Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
Manufacturing roundup: Australian Vanadium and entX land government grants, Hexagon Energy Materials completes a $1 million round, Australian Dairy Nutritionals appoints a CEO, Aurora Labs adds a director, plus vessel, export and research briefs.
Bellabox, an early Australian beauty subscription service, is shutting down this month after rising costs; the piece recalls its 2013 $1.3 million raise and Allure Media's 2014 purchase of half the company.
ARENA announced a $3.2 million grant to Amber Electric for a residential trial of EV smart charging and vehicle-to-grid services, with enX independently verifying the project's modelling under the Driving the Nation Fund.
Simply Good Foods has completed its $280 million buyout of plant-based protein shake maker OWYN, purchasing the brand from shareholder GroundForce Capital.
Weekly agri-foodtech roundup: raises at THIS, Tender, Ever After Foods, Farmbot and Beta Bugs; two acquisitions; Proterra's rural fund raise; grants; and AgriFORCE appointing Jolie Kahn CEO.
Fast-food chain Guzman y Gomez has completed its Australian sharemarket debut, with shares trading well above the offer price and valuing the Sydney-founded business at roughly three billion dollars.
Dovetail Electric Aviation will use Siemens' NX X design software to develop electric propulsion retrofits for small aircraft. The Melbourne-based company counts Rex, Invest Victoria, Aciturri and Air Nostrum among its backers.
Crunchbase's analysis finds venture funding for chip startups rebounding in 2024 on AI demand, recapping large recent deals at Black Semiconductor, Tenstorrent, PsiQuantum, Celestial AI, Recogni and Eliyan, plus Astera Labs' IPO.
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Metal 3D printer maker SPEE3D has launched its first US manufacturing and applications facility at the University of New Hampshire, keeping its Melbourne headquarters as it serves American defence clients.
Sydney boat-rental platform Floatspace has been bought by yacht charter operator Ahoy Club, with founder Hugh Treseder staying on as CEO; the story recalls its $600,000 raise and later failed funding attempts.
SmartCompany profiles BindiMaps' work with Guide Dogs Victoria on an accessible Kew campus rebuild, plus the Sydney navigation firm's growth ambitions.
Breakthrough Victoria announces a $15 million investment in Liquid Instruments, a maker of software-defined test instruments, which plans a Melbourne office, local manufacturing growth and dozens of high-tech hires.
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Aura Ventures announces Sabrina Zeng has joined as corporate development manager, citing her background across banking, Fishburners and UNSW, and the firm's funds and regional presence.
Archistar, whose platform applies AI to 3D building design and planning checks, has added $5 million from NAB Ventures, Skip Capital and Prabhat Sethi, with AirTree having led earlier rounds.
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Andromeda Robotics secured $3 million in seed funding from Purpose Ventures, which led the deal, to grow its aged-care companion robot Abi; Galileo Ventures provided an earlier pre-seed in 2023.
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Buy now, pay later firm Laybuy has put its Australian and New Zealand operations into receivership, appointing Deloitte receivers, after a sale attempt collapsed, with co-founder Gary Rohloff blaming the downturn and financing costs.
Singapore's Temasek has agreed to take a minority stake of as much as A$300 million in ETF manager Betashares, which says the money will fund growth, acquisitions and a superannuation push.
MGA Thermal's own newsroom post announces another $2.48 million from ARENA, tripling the federal agency's support for its thermal storage demonstration project, with quotes from both organisations' chief executives.
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Blackbird announces its investment in Atticus's $10.8 million raise and profiles the startup's founding team, product craft, and enterprise customers.
AFR profile of Linkby co-founder Chris Wirasinha covers the adtech firm's new $4 million raise, with Perennial Private Investments leading and OIF following on, and recalls his earlier sale of Pedestrian TV to Nine.
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Defence-focused VC firm Beaten Zone Venture Partners adds two people: ex-Army general Mick Ryan as advisor, and Peta Ellis rejoining Steve Baxter's team alongside existing staff.
Weekly roundup detailing new funding for eight local startups: home lending, document verification, farm water monitoring, alcoholic drinks, freight software, leaf protein, artist content sales and organic bedding, totalling over $36 million.
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Australia's securities regulator has halted Hirehood's equity crowdfunding campaign on VentureCrowd — its first stop order of this kind — citing nominee share concerns, and recalls CSF backers' heavy losses when GoPro acquired Forcite.
Quantum computing startup Diraq announced record qubit control fidelity and chip-making partnerships with GlobalFoundries and IMEC; the piece also recounts its Quantonation-led Series A, early Allectus backing, and PsiQuantum's government funding.
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Vast Renewables and Mabanaft have signed a joint development agreement advancing Vast's South Australian solar methanol plant, with Mabanaft holding offtake rights and ARENA plus German government funding behind the project.
Myriota has received a $1.5 million grant from the Australian Space Agency's Moon to Mars Initiative, announced at the opening of its Adelaide experience centre, to fund a communications payload for use off Earth.
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Roundup of agrifoodtech news: raises across Europe, Singapore and Australia, Collaborative Fund wraps a $125m vehicle, Neutral Foods merges with Zeal Creamery, SCiFi Foods shuts down, and Aleph Farms cuts staff.
Ten13's post explains why it led iion's seed round with Archangel and PixCapital, describing the gaming adtech platform, its three adtech-veteran founders, and the under-penetrated in-game advertising market.
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Sydney neurotech firm Omniscient has banked a Series C from Gina Rinehart and Will Vicars, funding a push into the United States for its connectomics platform.
Antler partner James McClure argues few Australian VCs back MVP-stage startups through to Series A, and launches a Fast Track Funding pathway for young businesses, citing Xailient, Sapyen and Tactiq as past investments.
Melbourne startup extracting protein from leaves has raised $850,000 in a round led by the University of Melbourne's Genesis fund, with Breakthrough Victoria, LaunchVic, Loyal VC and Big Idea Ventures also investing.
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Adelaide water-treatment firm Clarity Aquatic has installed a second floating wetland at a Tasmanian sewage plant, part of a pilot with utility TasWater covering three northeast sites.
Main Sequence's essay argues science-born technology needs patient, long-horizon capital rather than quick software-style exits, citing portfolio company Samsara Eco's partnership with Lululemon as an example of deep tech's transformative payoff.
Farm water monitoring firm Farmbot raised A$4.6 million, topping its initial $3 million goal, with Telstra and Macdoch Ventures among returning backers as it pushes US growth through subsidiary Ranchbot.
Queensland's investment arm is backing Melbourne's sports technology network to run accelerator programs for as many as 40 local sportstech startups, after its venture development fund recently committed to several venture funds.
Marquee Retail Group, owned by ex-Myer chief Bernie Brookes, has emerged from voluntary administration under a restructuring deed, keeping 400 jobs and The Daily Edited's online business, while its Sydney flagship store shut.
Profile of antivirus pioneer John McAfee covering his career, the founding and later sale of McAfee Associates, his other ventures, legal troubles, and his 2021 death in a Spanish prison.
Farmbot has closed a bridge round to bankroll its push into the United States, with prior backers and fresh investors taking part, following raises in 2021 and 2022.
Bridging lender Bridgit has banked a $14.6m equity round through OIF Ventures plus a $125m debt facility, positioning the Surry Hills startup for Australia's looming intergenerational wealth handover.
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Remarkable, the venture arm of Cerebral Palsy Alliance, unveiled Scaler, which will take minimum stakes of A$200,000 in disability, ageing and health startups at seed-to-Series-A stage; accelerator alumnus Cephable is showcased.
Sapia.ai is making its AI interview models available to other businesses through a new API initiative on AWS Marketplace, letting firms build workplace AI tools from its interview data, per CEO Barb Hyman.
Manufacturing roundup: IDT Australia and Genetic Signatures announce capital raisings; Memphasys and Genetic Signatures appoint new chief executives; NIOA opens a US office; DefendTex holds acquisition talks with Brazil's Avibras; a cobotics PhD ends.
Victoria added $1 million to the Hugh Victor McKay Fund, lifting it to $2 million for early-stage AgTech investments delivered with LaunchVic; first investees include AgriNous and The Leaf Protein Co, alongside further grants.
Sprint Ventures announces a binding term sheet making QVCDF a cornerstone backer of its upcoming third fund, and flags plans to invest across healthcare, climate tech and AI, plus a July event.
Roundup of the week's agrifoodtech news: an Indonesian aquaculture startup's US$30m debt raise, a Queensland-backed climate fund close, several smaller raises, a micro-fulfillment firm's bankruptcy filing and an ag-analytics platform shutting down.
Telix, an ASX-listed radiopharmaceutical maker headquartered in Melbourne, is preparing a dual US listing; the piece also covers revenue growth, cancer trial results and recalls its 2017 float.
Q&A profile of Breezepay, a Sydney stablecoin payment gateway, covering its founders, its XRPL Grants accelerator acceptance with funding in the UK, and its early-stage status.
Tractor Ventures has appointed an all-female executive team, with Jodie Imam as sole CEO and Aprill Enright and Francine Hackett as COO and CFO, while co-founder Matt Allen shifts to a new capital role.