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Soho, the property search app cofounded by Airtasker's Jonathan Lui, has secured $750,000 from Singapore VC Feedback Ventures in a pre-Series B round valuing it above $20 million.
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Sparc Hydrogen has selected a site near Adelaide for a pilot plant proving its solar-driven hydrogen process, after on-sun trials at CSIRO's Newcastle facility, with the project backed by two grant programs.
AuManufacturing columnist Peter Roberts laments the cut-price sale of wheel maker Carbon Revolution to US backers and reports plans for Mexican production, citing Tritium's offshore shift as another local manufacturing loss.
Profile of Ballarat fintech QuantPS, founded by Jim Nicol, whose analytics platform helps banks earn more when selling distressed homes, plus its place in Startupbootcamp's 2023 sustainable fintech accelerator.
Vaxxas reports positive Phase I results for its needle-free skin-patch delivery of a measles-rubella vaccine, with Gates Foundation grant funding and a planned PATH-sponsored Phase I/II trial in The Gambia.
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Sally Metelerkamp's addiction app Lived has closed as she manages health problems; the story recalls its Antler incubator origins, a 2021 launch backed with $2.5 million, and $4 million more raised.
Origin Energy put off its shareholder vote on the Brookfield takeover bid after a late revised offer, with directors also flagging the federal government's expanded Capacity Investment Scheme for investors to weigh.
The founder of health startup Lived reflects on closing the company, repaying backers, and lessons for other founders, crediting Folklore Ventures and Antler for early backing.
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Ideagen has acquired Victorian software firm Op Central for an undisclosed sum, its third Australian purchase this year and sixth of 2023; Op Central will be rebranded with staff retained.
Tenacious Ventures discusses the shutdown of its portfolio company Nowadays, a plant-based whole-cut meat manufacturer, in a podcast conversation with founder Max Elder and general partners Matthew Pryor and Sarah Nolet.
Jelix Ventures sets out why its Fund 1 backed Earlywork's $1.5 million round, praising the edtech startup's team and vocational model while flagging scaling questions.
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Brisbane incubator White Box Enterprises closed a $12 million impact raise to back social enterprises, beginning with a non-profit laundry at Bangalow that will employ around 40 disadvantaged jobseekers.
Battery firm Akaysha expects four-hour storage to become standard in Australia now that its Orana project has won a national underwriting auction; the piece also recalls BlackRock's 2022 acquisition of the company.
Podcast chat with Paperly founder Dan Dawson, whose education technology company joined a Perth accelerator and won backing from venture fund Purpose Ventures.
Manufacturing briefs: Victoria backs a skills program, Titomic supplies an Air France subsidiary, a pool-technology firm hires a sales chief, Bod Science banks a tax rebate, and Amaero completes a placement.
University-backed investor Uniseed has brought in Monash and four NSW universities as partners and is recruiting technology and biotechnology investment managers in Melbourne and Sydney.
AfterWork Ventures announces it joined Avarni's pre-seed round and interviews founders Misha Cajic and Anuj Paudel on their path from school projects to emissions tracking software.
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Brisbane-based venture firm VentureOn hires Gauri Chawla as a general partner to build its North American presence; her background includes a senior inriver role before its private equity sale.
Brisbane payments firm Touch2Pay has closed a $3.2m pre-Series A2 round from existing and new investors, taking its total raised to $6.3m.
Sydney drone startup Aerologix has secured A$2m from Nightingale Partners to expand internationally, buying Brazilian geospatial firm Mappa and rolling the software out worldwide as AerologixMaps.
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Aura Ventures explains why it led Sahha's seed round, citing the health-data gap, Sahha's behavioural-health API, its neuroscience-led team and its University of Otago research partnership.
Profiles Stori, an AI game-worldbuilding startup by founder Nilushanan Kulasingham: pre-seed investment by Antler and investor Jason Calacanis, plus a place in AWS's GenAI Accelerator.
Melbourne university funds backed a psychedelic medicines startup; six campus startups were showcased, and Tanarra Capital reported $100 million committed toward its alumni founders fund target.
Briefs roundup: Main Sequence adds Alison Deans as venture partner; Starpharma hands the CEO role to Cheryl Maley; DroneShield lands a $2.2 million repeat order; Q-CTRL will deliver quantum training with QUIN.
Roundup of the week's Australian raises: Sitemate, Kashcade, Psychae Therapeutics, MediCann Health, Refilled and Upworth together banked $21.3 million across software, lending, psychedelic medicine, cannabis and drink dispensing.
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Construction software startup Sitemate has secured $7.5 million in pre-Series A funding, led by Marbruck Investments with Blackbird and Artesian participating, and intends to double headcount during 2024.
A $2 million Western Australian government matching grant will help Bridgewest upgrade its Bentley drug-making site, NovaCina, adding production lines and roughly 70 jobs while cutting import dependence.
5B, a New South Wales solar technology firm, has hired Sun Cable's co-founder and ex-CEO David Griffin as its new chief executive, succeeding co-founder Chris McGrath.
Eaton Square acted as adviser to ASCT, a geotechnical testing business, on its completed transaction with Phenna Group, which ASCT's director called a home for the company.
PropCode, a Sydney startup whose AI interprets planning rules for construction, has secured $400,000 in a pre-seed raise backed by Skalata Ventures and Brisbane Angels, with Antler already on the register.
Melbourne biotech Certa Therapeutics reported encouraging Phase 2 results for its scleroderma drug FT011 at a US rheumatology meeting, with safety confirmed and a pivotal trial planned.
Australian biotech Certa Therapeutics reports Phase 2 scleroderma trial results for FT011 at a US rheumatology meeting, showing efficacy and safety, with a pivotal study planned.
DASH has added Kate Eriksson to its board and Deepti Manocha as finance chief amid its expansion. Eriksson is a Co:Act Capital venture partner, and the firm invested in DASH earlier in 2023.
Tenacious Ventures' analysis says farm autonomy is entering a more practical second phase, citing Guardian Ag's drone deployment for Wilbur-Ellis and its portfolio company SwarmFarm's self-refilling sprayer feature.
Sydney fintech Upworth has raised $1m from angels in its debut external round, launching a free dashboard that tracks savings, crypto, mortgages, super and flyer points, with refinancing tools built on open banking.
Uniseed adds Monash and a four-university NSW collaboration, lifting its third fund by $6.75 million to $56.75 million; the article recalls past portfolio sales to Novartis, Shire and Schneider Electric.
Adelaide allied-health software firm Splose has $1.5 million committed toward a $3 million Series A, after a $1 million raise in 2022; several sports and media identities back the company.
Sydney startup Refilled has raised a A$1.3 million seed round, with Melt Ventures leading and Envato's Ta'eed brothers among backers, to scale refill stations that cut single-use plastic; Google is already a customer.
Profile interview with GoFIGR founder Helena Turpin, recalling her pre-seed raise via an Antler application and this year's $2.8 million seed round for her internal talent marketplace platform.
Brisbane-based VC firm VentureOn Partners has hired Chicago operator Matt Green as a General Partner to drive its North American expansion and support SaaS, proptech and contech investments.
Home-loan technology firm Tic:Toc has rebranded as Tiimely to foreground its enterprise platform business, and reports a valuation near $254m after completing a Series-D2 round in February 2023.
AgFunderNews interview with the founder of Australian fermentation startup Cauldron, who argues continuous processing can make microbial protein affordable for commodity ingredients and outlines plans for a contract manufacturing network.
Startupbootcamp Australia profiles WINIM, a FoodTech Tasmania 2023 startup whose platform tracks supermarket inventory and expiry dates to cut food waste; its Demo Day pitches are set for 16 November.
Woodside has committed another US$750,000 to 1414 Degrees' SiBox molten silicon storage demonstration, lifting its total backing to US$2.75 million, on top of earlier Australian Government money.
Thermal storage firm 1414 Degrees has won an extra $750,000 from Woodside's technology arm for its molten silicon SiBox pilot, taking that backer's support to $2.75 million, with the demonstration unit now running unattended.
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Autodesk has finalised its buyout of Reekoh, a Future Now Ventures holding, wrapping up a deal signed in September; terms stay undisclosed, though press speculation values it near AUD 31.5 million.
Perth biotech PharmAust appointed Dr Michael Thurn as chief executive and reported positive urinary biomarker findings from its motor neurone disease trial of drug candidate MPL.
Weekly roundup of the five most-read stories: Tritium shifting charger production to Tennessee, Carbon Revolution's NASDAQ listing, defence grants for manufacturers, a bushfire-resistant paint hitting shelves, and Cobram Estate Olives' 25-year growth.
ASX-listed software firm Vection Technologies has named Damian Banks, formerly Konekt's chief executive, as its board chairman, while Bert Mondello steps into a non-executive director seat.