Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
DroneShield's long-serving chief executive Oleg Vornik is departing, with technology chief Angus Bean promoted to lead; chairman Peter James is retiring and Hamish McLennan arrives as incoming chair from May.
A Brisbane diagnostics venture has banked seed capital to push its blood-based ovarian cancer screen toward clinical lab use, flagging a larger raise ahead.
Payments company Airwallex has brought in a new independent chair for its Australian board and added a former New Zealand prime minister as a director; he already leads its NZ board.
Profile of Melbourne biotech Cartherics, which is extending its off-the-shelf cell therapy platform from ovarian cancer to endometriosis; its CEO outlines a capital raise in progress and 2026 clinical trial plans.
Sydney AI receptionist startup Chime Labs has closed a pre-seed round led by 500 Global with angel backing, to broaden its product for trades businesses and grow headcount.
A fintech venture fund co-founded by Up Bank's Dom Pym has locked in a $10m first close with Commonwealth Bank's x15ventures as cornerstone backer, aiming for $50m ahead of a 2028 final close.
Firmus, an Australian builder of AI data centres, has banked $505 million from Coatue and Nvidia at a $5.5 billion valuation, with a $10 billion debt facility already secured and a sharemarket float planned.
Antler Australia opens applications for its eight-week residency, profiling recent founders Matteo Calo of Flyweel and Jeff Quach of Indi and detailing its investment offer and ARC follow-on structure.
Graphite Energy has secured $40 million through a $15 million Catalytic Impact Capital loan and a $25 million equity raise, scaling its Green Steam thermal storage that replaces fossil fuel boilers.
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A retrospective on MyFitnessPal's decline: its 2005 founding, Under Armour's $475 million acquisition, a 150-million-account data breach, and its 2020 sale to private equity firm Francisco Partners, contrasted with publisher Nutrola's rival app.
Weekly digest reporting Australia Post's purchase of delivery-software firm Rendr, an $83 million sharemarket raise by 4DMedical, Reserve Bank director Elana Rubin's move to Airwallex, and an Anthropic-government memorandum.
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Sydney AI startup Rosella, which automates commercial insurance brokerage work for small and mid-market firms, has secured pre-seed capital co-led by Peak XV Partners and Intact Private Capital.
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Airwallex has appointed Elana Rubin AM to chair its Australian board and former New Zealand prime minister Sir Bill English as a director there, with both roles starting immediately; their other board roles are listed.
Trading platform eToro has finalised its long-stalled Nasdaq debut, with shares priced near the top of guidance; users see no immediate change, though quarterly public disclosures now apply.
Edify Energy's Townsville green hydrogen project has been pulled from the federal environmental approval queue after two-and-a-half years, despite earlier grant wins from Arena and a federal hydrogen hubs program.
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Lumonus, a GenesisCare spinout chaired by Merrick Howes, is partnering with a New York cancer centre to co-develop automated radiotherapy planning tools.
Bolder Group has introduced BGX, a fund-administration product built on Hatcher's technology platform.
Coterie Capital announces CoterieLabs, an AI consultancy co-founded by Daniel Pi and Christopher Cheung, offering AI opportunity assessments and pilots for private equity-backed businesses, initially focused on four Australian-relevant sectors.
Three Australian founders — of Platform Zero, Womn-Kind and Everform Therapywear — are named Oceania fellows in the Cartier Women’s Initiative, which grants prize money at its June awards in Bangkok.
Debt-data platform 9fin has banked a $170m Series C valuing it at $1.3bn, with HarbourVest leading and CPP Investments joining four returning backers, lifting lifetime funding beyond $250m.
Bose Quantum has closed a 1 billion yuan Series B, co-led by six investors including Beijing Financial Holdings Group and ICBC Capital, with five further participants and existing shareholders adding to their stakes.
Profile of advertising executive David Bell, Hall of Fame inductee, detailing leadership roles at Interpublic, True North, Bozell, and industry organisations.
ARENA is granting MGA Thermal as much as $3.25 million to conduct engineering design studies advancing its heat-storage blocks toward commercial deployment with industrial customers decarbonising process heat.
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ARENA grants five industrial decarbonisation projects a combined $13 million, spanning brewery electrification, low-carbon laundry, pharmaceutical manufacturing, aluminium extrusion and biochar production, as a new round of its transformation stream opens.
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Australia's renewable energy agency is funding Calix's ZESTY demonstration plant with $44.9m, targeting low-hydrogen conversion of iron ore into low-carbon iron for greener steelmaking.
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ARENA grants more than $12 million to McCain Foods, Sugar Australia and Blackmores for projects replacing gas-fired heat with electric systems at their Victorian plants.
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ARENA grants Fortescue $10m toward 6 MW chargers for its big battery mining trucks, to be trialled at Hazelmere and Christmas Creek, with the project finishing in late 2025.
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ARENA awarded Luminous $4.9 million under its Solar ScaleUp Challenge to deploy its LUMI robot fleet at two Australian solar farms operated by Neoen and Engie.
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ARENA commits $30m as a conditional grant so VSPC, a Livium subsidiary, can build a demonstration plant making battery cathode powder near Brisbane.
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ARENA's media release marks a milestone in its funded project with Amber Electric: the first vehicle-to-grid charger installed in an Australian home, which the agency frames as transformative for the power system.
ARENA has awarded BluVein a $9m grant to trial its dynamic charging system for heavy electric mining trucks, aiming to cut diesel use in mining; the program's next round opens late 2025.
Glow Capital Partners, co-founded by Justin Ryan and Kate Morris, is acquiring a majority holding in facilities firm Menzies — its fifth investment and first since Morris's departure; she stays on as a shareholder.
Breakthrough Victoria reports investing in xCystence Bio, a Monash University spinout developing polycystic kidney disease therapies, via its University Innovation Platform alongside BioCurate and UniSeed.
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Profiles four Australian fintechs worth watching in 2026: Fat Zebra, WeMoney, Swyftx and Block Earner, covering their growth, past acquisitions and previously secured funding rounds.
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Government agency ARENA has awarded NewVolt funding of up to $25.3 million for truck charging hubs across Melbourne, backing fleet electrification under its Driving the Nation Program.
ARENA awards United Energy $3.54 million toward an $8 million Victorian trial of demand flexibility, covering hot-water control and dynamic solar export limits across three distribution networks, finishing in 2026.
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IP Group Australia and the CEFC launched the Climate Catalyst Fund with a first close of $50 million combined, targeting seed and Series A investments in Australian climate technology.
Stone & Chalk named Stela Solar its new CEO, replacing Chris Kirk. Solar, formerly of Accenture and the National AI Centre, aims to enhance AI support for Australian startups.
Weekly roundup detailing eight trans-Tasman raises totalling A$373.3 million, headlined by Halter's Series E, spanning quantum computing, biomanufacturing, robotics, adtech and agtech, plus a recalled $2 billion founder exit.
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Canberra IT services firm Centrered has been bought by US holding company Evergreen Services Group, its first Australian purchase following January's acquisition of New Zealand's Lancom Technology; brand and staff are retained.
La Trobe University opened its Eagleworks Innovation Centre, home to the $18m Eagle Fund co-funded with Breakthrough Victoria, part of the $100m University Innovation Platform.
Furniture brand Koala has secured $20 million ahead of its ASX debut at a $305 million valuation, while early backers including cofounder Mitch Taylor sold down some of their stakes.
Melbourne biotech Denteric has won US regulatory clearance to trial GPV381, a vaccine-style therapy targeting the bacteria behind gum disease, with a Phase 2 study in the United States to follow.
Blackstone has put $250 million into Abu Dhabi-based payments platform Advanced Digital Gaming Technology, the first private-equity inbound Gulf deal since the Iran conflict began, Reuters reports.
AgFunderNews roundup of agrifood deal news: eleven startup funding rounds, Generate Capital selling Equinox Growers, executive appointments including a new FFAR board member, and other industry items.
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Halter, a New Zealand cattle-collar startup, has raised $220m in a Founders Fund-led Series E at a doubled $2bn valuation; the piece argues its ambitions reach beyond agtech.
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Main Sequence's post explains why the firm invested in Andromeda Robotics, pointing to aged-care workforce shortages, resident loneliness, and early customer enthusiasm for the Abi companion robot.
Biomanufacturer Cauldron Ferm has banked a $19 million Series A2, led by Main Sequence with Horizons, SOSV and NGS Super aboard, adding to an earlier $9.5 million round and a $4.3 million federal grant.