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ARENA has announced a $2.4 million grant to ActewAGL for the REVS trial, deploying 51 Nissan LEAFs in the ACT to provide vehicle-to-grid services, with ANU, JET Charge, Evoenergy, SG Fleet and Nissan involved.
Brisbane electronics maker Elexon Electronics has opened an automated Industry 4.0 factory, backed by a Queensland Government grant, to chase aerospace and defence work and help bring electronics production onshore.
Datto has announced its intention to acquire Australian procurement platform Gluh, and is opening its first Asia Pacific warehouse in Sydney, but no transaction is recorded as completed.
Plus Eight has selected eight Western Australian startups from 70 applicants to share a $350,000 investment pool, advancing them to the seed-funding stage after a bootcamp, mentoring and a pitch day.
Perth org-design startup Functionly has received a $598,000 federal Accelerating Commercialisation grant, lifting its pre-seed funding to $1.4 million, as it develops its team-planning tool toward commercial launch.
Hosico Engineering, a Braeside, Victoria manufacturer of metal and moulded components, has received a $150,000 grant under the Defence Global Competitiveness Grants program to help it serve defence aerospace markets.
WA climate-tech social enterprise ClimateClever has secured second-round investment from a private trust during the pandemic, taking total funds to $450,000, and earlier won a Lotterywest grant for a Billbuddy app due in August.
Ten collaborative projects, including space traffic management and a weed-spraying robot, have won CRC-P round nine grants, with Clearbox Systems receiving $3 million toward a satellite tracking system.
Bandicoot Imaging Sciences raised $330,000 in a Sydney Angels-led round, with angel investors including David Myers and Scott Newham, to build digital fabric-rendering technology that cuts online fashion returns.
The government's AOFM has approved an initial 30.8 million dollar investment into ASX-listed lender Wisr's warehouse facility under its Structured Finance Support Fund, still subject to finalising legal documents.
Podcast discussing Orison, a US-backed plug-and-play battery developer, and Origin's investment, with founder Eric Clifton discussing the technology and planned Australian trial.
Bevan Slattery's family vehicle took $2.5 million of shares in a Pointerra capital raise, and the geospatial company's ASX-listed share price jumped about 85 percent after trading resumed.
Blockchain startup Sempo won a European Commission prize of one million euros, with Oxfam Ireland as lead applicant, to deliver digital crypto-based aid; it earlier won Startup Victoria's Impact Pitch Night.
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Australian startup Ping raised $1.3 million in seed funding from investors including Artesian to develop and commercialise its acoustic fault-detection device for wind turbines, having earlier received South Australian government backing.
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AuManufacturing roundup: LBT Innovations raised $8 million; Archer Materials began quantum chip work in Sydney; Creso Pharma won an Israeli order; Murray River Organics lined up Woolworths; Australia and Japan signed a space cooperation agreement.
Web.com Group has agreed to acquire Arq Group, rebranded Webcentral Group, for around $12.2 million at $0.10 per share, following a strategic review; the article also recalls earlier acquisitions of Dreamscape Networks and Webcentral.
AgFunder-backed accelerator GROW announces twelve Asia-Pacific startups joining its Singapore Food Bowl program, supporting Singapore's food resilience goals with backing from Enterprise Singapore and Dole Packaged Foods.
Sydney-listed... Australian fintech Sempo won a European Commission blockchain prize, securing one million euros to expand digital cash aid delivery work with Oxfam.
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ASX-listed buy now pay later lender Sezzle confirmed an institutional placement and share purchase plan totalling A$86.3 million, and its shares surged more than 20 percent on resuming trade.
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Startup News profiles Catel, an early-stage online marketplace for trading agricultural securities called AgFracs, as the founding team prepares to launch a pilot program after completing accelerator programs.
Swiss SME lender Tradeplus24 has engaged BDO Corporate Finance to seek growth funding; the article also recalls its earlier CHF 120 million backing from Credit Suisse and others.
Western Meat Packers Group received a Western Australian government grant of $300,000 toward a $10 million abattoir expansion, expected to create at least 50 full-time jobs and support offal processing and new export markets.
Melbourne regtech 6clicks has raised $2.2 million from unnamed high-net-worth investors to fund global expansion and technology development, six months after launching in November 2019.
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Language-learning startup Chatterize raised NZD$1 million in seed funding led by Icehouse Ventures with Eleanor Venture, to build a standalone app helping Chinese children learn English.
Perth hot sauce maker Bunsters has exceeded its equity crowdfunding target on Birchal, attracting roughly $409,000 after pandemic-driven online sales growth, and previously completed an angel round.
Camel milk producer Aus Camel Dairies, trading as Good Earth Dairy, plans an ASX listing with advisers Ventnor Capital and Squire Patton Bogg, seeks pre-IPO and IPO funding, and previously raised seed capital.
Payright raised $12 million in a round led by Escala Partners, while fellow BNPL firm Limepay raised $6 million, as listed buy now, pay later stocks buoy private-market investment.
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BluGlass receives a $250,000 Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre grant, matched by the company, to develop plasma deposition sources for its semiconductor production equipment.
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Tattarang, the Forrest family's investment group, has taken a majority stake in Azupay, an Australian payments fintech whose instant PayID-based service is being rolled out by the NSW Government.
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Payments firm Novatti has exited its seed investment in cross-border payments startup SendFX, receiving $900,000 for its shareholding plus loan repayment, adding to its recently raised $10.2 million.
Skalata Ventures is recruiting up to 15 early stage companies for its October 2020 program, delivered virtually since April, and recalls Restoplus from its April 2020 portfolio.
Lending technology firm NextGen.Net has acquired open banking provider Frollo, an accredited data recipient, with Frollo continuing to operate independently under NextGen's ownership.
Profile of Hudled, a SaaS management dashboard built by two co-founders, which has secured part of its target funding, signed early customers, and came through Antler Australia's Sydney accelerator program.
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Iberdrola's contested bid for ASX-listed Infigen Energy gains foreign investment clearance and board endorsement, but shareholder acceptance remains outstanding, so no takeover is recorded as completed.
Manrags, an Australian sock subscription business turned textile recycler, raised $400,000 within 24 hours of a Birchal equity crowdfunding campaign, having previously raised via Equitise in 2018.
Australian-founded, US-based one-click checkout startup Fast raised a Series A in March and is hiring engineers despite Silicon Valley pandemic disruption.
Melbourne metal manufacturer New Touch Industries received a $100,000 federal grant to buy a Stopa warehousing system with laser cutters, automating de-burring and improving quality.
News roundup covering Uber's all-stock purchase of delivery rival Postmates, Luckin Coffee's delisting after fraud, a VC training program, NASA's toilet prize, VCs feuding with journalists, and Murdoch's Theranos stake sale.
Analysis of how Australia's space sector is weathering COVID-19, recounting international space developments and domestic wins including a government grant to Fleet Space Technologies and Oz Minerals for mineral exploration.
Profile of VAPAR, whose AI platform inspects sewer and stormwater pipes, announcing the founders' $700,000 seed raise as they prepare to expand into New Zealand and the UK.
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University of Queensland's Centre for Advanced Imaging won a $1 million federal grant, via MTPConnect's BioMedTech Horizons program, to develop a portable MRI system with electronics firm Intellidesign.
Singapore-headquartered lending group Robocash has opened a A$7.5 million pre-IPO round to fund its Philippine neobank Una Bank, ahead of a planned A$100 million ASX float in December 2020.
F45 is merging with a US blank-cheque company to list on NASDAQ, with the article recounting the fitness franchise's Sydney origins, rapid growth, legal dispute and founder's departure.
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Banxa completed a USD$2 million pre-IPO round led by OK Group to fund global expansion, while progressing its Toronto Stock Exchange listing, with quotes from Estrella Du and founder-chairman Domenic Carosa.
Attendance-tracking startup Clipboard has raised $850,000 from Jelix Ventures to speed commercialisation of its Activity Selection feature, with customers including private schools and partners Schoolbox and Digistorm.
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Techboard's monthly bulletin reports May 2020 Australian startup funding of $523 million, including InteliCare's ASX listing, PictureWealth's $12 million raise, and Antler's latest cohort of 13 companies.
Titomic names Andreas Schwer chairman after Philip Vafiadis resigned, with Dag Stromme and Humphrey Nolan also joining the board; founder Jeff Lang welcomes Schwer's defence and aerospace background.
Antler Australia streamed its first virtual Demo Day to over 2000 viewers, presenting twelve startups built through its five-month program, and unveiled two new initiatives supporting women founders and online company-building training.