Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
Australian AI infrastructure company SharonAI Holdings has debuted on Nasdaq at a valuation above $1 billion, with a December pre-IPO round, backing from Digital Alpha and USD.AI, and an April ASX float planned.
Payments company Zepto has promoted its first security hire, Mariana Paun, into a newly created executive role, Chief Business Resilience Officer, uniting security, operations, risk and compliance under one leader.
Melbourne clinical documentation firm Heidi has bought UK healthcare AI company Automedica for an undisclosed sum and launched two AI products; the piece recalls its $98m Series B and $27m Series A top-up.
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ANDHealth appoints Anne O'Neill and George Kenley to senior leadership roles while outgoing COO Grace Lethlean departs after nine years.
Q&A with a Breakthrough Victoria fellow reflecting on her early months building Mental Jam, a mental-health games startup, and her plans to apply for an AEA grant.
HEO and UNSW Canberra Space have performed Australia's first propelled satellite rendezvous manoeuvre with the Continuum-1 spacecraft, a Defence Trailblazer-funded effort advancing sovereign space domain awareness skills.
Australian dining-discounts marketplace EatClub has secured $27 million from Marbruck and earlier backers to accelerate its British rollout, with its valuation reportedly climbing past $200 million.
Eight university- and company-led Australian quantum projects share $12.7 million in stage-two Critical Technologies Challenge Program grants, funding prototypes for data-centre cooling, medical imaging and rare-earth detection.
Australian tax-research AI startup SavvyWise has closed an oversubscribed seed round topping $600,000, valuing it at $10 million, seven months after incorporating, with funds going to marketing, specialist tax content and platform development.
Magellan Power, a Perth maker of energy storage systems, has brought in Viburnum Funds as its first private equity backer, a stake reported at $15 million, to fund local battery manufacturing and recycling.
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Freeplay, which runs the indie games event Parallels, lost its state government grant support, throwing its future into doubt; peak industry body IGEA has asked Victoria's creative industries minister to reconsider.
South Australian hollow-core fibre navigation project by Adelaide University, Northrop Grumman Australia and Norseld won almost half a million dollars in federal Ignite grant funding, adding to earlier Defence Trailblazer support.
Roundup of the week's Australian startup funding: fresh raises for five companies, Startmate's Summer '26 accelerator intake of 19 startups, and Affinda's acquisition of Pathfindr.
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Profile of physiotherapist Rosie Dumbrell, who started Everform Therapywear to make discreet, clinically grounded garments supporting women's pelvic recovery during pregnancy and after birth.
Ten13's post sets out its reasons for backing Appetise's A$7 million Series A with OIF, Icehouse, NZVC and K1W1, highlighting the grocery platform's shopper dataset and growth.
Interview with Terria founder Ana Belgun on the geospatial digital-twin company's CSIRO origins, government and infrastructure customers, 3D data challenges, and a planned Singapore hub.
Australian space startup Terram Astra has opened a seed round to fund a sovereign ground-station network near Alice Springs, offering satellite communications and space-junk monitoring for defence and government users.
APDR reports that Australian space-infrastructure venture Terram Astra has begun seeking US$10 million in seed funding for sovereign communications and orbital-debris monitoring hubs, starting near Alice Springs.
Valiant Finance, an Australian fintech, has recruited vendor-finance veteran Joe Iavarone from DLL as its North American President, tasked with driving US growth while reporting to co-founder and chief executive Alex Molloy.
Breakthrough Victoria collects press coverage of Infleqtion's New York listing via a SPAC merger, which multiplied the fund's investment in the quantum company fivefold.
Breakthrough Victoria's release marks Infleqtion's New York Stock Exchange listing, the investor's first portfolio listing, and notes further quantum backing of Quantum Brilliance plus Infleqtion's Victorian operations and partnerships.
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Blackbird's investment note sets out why the firm joined Baseten's $300 million Series E with IVP, Capital G, Nvidia and Greylock, praising the inference startup's customer culture and its purchase of Parsed.
Terram Astra, an Australian space and defence infrastructure startup, is seeking US$10m in seed capital for satellite communications and orbital-debris hubs, starting near Alice Springs, with Series A expansion flagged for 2027.
SmartCompany reports HotDoc, a platform for booking GP appointments, has sold a majority stake to private equity buyer Potentia; the price was not disclosed, with Airtree and Acclivis Group among remaining owners.
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Australian fintech LENSELL has unveiled StockLenz, an app ranking shares by quantitative measures across eight global exchanges, feeding shortlists into its Diversiview analysis tool, with free and paid tiers.
MA Financial and CMBI have signed an agreement to jointly manage a new Asia Pacific private credit fund targeting US$600 million, with seed investments and first LP commitments secured.
Seek's venture arm has begun selling its remaining stake in Employment Hero, a year after a $95 million partial sale to KKR, following the recent resolution of their Federal Court dispute over API access.
Nineteen early-stage companies join Startmate's Summer '26 accelerator intake, each receiving $120,000 for 7% equity — $2.28 million overall — spanning construction, healthcare, fintech, energy and manufacturing.
UNSW Sydney unveiled a plan to commercialise research through new spinouts, featuring a pre-seed vehicle for nascent companies and a planned injection into venture firm High Street Ventures.
Defence Connect reports Terram Astra has opened a US$10m seed round to build ground-based hubs for secure satellite links and orbital-debris tracking, positioning the venture for a larger round in 2027.
Australian used-car valuation software firm AlgoDriven has been acquired by Emergence, a San Francisco investor within the Pritzker Organization, for an undisclosed eight-figure sum, with plans to expand the dealership appraisal platform globally.
Sydney and Austin-based defence tech startup Breaker secured $9 million at seed stage, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with Main Sequence following on, after a voice-controlled autonomous systems demo in Rheinmetall's Boxer vehicle.
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SEEK's venture arm has begun a sale process for its remaining Employment Hero stake, following a $95 million partial sale to KKR and a resolved Federal Court dispute over API access.
Founders4Impact invites wholesale investors to register as limited partners in its impact fund, which is raising toward a $25 million target, with an initial $10 million tranche aiming to close by mid-2026.
Podcast episode where ProfitPeak co-founder Carla Penn-Kahn tells Antler's Bede Moore why direct-to-consumer brands should prize profit over top-line growth, drawing on her history of buying and growing e-commerce brands.
Techstars' Sydney accelerator will close after three years and 36 startups backed, its NSW government funding having ended; the program's chief and team are departing, while a state diversity pre-accelerator awaits a delivery partner.
Q-Sera's RAPClot blood-collection tube has debuted commercially in Japan, its first market launch, announced via a press release posted on Uniseed's news page.
Order management software firm Fluent Commerce has landed A$46 million from Bain Capital, money earmarked for AI features, the Fluent Connect platform, customer wins and overseas growth; Neu Capital advised on the deal.
The NSW government has ended funding for Techstars Sydney, which closes after three cohorts; its managing director, Christie Jenkins, and her team are departing, and the $4 million diversity pre-accelerator has no operator yet.
Space Connect reports Australian space and defence startup Terram Astra has begun seeking US$10 million in seed funding for ground-based communications and orbital debris infrastructure, with a first hub planned near Alice Springs.
Dealroom reports Emergence Software has bought AlgoDriven, whose AI prices used cars for dealerships, in a cash deal worth $10m–$50m; the two founders are staying on for a minimum of five years.
Beaten Zone Venture Partners' blog post spotlights Queensland scramjet startup Hypersonix Launch Systems ahead of its first Dart AE test flight, framing it as sovereign hypersonic capability with commercial space applications.
Weekly roundup of ten Australian and New Zealand startup raises totalling nearly $194 million, topped by Neara's $90 million round at a $1.1 billion valuation, with Splose, Operata, HAMR Energy and Adora also covered.
Profile of ARIA Research, Robert Yearsley's audio-based AR startup for blind users, recalling a $2 million NSW Medical Device Fund grant among $11 million raised and targeting the NDIS market.
Oaktree Capital Management has reached a $2.4bn first close on its fourth special situations vehicle, short of its $4bn goal, and elevated Thomas Casarella to co-portfolio manager of the strategy.
Blackbird partner Niki Scevak argues SaaS is not dead; winners will be companies that reinvent for AI, citing Canva's AI pivot and Kaleido acquisition, plus Heidi Health's new software category for doctors.
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Breakthrough Victoria interviews a researcher at Monash University who joined its fellowship, describing how program connections redirected his medtech platform from IVF imaging toward endoscopy markets.
Perth-based OncoRes Medical has secured $27 million from Brandon Capital's BB6 Fund, Morgans, Radar Ventures and others to advance its Elora breast-surgery imaging device through an Australian clinical trial toward FDA approval.
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H3D has closed a $5.8m Series A, spearheaded by Significant Ventures with Swinburne University and Co:Act Capital taking part, to push its AI design technology from hearing devices into dental laboratories.
Sydney-based eGuarantee has secured fresh capital to grow its lease bond offering, while backer Correlation has lifted its stake to a controlling majority after rapid growth in bond volumes.
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