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Cashback platform ShopBack has raised US$45 million from EV Growth, Ebates and Qualgro, taking total funding to US$83 million, with two investors joining its board after strong Asia-Pacific growth.
US buy-now-pay-later startup Sezzle, modelled on Afterpay, plans an ASX listing within months after a pre-IPO raise of US$5.6 million led by Continental Investors.
Sydney food marketplace Foodbomb has raised $1.4 million from early-stage VC firm EVP, which joins the board, after twelve months of month-on-month growth and an earlier friends and family backing.
Eaton Square announces Peter Allen has joined its Canadian team as a Principal in Ottawa, bringing decades of management, M&A and technology leadership experience from corporate, startup and public-company roles.
A University of Sydney research spin-off making farm robots has raised seed money from three backers to commercialise its equipment, and the piece also recalls other agtech funding wins from early 2019.
Profile of Movepal, an on-demand removalists app launched in Melbourne by Peter Borain, covering its driver onboarding and expansion plans; a capital raise is only described as underway, with nothing closed.
OneVentures reached a roughly $45 million first close on its venture credit fund and added three finance and lending executives to its investment and operations team.
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A profile of escrow service Escrow.com, tracing its ownership from Fidelity National Financial through iLumin to its 2016 sale to Matt Barrie's Freelancer.com for US$7.5 million.
ARENA commits a $10 million grant to GreenSync to scale its deX distributed energy platform nationally, having earlier funded $450,000 toward the prototype's development and pilot.
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ARENA commits grant funding for AEMO's virtual power plant trial and for GreenSync's grid software, while Ausgrid and Reposit Power launch a trial VPP across Sydney and surrounding regions.
Adelaide satellite firm Inovor Technologies wins a Defence Innovation Hub grant to test its satellite stabilisation algorithm, aiming at Defence adoption and later international customers.
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Perth-based lending platform Credi plans an equity crowdfunding campaign on Equitise, targeting up to $1.5 million, with founder Tim Dean citing strong interest from its user base.
Question-and-answer profile of Adelaide e-invoicing startup Link4, covering its leaders, its free invoice-delivery service between accounting platforms, and a federal grant won for global expansion.
WA agtech startup Laconik has won a $383,000 government Accelerating Commercialisation grant and secured private investment, including from an unnamed Singaporean VC, to commercialise its nitrogen fertiliser decision technology.
Write-up of Luke Anear's talk at an eGroup event, recounting SafetyCulture's growth from a Townsville garage, its Blackbird and Atlassian backing, funding history, and the founder taking some money off the table.
The disability-focused accelerator Remarkable has taken seven startups into its fourth cohort, and its alumni include Equal Reality and HomeCare Heroes, with earlier backing from Optus noted.
QUE Oncology is beginning placebo-controlled Phase II trials of its drug Q-122 at US hospitals, testing it against hot flashes in breast cancer patients on endocrine therapy, with its CEO and a lead investigator quoted.
Clothes-rental platform The Volte has raised $700,000 from unnamed angel investors to upgrade its platform, improve user experience, expand its team and spend on marketing.
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AirXpanders, an ASX-listed medical device maker headquartered in California, halted trading in its securities while reviewing operations, facing an expected loan covenant breach, and weighing options for a future capital raise.
Profile of Brisbane AI health startup Maxwell Plus, which recalls a $3.4 million raise led by Main Sequence Ventures and a $1.1 million government grant for Alzheimer's detection work.
Fifteen businesses received a combined 5.3 million dollars in Accelerating Commercialisation grants, including AJJA Technologies, Traditional Business Online and Deakin University, with minister Karen Andrews highlighting competitiveness benefits.
LiveCorp's research into dehumidifying livestock vessels has received a $2.2 million federal grant, with a trial of the technology planned on an empty ship in the Middle East.
McDonald's is buying Israeli personalisation startup Dynamic Yield in a reported US$300 million deal, its biggest acquisition in two decades, to tailor drive-thru menus, its app and kiosks using AI recommendations.
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Antler is launching a Sydney startup generator program led by Bede Moore, with a first cohort of 100 people starting June 2019 and a stipend, targeting 200 companies over four years.
GO1 raised a Series B round above $30m, led by Microsoft's venture fund M12, with SEEK, Y Combinator and newcomer Larsen Ventures investing; M12 takes a board seat.
Profile of Adzurra, a Gold Coast app aggregating small global boutiques for shoppers, covering founder Sharine Duran's early funding, team-building struggles, an Austrade program, and a planned version-two relaunch.
Interview with MongoDB co-founder Eliot Horowitz recalling the company's founding, its NASDAQ listing, the earlier DoubleClick sale, and its customer-led growth approach.
Combat sports training brand Wimp 2 Warrior reports strong revenue growth, US expansion under a new North America president, and a Series A raise already three-quarters filled.
Women-focused co-working business One Roof closed a million-dollar raise in February 2019 from five female-led family offices to fund a new Melbourne premises, with corporate support from Central Equity, Optus and MYOB.
Australian influencer marketplace Tribe raised $10.5 million with Exto returning and two new investors, to fund a New York office and product development.
ARENA grants Element 25 $490,000 to test whether wind and solar can power manganese electrowinning at its Butcherbird project in Western Australia.
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Advice from an Antler partner on pitching to the startup generator's Sydney program, alongside news of its Australian launch and a first cohort of 100 beginning in June 2019.
Podcast episode featuring AuctionsPlus CEO Angus Street in conversation with Sarah Nolet at the Sydney AgTech Meetup, covering the livestock platform's growth, culture and his path to the chief executive role.
Payments startup Airwallex has joined Australia's unicorn ranks after closing a nine-figure growth round led by DST Global, with existing backers returning; it plans overseas expansion and acquisitions of payment companies.
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A guest column recounts how Western Australia gin producer The West Winds Gin raised A$932,000 from 293 investors through equity crowdfunding, discussing the sector's mechanics, drawbacks and outlook in Australia.
VR property startup Inspace XR raised $750,000 led by Investible, with Artesian, Taronga Group and Sydney Angels participating; founders Justin Liang and Eric Fear credit Liang's venture capital background.
Digital health agency Curve Tomorrow has acquired Perth startup Progressive Medical, opening a WA office and adding its VR surgery simulation and cervical screening apps to Curve's product range.
Profile of Jaryd Koenigsmann's ID-verified pet classifieds platform, built on verification access from his crypto exchange, now partnering for British expansion while a seed raise is still underway.
The industry minister announced Biomedical Translation Fund backing: Brandon Capital invested $20 million in Respirion, OneVentures $4 million in Madorra, and $17.2 million went to an unnamed anti-fibrosis drug company.
CO2CRC received a NSW government grant to study cutting steelmaking emissions, including carbon capture and converting waste carbon monoxide at BlueScope's Port Kembla plant into useful products such as ethanol.
Shareholder update from Millenium Kapital on its ongoing pre-IPO raising and planned IPO, plus its intention to acquire Zimmi Diamonds Limited, which holds Sierra Leone diamond tenements.
H2Store, working with UNSW, has received $3.5 million from Providence Asset Group to develop hydrogen storage, including a home solar storage prototype targeted for late 2020.
Atlassian is acquiring US planning software firm AgileCraft for US$166 million, its third major acquisition. The article recalls earlier buys of OpsGenie and Trello, plus AgileCraft's 2015 funding from Crane Nelson.
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Sydney VR startup Inspace XR has raised seed funding from Sydney Angels, Artesian and Investible to develop its design-visualisation product and expand into China and the US.
Renewable energy sensor company Fulcrum3D received two grants from ARENA, totalling nearly a million dollars, to trial wind and solar forecasting technology alongside a broader agency-backed forecasting program.
Brisbane-founded workforce software maker Skedulo announced a Series B backed by Microsoft's venture arm, which also backed WorkBoard's round the same day; an earlier Costanoa-led Series A is recalled.
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An ABC investigation reveals Uber deployed spyware from Sydney to scrape competitor data and poach drivers, aiming to destroy Australian rideshare rival GoCatch, whose backers included James Packer and Alex Turnbull.
The renewable energy agency has granted $3.1 million toward a $7.4 million hydrogen production, storage and refuelling facility with solar and batteries at Toyota's former Altona plant in Victoria.
Woodside has taken a ten per cent stake in Perth cyber security start-up Sapien Cyber, with its CTO joining the company's advisory board as an observer.