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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.
Breakthrough Victoria announces the first three fellows of its $7.5 million fellowship, giving each researcher $150,000 and support to turn research into startups in mental health games, IVF imaging and skin cancer detection.
Carted, the wishlist and commerce API startup, is shutting down on 22 October 2025. Its 2021 seed round raised $13m with Blackbird leading, alongside Grok Ventures and Tidal Ventures.
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Growth investor Advent Partners has bought a stake in IT services firm efex, whose founder stays on as CEO; the piece also recalls efex's purchases of Datcom Cloud and Medihost Solutions.
Evergreen has acquired South Australian IT services firm Blackbird IT, adding it to a portfolio that already includes REDD, CT Group and Lancom Technology; Ben Corbett becomes CEO.
Breakthrough Victoria's fellowship has put $150,000 into Mental Jam, whose mobile games build emotional coping skills; the fellowship is a $7.5 million Victorian initiative to create up to 50 research startups.
Breakthrough Victoria's fellowship program puts $150,000 into InnovaIVF, whose founder Mohammad Haft Tananian, a Monash researcher, is building imaging technology to improve which embryos are chosen during IVF.
Breakthrough Victoria's fellowship has put $150,000 into DeepDerm, a startup building AI to spot skin cancer without biopsies, founded by University of Melbourne researcher Noor E Karishma Shaik.
Conry Tech, a Melbourne-based cooling venture, has secured $3 million in seed capital led by climate investor Audacy to finish building its BullAnt air-conditioner and grow the team.
A quarterly report on the Australian venture market finds Q3 2025 investment passed a billion dollars, led by a Singapore data centre company's raise, with AI drawing premium valuations and bubble warnings.
Madrona publishes a conversation with OpenAI's strategy chief on how founders can build alongside large AI models rather than compete with them.
Australian nanobiotech firm Nexsen has begun trading on the sharemarket after an $8m IPO; earlier government grants and an RMIT research collaboration are also noted.
Drone propulsion maker Aurora Labs raised roughly $5.5 million in a placement to fund development and grow its Western Australian plant, with Sovereign Propulsion Systems among backers and Bell Potter running the raise.
Aurora Labs raised A$5.5 million in a placement that brought drone-engine maker Sovereign Propulsion Systems in as cornerstone backer, and signed SPS to test and exclusively distribute its turbine engines across AUKUS countries.
Melbourne fintech startup Inaam has banked a $500,000 pre-seed round from Startupbootcamp's fund and Singapore VC Hatcher+ as it launches an impact-investing app for young investors.
Indigenous-founded snack brand Cooee lands a deal putting its cookies on Qantas domestic flights, with Ochre Ventures having invested $1.5 million to support its growth.
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Melbourne climate tech firm Conry Tech has secured $3 million in seed capital led by Audacy to advance its BullAnt commercial air conditioner, on top of a smaller pre-seed raise in 2024.
Order-to-cash software firm Sidetrade has agreed to buy ezyCollect outright, valuing the Sydney-based receivables platform at roughly €37 million, and will run its Asia-Pacific operations from the Australian company's home city.
Cut Through Venture's quarterly report counts roughly $1 billion over 116 Australian venture rounds in 3Q 2025; deep-tech sectors dominated, Firmus Technologies' $330M raise was largest, and early-stage valuations climbed.
Medovex has received a $760,107 NSW government grant to set up a spinal device production and sterilisation plant in Wollongong, adding five jobs as it scales for export.
Sydney cloud-waste startup Optimaze has secured $3 million in pre-seed backing from Arconic and The Innovation Club to grow engineering, speed its roadmap and pursue cloud partnerships starting with AWS.
Virescent Ventures explains why it co-led NRN's Series A, profiling the Sydney company's no-upfront-cost solar and battery marketplace model and its two founders.
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Main Sequence explains why it backed Currus Biologics, whose BEAT platform aims to make CAR-T cell therapies effective against solid tumours, starting with mesothelin-positive cancers, as the team prepares for a clinical trial.
Profile of Melbourne-based biotech Neurala Biosciences, founded by two researchers turning DMT and harmala compounds into medicines, covering its origins, grant and investor backing totalling $4.5m, and planned first-in-human studies.
Startmate reflects on a decade of backing founders, profiling breakout alumni across its cohorts and describing how its mentors reinvest in newer startups, alongside its fund model and returns.
Roundup of six Australian and New Zealand funding rounds, headlined by Heidi Health and Octopus Deploy, also covering Nexl, OpenSolar, Lucent and PAM, with past acquisitions of Stella AI, MagicBrief and Codefresh noted.
Carbar has bought the HelloCars Subscription brand from software firm Loopit, keeping it as a budget option beside its existing brands, while Loopit focuses on its subscription software business.
Melbourne's Affinda Group has bought AI training firm Pathfindr for $15 million in an all-share deal, adding it as the group's fourth business alongside Draftable and Vesparum.
Curated OneVentures roundup: Eucalyptus sold to a New York-listed healthcare group for $1.6 billion and Vaxxas named ex-Merck vaccines president David Peacock as CEO, plus patent-cliff and women-in-tech links.
AWS picked 40 startups for its 2025 Generative AI Accelerator, including Australians Pluralis Research and Mary Technology; the piece recalls past raises by alumni Relevance AI, Leonardo.ai and Marqo, and Leonardo.ai's sale to Canva.
Sydney-based legal CRM firm Nexl secured a US$23 million Series B led by Tidemark Capital to fund hiring, acquisitions and AI development, lifting its recent fundraising beyond $45 million.
Nakatomi, an Australian startup studio, has collected $3.5 million from backers including Scalare Partners and Leonardo.AI's Chris Gillis, cash it will deploy creating several companies each year.
Fishburners profiles StoryTribe founder Yunmie Kim, tracing her journey from designer to founder of a storytelling tool, the community that supported her, and how she eventually won investors over after repeated rejections.
Airtasker has done a third £2.5 million media-for-equity raise with Channel 4’s venture arm for its UK subsidiary, with annualised marketplace volume now above $21 million.
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An interview with Prime Financial Group's chairman on the listed wealth firm's plan to nearly double revenue by FY28–FY30, pursuing acquisitions that keep founders invested, anchored in a staff-ownership culture.
Precision fermentation company Cauldron Ferm wins the regional startup category at Startup Daily's tech awards for the second straight year; the profile recalls its Series A, government grants and Mackay biomanufacturing plant.
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Brisbane DevOps company Octopus Deploy raised from Insight Partners in 2024, then bought American competitor Codefresh; the piece details valuation, ownership and financial performance since its 2021 raise.
Virescent Ventures announces it has invested in Amber, an Australian retailer letting home battery owners buy and sell power at wholesale rates, citing its customer base and overseas utility partnerships.
Press Play Ventures, a program for aspiring women founders, took out the GSD trophy at Startup Daily's 2025 awards; alumni noted include GonGlobal, which raised pre-seed funding, and Umbrellus, now in a LaunchVic challenge.
Venture firm Genesis Capital's post responds to AFR coverage by describing its new backing of rural primary-care operator Ochre Health and its confidence in Australian primary care.
Eden Brew founder Jim Fader discusses the company's origins as a co-creation between CSIRO, Norco, Main Sequence Ventures, and its nutrition goals.
OpenSolar, a Sydney-based solar software company, has raised US$20 million from Titanium Ventures, Google and 2150 Sustainability Fund to advance its AI tools and global reach.
Melbourne payments provider Zeller is launching in Britain, its first overseas market, appointing ex-ByteDance executive Lars Weber to head new London operations and building a 40-strong local team.
Ideagen, a British software company focused on workplace risk, has bought Adelaide-based WorkSafe Guardian, whose app protects staff working alone, handing backer Eastend Ventures an exit three years on; terms undisclosed.
Melbourne AI medical-notes startup Heidi Health has banked a $98 million Series B led by Point72 at a $704 million valuation, adding two senior clinical and commercial hires to its leadership.
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Blackbird's investment notes announce its backing of Heidi's Series B alongside Point72 Private Investments, describing the AI medical scribe's rapid growth, enterprise traction, and international expansion.
Main Sequence's blog post announces it led robotics software startup Breaker's pre-seed round, citing the founders' defence and robotics backgrounds and plans to expand the team and US presence.
Weekly roundup of eight Australian and New Zealand funding rounds totalling about $53.5 million, led by SwarmFarm Robotics' $30 million Series B for its farm robots.
Funding roundup: eight trans-Tasman startups together secured $53.56 million, topped by SwarmFarm Robotics' Series B, with Amber, Javln, Enhance Labs, Indi, Wych, Lift Women and Ambra Spirits also raising capital.
Agtech robotics firm SwarmFarm raised a $30m Series B led by Edaphon, with CEFC, QIC and Artesian taking part, to boost production and push into North America.