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Tidal Ventures explains why it has invested in SecurePII, a voice-compliance startup whose platform redacts payment card data from calls, covering market timing, product, channel model, founders and seed-stage plans.
Breakthrough Victoria's CEO reviews its 2024/25 year: growing capital base, strong co-investment leverage, portfolio milestones including Amber's $10m raise, first fellows awarded, and projected economic impact ahead.
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Pepper Money says a consortium it belongs to is in early negotiations with Westpac over its mortgage broking book, as the bank faces a franchisee class action and a penalty over RAMS lending misconduct.
Startup Daily profiles VetNotes, Mitch Sigley's AI note-taking tool for vets, a Techstars Sydney 2025 cohort company; Techstars says it was first to back it.
An exclusive interview with founder Sonia Kaurah discloses the culturally focused mental health platform's previously unreported $500,000 pre-seed round, backed by crowdfunding and angels, as the company relocates from London to Melbourne.
CPI Card Group has bought a minority stake in Australian payments firm Karta and will integrate Karta's SafeToBuy card-security technology across its US prepaid card range, with a stateside launch planned for early 2026.
Perth seaweed materials maker Uluu has closed a Series A led by Burda Principal Investments to fund a commercial-scale facility, with Main Sequence returning after leading its 2022 round.
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Human Health, a Sydney patient-care platform built by two ex-Canva product leaders, has landed $8.5 million in a round led by LocalGlobe to expand across the US and UK.
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Profile of the small Australian game studio behind Crawl and The Drifter, covering its steady sales, an early grant from Film Victoria, and its founders' path from big studios to independence.
Uniseed chief executive Peter Devine departs after two decades; Monash's Alistair Hick takes over in 2026. The piece recounts Uniseed's fund history and recent stakes in ENA Respiratory and Morse Micro rounds.
Australia's Uniseed venture fund has named Dr Alastair Hick as its chief executive, with the appointment announced as the fund marks 25 years of operation.
Archangel reflects on backing health AI company Heidi since its early days and invites the startup's users to register for a share of the firm's allocation, limited to sophisticated investors.
Twelve ventures from the Hunter and Central Coast, several founded by University of Newcastle students or alumni, are through to the last stage of the 2025 I2N accelerator across cleantech, healthtech and all-industries streams.
Auckland venture firm NZVC plans a second fund backing 50-60 Australia-NZ founders and has already invested in an Australian robotics startup and two New Zealand companies.
GSFM has recruited Kayla Batiste, a Macquarie business development veteran, to manage key accounts in Queensland and help grow its presence.
Hypersonix, a Queensland company developing hypersonic planes that run on hydrogen, has secured a Series A backed by a UK fund, government investors and Saab.
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Australian trading and wealth-tech firm Openmarkets Group says it is exploring a major funding round to drive its DeFi push across Asia and the US, with owner Boman Group backing the effort.
FaBA commits $740,000 in matched funding to SeaStock, advancing its algae-derived red pigment through extraction research, co-product assessment and regulatory data for novel-food approval.
LaunchVic introduces the ten startups chosen for its CivVic Labs Experience Victoria Challenge, a pre-accelerator pairing early-stage companies with the state's tourism operators.
Fishburners profiles ex-Google engineer Tomasz Mikolajewski, who quit after thirteen years to build Sydney AI startups: voice-controlled app builder Poppable and the recently launched bedtime-story app Lulululu, after his first app idea was rejected.
Victoria's Breakthrough Victoria has committed $75m to five specialist VC funds covering climate tech, life sciences, female founders and healthcare, each pledging a quarter of its capital to local startups.
Breakthrough Victoria is putting $75 million into five venture capital funds, including Virescent, SYNthesis BioVentures, Scale and Galileo, each of which has pledged a quarter of its capital to Victorian startups.
Breakthrough Victoria makes cornerstone investments totalling $75 million into five venture capital funds spanning climate-tech, biotech, diversity-focused and health sciences investing.
Identity verification group GBG has bought Sydney-based DataTools, whose software checks addresses and customer data, placing its team within the GBG Loqate division to deepen reach in Australia and New Zealand.
Roundup of a quiet funding week: Melbourne workforce-platform maker 2cloudnine banked over $7.5m, algae-ingredient maker SeaStock $740,000 from government accelerator FaBA, while San Francisco's Sumble emerged with $59m.
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AgFunderNews' quarterly analysis finds funding for agricultural robotics down 36% quarter-on-quarter, with SwarmFarm, Beewise, 4AG and other weed-fighting startups among 2025's raises, plus a new crop robotics market map from The Mixing Bowl.
The bank announced senior leadership changes: one executive promoted to lead transformation, another retiring, two others taking expanded duties from December, with earlier appointments this year also noted.
Forbes Australia profiles EatClub co-founder Pan Koutlakis, whose restaurant discount app raised $18.2 million in a Series A led by Co:Act Capital to fund UK expansion after a near-collapse during COVID.
Investible's note explains its pre-seed backing of Gega Elements, which extracts gallium and germanium from industrial waste, alongside Flying Fox Ventures and Salus Ventures via a co-investment program with TRaCE.
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Melbourne battery maker Relectrify has launched its inverter-free AC1 commercial battery, supported by a $25 million ARENA grant and a fresh $2.9 million federal grant to extend the technology into electric vehicles.
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The renewable energy agency has awarded A$25 million to Melbourne battery firm Relectrify to roll out its inverter-free AC1 storage systems, building on earlier agency funding that helped develop the technology.
Sydney fintech Eftsure has rolled out a service that verifies overseas payments across 39 countries, helping Australian firms dodge cross-border invoice fraud, with global reach planned for 2026.
ASX-listed Livium has raised $4.5 million to expand its Envirostream battery recycling hub in Victoria, while its subsidiary VSPC continues talks to match a $30 million ARENA grant for a Brisbane cathode powder plant.
Avess Energy, a Perth maker of vanadium flow batteries, has received a $2.5 million federal grant through the Quad clean energy program to assess manufacturing prospects in South Korea and the Philippines.
ANZ is winding up DataCo, a customer-data startup built within its former venture arm 1835i, following Cashrewards' closure and its Airwallex stake sale, with media clients reportedly weighing compensation.
Battery maker Gelion, which began at the University of Sydney before relocating to London, has raised fresh funds from shareholders to commercialise its sulfur battery technology, after winning US patents and a manufacturing deal.
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RecordPoint has bought Redactive AI, a Melbourne data security startup founded by former Atlassian staff, for an undisclosed sum two years after its founding; Felicis and Blackbird co-led its 2024 seed round.
Roc Partners interview with the chief executive of its oyster aquaculture company, covering growth since its investment, farming operations, brands, sustainability and expansion plans.
AuManufacturing reports Latrobe Magnesium holds a non-binding US EXIM loan indication that could reach $200 million; the ASX-listed producer also completed a $6 million placement last week.
NAB announced executive team changes: Shane Conway promoted to lead Transformation, Sharon Cook retiring at year end, Les Matheson taking over Customer & Corporate Services, and Jon Benson appointed Group General Counsel.
DroneShield has promoted Angus Harris to chief technology officer, with Angus Bean becoming chief product officer, as the defence-tech company scales; it also flagged a new Adelaide R&D facility.
Significant Ventures' post explains why it led H3D's Series A, profiling the AI company automating custom-fit design for hearing and dental labs, its Swinburne origins, customer traction, and expansion from audio into dental.
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Good Heat announces a $2 million pre-seed round from four backers to fund its thermal storage platform, which sells electrified industrial heat as a service, starting with a large Victorian manufacturing project.
Sydney heat-battery startup Good Heat has raised over $2 million, led by Understorey Ventures with Investible and 2100VC, to replace gas-fired industrial heat with renewable-powered thermal storage, starting in Victoria.
A University of Melbourne spin-out using AI to tailor chemotherapy doses has banked pre-seed capital from the university's Genesis fund, plus public grant money and angels, to commercialise its oncology platform.
Propeller Aero's chief executive Rory San Miguel has won the Pearcey Foundation's 2025 NSW entrepreneur award; the profile traces his path from UNSW clubs and Flirtey to the drone surveying company.
Breakthrough Victoria has chosen three academic founders for its new fellowship, providing each with $150,000 to help commercialise research in mental health, IVF and skin cancer detection.
Austrian plastics recycling equipment maker Erema has taken an undisclosed strategic stake in Brisbane textile recycling startup BlockTexx, with the pair announcing the deal at a German industry fair to scale fabric-to-fabric recycling.
Podcast interview profiling veterinarian-turned-entrepreneur Glen Richards, covering his Queensland upbringing, building the Greencross pet care business, creating Petbarn, and his role as a Shark Tank investor.