed the dating app on Nasdaq, becoming the youngest woman to take a tech unicorn public; the piece recalls Blackstone's 2019 majority purchase and details payouts around the offering.
Ivanti has agreed to buy IT service management firm Cherwell Software to expand its Neurons hyper-automation platform, with terms undisclosed. The article also recalls Ivanti's September 2020 acquisitions of MobileIron and Pulse Secure.
Queensland rocket firm launches first rocket using Australian-made solid fuel, developed with partial backing from the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre, drawing praise from industry figures and the industry minister.
Digital bank 86 400 has proposed combining with UBank under NAB, which would acquire remaining shares for up to about $220 million, pending shareholder, court and regulatory approvals.
Western Australia's government granted 10.2 million dollars to eighteen food and beverage manufacturers under its Value Add Investment Grants program, expecting matched private investment and hundreds of new jobs.
ARENA grants Renergi $3.9 million to advance its waste-to-biofuel pyrolysis technology in Collie, WA, within a $9.4 million demonstration plant also backed by the WA Government and Sunshot-linked investors.
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Ignition Advice appoints Russell Scrimshaw as deputy chairman and non-executive director, adds two business development hires, and recalls its 2020 Series B raise with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.
One-click checkout company Fast raised a US$102 million Series B led by Stripe and Addition Capital, with earlier backers participating, as co-founder Domm Holland plans expansion into identity verification beyond payments.
Commonwealth Bank's venture builder x15ventures has acquired hospitality platform Doshii, its fifth acquisition since launching, announced at CBA's 2021 technology update in Sydney; the price was not disclosed.
Eight Australian defence small businesses received grants totalling 3.4 million dollars under a government capability program, with individual awards listed for companies including Penten, Gilmour Space and Amiga Engineering.
Open banking platform Adatree has closed a $1.2 million seed round, nearly three times oversubscribed, with investors including Tyro figures, Equity Seed, Eleanor Ventures' founders and Angus McBean joining its share register.
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Commonwealth Bank's venture scaler x15ventures has named Ben Heap its first independent non-executive chairman and Jane Martino its first external portfolio advisor, adding fintech and start-up experience to its board and investment committee.
Commonwealth Bank's venture builder x15ventures appoints Ben Heap as its first independent non-executive chairman and Jane Martino as its first external portfolio adviser to its investment committee.
Cognizant's January purchase of Sydney data analytics consultancy Servian illustrates global IT services firms' appetite for Australian and New Zealand acquisitions, with analysts pointing to continued merger and acquisition activity across the region.
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Listed investor Gowing Bros has taken an equity stake in hydrogen storage maker Lavo and ordered over 200 of its units for its properties; Providence Asset Group was an earlier backer.
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A manufacturing roundup covering Redflex's agreed takeover by Verra Mobility, Jatcorp's investor placement, European patents for VSPC and Cortical Dynamics, Oventus's record device sales, and First Graphene's energy storage push.
Silex Systems reports progress optimising production of isotopically enriched silicon for quantum chips, developed with UNSW and Silicon Quantum Computing, supported by a government grant and an SQC purchase agreement.
The Western Australian Government is putting $150,000 from its New Industries Fund into medtech startup OncoRes Medical to expand R&D and jobs, with the company also recalling $7.5 million raised from MRCF.
Daily tech roundup covering a pardon for a ex-Google engineer, Jack Ma's reappearance, a cyberattack on Malwarebytes, Facebook's privacy settlement, Cruise's multi-billion raise, and neobank Xinja winding up.
A South Australian venture farming asparagopsis seaweed near Port Broughton seeks investors, while the article recalls CSIRO's FutureFeed venture, formed with five core investors including GrainCorp, Woolworths, Harvest Road and Sparklabs Cultiv8.
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Roundup of Australian manufacturing items: Leigh Creek Energy awards gasification contracts, Archer Materials gains a quantum chip patent, Micro-X expands its range, Orthocell receives a government R&D refund, and Botanix with UQ reports antibacterial findings.
Six small and medium businesses will share federal BRII grant funding to develop and test ways of tackling spray drift in cotton, in a challenge the publisher is helping solve.
Battery researcher Jeff Dahn renews his Tesla-backed Dalhousie University contract for another five years and takes on a chief scientific advisor position at ASX-listed battery materials company Novonix starting mid-2021.
Morning roundup covering US pressure over Australia's news bargaining laws, Deliveroo's big raise, Volopay's seed round before its Australian launch, AgriWebb's Series B, plus crypto and Samsung briefs.
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The Clean Energy Finance Corporation committed $5 million to livestock software firm AgriWebb within a larger capital raising led by TELUS Ventures, funding emissions-tracking tools; an earlier Loam Bio investment is also recalled.
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Roundup covering Wattle Health's distribution growth and asset sale, a Tata Steel-Austmine program launch, Victorian recycling grants, and Forcite's helmet shipment milestone.
Roundup of CES 2021 highlights: pandemic mask technology, rollable phone screens, BioMilq's lab-grown breast milk and its funding, Mobileye's single-chip lidar, and a suite of new home robots.
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Buy-now-pay-lender Zip's shareholder purchase plan closed oversubscribed, issuing shares worth over $56.7 million after a $120 million institutional placement, with proceeds earmarked for expanding its international operations.
Ignition Advice hired Robert Coulter as APAC business development director while expanding globally after its 2020 Series B raise backed by Morgan Stanley.