Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
Blackbird's investment note announcing it led Sumday's $2M pre-seed round, profiling the Tasmanian startup's carbon accounting software for accountants and its three co-founders.
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Analysis of the technological singularity concept, covering brain-computer interface work by Neuralink and Synchron, expert predictions about artificial general intelligence, and worries over unregulated AI. Republished from The Conversation.
Australian agtech firm DAS has raised $3 million with TELUS Ventures investing, supporting expansion into Canada and North America. Existing backers include CSIRO, IAG and Startmate; DAS is a Winter 2020 Startmate alumnus.
Sapien Group has acquired a controlling interest in mortgage platform Hashching and led its latest funding round, with its VC arm Sapien Ventures an earlier backer.
KPMG Australia and Stone & Chalk are accepting applications for their Future Technology Program, offering residency and mentorship to early-stage space technology startups.
Diverseco opened a Darwin automation facility backed by a $4.45 million co-investment through the NT's Advanced Manufacturing Ecosystem Fund, and will partner with Charles Darwin University on robotics micro-credentials.
Semiconductor maker BluGlass told the ASX it secured $10.2 million in commitments via a placement, with a shareholder entitlement offer to follow, funding laser diode production expansion.
Payments company Cuscal is acquiring open banking data firm Basiq for an undisclosed price, letting backers NAB Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Reinventure and Visa cash out.
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Weekly roundup of six Australian startups that together raised $114.5 million, spanning payments, drone defence, carbon accounting, medical AI and health tech, across rounds from pre-seed to Series D.
SimConverse, whose AI simulates patient conversations to train healthcare workers, has raised a $1.5 million seed round, with Folklore Ventures leading and Artesian participating.
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Vecco Group has started building a Townsville plant that will make electrolyte for vanadium flow batteries; the Queensland government calls it the nation's first at commercial scale, with output expected before the year ends.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: a university metaverse partnership, a CSIRO digital appointment, electric buses in Queensland, two secured funding facilities, and several workforce and recycling initiatives.
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Weekly roundup of agrifoodtech news: funding for Chromologics, BelliWelli, Hectare and others, acquisitions by Next Gen Foods and Pessl Instruments, product launches, and Australian cultivated meat firm Vow beginning its regulatory process.
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Carbon Group's case study describes advising Perth beverage maker Kommunity Brew on commercialisation, tax, R&D incentives and cashflow, including investment from Carbon Capital when the founders scaled up.
Zeller has launched its online invoicing product for Australian small businesses after a beta, with a customer quoted on early use. No funding, hiring or transaction is reported.
Swan Valley gin maker Old Young's won two international awards and raised $2.7 million via Birchal equity crowdfunding within a day, valuing it at $30 million, with expansion plans for production and east-coast sales.
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Alberts marks International Women's Day by profiling Natassia Nicolao, founder of a waterless beauty label, covering her science background, dissolvable products, retail stockists and women-led team.
Criteo has bought marketing platform Brandcrush, handing its backers, including Rampersand and Startmate, an exit; the piece recalls the company's 2019 raise and Startmate accelerator background.
Sydney payments company Till Payments secured a $70 million Series D led by Silva Fortune weeks after cutting 120 staff, with new board members joining and a US listing planned.
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Profile of Humanihut, an Australian maker of transportable accommodation units deployed for disaster relief and remote communities, recounting its early backing, a grant, and government and humanitarian use.
Briefs roundup: Starpharma names a new CFO, Weld Australia urges trades diversity, the Economic Accelerator bill passes, H2X Global enters AWS's clean energy accelerator, and A.H. Beard partners with the Sleep Health Foundation.
PropHero has created a CEO Australia role and appointed Sophie Hayek, previously global COO, while its co-founders focus on global expansion and the proptech launches its Track app.
Stone & Chalk expands its scholarship program nationally to support women founders in technology, building on the success of previous recipients Fulle and Flamingo Tech.
An International Women's Day profile of Christina Hobbs, who leads women-focused superannuation fund Verve, covering her United Nations career, the fund's origins and its expansion into an investing app.
Global Road Technology received a $100,000 Queensland Government Ignite Ideas grant to promote its SMART Dosing Unit for mine-site dust suppression, and recently partnered with TotalEnergies Marketing Australia as exclusive distributor.
Oho's co-founder reflects on raising from LaunchVic's Alice Anderson Fund and argues Australian venture capital must do far more to back women-led startups.
The Queensland government proposes a solar panel landfill ban and a small recycling pilot, while the article recalls past grants to recyclers Scipher Technologies and Reclaim PV and surveys Australia's emerging panel recycling sector.
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A weekly roundup covering a uranium enrichment placement, a mining analyser dispatch, a VTOL drone unveiling, hydrogen strategy commentary, and Victorian manufacturing grants opening.
New South Wales grants $64 million to two electrolyser projects by BOC and Sundown, and plans $1.5 billion of incentives to make green hydrogen cheaper.
Alberts Impact Ventures' portfolio company Conserving Beauty has won Telstra's Victorian Accelerating Women business award and will contest the national title in Melbourne; the waterless beauty brand also sells through retailers in Britain.
A weekly roundup reports four Australian companies together securing about $60 million: Unyoked, SpeeDx, Mutinex and Live Verdure, with funds earmarked for European and US expansion and product development.
Quantum Brilliance has launched its Qristal quantum software range, with the article also recalling the diamond quantum accelerator maker's earlier $26 million funding round.
Profile of Sendle managing director Laura Hill tracing her career from television and digital media through Gumtree to logistics leadership, with her views on transferable skills and women in the transport sector.
Melbourne-based Linktree has hired three US executives: Farnaz Azmoodeh as CTO, Sam Rogoway as its first CPO, and Monica Austin as CMO, drawing on backgrounds at Snap, Google, Headspace, Calm, Netflix and Meta.
Seeley International's Climate Wizard units now cool Adelaide Central Market; the manufacturer previously received a $1 million Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre grant for a manufacturing line project.
NBN Co's faster Sky Muster trial and Starlink's Oceania speed results signal a rural bandwidth contest, with SwarmFarm and Zetifi founders describing connectivity struggles and their recent raises.
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Stress-imaging startup 1Millikelvin won two innovation awards at the Avalon airshow, including a $50,000 SME prize, with individual and commendation awards going to BAE Systems, MicroTau and RMIT-affiliated researchers.
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Tenacious Ventures' podcast talks with Miruku chief executive Amos Palfreyman about growing milk proteins inside modified crops, weighing what the technique could offer agriculture against the hurdles it faces.
Curtin University has named the startups joining the 2023 intake of its redesigned 12-week accelerator, which provides grants and pooled equity-free funding support.
Sydney diagnostics developer SpeeDx banked $26 million for American expansion, with $5 million from Andrew Forrest's new fund Tenmile and follow-on support from Platinum and Northpond.
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Dragonfly Enviro Capital reports investing two million dollars in Pacific Biotechnologies' fully subscribed bridging round, with Tiverton Agricultural Impact Fund among other impact investors backing the aquaculture technology company.
Profile of Olympia Yarger, founder of Canberra agri-tech startup Goterra, which uses robot-managed maggots to process food waste into protein and fertiliser, recalling its 2018 seed and 2020 raises led by Grok Ventures.
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CoreLogic has bought Geelong-based proptech Plezzel, founded by Greg and Cecille McCutcheon in 2011, to broaden its real estate software tools; the purchase price was not disclosed.
Sydney VC Investible appoints Charlie Ill as its inaugural investment chief and promotes two staff while pursuing global expansion; its climate fund nears target and notches a first exit via MyRobin's sale.
Infradebt has reached first close on the capital raise for its Energy Transition Fund, backed by Grok Ventures and Jana, to lend to big batteries including Neoen's Capital Battery and Genex's Bouldercombe.
Australian manufacturing roundup: Titomic raises via placement, H2X signs hydrogen MoU, Austal posts a loss, Aristocrat trials cashless gaming, IDT restructures, Bisalloy reports, BAE recruits, CDU launches TAFE.
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A Northern Territory maker has launched a remote cathodic-protection monitoring system, backed by a government grant it matched with its own funds and an earlier pitch prize, and building the territory's first electronics production facility.
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Weekly roundup covering four startup raises: DataMesh's bank-backed Series A, GigaComm's shareholder funding, Chronicle's presentation-tool round, and MGA Thermal's seed via Shell's accelerator.