Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
Australian crypto exchange Swyftx is buying brokerage Caleb & Brown, reportedly valued above $100 million, extending its reach to wealthy US investors; it also plans to buy New Zealand's Easy Crypto.
The infrastructure fund manager has completed a close on its fifth flagship vehicle, beating its target, while its chairman reflects on LP reaction to the firm's sale to BlackRock.
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Australia's renewable energy agency has awarded Orica hundreds of millions for a Hunter Valley hydrogen and ammonia plant, and is consulting on a further two-billion-dollar round for green hydrogen projects.
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The clean energy funder conditionally awarded Orica's Hunter Valley hydrogen hub as much as $432 million under its Hydrogen Headstart program, following CIP's Murchison Green Hydrogen Project's earlier $814 million grant.
BetaShares has acquired investing podcast Equity Mates for a reported $8.5 million; founders Bryce Leske and Alec Renehan will keep running it, with past backing from Matt Leibowitz, Larry Diamond and Magellan.
Roundup of four Australian raises: MagnaTerra formed from a CSIRO merger, Mobile Tyre Shop backed by Sailun, Coinstash's Series A, and MogoPlus funded by New Model Venture Capital.
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The hydrogen partnership and a university have won a $2.75 million federal Innovate grant to advance a South Australian pilot reactor, adding to money their shareholders committed during 2025.
The federal government will open the next Ignite and Innovate grant round on 23 July and has announced 39 newly funded Innovate projects, with about $178 million awarded so far under the program.
Brisbane crypto exchange Coinstash has raised a $4.7 million Series A led by an unnamed family office, taking its total funding past $8 million as it aims to triple its customer base.
NSW startup Owls Eat Rats took the $50,000 top prize at Taronga Zoo's Hatch accelerator pitch night, with $5,000 awards for Reusably and ALBON; six startups formed the 2025 cohort.
Proto Axiom has put $4 million into Sydney IVF biotech JumpStart Fertility, a UNSW spin-out, to pay for human trials of a treatment aimed at age-related fertility decline.
Sydney fintech Volatility Group has bought small-cap news site Small Caps, launched InvestHouse for brokers, and raised $2.5 million in private credit from Tractor Ventures, with a Series A planned.
Founders Factory is seeking applicants for the next intake of its Western Australian biodiversity startup program, which begins in August 2025 with state government backing; six startups it backed earlier are named.
Cyber security firm archTIS has secured $7.5 million via a share placement to fund its US push, partnerships and product development, with Henslow and Canaccord Genuity jointly leading the offer.
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RenewEconomy questions why Wesfarmers, whose Bunnings chain already runs on fully renewable power, is receiving $100 million in concessional government finance for more solar, batteries and EV charging.
Transcelestial has secured a new investment round co-led by NTT Finance and Paspalis Capital, alongside other backers, to roll out its laser communications technology across Australian and Japanese telecom, defence and space infrastructure.
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Atmo Biosciences has won American regulator clearance for its swallowable gas-sensing capsule, an RMIT invention licensed in 2018; sales begin in July, after RMIT swapped the patents for equity in April.
Galileo Ventures announces a $240,000 seed backing for Gumnut, a developer-tools startup adding real-time collaboration and AI agents to SaaS forms, and sets out its investment thesis.
Eastend Ventures, a VC based in Adelaide, has locked in $10 million for its $50 million debut fund — South Australia's first ESVCLP — and has already backed three startups with it.
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Bain Capital's Mike Murphy recounts transforming Virgin Australia from its 2020 administration buyout to an ASX re-listing, detailing cost cuts, fleet reductions, Qatar Airways' stake and the firm's plans to sell down its holding.
University of Southern Queensland-led researchers won an AEA Ignite grant of $198,679 to develop duckweed grown on dairy manure as biofuel feedstock, working with the University of Adelaide and Active Research.
Frollo, a NextGen subsidiary, launched a portal giving mortgage brokers Open Banking access to verified client financial data, already integrated with aggregators and major banks.
Meliora, Clive Dickens' advisory firm, has started backing AI companies alongside a student-focused venture fund that is closing in on its fundraising target.
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Bailador's stake in DASH has grown 59% to $44.7m after the Sydney-based fintech signed a fresh raise at a higher valuation; the piece also recalls its earlier investments and stakes in PropHero and Rosterfy.
Sparc Technologies, Fortescue and the University of Adelaide have switched on an Adelaide pilot plant that makes green hydrogen from sunlight without electrolysers.
FoundIt, a property platform connecting buyers with buyers' agents, has landed a $2 million pre-seed round from founders of Realbase, Realtair and Propps before its public launch in August.
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Aura Group has hired Cynthia Koh, a compliance veteran of more than 20 years in asset management, to strengthen governance and regulatory compliance across its Asia-Pacific operations.
Square Peg announces backing NexusMD, whose AI agents automate clinical documentation for emergency doctors. Founder Mike Zhu earlier started Baikemy, which Bytedance acquired.
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MTPConnect's government-backed accelerator program has awarded $12.07 million in non-dilutive grants to 14 Australian drug and device companies, which will also receive mentoring and support from partners including CSL and Roche Diagnostics.
Shift4 has agreed to buy ASX-listed payments provider Smartpay for NZ$296.4 million, with completion expected in late 2025 pending regulatory approval.
ERP specialist Wild Tech has brought in Andrew Kirk, previously of Searce, as a senior business development manager to push its enterprise managed services and digital transformation work.
FaBA's accelerator program has handed a University of Queensland precision-fermentation dairy process to Sydney startup All G, which will scale it toward a milk supplement, with federal government support.
Decentralised exchange GTE has raised a $15 million Series A led by Paradigm, positioning itself against Uniswap and PancakeSwap with an order-book model and citing a trillion dollars of 2025 trading volume.
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Blackbird's investment note announces it joined Halter's US$100 million Series D, a round Bond led with NewView also coming aboard, praising Halter's growth and market position across three countries.
Analysis of ADNOC's proposed cash takeover of Australian gas producer Santos, arguing the deal may harm domestic gas supply and national interests, with government, regulators and shareholders able to block or condition it.
The national food regulator has cleared Vow's lab-grown quail for local sale, letting the Sydney company's Forged parfait reach Australian diners in the coming weeks.
The planned xAmplify–CSO Group merger into MARQ1 has collapsed. xAmplify has instead landed backing from Macquarie Capital Principal Finance and promoted Tom Scicluna to chief revenue officer, while Howard Fyffe departs.
Ag Econ leads a research effort testing floating solar on farm water storages, backed by a $6 million federal grant, with CRDC and two universities as research partners.
Fleet Space is partnering with three quantum sensor makers, mDetect, Nomad Atomics and DeteQt, to build next-generation exploration tools; the piece also recalls its HiSeis buyout and Series D round.
Figma's blog recaps seven moments from CEO Dylan Field's How I Built This interview, covering his childhood acting, Thiel Fellowship, early struggles, mentorship from John Lilly, and the origins of FigJam.
ARENA commits $19.8 million to NeoSmelt, a low-carbon steelmaking venture backed by BHP, Rio Tinto, BlueScope, Woodside and Mitsui; the pilot project near Perth earlier secured $75 million from Western Australia.
Allume, a Melbourne company whose SolShare hardware shares rooftop solar among apartments, has raised A$10.2 million, with E.ON UK leading and contributing over A$8 million; earlier backers included Taronga, Trawalla and Mirvac.
Climate Tech Partners has reached a $50 million first close on its debut climate tech fund, backed by Australian Ethical, the CEFC, Qantas, Airbus and Daniel Besen's family office.
Sydney Angels' third sidecar fund raised $3.5 million on VentureCrowd in a week to back early-stage startups, while the article recalls past fund wins including Clarity Pharmaceuticals, Instaclustr and Aurtra.
Soil carbon company CarbonLink is trialling new sensing technologies on Australian farms with federal grant backing; the piece recounts its CSIRO partnership, NetSCAN platform and earlier grant wins.
Spend management firm Weel has released an accounts payable automation suite combining AI invoice capture, automated coding rules, multi-step approvals, multi-currency payments and real-time Xero syncing for finance teams.
Breakthrough Victoria profiles Diag-Nose.io chief executive Eldin Rostom, who describes the company's respiratory-disease diagnostics work and credits the investor's backing for building its lab, team and research scale.
US investment firm KKR has agreed to buy Zenith Energy, an Australian specialist in off-grid renewable power for mines, in a transaction reported at over A$2 billion following a bidding contest.
Santos is fielding a $30 billion, non-binding takeover approach from a consortium of ADNOC, ADQ and Carlyle; the board intends to recommend a deal if binding terms are agreed.