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KPMG data shows Australian startup funding fell sharply in early 2023, though AI and climate tech stayed strong, with several large raises listed and a new Main Sequence fund announced.
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ZoomAgri raised a $6 million Series A led by GrainCorp with GrainInnovate and SP Ventures, to expand its AI grain inspection technology geographically and into new commodities.
Starpharma, two universities, Telix, Clarity and CSIRO launch an ARC-backed radiopharmaceutical research hub with a government grant and industry funding.
FinTech Awards names Constantinople co-founder Macgregor Duncan as VIP speaker for its August Sydney event, noting the banking startup's record $23 million seed raise with co-founder Dianne Challenor.
LaunchVic is giving Startmate $300,000 across two years so hundreds of university students can try its Student Fellowship; the next intake's application window closes in October, and alumni include Lyrebird Health's founders.
LaunchVic has granted Startmate $300,000 to run its Student Fellowship, a three-week program training at least 320 Victorian university students in startup skills over two years.
Linktree launches a feature letting creators embed their Threads profile and posts on their Linktree pages, following its recent Snap partnership and Threads' rapid user growth.
ASX-listed battery materials company AnteoTech has completed a A$6 million capital raise combining a placement with a shareholder purchase plan, funding its clean energy product commercialisation and production facility.
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Tenacious Ventures' analysis of vertical farming's boom and collapses, announcing its backing of Phyllome, founded by Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin, as its eleventh investment.
Federation and its unnamed co-investors have sold their indirect stakes in George Clinical to Hillhouse Capital, with the announcement made on Federation's own site. No price is disclosed.
Irene Falcone's non-alcoholic beverage retailer Sans Drinks has entered administration after sales collapsed, with staff terminated and its Sydney store closed; the founder earlier sold Nourished Life for $20 million.
Edible coffee cup startup Good Edi marks two years with its first pop-up at a Collingwood cafe, recalling an accelerator prize and early crowdfunding and seed backing along the way.
Silicon Quantum Computing closed a $50.4 million Series A backed by CBA, UNSW, Telstra and the Australian Government, lifting its valuation to $195.3 million, below its original $130 million target.
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AWS has selected ten Australian and New Zealand startups for its first generative AI accelerator, a six-week program offering technical training, mentorship, AWS credits and a demo day pitch to investors.
Melbourne precision machining firm Lovitt Technologies received a $1.5 million grant under Defence's Joint Strike Fighter Industry Support Program, funding new machining equipment, staff training and software upgrades.
Melbourne hospitality tech firm Liven has bought four software startups, two Australian plus one Singaporean and one American, for a combined $152 million, expanding its all-in-one restaurant technology offering.
Australian precision fermentation startup Nourish Ingredients secures government funding and grants, recalls its Series A, and outlines plans to launch its first animal-like fat in late 2024.
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Deep tech venture firm Main Sequence has reached an initial A$450 million close on its third fund, pushing money under management past A$1 billion; Hostplus, Temasek and CSIRO are among the backers.
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Australian manufacturing roundup: IDT Australia's shareholder raise, EV charger rollouts, a mining equipment hire, a plastics recycling plant completion, research collaborations and government funding moves.
Adelaide X-ray maker Micro-X has won US Homeland Security funding of up to $21 million to build self-screening airport checkpoints, extending earlier contract work on its miniaturised CT scanner technology.
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Gecko, an events equipment rental marketplace, drew a pre-seed round led by Techstars' new Sydney accelerator, with two US investors also taking part; it joins the program's first intake of twelve startups.
Startup Daily's Antler memo profiles ThirdRoc, an AI credit-risk platform for emerging-market lenders founded by Shivnil Maharaj and Ritesh Nain, which has received pre-seed backing from Antler and is currently raising.
Weekly roundup of eight Australian startups raising a combined $30.2 million, spanning SME lending, quantum computing grants, proptech, consumer apps and recycling, plus Stylerunner's earlier sale to Accent Group.
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A Monash University-led research program with Cortical Labs received a government grant of nearly $600,000 to study lifelong continual learning using lab-grown brain cells on silicon chips.
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Gobbill names Google a strategic growth partner, receiving roughly half a million dollars in cloud credits and support over two years for its AI work, with Silverpond and Microsoft also mentioned as past collaborators.
Business lender Lumi has banked a $15 million injection, with Israel's Harel Insurance and Finance Group joining as a fresh backer alongside existing supporters; the firm's prior raise was $20 million in 2020.
Twin sisters Sali Sasi and Julie Stevanja have rebranded their bargain-finding app Her Black Book as Wrapd, rolled out a browser version, and raised $1.8 million from returning plus four fresh backers.
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Verve, a superannuation fintech for women, has banked a $3 million pre-Series A led by Alberts and is rolling out an investing app, adding to a 2021 raise that drew prominent female backers.
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IoT home-safety maker Sensor Global has banked a $2.65m seed round from property-focused backers including Second Century Ventures, which rated it the pick of its 2023 Australian accelerator intake.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: robotics and agtech companies across several countries raised funding, Grit Road Partners closed an $11 million fund, John Deere acquired Smart Apply, and new partnerships included BeeHero entering Australia.
E-commerce firm Little Birdie has released a browser extension alerting shoppers to better prices, aiming to help small retailers compete; the Australian company launched in 2021 backed by a $30m Commonwealth Bank investment.
Verve, an Australian women-focused financial services company, announced an oversubscribed $3 million pre-Series A round led by family office Alberts, funding its newly launched ethical investing app Verve Money and its superannuation product.
Gilmour Space Technologies will deploy Siemens Xcelerator industrial software across its Queensland sites, with PhoenxPLM assisting implementation, as the rocket developer prepares its Eris launch.
Podcast episode from Tenacious Ventures interviewing Phyllome's founder about whether vertical farming still holds value after heavy funding and prominent collapses.
Exor and Impala are creating a holding company to put €300m into TagEnergy, the renewable developer whose projects include Australia's largest wind farm, which has also just raised €570 million in green bonds.
The Australian agency ARENA has awarded Enel X Australia $3.7 million for a demonstrator enlisting supermarkets and cold-storage warehouses to provide grid-responsive flexible demand through a virtual power plant.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: government grants for Wide Open Agriculture, FYI Resources and female founder programs, an XTEK armour order, Oventus Medical's wind-up, an Osteopore board appointment, and Monash's new venture program.
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Melbourne hangover-prevention drink maker Bae Juice is entering the US through a New York distribution deal, building on an earlier seed raise and a strategic investment from Honan Capital.
A Western Australian government fund has granted remote power company Pacific Energy $2.4 million to upgrade its manufacturing automation and safety, with the company matching the funds over two years.
Western Australia's Investment Attraction Fund commits $5 million to Infinite Green Energy's MEG HP1 green hydrogen project in Northam, built with Samsung C&T and Doral Energy Group, from a $148.4 million funding pool.
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IT services firm Orro launched its National Cyber Defence Centre, uniting 80-plus security staff across its operations. The piece also recaps a $150 million Macquarie investment in March and past acquisitions and merger history.
GrainCorp co-leads a nine million dollar Series A in ZoomAgri with GrainInnovate, with SP Ventures also participating, funding AI grain quality testing.
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OncoRes Medical has received a $3 million WA government grant to manufacture its surgical cancer-imaging device locally, its latest funding after a 2022 Series A2 and earlier state and federal grants.
OneVentures' insights page rounds up media coverage: an AFR report on Employment Hero's $263 million raise, a Forbes piece on OneVentures reaching $1 billion under management, and two AFR features on venture funding.
A financial teardown of gym franchise F45, tracing its 2021 Wall Street listing, Wahlberg's investment and share sales, executive departures, franchisee struggles and the author's view on a possible turnaround under new leadership.
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Investment house Glow Capital, started by Kate Morris and Justin Ryan, takes an undisclosed-value 51% stake in uniform maker Cargo Crew, its first deal, backed by a $55 million fund.
Quantum computing startup Diraq has received a $3 million grant from NSW's Quantum Computing Commercialisation Fund, following federal support last month through CRC-Projects round 14.
Proptech startup Sensor Global closed a $2.65 million seed round from property investors and US venture firms to launch connected smoke alarms and other residential IoT devices in Australia, with US expansion plans discussed.