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Weekly roundup: Hipages takes a majority stake in VIZ Insurance, Side Stage Ventures banks $40m for fund two, Airwallex unveils the Latitude 37 program, Anthropic appoints an ANZ general manager, Atlassian shares jump.
UNSW Founders will run the NSW Government's new $4 million Diversity Pre-Accelerator Program for female and culturally diverse health founders, with the University of Newcastle also delivering support; applications open in July.
Sandon Capital seeks a vote to oust Southern Cross Media's chairman and two directors after opposing its Seven West merger; the piece also recalls that merger, a stake sale and a CEO change.
ASX-listed payments company Novatti Group has appointed Ian Hobson as company secretary from 1 May 2026, with Steven Stamboultgis retiring from the role immediately.
Canva's long-serving technology chief is leaving mid-year, his deputy taking a restructured technology leadership role, as the design platform expands its AI features and works toward a planned 2027 public listing.
A profile of Chimeric Therapeutics and CEO Rebecca McQualter covering its CAR T cancer therapy, clinical progress, manufacturing partnerships, FDA designations, and path to Phase 2 trials by mid-2026.
Shearwater Capital republishes a profile of Mike Gregg recounting his two-decade personal stake in WiseTech, his earlier healthcare software exit, and the firm's repeated investments in pet food business Lyka.
Side Stage Ventures has reached a $40 million initial close on its $50 million second fund, backed by founders of earlier wins, while principal Elli Hanson steps up to partner.
Airwallex cofounder and CEO Jack Zhang announced Latitude 37, an annual program giving ten young Australian AI founders $100,000 each without taking equity, plus network access and overseas immersion; registrations are open.
The NSW Government has opened the first round of its $4 million Diversity Pre-Accelerator Program for female founders, appointing University of Newcastle and UNSW Founders to deliver training and mentoring for women-led startups.
The NSW Government has opened the first round of its $4 million Diversity Pre-Accelerator Program for female founders, appointing University of Newcastle's I2N and UNSW Founders to deliver training and mentoring.
Xefco, held by Breakthrough Victoria, has secured a $4,999,122 federal Industry Growth Program grant as it sends its first production-scale waterless plasma dyeing unit to Indonesia, with twelve systems already committed by customers.
Financial-advice AI startup Marloo has closed a US$10 million seed round led by returning backer Blackbird Ventures, lifting its total funding beyond A$18 million.
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Antler profiles two founders from its portfolio, Enaxiom's Tia and Enrola's Jo Thomas, on starting before feeling ready; both credit its residency, and Jo recalls raising without gendered friction.
Adtech startup Manifest has launched with a $2 million pre-seed round, led by Brand Fund with Antler, Icehouse Ventures, Techstars, family offices and industry angels taking part, aiming to replace agency timesheets.
US buyout firm Artemis has offloaded its portfolio company Sightline Intelligence to Acron Technologies; the piece also recalls the target's earlier purchase of Australian defence AI firm Athena AI and notes its Brisbane base.
InDebted's founder Josh Foreman is shifting from CEO into a product, AI and R&D-focused founder role while the company searches externally for a new chief executive, after posting record quarterly revenue and profitability.
Retrospective on Liquid Instruments, the Canberra-born software-defined test instrument maker, which has closed a fifty-million-US-dollar Series C co-led by the reconstruction fund and Keysight, with Significant Ventures among existing investors.
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Profile of WRS Bioproducts, Harry Rosen's second-act algae venture producing natural food ingredients, now courting investors as US regulators move to ban synthetic food colours.
Uniseed's site carries a short announcement that ENA Respiratory has added Melissa Faris to its board of directors.
Lorna Jane's Never Give Up podcast episode features Showpo founder Jane Lu discussing her path from corporate life to entrepreneurship: emigrating from China, failure, resilience and building it into a worldwide brand.
VentureCrowd's parent firm is in administration with creditors claiming $7.3 million owed. The first administrator was replaced by Cor Cordis, while the platform's trading subsidiaries and managed funds continue unaffected.
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Cut Through Venture's quarterly data shows Australian startup funding rebounding strongly, yet capital concentrating in a few large rounds while mid-sized companies struggle to raise.
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Liquid Instruments has raised a $50m Series C for its reconfigurable testing hardware, co-led by Australia's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation and Keysight Technologies; proceeds go to AI development and aerospace, defence and chip markets.
ARENA is providing $11 million for two remote Northern Territory microgrid projects, at Borroloola and Ltyentye Apurte, co-developed with First Nations community organisations.
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ARENA's Battery Breakthrough Initiative backs its first two recipients: PowerPlus Energy gains $2.32 million to expand Victorian pack assembly, while Firebird Metals receives $2 million toward a Perth battery-materials plant.
ARENA awards Li-S Energy $7.86 million to advance lithium-sulfur battery production studies toward a proposed large-scale cell facility.
Boresight, a defence tech firm whose drones support counter-drone training, has lodged an ASX float to fund manufacturing expansion at home and in the United States.
Weekly roundup noting AirTrunk's completed purchase of India-based Lumina CloudInfra, alongside items on Heidi Health's ARR milestone, Techboard's analysis of unannounced 2025 funding rounds, and Microsoft's planned Australian AI investment.
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Profile of Astraea Technologies, an Australian space-medicine venture testing how radiation degrades medicines, now seeking a $5m seed round at a $12m pre-money valuation ahead of 2026 and 2028 flight tests.
ARENA is giving PLS Group up to $38.1 million for a West Australian lithium processing demonstration plant that will trial Calix's electric-kiln technology to cut calcination emissions.
Weekly roundup of three Series A raises: chipmaker Syenta (US$26m), insights platform Ideally and battery recycler Renewable Metals, detailing leads, amounts and each company's earlier funding.
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Brisbane defence and space VC Beaten Zone Venture Partners appoints Robin Levison and Charlie McGillis to its BZVF1 investment committee, joining existing members Steve Baxter, Heather Richman and Sean Singleton.
Aura Ventures portfolio company Haast has closed a US$12 million Series A, with Peak XV Partners leading and DST Global Partners, Airtree and Black Sheep Capital joining, funding product development and international expansion.
ARENA grants $8.3 million for a First Nations-led solar and battery microgrid at Borroloola in the Northern Territory, with nearly $3 million more for a proposed microgrid at Ltyentye Apurte.
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Business lender Banjo Loans has named Simon Beckett, a seasoned finance executive, to chair its board, succeeding long-serving Rick Sawers as it pursues expansion beyond its startup roots.
Actor Hugh Jackman has signed on as Humanitix's first Head of Impact, the Sydney not-for-profit ticketing social enterprise having donated almost $21 million to charity and targeting $100 million by 2031.
Chip startup Syenta raised a Series A led by Playground Global with the National Reconstruction Fund to commercialise its packaging technology and expand into the US; ex-Intel chief Pat Gelsinger joins its board.
Grant Arnott's Click Frenzy and Power Retail have entered liquidation and receivership, drawing warm public messages from e-commerce peers; Tanarra Capital, which invested in 2016, no longer holds a stake.
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LaunchVic has unveiled the newest group of founders and startups entering its Basecamp program, which coaches them on hiring and team building; deep tech venture Space CoLAB is among the seventeen Victorian participants.
Google Cloud has committed US$750 million to a new partner fund for agentic AI resources and incentives, unveiled at Cloud Next; the piece also recalls Google's March acquisition of security firm Wiz.
Research platform Ideally has secured a Series A round with Shearwater Capital leading, earmarked for US expansion, and unveiled a new product, Ideally Canvas.
Syenta, an ANU spinout in Sydney, has secured $36 million in Series A funding to commercialise its chip packaging technology; Playground Global and the National Reconstruction Fund led, and Pat Gelsinger joins the board.
Perth accelerator Plus Eight, run by Spacecubed, marks ten years and invites applications for its tenth intake, promising participant startups seed funding, mentoring and a San Francisco visit.
Canberra has awarded initial contracts worth $21.3 million and $10.4 million to two counter-drone companies under a defence accelerator program, with billions more set aside for drone technology across the coming decade.
Germany's Mehler Systems has signed an agreement to take a major stake in Queensland ballistic protection maker Craig International Ballistics, pending foreign investment approval, gaining Asia-Pacific reach and Australian Defence Force relationships.
Interview with Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins on the release of Canva AI 2.0, its agentic and memory features, and Anthropic's Claude Design launch, which builds on the two companies' partnership.
Lendi Group has elevated Christopher Parker to its executive team as Chief Operations Officer, tasking him with operations spanning Australia and the Philippines as the fintech platform scales.