Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
Melbourne-based ENA Respiratory announced US patent allowances covering its TLR2 agonist platform and a COPD treatment method, strengthening IP protection for its INNA-051 nasal spray candidate now in Phase II testing.
Queensland fintech Flyweel has closed a pre-seed round led by Ten13, with Antler, QIC and several fintech founders and executives backing, to help businesses fund advertising ahead of revenue.
Counter-drone firm DroneShield has begun European production of its systems, a milestone unveiled at a Paris defence showcase, as the company also maintains Australian manufacturing and a new Amsterdam regional hub.
Partner content profiling Queensland laundry firm Consolidated Linen Service, whose 2024 minority growth investment from the Australian Business Growth Fund brought capital, governance and hiring support while the founding family kept control.
Rob Hall, who co-founded Playground xyz, has launched Parallel, a customer-suitability ad platform in Sydney and London, with Shearwater Capital investing AU$4 million at seed. Playground xyz was bought by GumGum in 2021.
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A $5 million backing from venture firm Jekara Group will let New Energy Transport roll out twenty electric trucks and mobile chargers across NSW freight routes from late 2026, sooner than first intended.
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Weekly roundup: five raises totalling $87.48m, Fresho buying UK software firm Nation Wilcox, Vinyl Group adding Pedestrian Group and Time Out Australia, and robot maker Andromeda scaling production in a larger facility.
Australian ASX-listed medtech Vitrafy Life Sciences completed a A$30 million institutional placement to fund Guardion cryopreservation manufacturing and its push into the US blood market.
AUDC, issuer of the AUDD stablecoin, has hired Andrew Kitchen as CFO and José Barroso as growth general manager, deepening its executive bench amid rising demand and its recent New Zealand token launch.
Stablecoin issuer AUDC hires Andrew Kitchen as CFO and José Barroso as growth chief, extending an executive build-out to support rising demand for its digital-money and settlement services across Australia and New Zealand.
As Breakthrough Victoria and LaunchVic combine into Innovation Victoria, nine partner organisations will share government funding to run pre-accelerator programs for founders at the idea stage.
The National Reconstruction Fund has put another $40m into Sydney quantum chip maker Silicon Quantum Computing, following its $20m investment three months earlier, part of a larger round still underway.
Weekly roundup covering seven raises across the Tasman: Phonely's Series A, Pay.com.au's private placement, and rounds for Atomic Tessellator, Caruso, Deteqt, Clean Slate Clinic and Earthletica, worth roughly $72 million combined.
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Payments fintech Pay.com.au shelved its planned ASX float amid war-driven market volatility, completing a private placement first reported at $20 million ($750 million valuation), ultimately $40 million at $753.4 million.
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Canberra medtech Dentroid has banked $32 million at a $265 million valuation, with Septodont both investing and signing a worldwide licensing deal for its light-based device that eases dental pain without needles.
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Josh Simons-led Vinyl Group raised $2.4 million and is adding Time Out Australia and Pedestrian Group to its media portfolio for little outlay, alongside earlier buys of Concrete Playground and Val Morgan Digital.
Norship has received a $5.37 million grant from Queensland's Sovereign Industry Development Fund to enlarge its defence-certified Cairns shipyard, a project already under construction and due to finish in early 2028.
Boresight, a Canberra-based maker of target drones for counter-drone training, has begun trading on the ASX after an $8 million IPO, with funds set to lift production and US manufacturing.
Australian wealth-tech firm Briefcase has hired Michael Wang, previously at MLC Asset Management, RoZetta Technology and CreditorWatch, as Lead Portfolio Manager to advance its direct indexing, tax optimisation and AI portfolio capabilities.
Small-business lender Moneytech has hired David Cameron as CTO to speed AI and automation across its lending software, amid rising non-bank investment in automated credit decisions.
Vinyl Group is buying Nine's youth publisher Pedestrian Group for nominal consideration, ending Nine's costly ownership. The piece also recalls Nine's stake purchases, Linkby's Series B, and Vinyl's acquisitions and shutdowns.
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Battery-swap truck converter Janus Electric has raised $8.65 million via a private placement, R&D finance and tax refunds, funding US expansion, while analyst Trim Capital flags execution risk.
Opinion by UNSW Founders' entrepreneurship director arguing founders should pick geography strategically instead of debating staying or leaving, using Cauldron's recent raise and Breaker's US expansion as contrasting examples.
Scalare Partners has bought Fishburners out of administration, keeping the founder community operating within Scalare's ecosystem, with planned hub access, revived pitch nights and a future investment vehicle for startups.
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Markets newsletter reports Google's equity offering with a completed first tranche, SpaceX and Anthropic IPO filings, xAI's earlier merger into SpaceX, fast-food bankruptcies blamed on GLP-1 drugs, and a live tour wrap-up.
Listed Perth developer Frontier Energy has locked in $110 million of equity pledges for the first stage of its Waroona solar and battery project in Western Australia, with more funding still required.
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Analysis of Lightspeed Venture Partners' 2026 close of three funds totalling nine billion dollars, its backer base, AI allocation, portfolio outcomes and comparisons with other big venture firms.
Weekly roundup: eight funding rounds totalling $12.1m; Airwallex bought Leapfin; 4DMedical agreed a deal for Contextflow; Scalare Partners took over Fishburners; Airtree and Build Club each unveiled new founder programs.
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A directory of fifteen Canberra investors backing deep tech, noting ACTivate Capital's fund first close, several government-backed company raises, an incubator's alumni, and one portfolio acquisition.
Weekly roundup of seven Australian and New Zealand startup raises totalling $17 million, including two startups entering Y Combinator, plus a new QuantX Labs board director and SmartrMail's earlier sale to Relay Commerce.
Sydney robotics startup Oscorp Energy raised A$1.3 million pre-seed, led by Atlas's AI fund with Antler and Antipodean Capital, to build AI vision systems that detect lithium-ion batteries in recycling waste streams.
Aurora Labs says a $1m government grant, matched by its own $1m, will fund a large-format metal 3D printer to scale production of its micro gas turbine propulsion systems for defence applications.
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Payments provider Findi has named Sam Wright and Thomas May as its joint company secretaries, taking over from Charly Duffy and Shelby Coleman, who have resigned from the role.
Listcorp carries an ASX announcement in which EBR Systems flags a fully underwritten capital raising; the page shows only the headline, with no body text or further detail.
Eastend Ventures led a half-million-dollar US seed round in Nitrosend with Archangel Ventures and Aussie Angels. Founders Edward and George Hartley earlier built SmartrMail, bought by Relay Commerce in 2022.
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Property investment advisory Dashdot has entered voluntary liquidation after seven years, with co-founder and CEO Glenn McGrath citing economic conditions, federal budget tax reforms and rising Meta advertising costs; clients face losing upfront fees.
Australian startup SAPHI has received a government grant to apply artificial intelligence to industrial sites that lack digital visibility, as Australia pushes to modernise its mining sector.
Megaport, a network-infrastructure firm based in Australia, has won four US contracts for AI computing and plans a shareholder entitlement offer to fund a new GPU inference cloud service.
Australia's renewable energy agency is granting GridZync $953K via its Advancing Renewables Program to refine and commercialise Rezonance, a tool that spots oscillation risks as inverter-based generation replaces coal.
Dealroom reports Chinese battery maker Huayou Cobalt intends to take over ASX-listed lithium explorer Atlantic Lithium for $210 million, with the final price hinging on a Ghanaian tax assessment.
Medowie drone maker VeraSys received a $2.2 million federal Industry Growth Program grant, announced 20 May, to commercialise CropSight, its AI weed-detection system built around the Brolga aircraft.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare has agreed to buy Australian skin care company LaCorium Health while reporting fiscal 2026 revenue of $1,088.7 million, with revenue down 4.3% year over year.
Australian-listed investor Strategic Elements pulled in roughly $1.2 million from a shareholder purchase plan shortly after opening, as portfolio ventures Australian Advanced Materials and Stealth Technologies reached technology milestones.
Melbourne entrepreneur Shahid Kamal is seeking pre-seed backing for FinEdge Terminal, an AI market-analysis tool for retail traders; no money is committed yet, but a Newsquawk partnership and waitlist are in place.
Australia's PPK Group has taken a stake in Italian B2B software firm Farport Software, aiming to build a Rome hub for its European operations; the piece weighs integration risks and the broader Asia-Pacific-to-Europe expansion trend.
AdAlta, an ASX-listed biotech, has completed a $2.5 million placement to progress its CAR-T cancer treatment toward trials, with funds earmarked for US regulatory engagement and a domestic manufacturing transfer via Cell Therapies.
Dealroom notes Australian solar and battery diagnostics startup Diagno has received investment from corporate backer Formbay, as demand grows for monitoring tools across Australia's renewable energy installations.
Melbourne semiconductor developer Weebit Nano completed a strongly supported $15 million share purchase plan to bolster its balance sheet and advance its ReRAM memory technology research.
Four organisations join a NSW government diversity pre-accelerator program as delivery partners, running programs for migrant, disability and First Nations founders alongside two university-based partners already on the roster.
New South Wales has opened another $225 million grant round for low-carbon manufacturers, and the article recalls earlier awards to recycler Sell & Parker and transformer maker Tyree Transformers under the same state program.
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