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Queensland's government grants $1.7m so Australian Gas Networks can blend hydrogen into Gladstone's piped gas, following a $1.3m ARENA grant for a green-hydrogen injection feasibility study in southern towns.
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An insulated panel maker and its partners have received a research grant to develop automated processes turning plastic waste into lightweight prefabricated building components, with the project running to 2023.
Profile of Morsl, whose self-service office food markets serve major Australian corporates; founder Karla Borland is mid-raise with $250,000 already committed.
On-demand beauty booking platform Glamazon has been acquired by India's Urban Company, with assets sold for an undisclosed sum; co-founder Lauren Silvers stays on while Lisa Maree departs.
Evergen has appointed Lucy Carpinelli as solution architect and Emad Nashed as senior software engineer to build its energy trading technology; CEO Ben Hutt says the hires support growth and battery orchestration plans.
Profile of Nicole Liu, who left McKinsey to found Kin, a women's fertility platform and pill delivery service, backed with $1 million from Blackbird Ventures and Eucalyptus.
Blackbird's investment note explains its backing of Dovetail, a platform for UX researchers founded by Benjamin Humphrey and Brad Ayers, covering its customer growth and community among UX professionals.
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Profile of Juggle Street founder David James, whose neighbourhood childcare marketplace counts 95,000 users and $3 million backed by investors including Investible, as it prepares a Birchal crowd raise.
Ocean-cleanup startup Seabin Project drew over $1.16 million from retail investors in the first days of its Series A equity crowdfunding campaign on Birchal, seeking up to $3 million at a valuation above $15 million.
KPMG's report shows Australian fintech investment hit nearly A$3 billion in 2019, driven by CBA's PEXA acquisition and Judo's raise, with notable rounds for Athena, Grow Super and Cover Genius.
Coassemble, an online training platform, raised a Series A led by Equity Ventures Partners after strong revenue growth, and is expanding its team with a new US headquarters in Denver, Colorado.
Perth medicinal cannabis producer Little Green Pharma has floated on the ASX through a $10 million IPO, with shares dipping on debut despite announcing a UK supply agreement and a licensing partnership with Curtin University.
Australia's SheEO collective has named 21 semi-finalists for its latest loan round; its leaders discuss the community's lending model, growth since 2018, and the culture of asking for help.
Firebrick Pharma's nasal spray, in late-stage trials, may guard against coronavirus; its founder says it could be regulated as a disinfectant, and the company raised Series C funding in 2019.
WA incubator QuantumTX, founded by Atomic Sky, names its first cohort of ten tech companies working across mining, energy and defence to enter the global space sector.
TechCrunch profiles six standout startups from Melbourne's Pause Fest pitch competition, recalling past raises by Medinet, Everty, Relectrify and Gabriel among the winners.
A two-year retrospective on the Sydney Startup Hub profiles resident ventures, including Cheq's seed raise, OpenSparkz's funding totals and Antler's early-stage investments.
Plastiq.it, a cashback rewards startup co-founded by Andrew Banks, closed its $400,000 equity crowdfunding offer ahead of schedule, valuing the business at $12.9 million after an earlier $1.15 million raise.
Conference report from Melbourne where plant-based and conventional protein advocates debated. Fable Foods' funding round closed, and Michael Fox's earlier shoe startup Shoes of Prey is recalled as collapsed.
AML3D is proceeding with an ASX listing on March 26 under ticker AL3, raising $9 million via new shares, with Foster Stockbroking as lead manager and Adelaide Equity Partners advising.
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Interview with Kin founder Nicole Liu on her contraceptive pill subscription service, her Startmate program participation, and approaching Blackbird VC and Eucalyptus as supportive partners.
Manufacturing briefs covering SciDev's US equipment order, Reece Pharmaceuticals' antibiotic trial results, and Wheatbelt companies sharing Western Australian government regional development grants, including Bruce Rock Engineering.
Basiq unveils the first version of its consent experience for Australia's Consumer Data Right, letting consumers share banking data safely; the open banking platform is described as backed by NAB Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Reinventure.
Sydney procurement software firm Portt has taken its first outside funding, a $4 million round led by CVC Emerging Companies Fund, after a decade bootstrapping, to expand supply chain transparency and tackle modern slavery risks.
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Wireless crane load control developer Roborigger has landed a $5 million Series A from Blackbird, money the founder says will build capability for overseas markets, following award wins and industry trials.
Three Victorian startups completed the first CivVic Labs accelerator cohort, each receiving a $150,000 grant from the Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund and contracts to build prototypes with health and transport agencies.
Melbourne battery startup Relectrify has pilot partnerships with Nissan's US branch and American Electric Power, following a previously reported $2.5 million investment from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation's Innovation Fund.
Airbnb's nine-month 2019 loss reached US$322 million, clouding its 2020 listing plans; the piece also recalls its HotelTonight and UrbanDoor acquisitions and its 2017 funding round valuation.
Seventeen cybersecurity projects share the final round of the federal government's AustCyber Projects Fund, with details released for thirteen recipients and their matched industry funding.
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Lithium Australia and its research partners have won a Cooperative Research Centre Projects grant for a $3.6 million lithium extraction project, with the company receiving $1.3 million to advance its LieNA process.
Canberra security firm Archtis has added Dr Miles Jakeman, previously Citadel Group's co-founder and CEO, as a non-executive director, with the chairman praising his network and experience.
Cyber security startup Cynch Security received a government grant plus matched industry funding for an SME cyber research project with Deakin University; women-led HackHunter also won funding among ten AustCyber-backed projects.
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Australian rocket company Gilmour Space received a government grant to develop lightweight rocket fuel tanks with two partners, aiming to cut launch weight and cost.
SoftBank-backed US online retailer Brandless shuts down. Also: IBM's big Slack deployment, an FBI supply-chain hacking alert, a journalist's Kindle data discovery, and NBN's half-year results.
Blackbird's investment note announces $5 million put into Roborigger, a Perth robotics startup whose device steadies crane loads, profiling founder Derick Markwell and listing current construction projects.
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Wave Swell Energy's wave-to-electricity technology was profiled in a US magazine; its King Island project nears operation, and the company has secured over $300,000 in commitments toward its $500,000 raise.
Assembly Payments and Standard Chartered are forming a jointly owned, Singapore-based ecommerce payments venture to take Assembly's technology offshore, after a year of discussions between the two firms.
Queensland announces two research grants: Laminex Australia receives $559,000 to study waste-fuelled on-site energy at its Toolara fibreboard plant, and HQPlantations gets $50,000 to trial forest residue as biomass fuel.
Daily roundup covering an insider-trading case involving ASX-listed Innate Immunotherapeutics, Klarna's first Australian retail deal, health-tech raises by Adherium and Prospection, and the administration of Calombaris's restaurant group.
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Australian Vanadium has received a $1.25 million federal CRC-P grant to fund vanadium processing research with partners including Curtin University and ANSTO, supporting its battery storage ambitions.
Profile of OpenLearning after its December ASX float, which brought in $8 million, covering surging revenue and cashflow and recalling its 2018 Series A.
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Video editing startup Clipchamp has raised a $13.2 million Series A led by Tola Capital, with TEN13 participating, as it expands into the US and grows its Brisbane team.
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Startup Daily roundup: French regulator fines Apple over iPhone slowdown; Startmate opens applications for its women-only Fellowship; SocietyOne raises $15 million; Xero deepens its Square integration; Nasdaq visits Sydney.
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Salesforce partner Arxxus has entered administration owing creditors, including Salesforce Ventures and the tax office, more than $5.4 million, with liquidation likely; most local staff were let go and its app is being sold.
Blackbird introduces seven new team members for 2020 across legal, operations and investment roles, while recalling a $100 million GP-led secondary, a raised New Zealand fund, and its earlier Startmate investment in Perx.
Tech roundup: Casper's NYSE debut valued it far below its private mark, Antler raised US$75 million, Uber reported a large quarterly loss, Samsung leaked Galaxy S20 details, and Australia's consumer data rules arrived.
Online bookseller Booktopia has closed a $20 million equity deal led by private investors Su-Ming Wong and John Sampson, shortly after acquiring the collapsed Co-op Bookshop, as founder Tony Nash targets retail dominance.
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Online bookseller Booktopia secured a $20 million private capital raise led by Su-Ming Wong and John Sampson, following a cancelled crowdfunding attempt, and had recently acquired the University Co-operative Bookshops.
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Profile of ClimateClever, which launched a local-government partnership program and a Home app, recalling its 2019 seed investment, CTO hire and Lotterywest grant.