Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
Red Cross's Humanitech Lab has granted half a million dollars each to deaf-communications startup Kara Technologies and drone revegetation firm AirSeed, both of which had earlier raises; Kara came through Startmate.
Five climate startups from UNSW Founders' Climate 10x accelerator shared $580,000 backed by Virescent Ventures and UNSW, presented at the 10x Demo Day featuring 25 ventures across several founder programs.
Antler Australia investor memo profiling pre-seed sales-financing startup Geniepay, founded by Sajid Bokhari and Eric Ding, covering its backing, beta customers and pitch competition wins.
Podcast interview in which Advanced Navigation co-founder Xavier Orr discusses the company's new Botany factory, lunar landing sensors, a reported billion-dollar Series B valuation, and hiring in a tight skills market.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing items: DroneShield's Ukraine orders, CEO appointments at Bridgewest Perth Pharma and Sentinel Boats, SPC's community capital raise, LBT's underwritten raising, a university defence consortium, wine grants and new facilities.
Tom Stace and Arkady Federov launch AQC, a Queensland venture making miniature superconducting components for quantum computers, with Uniseed investing $3 million; the piece also recaps Australia's quantum funding momentum.
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Rosebank Engineering has started operating its Melbourne F-35 component repair depot, backed by a $2.26m federal grant, serving Indo-Pacific fleets; the business sits in ASDAM Group, which CPE Capital mostly owns.
Feature on flow batteries using vanadium for around-the-clock renewable storage: Invinity's Port Pirie unit is commissioning, ARENA's 2020 backing is recalled, Australian Vanadium expects to supply electrolyte, and Horizon plans a WA trial.
Announcement of the fifth episode of the publisher's podcast, featuring a conversation between its CEO and a referee-management platform co-founder about startup growth, sport partnerships and overseas expansion.
Roundup of ten Australian startup raises totalling $38.8 million, topped by Heidi Health's Series A, also recording an Outstaffer executive appointment and the earlier sale of CarAdvice to Nine.
Legaltech dispute-resolution platform Immediation has appointed FTI Consulting administrators after earlier raising $3.75m, $5m and $2.8m; its roughly eight employees and four contractors face an uncertain future.
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Profile of the WA hot-sauce maker behind the Bunsters brand, whose milder-named sauce landed in Woolworths, with a US Walmart listing and a TV appearance ahead.
Heidi Health, whose AI tool trims paperwork for family doctors, has banked a $10 million Series A round led by returning backer Blackbird, with co-investors including Hostplus and Hesta.
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Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: raises for Overstory, FarmInsect, GoodBytz and others; Ever.Ag buys Austin Data Labs; grants for Wadhwani AI and Notpla; SLM and Impact Ag roll out a carbon fund; URB-E rebrands.
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Coal-industry body LETA has committed $6 million to back KC8 Capture Technologies' PACER project, which will trial capturing cement-production emissions at Cement Australia's Gladstone facility.
Norwood Systems, a telecoms platform provider, has closed a $710,000 share placement, with Alto Capital giving commitments; funds are earmarked for growth, product work, AI and partnerships.
Startupbootcamp Australia announces FCX as a partner for its Sustainable Fintech Accelerator Program, giving participant startups free cap table access and discounted fundraising tools alongside other named partners.
Outstaffer, a Victorian HR tech platform, has secured $1.5 million from outside investors in a round co-led by its chief operating officer, funding product development and a planned US expansion.
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M&A firm Eaton Square announces it acted for RV components maker Finch Australia in its purchase by fellow Melbourne supplier Caravan And Camping Aus, with Finch's co-founders staying on to support integration.
Manufacturing briefs roundup: WA government commits $5m to space facility Fugro SpAARC; Starpharma and Micro-X receive R&D tax refunds; Bulla licenses Violet Crumble for ice cream; SCEE wins $50m in contracts.
LaunchVic case study profiling XY Sense, a Melbourne workplace-occupancy analytics startup, covering its founding, global growth, selection for the 30X30 leadership program, and a Global Victoria grant supporting expansion into new markets.
Startupbootcamp Australia profiles Natural Trace, a FoodTech Tasmania 2023 startup using bio-barcode traceability to fight food fraud, noting its expansion from Singapore to Tasmania and the hire of business developer Kristy Hall.
Melbourne healthtech firm Heidi Health has pulled in A$10 million Series A capital, headed by Blackbird Ventures, to grow its AI scribe that lightens clinicians' documentation workload.
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All G Foods spins its Love Buds plant-based range into a merger with Fenn Foods' vEEF, forming a new entity; All G pivots to fermented dairy, with both companies' earlier raises recapped.
Crunchbase News surveys recently funded carbon removal startups storing CO2 in oceans, soil, underground and concrete, and notes large carbon-capture acquisitions by oil and gas buyers.
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Australian insurtech LifeBid has closed a $1.45 million equity crowdfunding round hosted by Stride Equity's platform, beating its target, with $820,000 from crowd investors plus a $700,000 co-investment from Stride Equity and partners.
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Wealth platform Superhero announces senior appointments in strategic projects, superannuation operations and customer operations, hiring executives from Vanguard Australia and HUB24; one appointee previously led the EISS merger with CBUS.
Tidal Ventures explains why it backed Orkestra for a second time, covering the clean-energy market opportunity, the feasibility software product, the founding team, business model and growth plans.
Startupbootcamp Australia profiles predictive-maintenance firm Groundup.ai, an EnergyTech Hub 2023 scale-up using AI sound analysis, recalling its funding round this year and clients such as the Republic of Singapore Navy.
Sydney software firm Factory.app has banked a $1.05 million seed round, Investible leading alongside angel and venture backers, to digitalise manufacturing workflows for small fabricators before expanding overseas.
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Software investor VentureOn Partners has bought Brisbane proptech backer Story Bridge Ventures; SBV's two partners join it, and its $15m fund was set up by four ex-Simpro identities.
Peak XV, the former Sequoia India, has picked Relevance AI and Mercu for the ninth Surge cohort, while recalling earlier Australian investments including HealthEngine, Checkbox, Nugit and the collapsed delivery firm Voly.
Victoria's medical research grant fund has opened another round; past recipient Avipep says its 2021 grant sped development of an antibody therapy now shown to kill tumour cells in preclinical testing.
Seven startups, including Australians Economical Energy and Onvol, join the third cohort of Studio X, a Shell-backed California accelerator offering investment and mentorship in energy and climate tech.
Blog announcement of Employment Hero's 263 million Australian dollar Series F, with TCV leading and Insight Partners, AirTree, Seek and OneVentures also participating; the post also unveils the Hero Foundation.
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Press release announcing Employment Hero's A$263 million Series F led by TCV, with earlier backers participating, a valuation just under $2 billion, AI-focused global expansion plans, and a look back at the KeyPay acquisition.
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Melbourne renewables software firm Orkestra has secured $2 million in a follow-up seed round led again by Tidal Ventures, alongside Rampersand, Impact Ventures, Luxem and four climate tech investors, with a Series A next.
Roundup of eight Australian startup raises totalling $433m, topped by Employment Hero's $263m Series F and Skykraft's $120m round; Darwinium, Konvoy Kegs, The Martec and three Birchal crowdfunds complete the week.
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Columnist Sabri Suby wraps Shark Tank Australia's season five: Suitor took $250,000 from two sharks including Suby, Robert's higher bid landed BrandScent, while Sundust and Sock Drawer Heroes left without deals.
Sparc Hydrogen, through a University of Adelaide partnership, has won a $470,511 seed grant under Australia's Economic Accelerator to advance reactor testing, including prototype work at CSIRO's Newcastle energy centre.
Payments platform Airwallex has agreed to buy Mexican payment provider MexPago, pending regulatory approval, and named six new leaders at its San Francisco hub amid rapid Americas growth.
Employment Hero raised a $263 million Series F led by TCV, reaching a $2 billion valuation, with existing backers reinvesting; Skykraft announced a $120 million raise.
ASX-listed Wide Open Agriculture has announced a A$4.2 million (€2.5 million) cash deal to buy German lupin protein maker Prolupin, gaining European manufacturing, patents and trademarks, subject to creditor approval.
Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has taken an undisclosed strategic stake in Earth-observation data platform Arlula, which earlier in 2023 raised $2.2 million in a round led by Main Sequence Ventures.
Lender Funding.com.au has teamed up with broker group Resolve Finance so its brokers can offer Funding's short-term property-secured loan range, with equity backing from EVP and debt finance from MA Financial.
Bluprintx announces its founder and Group CEO Lee Hackett has been named among LDC's Top 50 Most Ambitious UK Business Leaders for 2023, a recognition programme supported by The Times.
Trend piece on regenerative medicine as an investment theme, built on Dr Stephen Moss's Sydney keynote and a Bali treatment facility venture by Simplr Health with DAI, backed by a $700,000 Australian government grant.
Australian HR software firm Employment Hero has banked a large Series F led by US investor TCV, lifting its valuation towards $2 billion, with several existing backers also taking part.
Sydney HR-and-payroll firm Employment Hero announced a TCV-led Series F reaching unicorn valuation; the profile covers its products, remote workforce and global ambitions, citing rival raises.
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Profiles three founders: Kismet's Mark Woodland ($4m pre-seed for disability-services software), Forage's Tom Brumskill and Pasha Rayan (job-simulation platform, Series A and B), and Diolog's Amy Benson (self-funded investor-communications startup planning a seed round).