Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
Wealth platform Netwealth is acquiring AI advice-automation startup Paradino for A$20 million upfront, mostly cash, plus earn-outs that could reach A$9 million, and intends another A$10 million of investment.
Pet-health startup Elita Genetics, based in Melbourne, has secured $1.9 million to grow from cell banking into canine longevity, with Boost VC leading and four other backers alongside.
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A South Australian munitions maker and a counter-drone firm have signed an MOU to combine their technologies after a successful blast test, with exports to Ukraine planned for 2027.
Street Talk: Calvary Health Care's consortium has agreed to acquire 25 Healthscope hospitals; lenders reportedly recoup about $400 million, with the assets valued near $600 million.
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Street Talk reports Firmus Technologies, which rents Nvidia chips, is courting Asian fund managers ahead of a possible sharemarket float of up to $7 billion, with terms to follow for domestic investors.
An ABC investigation traces luxury property holdings linked to the family of Bathla's founders while the Sydney building group sits in administration owing billions, with assets held by relatives rather than the founder himself.
Future Secure AI's pre-listing round, led by Robin Khuda, Square Peg, Yarra Capital, Firetrail and Macquarie Asset Management, is nearing completion, with notes converting at a US$1.3 billion ceiling before an ASX float.
Element Fleet Management, the sole bidder yet to lodge a revised offer, has quit the race to buy Australian car-leasing firm FleetPartners.
Roundup of 35 ASX capital raisings seeking a combined $687.5m in late August and early September, led by mining deals; Canaccord Genuity topped the broker table and three IPOs floated.
Roundup tallies 35 ASX equity fundraises seeking $687.5 million, mostly miners; Canaccord Genuity led broker mandates with nine deals, while FireFly Metals' $190 million package was the period's largest.
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Crimson Consulting has raised its hostile bid for tutoring company Kip McGrath to a conditional 74c a share and pushed the deadline out, with several big shareholders accepting or signalling support.
The NRFC has lent Global Resource Recovery $55 million in debt funding to expand its Darwin chemical recycling facilities, with the project forecast to create 115 temporary and 11 full-time jobs.
Roundup of four trans-Tasman raises: First Table, Metacognition AI, Dela and GoTroppo secured a combined $21.5 million for restaurant discounting, robotics software, scam-safe payments and flexible internet plans.
Bending Spoons is buying collaboration software maker Miro in a cash deal, with some Miro shareholders reinvesting proceeds into the buyer's equity; the acquirer also recently bought Airtable.
Analysis of OpenAI's completed $122 billion raise at an $852 billion post-money valuation, covering NVIDIA, Amazon and SoftBank participation, a bank credit facility, retail demand, and a delayed IPO plan.
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Analysis of OpenAI's completed $122 billion raise at an $852 billion post-money valuation, examining its mix of vendor compute, contingent commitments, retail participation and debt, and arguing the company now operates as an infrastructure utility.
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A British Formula 1 hardware supplier has bought Melbourne timing specialist Dorian for an undisclosed sum, keeping the brand serving racers in the region while Alitrax continues frontline support.
Adelaide's Cambrian Defence & Space partners with Adelaide University cancer researchers to fly human stem cells on a European research rocket from Sweden, studying microgravity's effects, with South Australian government fund support.
Shareholder acceptances are building for Crimson Education's hostile tilt at ASX-listed tutoring firm Kip McGrath, a bid that wobbled when ally Regal Partners sold out; the suitor may lift its offer to 74 cents.
Former Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin warns rogue AI agents in enterprises are inevitable and discusses Aigentsphere, her AI-monitoring startup, which raised a $4 million seed round from Main Sequence in April.
ANDHealth interviews John Shanks of Kraken Coding, whose Clinical Branches platform guides clinicians through guidelines in 72 hospitals, about joining its ANDHealth+ commercialisation program.
Japan's Sekisui Chemical has agreed to buy a controlling 51 per cent of Brisbane homebuilder Ausbuild for $335 million, valuing the group near $670 million, with settlement due January 2027.
Critical Resources reports its solid-state pouch cell ran over a month of continuous cycling while retaining most capacity, a de-risking milestone for its solvent-free battery process as it seeks licensees.
ASX-listed Critical Resources reports its solid-state pouch cell kept three-quarters of its capacity through a month-long cycling trial, further validating its solvent-free battery manufacturing approach.
Motive, the fleet software firm once called KeepTruckin, took in over $1.3 billion from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund and scrapped its IPO filing, staying private; a General Catalyst executive joins its board.
San Francisco fleet-operations AI company Motive announced over $1.3 billion in growth funding from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund; the investor's managing director joined its board, and Motive withdrew its S-1 filing.
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Evolution Business Systems, a Microsoft partner, has been acquired by Pine Services Group, part of Evergreen, effective 1 September. EBS keeps its name, leadership and operations; no price was disclosed.
Peruvian-focused explorer Patriot has struck a deal with local landholders unlocking five years of drilling access at its Tassa silver project; the article also recalls a recently completed $3 million raise.
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Austal has received an indicative US$1.25 billion offer from a Wildcat Infrastructure-led syndicate for its US shipbuilding arm, outbidding Hanwha, while heavy US losses weigh on the group.
Dela, a Sydney payments startup founded by Meg van der Velde, has banked slightly more than A$1m from an unidentified backer to build out its buyer-protection app for peer-to-peer second-hand sales.
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Applications are open for the second 2026 intake of NSW FLIP, a free program offering training, mentoring and possible seed funding to women founders across New South Wales, run by the University of Newcastle.
Growth equity firm Thoma Bravo has invested in Tanda, a Brisbane workforce-management software business, its first external funding after 14 years of bootstrapping; the money targets AI features and overseas expansion.
Street Talk reports BCAL Diagnostics' takeover plan for Genetic Signatures collapsed once the target's talks with Sonic-backed Microba surfaced, with a three-company combination now under discussion.
Ellerston has agreed to sell Queensland electrical equipment maker NOJA Power to Goldman Sachs Alternatives, signing a deal that values the company at more than $1 billion for a controlling stake.
NextDC, an Australian operator of data centres, announced a A$1.1 billion convertible note offer, following April equity and May debt raises, to bankroll local expansion.
America's NIH has agreed to fund a program giving up to 200 ALS patients access to Neurizon Therapeutics' drug NUZ-001, with Melbourne-based Neurizon as subawardee and a Boston ALS centre running it.
OncoSil Medical says a Madrid hospital has treated its 100th Spanish pancreatic cancer patient with its brachytherapy device, as the ASX-listed company focuses on deepening use across its 11 treatment sites.
Lexaria Bioscience agreed immediate warrant exercises to raise about $5.9 million gross, cutting exercise prices, with H.C. Wainwright placing; proceeds plus an Australian tax rebate may carry operations and R&D into 2027.
Australian food manufacturer Flavour Makers has bought New Zealand condiments maker Groenz, its first acquisition beyond Australia, adding a Wellington plant, about 90 staff, 165 products and the Frenchmaid brand; terms undisclosed.
EVP has launched 40x, a peer network for revenue-generating software startups in Australia and New Zealand planning to fundraise within a year, led by Mark Zmarzly; applications close mid-September.
Australia's national hearing services provider has bought Earworx, a nurse-led ear wax removal clinic group founded in Tasmania, adding ear wax removal to its integrated care offering.
Colorado Springs defense accelerator Catalyst is taking applications for a new October 2026 boot camp preparing six to eight pre-Series A space technology companies for investment.
Hyper announces the launch of TradeCraft, an app giving apprentice tradies site-ready video guidance, built by Luke Chiocci through Hyper's Accelerate and Launch Ready programs, with pilots and partnerships underway.
Bioshore Ventures has wrapped up its first fund at $27 million with all capital committed, drawing 65 individual backers including three well-known investors, and has named four health-technology companies in its portfolio.
Perth drone maker Innovaero has completed the raising for its stockmarket float and will debut on the national exchange on 22 September, with an implied value near A$158 million.
Firmus will supply computing capacity to OpenAI from two planned Malaysian data centres, but sceptical investors say the deal is too small ahead of a potential float valuing the start-up at $15.5 billion.
Drone maker SYPAQ Systems has won regulator approval to self-authorise beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights across Australia; the piece also recalls its Corvo X system entering service under the Australian Army's DEF129 program.
Street Talk column reports AI cloud firm Firmus Technologies will soon market a planned ASX float to investors, with a debut tipped imminently, after a Malaysian win involving OpenAI.
Gilmour Space and Hypersonix have signed a partnership to offer hypersonic flight testing, combining rocket launch and scramjet technology, announced at a National Reconstruction Fund event in Canberra to build sovereign capability.