Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
South Australian soft plastics recycler Recycling Plastics Australia, recipient of a $20m federal grant, has entered voluntary administration with KPMG appointed, after a major supplier's collapse derailed its plan to fill REDcycle's gap.
Plant-based food maker OMG Group has locked in a $1.5 million placement, with beverage manufacturer Slades Beverages taking a cornerstone stake and becoming its oat milk production partner as sales grow.
ARENA marks 100 community batteries installed under its funding initiative and announces $23.2 million in new grants for three Round 2 battery projects led by YES Group, Ausgrid and the City of Newcastle.
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A guide for founders on building AI-native iOS and Android apps, covering architecture choices, platform differences, pitfalls and upcoming Australian privacy rules, with examples from Hyper's portfolio.
Blog item on the AI funding climate: sales platform Clay reportedly raising at a stepped-up valuation with Wellington Management leading, plus a recap of its CapitalG Series C and other AI funding notes.
Defence tech firm Q-CTRL reports a first-at-sea trial navigating a vessel with no satellite positioning, using a quantum gravity sensor hardened by software, reaching nautical-mile accuracy and extending its navigation product line.
Perth robotics group Nexxis has acquired BladeBUG, a UK developer of wind turbine inspection robots, taking the Australian company into the UK renewables sector; no price was given.
Bridget Loudon-Harris's recruitment platform Expert360 has been acquired by Swipejobs in a $16 million deal that wipes out its investors; the buyer is eyeing an ASX float.
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Cold spray manufacturer Titomic has locked in A$16.5 million via a share placement, funding expansion at its Alabama plant and a planned shift of corporate domicile to the United States.
Sydney tech services firm Adactin has bought Melbourne Microsoft partner Focus Dynamics Group, keeping all 82 staff and the FDG brand intact to deepen its Dynamics 365 and Azure capabilities; terms undisclosed.
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Canberra is putting up to $26 million through ARENA behind Element Zero's Perth pilot testing whether the nation's iron ore can become low-emissions iron via a renewable-powered, molten-salt process.
AFR Street Talk reports Eucalyptus co-founder Charlie Gearside and Chris Cuffe's Partners Horizon Fund have joined Sydney investment app Pearler's $16 million Series A.
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Three Western Australian firms, including battery newcomer Magellan Power, have been awarded grants totalling $1.7 million under the state's Local Battery Manufacturing Program to develop prototypes and expand battery manufacturing capacity.
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Bathla Group's administrators expect to wind up the business after a lender meeting and a government bailout request failed, leaving hundreds of staff unpaid and thousands of homes in limbo.
WA's government has announced half a million dollars for National Electric Motor Services via its co-investment program for wind manufacturing, backing a Malaga facility to overhaul turbines locally; earlier recipients are also named.
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Steve Baxter's Brisbane defence-tech venture firm Beaten Zone has wrapped its first fund at $26 million, with Baxter the largest backer at $6 million of his own money.
Gridsight, whose platform maps electricity grid capacity for utilities in real time, has raised a $26 million Series B round with Insight Partners leading, to fund its push into the US market.
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Melbourne medical device maker GonGlobal has received a A$1 million grant, split evenly between Innovation Victoria and RMIT University, to develop Ovulair, which delivers fertility medication by inhalation instead of injection.
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Sydney quantum computing company Diraq will station an eight-qubit prototype machine inside an Equinix facility from October, a step toward moving the technology from lab to market.
The US War Department has announced an estimated US$174m equity investment, partnering with Export Finance Australia, Japan and Sojitz, to build a gallium plant at Alcoa's Wagerup refinery.
Investors approved extending Airtree's 2014 debut fund to mid-2028 so the firm can keep its Canva holding; the piece also recalls Canva's Series A and Airtree's later fund totals.
Energy AI startup Gridsight, co-founded by NSW childhood friends, has raised a $36 million round led by New York's Insight Partners as it expands into the US; Endeavour Energy is among its customers.
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Airtree's investors approved prolonging its debut fund to July 2028, safeguarding foundation stakes such as Canva and defusing a limited-partner revolt over the firm's withheld distributions.
Medical imaging company CurveBeam AI completed a share purchase plan raising A$606,150, weeks after a A$5 million placement, with proceeds earmarked for sales, marketing, R&D and a planned China launch.
Dicker Data has launched Advanced Logistics Services, a vendor-agnostic offering that receives, stores, consolidates and prepares equipment for partners' complex AI infrastructure deployments before coordinated delivery to site.
Legal services provider Consilio has bought Australian electronic-evidence firm icourts, the parties announced on September 1, terms undisclosed, as Consilio keeps expanding its local operations and AI offerings.
Actinogen Medical has signed a deal making shareholder Forrest Capital underwrite its unlisted options, guaranteeing the biotech roughly A$4.77 million before Alzheimer's trial results due in November.
Melbourne biotech Percheron Therapeutics has locked in $2.3 million through an institutional placement to fund a Vanderbilt Health trial of its HMBD-002 antibody in blood cancers.
AFR's Street Talk column reports ASX-listed additive manufacturing company Titomic is out seeking fresh equity, noting the manufacturer's $273 million market capitalisation.
Skalata Ventures, the seed fund and founder-training program led by Paul Little and Rohan Workman, is raising a second vehicle plus growth capital, reporting 30 investments and a 44 per cent IRR.
Touch Ventures' investment lifts commitments in Skalata's second fund beyond $25 million, with Afterpay co-founder Anthony Eisen investing personally; Touch also recently headed a $5.5 million raise for portfolio company Preezie.
Australian startup capital climbed 30% in early 2024 even as deal counts fell; Skalata Ventures topped investor activity with 13 participations, ahead of Blackbird and Investible.
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Skalata Ventures unveils its October 2021 seed intake of 13 startups, among them Ardacious and Strength By Numbers, and notes alumnus Preezie recently secured a $5.5 million Series A.
Profile of Skalata Ventures' Rohan Workman and Maxine Lee recounting the firm's founding, pandemic-era restructuring, $7 million raise, second fund deployment, and backing of Flux, Explorate and Preezie.
Skalata announces a $5M allocation from Western Australia's $45M venture capital program to back local startups, recalls its existing WA investments, and plans a permanent WA base from 2025.
Victorian agtech firm Smart Paddock has raised a $1.7m seed round co-led by Breakthrough Victoria and Telstra's muru-D, with Skalata, Twynam and Little Group also investing; Telstra executive Jon Young Flores joins the board.
LaunchVic selected nine Victorian start-ups, including Preezie, for a mentoring bootcamp with executives from Atlassian, Uber, Dropbox, Seek and Canva.
Skalata Ventures uses its recent accolade as Australia's busiest early-stage investor to pitch founders on its hands-on, seed-specialist approach, arguing most VCs overpromise support and underdeliver.
Skalata's rebrand announcement explains its shift to year-round seed investing, wider cheque sizes and follow-on plans, recaps team hires including a Venture Partner and three associates, and notes portfolio companies' Series A raises.
Queensland government screen agency awards its third online production grants round, giving four local online series $50,000 each in production funding.
ARENA will spend up to $105.6 million on 20 solar research projects, including grants for Sunspence, Proa Energy and a University of Sydney tandem-cell team working with panel maker Unison Solar.
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Airwallex's inaugural Latitude 37 program has selected ten AI startups, each receiving $100,000 in non-dilutive cash alongside mentorship, connections and overseas travel.
Administrators Teneo warn the debt-laden developer Bathla Group could close within days without emergency funding; 350 staff are unpaid and the NSW government has declined a bailout.
ARENA has announced $105.6 million in grants for twenty solar research projects, mostly at Australian universities, plus two companies, targeting cheaper cells, modules and solar farm operations.
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REA Group has created its first chief AI officer role and appointed Thyago Liberalli, a long-serving Seek AI leader, to it; he reports to CTO Steve Maidment.
Australian grid-analytics startup GridSight raised a $36 million Series A led by Insight Partners, funding US expansion of its AI platform that helps utilities integrate renewables and modernise operations.
Apate.AI, which deploys conversational AI to disrupt phone fraud, has banked $11.4 million in seed backing from Lobby Capital and others, with proceeds earmarked for overseas growth and a US re-incorporation.
Canyon Resources shareholders question whether majority owner and bidder A2MP is connected to second-largest holder World Metal Alloys, which likely blocked a March capital raising.
An Australian infectious-disease incubator has selected six local biotechs to divide $10.48 million from its inaugural funding round, pairing non-dilutive cash with commercialisation support; the program is backed by an earlier MRFF grant.
Alterity Therapeutics has appointed MST Financial Services to backstop its expiring listed options ahead of a pivotal Phase 3 trial of its lead drug candidate for a rare neurodegenerative disorder.