Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
Breakthrough Victoria announces a $148,000 pre-seed investment in Geelong maker Zena Sport, whose protective vests guard female athletes against breast injury; Carbine, Smorgon Family and Euphemia also backed the first external round.
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Vast has brought in CYD to begin early engineering on its VS1 solar thermal project in Port Augusta, simulating the storage tanks digitally; the piece also recaps earlier ARENA backing.
Perth firm Dark Stry has launched a self-guided audio road-trip app for the drive to the Pinnacles, developed with a 2022 SPUR Location grant and help from Landgate.
Weekly roundup of six Australian startups raising a combined $45.1 million across energy, e-commerce, design software, cloud security, climate tech and insurtech, plus Awayco's acquisition of Barcode Solutions and nVest winning SmartCompany's Pitch.
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Kivera, a Sydney-founded cloud security startup now headquartered in New York, has raised a $5.1 million seed round with Round 13 Capital and General Advance leading, and last month hired a new CEO.
Alex Waislitz's Thorney vehicle steered an $11 million round into Awayco, which also bought Sydney point-of-sale firm Barcode Solutions; its chief Shanti Kumar now heads POSConnex, while founder Gideon Gut-Silverman keeps directing growth.
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Interview with Lisa Vincent on building e-learning platform HowToo alongside agency Savv-e, covering government grants, a 2021 raise, backing via Aliavia Ventures, and plans to expand into the US market.
Fintech Driva launches a multi-year partnership letting carsales shoppers see personalised finance options on private vehicle listings; the article also recalls Carthona Capital's earlier backing of the startup.
Cloud security company Kivera has raised a seed round to hire talent and expand overseas, drawing investment from two funds plus angel investors, and has appointed a new CEO while moving headquarters to New York.
Insurtech LifeBid has secured $700,000 from industry partners plus the Stride Group and opened a crowd-sourced funding campaign on Stride Equity's platform, the investor's first backing and first campaign.
Dark web monitoring company Cyble closed a Series B backed by Blackbird, King River and others, with the article recalling its earlier seed and Series A raises.
CRDC announces that an irrigation algorithm developed by University of Southern Queensland and CSIRO researchers has gone to Goanna Ag, which will fold it into its GoField service to guide cotton growers' first irrigation.
Founder-backed syndicate Side Stage Ventures has become a $15 million seed fund, with LocalGlobe and several founders as limited partners, three startups already backed, and portfolio company Joyn acquiring event firm Arinex.
Vanity Fair examines criticism of Prince Harry's BetterUp role after layoffs, coach unrest and missed revenue targets, framing the royal couple's media setbacks as part of a broader tech downturn.
SmartCompany reports Side Stage Ventures has completed a $15 million first close of its debut fund, backed by founders of Airtasker, Linktree and Go1 plus LocalGlobe, targeting $30 million and already backing early startups.
Feature arguing Australia needs more scaleup manufacturers, featuring interviews with Gilmour Space, Breakthrough Victoria and Harvest B, set against the nation's declining economic complexity ranking.
Weekly roundup reporting eight Australian startups together raised $85.6 million across mining tech, cybersecurity, waste, energy storage, health and micromobility, plus a Google.org grant for Global Sisters.
AgFunderNews' monthly roundup of agrifood leadership changes: a new CFO at Little Leaf Farms, co-CEOs at Incredo, Chobani's new CMO, plus appointments, departures and layoffs across sector companies.
Cicada Innovations is opening a health-tech incubator at Sydney's Westmead precinct with NSW government grant backing, working with Brandon Capital and Brandon BioCatalyst to help researchers commercialise medical discoveries.
Deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations is opening a health-focused facility at Sydney's Westmead precinct with Investment NSW backing, working with Brandon Capital and Brandon BioCatalyst to help early medical startups commercialise.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup reporting Konscious Foods' seed raise, commitments into Ocean 14 Capital's blue economy fund, LIVEKINDLY's acquisition of Alpha Foods, several grants, and a Wiliot advisor hire.
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Payments platform Airwallex has teamed up with venture investing platform OurCrowd, letting investors back global startups in local currencies; since February over a third of OurCrowd's FX flow has run through Airwallex.
Podcast episode in which the co-founders of a medtech startup discuss their vein-visualising device, last year's seed raise, a grant win, and progress toward trials.
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Podcast interview with Full Circle Fibres founder Meriel Chamberlin on Australia's textile industry, whose Mud to Marle project recently received a Country Road Climate Fund grant.
A roundup of Australian lifestyle brands bought by international buyers in 2023, covering Bondi Sands, Aesop and Four Pillars acquisitions, plus reported acquisition talks over Zimmermann.
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The New South Wales government has granted Hiringa Energy and Sundown Pastoral Co money for a green hydrogen and ammonia facility at Sundown's Good Earth cotton farm near Moree.
Breakthrough Victoria is putting $700,000 into Navi Medical Technologies' round alongside Medtech Actuator and Artesian VC, helping the Melbourne medtech develop its newborn catheter guidance device toward regulatory approval.
Techboard's June 2023 roundup of Australian startup funding, led by Pet Circle's $75m Series D, lists raises by Stacked Farm, Lyka, In1Bank, Splend, ImmVirX, Midnight Health, Sicona and Nutromics, and teases its FY23 review.
Goterra, a Canberra venture that recycles food scraps with maggots into animal feed, has banked a $10 million bridge to grow its waste plants serving Woolworths, with a Series B planned this year.
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Medical device startup Navi announced a completed $2.4 million funding round, led by Breakthrough Victoria with $700,000, plus federal grants, to finish developing its Neonav catheter device.
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Coterie Capital announces an investment in wealth platform Integrated Portfolio Solutions through a dedicated fund set up with Mantis Funds, with Coterie joining the IPS board.
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The publisher announces it has invested in an unnamed wealth management platform, noting the business now administers ten billion dollars in funds. No company name, amount, or other investors are given.
Coterie Capital announces Travello raised $10 million in a Series B and acted as exclusive financial advisor; funds will support growth, product development and team expansion.
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Crunchbase data analysis ranking the busiest cleantech investors, led by Lowercarbon Capital, and citing large sustainability rounds at Loam Bio, Our Next Energy, Ohmium and Palmetto Clean Technology.
Announcement that Mantis Funds is teaming with Isola Capital, Fullerton Fund Management sub-advising, to give Australian wealth clients access to a global private-markets fund-of-funds through a domestic feeder vehicle.
Brisbane ore-scanning company Plotlogic has raised a Series B with Galvanise, Schneider Electric's venture arm and CSIRO's Main Sequence participating, the latter drawing on a freshly announced $450 million fund.
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Sydney cloud security startup Plerion closed a $10 million seed round led by Prosus Ventures with Cercano and Atlassian Ventures participating, to fund product development, hiring and go-to-market plans.
Quarterly update on Arafura Rare Earths' Nolans project in the Northern Territory: construction advances despite falling NdPr prices, with an initial $6 million grant instalment received and larger debt support still pending.
Victoria's startup agency is giving Flying Fox Ventures and Jumpstart Studio $300,000 each to run pre-accelerator programs for women founders, alongside continued backing of the Alice Anderson Fund.
EnergyLab's Energy Scaleup program takes Perth clean-energy startup My Solar Manager into its 2023 cohort; alumnus Village Energy endorses the program, and applications for 2024 are open.
Weekly roundup covering five Australian startups that announced a combined $58.5 million in new funding, spanning quantum computing, advertising software, mining safety technology and event rental software, alongside government grant programs.
Australian manufacturing roundup: Zip Water appoints a marketing director, EMVision triggers a milestone payment, Kleos Space faces bankruptcy, AnteoTech secures placement commitments, and LaunchVic funds two women-founder pre-accelerators.
Tidal Ventures reflects on why it backed Fair Supply, a SaaS platform for ESG supply-chain risk, six months after the deal, praising the founders and naming co-investors Airtree, Minderoo Foundation and QIC.
Blackbird commits its Giants community to 60% female or non-binary founding teams, opens the next cohort's applications on July 31, and recalls backing Giants alumni More Good Days, Sauce and Cotiss.
IAG, via its NRMA Insurance brand, has bought Carrie Kwan's women-in-business platform Mums & Co at an undisclosed price; Kwan's team keeps running the brand, alongside a new microbusiness report.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup recording several startup raises and government grants, FLORA Ventures' first fund close, corporate regenerative agriculture partnerships, and AppHarvest's bankruptcy filing.