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Lifting technology firm Verton has won federal government backing through the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre to develop its Windmaster turbine blade installation system with partners Vestas, Mammoet and Van Oord.
Podcast episode in which the publisher's host interviews Vinomofo co-founder Justin Dry about building the wine business from an Adelaide garage, its revenue run rate, and lessons for expanding internationally.
Dining-tech firm me&u has closed an $8 million series B to fund a countrywide rollout, with Merivale's Justin Hemmes and Tyro's Robbie Cooke among new backers; founder Stevan Premutico earlier sold Dimmi to TripAdvisor.
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ACS has committed $5 million to seed its own early-stage tech fund and is recruiting co-investors, while entrepreneur Steve Baxter's River City Labs has been sold to the newly launched fund Ten13.
ARENA grants Epho nearly half a million dollars to build a rooftop solar system that can switch power between tenants and the grid, working with Goodman Group and Siemens in New South Wales.
Podcast episode with two Australian farmer founders whose agtech ventures joined the Farmers2Founders Bootcamp accelerator, discussing their businesses and how farming compares with building a startup.
Eaton Square advised the shareholders of Canberra consulting firm Apis Group on their sale of the business to Accenture, announced December 2019.
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Diageo has bought bottled-cocktails maker Tipplesworth, founded by Frankie Snobel, for an undisclosed sum; Snobel joins Diageo's GB on-trade team as the drinks giant pushes its tap cocktails across British bars.
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Sydney fulfilment software company Shippit raised $5.35 million from EVP, Tidal Ventures, Aura Ventures and OneVentures debt, while rival Temando was shut down by owner Neopost.
Construction starts on Australian Gas Networks' HyP SA hydrogen facility in Adelaide, supported by a South Australian Government grant, as CSIRO maps research steps for a potential hydrogen industry.
UK education data integration startup Wonde raised $2.6 million led by Tempus Partners, with Transition Level Investments, Macdoch Ventures and Xponova joining, to support its Australian expansion.
Construction has started on Australian Gas Networks' HyP SA green hydrogen facility in Adelaide, supported by a South Australian government grant, with renewable hydrogen production expected from mid-2020.
Ellerston Capital's Asia portfolio manager comments on Alibaba's Hong Kong listing debut and plans to shift the fund's holding from US-listed ADRs into the Hong Kong shares over time.
A brief OneVentures post pointing readers to Post & Parcel's coverage of Shippit's planned expansion across Australian and Asian markets; the piece itself states no deal, raise, or personnel details.
OneVentures announces on its blog that it has backed Shippit, a retail logistics business, referring readers to Australian Financial Review coverage for details.
TransferWise appoints a new Australian board, a country manager and a chief risk officer, with Timothy Cameron replacing outgoing boss Nicholas Lembo, who moves to New York.
Cybersecurity firm Kasada completed a $7 million Series A with CIA-backed venture fund In-Q-Tel as a new investor, adding to earlier backing from Main Sequence Ventures and Reinventure Group.
Melbourne drone company AVT Technologies received a $5.2 million Defence Innovation Hub grant to improve drone image quality, following an earlier $2 million grant for a lightweight stabilised imaging gimbal.
Wholesale Investor profiles Fantasy Gaming Corporation's investor pitch for its Form2win betting app, covering US partnerships, revenue projections, a planned 2020 ASX listing, and an open share or note offer.
Tech roundup: Baron Cohen attacks social media platforms, Tesla's Cybertruck debut, cloud-kitchen startup Zoom's SoftBank backing, YBF's fintech diversity award winners, and Uber losing its London operating licence again.
Bot-fighting startup Kasada has raised $7 million in a Series A joined by In-Q-Tel, the US intelligence community's venture arm, its first Australian investment, and hired Pascal Podvin to drive revenue operations.
Evergen opens its AMP Capital and Artesian-led Series A to crowd investors via VentureCrowd, seeking funds for global expansion after New Zealand trials and a South African distribution deal.
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Eaton Square has hired Iain Maine, a chartered accountant with three decades in corporate finance, as a Principal in its Sydney office; he previously founded Federation Capital.
Deep tech firm Advanced Navigation, based in Sydney, has secured $20m from CSIRO's venture arm Main Sequence plus two US funds; two investors take board seats. OIF backed it earlier.
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Crunchbase News interviews founders of Atlassian, Qualtrics, Webflow and VSCO about why profitable bootstrapped companies eventually took venture capital, covering their first external rounds, Accel's involvement and later exits.
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Sydney startup Xceptional, which places autistic people into tech careers, has borrowed $600,000 under a new revenue-linked debt structure devised with Impact Investment Group, backed by several foundations and a private investor.
A promotional profile of Southern Green Gas, which is developing renewable methane for export, highlighting a joint development agreement with APA Group and a planned pre-IPO raise that has not yet closed.
SendGold has opened an equity crowdfunding campaign on Birchal, targeting up to $750,000 with plans for a further raise, and reflects on its first crowdfunding round a year earlier.
Eaton Square announces that Anders Carlberg has joined its Hong Kong team as a Principal, bringing three decades of IT management, fundraising and consulting experience.
Wholesale Investor profiles Car Next Door, an Australian car-sharing marketplace, detailing its Hyundai and Suncorp-backed Series C raise, earlier 2019 funding, Series A and B history, and expansion plans.
Solar concentration startup Heliogen has come out of stealth, claiming technology that reaches over 1,000°C to decarbonise industrial heat for cement and steel, with backing from Bill Gates and other investors.
Interview with Tenacious Ventures co-founder Sarah Nolet on the firm's $16 million close toward a $30 million agri-foodtech fund backed by CEFC and Grok Ventures, alongside recent Australian agtech deals.
Tasmanian hemp foods maker 13 Seeds has opened an IPO of up to $6 million at an $8 million pre-money valuation, aiming to list on the ASX under code 13S by December 2019.
Publisher site for thermal energy consultancy ITP Thermal, listing posts about a biomass-to-hydrogen feasibility study, a hydrogen storage joint venture, and renewable heat and CSP reports.
Podcast interview with Nextdoor's chief executive about the neighbourhood social app, civility online and her career, including her CFO role in Square's listing; the piece recalls Nextdoor's series F raise.
Tyro has lodged prospectus documents for a December ASX listing seeking roughly a quarter of a billion dollars, part of it existing shareholders selling down, with the article detailing financials, valuation range and offer timetable.
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Sun Cable closed an oversubscribed first capital round, co-led by Grok Ventures and Squadron Energy, for its $25 billion plan linking a giant Northern Territory solar farm to Singapore via undersea cable.
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ARENA is giving Glaciem Cooling two million dollars in grant funding to trial its thermal energy storage technology with renewable power at three Australian food, wine and tourism sites.
Auckland employee-feedback software firm Joyous has raised NZ$4 million in seed funding led by AirTree Ventures, following an earlier NZ$1 million seed round, to grow its engineering team.
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A brief OneVentures blog post directing readers to Wall Street Journal coverage about needle-free flu vaccination, stating no company news, funding, or deal details of its own.
Seven Australian businesses share 2.8 million dollars in the latest round of a government commercialisation grant program, with four recipients named, including smart livestock ear tags and on-farm WiFi for mobile blackspots.
A roundup covering Prospa's post-listing share slump, a union appeal over an UberEats dismissal, Disney+ arriving in Australia, a WeWork regulator probe, and Lyka's seed raise.
Property management service Hometime raised $6.7 million led by NAB Ventures and AS1 Capital, after $6 million in May, and acquired rental managers Host My Home and Bnbpal to consolidate its Australian position.
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Blackbird advertises an opening for a financial accountant in its Sydney office to handle reporting, tax compliance and payroll as the venture firm brings finance tasks in-house.
Hemideina, an Australian hearing-device medtech, raised $4 million from angels and high-net-worth individuals, following a $1 million February round, to advance its Hera Wireless Implant.
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the Cannon-Brookes family vehicle commit cornerstone capital to Tenacious Ventures, a new Australian agrifood venture fund backing early-stage startups, and recalls Sundrop Farms' sale to Morrison & Co.
Tiny-cabin startup Unyoked formed a creative partnership with actor Matthew McConaughey, who helped design a new cabin; the article also recalls its June crowdfunding raise of $1.17 million via VentureCrowd.
A Perth vibration-sensing startup has received a federal commercialisation grant worth nearly a million dollars to develop its fibre-based monitoring technology for resources and utilities customers.
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Roundup covering Afterpay's eBay partnership and Coatue's $200m placement, Bay City Labs appointing a head of growth, a NASA executive keynoting StartCon, and 1Password's US$200m Series A.
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