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InvestStream has appointed former Insignia Financial chief executive Renato Mota to its advisory board, adding deep wealth sector experience as the startup scales its modelling engine across Australia's superannuation and wealth industries.
DataMasque, whose platform masks customer data for AI use, has collected $5.6 million from Wavemaker Partners, OIF Ventures and Icehouse Ventures, with Wavemaker leading.
Cuscal has completed its purchase of New Zealand payments firm Paymark, rebranding it Cuscal Paymark; the business stays standalone with leadership unchanged as Cuscal widens its Australasian payments footprint.
Renato Mota, formerly chief executive of Insignia Financial, has joined InvestStream's advisory board to help win institutional partners and steer compliance and go-to-market for its SUGAI and SuperAnne platforms.
Aurora Labs has received a Defence Industry Development Grant to help buy production equipment for its small gas-turbine engines used in drones, supporting its sovereign manufacturing push.
Former Socceroo Tim Cahill joins sports tech startup Nardo as investor and strategic partner, coinciding with a $1 million pre-seed raise to fund global expansion.
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Recap of CEFC’s Sydney forum on climate tech investing, revisiting its 2025 co-investment with Five V Capital in Agile Energy and the PATF’s growth capital approach.
The renewable energy agency commits a further $13.6 million grant to Amber Electric's vehicle-to-grid trial, lifting participation to 1,000 households, with carmaker BYD joining to work on charging standards.
CEFC's write-up of its Growth Capital Forum sets out its PATF investment approach and revisits its late-2025 co-investment with Five V Capital in Agile Energy, plus Australian Ethical's view on transition investing.
A retrospective of Jony Ive and Marc Newson's studio LoveFrom, tracing client work from Apple and Airbnb to Ferrari's new electric Luce, plus OpenAI's roughly $6.5 billion acquisition of hardware startup io.
EcoGraf wins a European Investment Bank grant alongside an active KfW loan mandate, secures an Indian patent for its purification process, and signs a Foxconn-affiliated partner for anode licensing and off-take.
Weekly roundup tallies five completed raises totalling $26.6m, plus Airwallex releasing a billing product, HEO approaching a Series B, Tanda hunting a private-equity backer, Firmus's ASX listing timeline slipping, and a DroneShield shareholder protest.
Denteric has begun recruiting early Alzheimer's patients for a Phase I trial of its gingipain-targeting therapy GPV381, with funding from the CUREator+ Dementia program and the Medical Research Future Fund.
ASX-listed rewards firm Gratifii has announced a deal taking over Auckland-based points specialist Simplicity Australasia, backed by a freshly secured $10m placement that also funds a stake in marketplace business Marketplacer.
Brandon Capital's blog profiles Respirion, interviewing founders Barry Clements and Matt Callahan plus investment manager Helga Mikkelsen about the company's inhaled cystic fibrosis therapy, now in a Phase 2a trial.
La Trobe University spin-out AlleSense has secured $5 million to develop slide-based imaging for earlier cancer detection, led by Welcome Ventures with Breakthrough Victoria and the Australian Economic Accelerator's grant program also contributing.
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Seven Western Australian defence businesses have received state government grants of as much as $100,000 each to prepare for work in AUKUS supply chains.
Breakthrough Victoria rounds up April–May 2026 portfolio news, including grants for Number 8 Bio and Xefco, Liquid Instruments' Series C, program selections, partnerships, regulatory clearances and two new Aravax directors.
Breakthrough Victoria announces a $1 million investment in AlleSense, a La Trobe University spin-out developing nanofabricated slides for faster cancer diagnosis, joining round leader Welcome Ventures.
Profile of Palmer Luckey tracing his Oculus VR venture, its multibillion-dollar Facebook acquisition, his co-founding of defense tech firm Anduril Industries, and his gaming hardware venture ModRetro.
Birchal launched a new CSF raise at a reduced $5 million pre-money valuation, with about $800,000 already committed, amid sector downturn; rival Equitise collapsed and Earthletica raised $1.1 million.
Waterhouse VC hosts a recorded webinar in which Spinlab co-founder Leon Lanen demonstrates the company's white label online casino platform and discusses its background and features.
Sydney energy startup Cable, which installs batteries at small businesses to cut power bills, has banked a $4 million pre-seed round from Systemiq Capital and Black Nova VC while opening its public beta.
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Spanish turbine-installation tech firm Nabrawind, bought by Fortescue, has completed its first crane-less turbine erection in Namibia; the miner intends to deploy the method at its Pilbara wind projects.
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Australian medtech firm EMVision met milestones to unlock a $1.17M government grant instalment for commercialising its portable stroke scanner, drawing on a $5M Industry Growth Program award.
Technology group PPK Innovation has announced Farport Software joining its group of businesses; the piece also recalls the €3 million pre-seed PPK closed in 2025 as it prepares a further raise.
ANDHealth+ selected five Australian digital and connected health companies to receive tranched, milestone-based non-dilutive funding across two stages totalling up to $9 million.
Sydney-based hospitality software company Ordermentum has banked $55m in a Five V Capital deal valuing it above $150m, letting earlier backers sell down; the piece revisits its Foodbomb merger and the investor's other deals.
Weekly bulletin: four rounds totalling $545.4 million, Codan's completed acquisition, General Catalyst arguing Canva can stay private, grant statistics for women founders, and capital gains tax reform discussion.
Arafura, partly owned by renewables critic Gina Rinehart, has finalised financing for its Northern Territory rare earths mine, with $1.2 billion in government support and wind turbine and EV makers as customers.
Arafura Rare Earths, part-owned by renewables critic Gina Rinehart, has locked in financing for its Nolans project, drawing roughly $1.2 billion in Australian and German government support despite her anti-net-zero campaigning.
Perth smart-materials firm ClearVue Technologies has won TÜV SÜD certification for a junction box used in its building-integrated photovoltaic panels, a milestone the company says strengthens its competitive edge and global rollout.
ClearVue Technologies, a Perth smart-glass maker listed on the ASX, has won certification from TÜV SÜD for its in-house junction box, a step the firm says will help deploy its solar façade products worldwide.
Caproasia reports Computershare founder Chris Morris is selling his Gold Coast penthouse for 12 million Australian dollars, noting his fortune and his holdings in Morris Group and the Morris Family Foundation.
Australian climate tech company HydGene Renewables was chosen among five companies worldwide for Greentown Labs' Go Make 2026 initiative with Shell Catalysts & Technologies and Technip Energies, targeting industrial decarbonisation and low-carbon hydrogen.
Quantum chip venture Diraq has struck a US$38m deal with America's Commerce Department to build out its supply chain there, much of it becoming equity; Australia's NRF backed it with $20m in February.
Roundup of three trans-Tasman raises: Ordermentum landed $55m from Five V Capital, defence-tech firm Arkeus closed $25m, and music platform Lume gathered NZ$1.3m from well-known backers before its launch.
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ASX-listed digital health firm PainChek has agreed to raise 5.5 million dollars via convertible notes from prior shareholders, funding working capital and a North American sales push after signing a US aged-care deal.
Brain-health tech maker HITIQ has landed Victorian Government support through a non-dilutive grant valued between $250,000 and $1.5 million, funding local manufacturing, product development and overseas expansion under milestone conditions through mid-2031.
Galileo Ventures promotes its report from a May 2026 AI event it hosted with OpenAI, three portfolio companies and several investors, highlighting local venture data and an early-stage investment thesis.
PsiQuantum has relocated its $940m government-backed quantum computing project to Moreton Bay after dropping the Brisbane Airport site, with groundbreaking set for June following timeline slippage flagged in Senate Estimates.
Payments firm Monoova has appointed Bianca Bates as chief executive from July 2026, replacing co-founder Christian Westerlind Wigstrom, with chair Robert Bell filling in until she starts.
PepsiCo has chosen alumni companies Adiona Tech and X-Centric Sciences for the 2026 APAC Greenhouse Program's IMPACT Edition; the piece also recalls Adiona's $1.8m CRC-P grant and X-Centric's earlier $600,000 round.
Australia's AgriWebb, a livestock management software maker, is being bought by cattle genetics company URUS. Cofounder Justin Webb discusses the deal and a wider move toward integrated, data-driven farm systems.
ARENA grants $3 million to EDP Renewables Australia for a community microgrid combining solar and storage in Braidwood, NSW, meant to keep the bushfire-prone town supplied when the grid fails.
Tidal Ventures argues AI is shifting software from assisting to doing work, and explains how its fourth fund will back early-stage companies that own critical workflows.
URUS Group has signed a definitive agreement to acquire livestock data platform AgriWebb. Terms undisclosed; completion expected in the third quarter of 2026, pending regulatory approvals.
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Main Sequence's post sets out why the fund backed Aigentsphere, which builds governance tooling for enterprise AI agents, citing the founders' banking backgrounds and a $4 million seed raise.
Sponsored profile of BlueRoom Simulations, a Melbourne startup using mixed reality to prepare medics and military personnel for dangerous situations, and how nbn full fibre underpins its globally deployed training platform.