Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
Brisbane robotics firm Future Maintenance Technologies has secured an $8 million Series A, with QIC Ventures leading and Brighter Super plus Taronga Group participating; its robots inspect rail networks and aircraft for global operators.
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OFX has hired ex-PayPal Australia marketing head Liz Lord as chief marketing officer as the payments firm broadens its offering for business customers into finance operations tools.
Blackbird's investment note explains why it backed Halter's US$220 million Series E at a US$2 billion valuation, recounting the farm-collar company's growth since the firm led its Series B in 2021.
AI notepad maker Granola announced a $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Index Ventures with Kleiner Perkins and returning backers, alongside new features for sharing meeting context.
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The article reports that lokol AI has secured $100,000 in initial external funding ahead of its launch, to fund product development and market preparation.
Sydney pet food firm Lyka has banked a $67 million Series C led by New York's LGVP, with StepStone Group and Shearwater Capital taking part, to bankroll new products and overseas growth.
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Adtech firm Cuttable has banked $5.7 million at a doubled $100 million valuation, adding Airtree, Glitch Capital and an angel to existing backers, and is heading to New York on growing American demand.
LaunchVic names The Past Connection and nrtureAI winners of its tourism startup challenge, each winning an extra $25,000 after a bootcamp that funded ten Victorian startups.
The National Reconstruction Fund has put $20 million into Sydney quantum chip maker Silicon Quantum Computing via a SAFE note, following its smaller-than-planned 2023 Series A and a similar NRF bet on Diraq.
A Sydney defence and space technology company has completed an oversubscribed funding round led by Paspalis Capital to expand its satellite data coordination platform and grow its engineering team.
Feature on Matt Wright, who built Brisbane used-car business Cars4Us from a four-person startup in 2019 and has now sold its owner, MCT Automotive Group, for $120 million, staying on during the handover.
Victorian pre-seed program BVUIP, backed by Breakthrough Victoria and seven universities, has funded startups EntroMat, Excelligent and Remagine Labs, plus fellowship grants for three PhD-led ventures.
Western Australia's government is putting $2 million into Camco Engineering to create local manufacturing of wind turbine anchor cages, while state utilities signed power purchase deals with three wind farm projects.
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A software vendor has secured $1 million in pre-seed backing led by two venture firms, with an earlier backer and three channel executives also investing, to fund hiring in Australia and the US.
Observability platform Dash0 has announced a $110m Series B round, with publisher Balderton leading and DTCP Growth, Accel, Cherry Ventures, DIG Ventures and strategic partners taking part, at a billion-dollar valuation.
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Breakthrough Victoria interviews fellow Noor E Karishma Shaik, founder of DeepDerm, on building DermAI, an AI skin-cancer detection tool, her clinical trial breakthrough with nurses, and lessons from her first year as a founder.
Mobility newsletter roundup: Uber's robotaxi deal with Rivian, Nvidia's automaker partnerships, Advanced Navigation's Series C, other startup raises, and acquisitions including Amazon's purchase of robotics startup Rivr.
Koala heads to the Australian bourse with a float mixing fresh equity and shareholder sell-downs, while a Test cricketer's decade-old six-figure backing of the furniture startup draws the spotlight.
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A roundup of three raises: Advanced Navigation's $158 million Series C, legal AI platform MiAI Law's $2 million launch funding, and Deftbiotech's $1 million pre-seed for a fungal nail treatment.
Pismo announces Australian fintech Vivi Money will build its AI-driven financial platform on Pismo's core banking infrastructure, with Visa card services via Novatti's BIN sponsorship, ahead of a May/June launch.
Semiconductor cooling firm Frore Systems landed a $143 million Series D round led by MVP Ventures, reaching unicorn status at a $1.64 billion valuation; lifetime funding now totals $340 million.
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PipelineRoad reports Goldman Sachs Asset Management has opened early talks with investors toward a $10 billion-plus global direct lending vehicle, West Street Loan Partners VI; its predecessor closed above $13 billion in 2024.
Sponsored profile of Showpo founder Jane Lu, who credits building systems over hustle culture for growing her garage-started fashion label into a business earning more than $100 million in revenue.
Xbow, a startup using AI for cybersecurity, has closed a $120 million round co-led by DFJ Growth and Northzone at a valuation topping $1 billion, with five other investors participating.
Morgan Stanley's property arm has held an initial close on its latest North Haven real estate fund, gathering $2.9 billion toward a $4 billion goal for US and European deals.
Melbourne biotech Deftbiotech secures $1 million combined investment from Breakthrough Victoria and La Trobe University's Eagle Fund to develop a topical nail fungus treatment.
Interview with Alterity Therapeutics' investor relations head on its Phase 2 results for ATH434 in Multiple System Atrophy and its push toward a pivotal Phase 3 trial.
FaBA profiles Pollinate, a Brisbane startup founded by Adeep Mitra and Corey Berther that uses AI to automate food supply chain workflows, tracing its path from a university food challenge to Y Combinator backing.
Eastend Ventures says Brad Feld, who co-founded Foundry and Techstars, will chair the LPAC of its Fund 1, alongside current committee members Sonya Brocklehurst and Dr Roger Voyle; first meeting May 2026.
Navigation technology firm Advanced Navigation has banked a $158 million Series C, with Airtree leading and Quadrant plus the NRFC taking part, funding global expansion and Australian manufacturing scale-up.
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Q-Sera's rapid-clotting blood tube technology has gone to market in Japan via Terumo's VenoJect II launch; the Melbourne startup's backers include MRCF, Uniseed and the UniQuest Extension Fund.
Chinese fintech FinVolution Group has bought local lender Fundo, marking its first move into the Australian market as its overseas operations keep growing.
PipelineRoad reports that Goldman Sachs' asset management arm is seeking about $13 billion for its ninth mezzanine fund, aimed at buyout-backed companies in North America and Europe, citing Private Equity Wire.
Rivian chief RJ Scaringe has secured US$500m for Mind Robotics, his AI robotics venture, with Accel and Andreessen Horowitz co-leading and Eclipse Capital adding funds, valuing the months-old company at US$2bn.
Utiliti Group's post announces its corporate advisory mandate for WinDC, which is beginning a large Series A to place containerised AI compute at stranded renewable sites, alongside a new Armada partnership.
MGA Thermal, a Hunter Valley energy storage maker, has banked $17 million from IP Group and others to commercialise its heat-storage technology, lifting its total funding to $50 million.
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Weekly roundup of four Australian funding rounds: thermal energy storage, litigation data software, preventative health, and construction site documentation, together worth $31.9 million.
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AIsphere has secured $300 million in a Series C round for its artificial-intelligence video tools, with funds earmarked for research, computing infrastructure and overseas growth; the report names no backers.
GrainCorp's venture arm has joined a Series A backing PlasmaLeap Technologies, an Australian maker of modular on-farm fertiliser systems, which will use the funds for its first hubs in NSW and Tasmania.
IP Group Australia led a $17 million investment in Hunter Valley thermal storage company MGA Thermal, with Shane Meaney joining the board alongside prior backer Main Sequence ahead of commercial rollout.
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Blackbird's operating chief reflects on four years of the fund's independent, quarterly valuation process, citing the Eucalyptus acquisition and its returns as proof the 2022 policy endured.
Breakthrough Victoria staff attended agrifood, climate finance, women's health and deep tech events, and joined the launch of agritech firm YieldX.
Startmate will resume taking founders to Silicon Valley this May and stage its first San Francisco Demo Day; the article also recalls Fluency's recent US seed round led by Accel.
Hiringa Energy and Sundown Pastoral Company's NSW farm project will produce green ammonia from hydrogen after the state government added $9.4 million in fresh grant funding, with work due to begin in April.
A NSW cotton farm's green ammonia plant near Moree, fed by hydrogen made with solar power, has secured financing via an initial $35.8 million state grant plus a fresh $9.4 million top-up.
DealStreetAsia reports investment firm Partners for Growth has held a $178 million initial closing for its technology-lending income vehicle, the PFG Income Fund.
Index Ventures' post announces Wonderful's $150 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, with Insight Partners leading and Index, IVP, Bessemer and Vine Ventures participating.
Wonderful announced a $150 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, with Insight Partners leading and four earlier backers returning, to scale its enterprise AI platform across more than 30 markets.
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Database entry reporting that Entrepreneurs First secured $200 million in fresh capital, listing $1.1 billion pre-money and $1.3 billion post-money valuations, with no participating investors recorded.