Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
A New York venture firm's report sizes menopause care as a huge untapped market, finding most femtech funding bypasses it, while recalling the firm's two funds and naming several portfolio companies.
Solar cell startup SunDrive has drawn $5 million from Grok Ventures and Blackbird Ventures, adding to an earlier $3 million ARENA grant, as it scales its technology toward commercial rooftop modules.
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SafetyCulture took $14 million in fresh capital inside a larger transaction letting early backers and staff sell shares, valuing it above $1.3 billion, with Blackbird leading and Index following; it also acquired EdApp.
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Calastone says Carlyle Group has agreed to buy a majority stake from shareholders including Octopus Ventures and Accel, with management keeping a minority; terms undisclosed, regulatory approval pending.
Ant Group is preparing a dual listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai that Reuters estimates could raise about US$35 billion, surpassing Saudi Aramco's record IPO, with Jack Ma praising the pricing.
ARENA announces a $3 million grant to SunDrive, an Australian solar startup, to commercialise copper-based solar cell manufacturing and scale its technology toward household rooftop use.
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Daily venture briefing reporting eight startup funding rounds, Bayer's deal for AskBio, a Petlove-DogHero merger, NTTVC launching a $500 million fund, and Ant Group's planned record IPO.
Perth micro-investment app Bamboo has been bought by fund manager Digital Capital Management, with crypto exchange Mine Capital also investing and its chief executive taking a board seat at Bamboo.
Zip Co has bought all shares in Sydney's Urge Holdings, maker of fashion search engine The Urge and Shnap app, in a deal worth $8.5 million, mostly in Zip shares.
Brisbane biotech Microbio unveiled a rapid COVID-19 test that detects infectious virus in 45 minutes, developed with partners, and completed a Series A raise the previous month.
The Melbourne link-in-bio platform has secured its first outside capital, a Series A led by two venture firms with several individual backers joining, to grow its analytics and product functionality.
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Ignition Lane's weekly roundup reports MyDeal and Adore Beauty listing on the ASX, Rokt's US$80 million Series D, several trans-Tasman raises, Quibi shutting down, Westpac trimming its Zip stake, and local executive appointments.
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An online marketplace for renting adventure gear has landed its first outside backing, half a million dollars, from a private investment firm whose chief now chairs the company.
The online beauty retailer founded by Kate Morris two decades ago has debuted on the ASX, with the float raising $269.5 million and founders selling down shares, alongside a look back at its growth.
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Eye-disease drug developer Azura Ophthalmics announced a $28 million round from existing backers including MRCF, OrbiMed, TPG Biotech and Ganot Capital, funding registration studies of its dry eye treatment candidate.
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Short-form US streaming service Quibi is shutting down six months after launch, despite raising US$1.75 billion from backers including Disney and NBCUniversal, with founders blaming the pandemic.
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Australian fintech startup Parpera raised $800,000 via a crowdfunding campaign on the Equitise platform, ahead of launching digital wallet, card, payment and money management products for businesses.
Cloud services specialist Versent has appointed a former AWS managing director for Australia and New Zealand to its board, following other recent executive additions including a chief operating officer and a subsidiary managing director.
Westpac is selling its 10.7% holding in Zip Co through an underwritten book build, worth over $367 million, after backing the lender in 2017 and 2019. The sale follows a newly announced Afterpay partnership.
Battery maker Energy Renaissance has appointed Dr Bruce Godfrey as chair, with Su McCluskey remaining a director, as the company prepares to build a lithium-ion battery factory at Tomago, NSW, planned for 2021.
Serial founder Alborz Fallah has secured $3 million from private backers for CarExpert, his new automotive reviews platform, four years after his earlier car media business was bought by Nine.
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Opinion piece by Boab AI's managing director arguing Australia lags global AI investment, describing Artesian's backing of Boab AI's scaleup program and its plans for a dedicated AI fund.
Profile of ProofTec, a computer-vision platform that documents asset condition to attribute damage in rental, sharing and transport transactions, noting a planned investor raise and past CSIRO program acceptance and industry trials.
Plant-based meat maker V2food has closed a large Series B with Asian backers to finish a Wodonga factory and enter Asian markets, following an earlier round the year before.
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Hospitality ordering platform HungryHungry raised A$2 million in a Series A led by Brodie Arnhold, with pandemic-driven demand lifting orders six-fold; the co-founders had earlier injected $2 million of their own cash.
Australian computer vision startup Tiliter closed a $7.5 million Series A led by Investec Emerging Companies to expand its cashierless checkout technology across Europe and the US.
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Envato has named travel industry executive Hichame Assi as its new CEO after a year-long search, succeeding founder Collis Ta'eed, who steps back from operations but stays as chair of the Melbourne marketplace.
Australian algae startup Provectus Algae raised a $3.25 million seed round led by Hong Kong's Vectr Ventures, with Canada's Maropost Ventures participating, to scale its Precision Photosynthesis platform for specialty ingredients.
Podcast conversation with Chope's co-founder and chief executive about his career path, building the restaurant booking platform across Asian cities, its relationship with Square Peg, and surviving pandemic lockdowns.
Company update on Melbourne crypto exchange Elbaite, recalling its 2019 pre-seed and seed raises and describing its non-custodial peer-to-peer trading model, growth metrics, and a planned pre-Series A round.
Tidal Ventures publishes its reasoning for backing Upflowy, a low-code signup flow builder, covering market tailwinds, the product, the three founders and the business model behind its seed-stage investment decision.
Blackbird led SunDrive's five million dollar Series A, part of an eight million dollar raising that includes an ARENA grant, while partner Niki Scevak joins the solar cell startup's board.
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Dale Cohen recalls the early days of Telstra's muru-D accelerator, published with the email announcing the program will leave its accelerator form behind and move to partnering with startups.
Profile of Adelaide charity-donations startup Good Thnx after Startmate's demo day, covering its Slack integration, fast enterprise sales, mentor network, a $75,000 investment and $1 million in donations facilitated.
Melbourne payments startup Gobbill pitched at a Scottish investor showcase, hoping to raise £2 million for a UK expansion, and has incorporated in Scotland to join the local fintech body.
An interview with the founders of Fitafy, a Perth dating app for active people, covering its $430,000 seed round, its origins as an Instagram joke, and its rebrand from Fitfam Findr.
Two WA startups, Gridcognition and Cass Materials, join other Australian companies pitching at Startmate's first remote demo day; the piece also recalls the founders' earlier sale of Greensense and Shell's takeover of ERM Power.
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Company update on CarbonScape, which produces synthetic graphite anode material from waste biomass, describing its technology, team and progress, and reporting a Series A raise that has drawn NZ$2.2 million so far.
Roundup of manufacturing sector items: a medtech firm completes a capital raising, a biotech receives a government tax refund, two cannabis suppliers record export sales, and a diagnostics maker ships machines to a German laboratory group.
A cleanroom facility for medical technology startups has opened at a Brisbane research institute, backed by a growth centre grant, matching institute funding and in-kind help from a resident vaccine-platform developer.
Medical device startup Navi Medical Technologies has received a government research grant to advance commercialisation of its Neonav catheter-placement tool for newborns, developed with Melbourne universities and hospitals.
Fluence has taken over AMS, an AI bidding software provider backed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, to speed trading for renewable and battery assets; the price was not disclosed.
Alberts Impact Ventures announces its participation in AirRobe's seed round, describing the circular-fashion startup's re-selling, recycling and rental platform and pointing to press coverage of its founder.
Tenacious Ventures' investment note explains why it joined a US$6 million round in Vow, a Sydney cellular agriculture startup creating new meat categories, alongside Square Peg Capital, Blackbird Ventures and Grok Ventures.
Silentium Defence wins a $3.2m Defence contract for its passive space radar, plus a $1.46m Space Agency award for an observatory; Prism Systems receives a $925,000 grant for Navy-related work.
A research agency and a metal printing firm report a joint project adding conformal cooling channels to printed die-cast tooling, work backed by an innovation grant, enabling shorter cycle times and wider tooling uses.
Melbourne AR startup JigSpace's app featured in Apple's iPhone 12 launch event, which its co-founder calls a milestone for spatial computing; the article also notes the company recently raised a $2 million seed round.
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation's Innovation Fund pledges $300,000 towards Startmate's climate accelerator cohorts, while Gridcognition, Digital Agriculture Services and Cass Materials join the program's latest intake ahead of demo day.
Emissions-tracking software firm Pathzero has secured a seven-figure seed round from Antler, Black Nova Group and several business figures, having emerged from Antler's Australian program during the pandemic.
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