Every round, fund close and exit we can source, with the article it was reported in and what it actually said.
TechCrunch roundup: FTX fallout hits Nestcoin and SoftBank's stake, while Quix, Joepegs, Vow, Faraday Future and Butter raise, plus items on Twitter, VLC, DoorDash, Hulu, Google and Apple.
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VOLY, an instant grocery delivery startup, has halted orders and removed its social media accounts; unverified sources say it lacks the capital to keep operating.
Green Gravity will trial its gravity energy storage in a closed NSW coal mine under an MoU with Yancoal, with a pre-feasibility study due in 2023, after a May capital raise.
Cultivated meat maker Vow raised a Series A to fund product development, manufacturing expansion and hiring as it prepares to launch its quail product in Singapore restaurants.
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OIF Ventures announces it led Zitcha's $4.8 million seed round, backing the retail media buying platform started by Troy and Jack, whose customers include Adore Beauty and The Warehouse Group.
Profile of Aeromech, a Brisbane company developing the SARGO rescue drone for maritime search and rescue, founded by Joe Bryant, which received Queensland government Ignite 8 funding in April 2022.
A weekly roundup detailing nine startup funding rounds totalling $39.6 million, spanning cybersecurity, medtech, healthtech, hospitality, retail media, accessibility, clean energy and agtech ventures.
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QUE Oncology reports its non-hormonal drug Q-122 eased hot flushes in breast cancer patients on endocrine therapy, with Phase II results in The Lancet; the Emory–UniQuest venture is backed by Brandon BioCatalyst and Uniseed.
Brandon Capital's blog covers QUE Oncology's Phase II Q-122 results in The Lancet, showing reduced hot flushes and night sweats in breast cancer patients on endocrine therapy.
ConnectOne Club received a Victorian Government grant to build a digital platform cutting on-farm waste for the Gippsland Food cluster, working with partners Food and Fibre Gippsland and Rocket Seeder.
A profile of Clipboard co-founder Brendan Leeds, whose hospitality careers platform has drawn backers such as Gerry Ryan and Neil Wilson, with attention to worker mental health.
Weekly roundup of agrifoodtech raises including Roslin Technologies, Sistema.bio, Buddha Brands, Proper Good, Perfekto, Agriconomie, FishLog, PasarMikro, DataFarming, Carble, Sabanto and BioRaptor, plus partnerships, a product launch and layoffs.
Sydney managed services firm Tecala has received $18 million from investment firm Armitage Associates to fund acquisitions and national expansion, with former Dimension Data chief Steve Nola appointed board chairman.
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Male contraceptive startup Contraline has secured $7.2 million in a GV-led round to progress first-in-human trials of its ADAM hydrogel implant, with initial patients treated in Australia.
Hospitality ordering platform Ordermentum, cofounded by Adam Theobald, raised $6.2 million in July, with earlier raises in 2017 and 2021 and a secondary stake sale by RoZetta also recounted.
Vaxxas has begun an Australian Phase I trial of its needle-free COVID-19 vaccine patch, built on a University of Texas at Austin candidate; the article also recalls the company's early financings led by OneVentures.
Vaxxas has begun an Australian Phase I trial of its needle-free COVID-19 vaccine patch; the article also recalls the company's founding financing led by OneVentures with Brandon Capital and other co-investors.
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AgFunder's first Asia-Pacific agrifoodtech report shows Singapore alt-protein startups dominating Innovative Food investment, with Next Gen Foods' record Series A and Australia's V2Food taking 2021's biggest Innovative Food raise.
Vaxxas has begun a phase one trial in Australia of its needle-free COVID-19 vaccine patch. The Brisbane company, backed by OneVentures, Brandon Capital and others, has hired Scott Fry from Ellume as COO.
Brisbane biotech Vaxxas has begun human testing of its microneedle patch for COVID-19 vaccination and plans a phase two study; the venture-backed company has raised over $66 million.
Twelve projects share $18 million in the first round of the federal Emerging Aviation Technology Partnerships grants, with eVTOL maker AMSL Aero among the recipients; it also recently completed a $23 million Series B.
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ARENA awards Calix nearly a million dollars toward a study of hydrogen-based ironmaking, scoping a demonstration plant using its ZESTY technology to cut emissions in steel production.
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Doshii reports rapid uptake of QR code table ordering among Australian hospitality venues, with order volumes up sharply as operators adopt apps to cope with staff shortages; the Commonwealth Bank-backed platform integrates venue apps.
Clean energy software startup Orkestra Energy has emerged from stealth with a $1.1 million round led by Tidal Ventures, with angels participating, to grow its team and roll out its platform across Australia.
Tenacious Ventures outlines the opportunity areas it is exploring in agriculture, such as novel plant uses, on-farm energy and plastic alternatives, and invites enquiries about backing its second fund.
Profile of MyGigsters, a platform helping gig workers manage finances, which took pre-seed backing from Antler alongside LaunchVic, Startmate and angels, holds government contracts, and is currently raising more.
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Podcast episode with Conflux and Deakin researchers discussing their collaborative aluminium alloy development project for additive manufacturing, also recalling Conflux's Series A raise, an IMCRC grant, and defence work with General Atomics.
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AMSL Aero, Praxis Labs and Swinburne's Air Hub won federal grants under the Emerging Aviation Technology Partnerships program, while AMSL Aero also recently secured $5 million from Trevor St Baker's energy innovation fund.
A Queensland agricultural data startup has banked a half-million-dollar pre-Series A round led by a Sydney venture firm, its ninth climate-fund backing, with a larger future raise flagged but not yet secured.
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Retail adtech firm Zitcha has banked roughly $5 million in seed funding led by OIF Ventures at a $14.8 million valuation, serving retailers including Adore Beauty and The Warehouse Group.
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An AuManufacturing interview with Kite Magnetics co-founder Richard Parsons covers the Monash spinout's newly completed seed raise, its Aeroperm material for electric aircraft motors, and the 2014 sale of MagniX to Clermont Group.
News roundup: Elsight locks in $8 million through convertible notes; Northrop Grumman extends its Quickstep supply agreement; Titomic grows US sales; Fleet Space to survey for Core Lithium; Venture Catalyst Space applications open.
Brisbane edible-cup venture Uuvipak has taken out Nespresso's StartCup competition and its $50,000 prize, weeks after a Kickstarter crowdfunding raise, and is also part of this year's Ocean Impact Accelerator Program.
Podcast interview with SWAN Systems co-founder and CEO Tim Hyde covering the water and fertiliser scheduling platform's farming origins, awards, cumulative raising, team size and overseas clients.
Four defence and space research projects in South Australia, including one by Adelaide startup Safety from Space, have received grants through the Defence Innovation Partnership's Collaborative Research Fund.
Fitness franchise Fitstop, built by Peter Hull, is expanding to California in 2023, supported by a US$2.5 million raise and the appointment of ex-F45 figure Peter Pisani as North American athletic director.
Enzyme-based plastic recycler Samsara Eco has raised a $54 million Series A to build a commercial recycling facility in Melbourne, with investors including the CEFC Innovation Fund, W23, Main Sequence, Breakthrough Victoria and Temasek.
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Blackbird's team marks the firm's tenth birthday by unveiling a new A$1 billion fund to back ambitious Australian and New Zealand startups, sketching a 2032 vision of technology dominating the economy.
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Startup Daily profiles ShopAssist, an Antler-backed pre-seed startup whose marketplace gives local retailers shared online checkout and delivery, as part of a series covering Antler Australia's thirteen newest investments.
Australian crypto startup Clanz has launched Thematic investment products offering diversified blockchain exposure, and reports a $4 million seed round led by private investment, with further public funding still being raised.
Aura Group announces Darryl Tom joining to lead private wealth and family office services, then walks through five choices families face when establishing a family office, covering charters, assets, services, structures and governance.
Blackbird closed its fifth fund at over A$1 billion, backed by super funds, sovereign wealth funds and hundreds of individual investors — which the firm calls Australia's largest venture fund yet.
Queensland early-stage investor Sprint Ventures reached an $8 million first close toward its $50 million Expansion Capital Fund, hired Georgia Barkell as COO, and has recently backed ausbiz, VAPAR and YouPay.
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Amaero will build its planned titanium alloy powder plant in the UAE rather than Victoria, backed by defence offsets funding, alongside leadership appointments and a shareholder offer tied to a joint venture.
Queensland grant recipient Kookaburra Worm Farms is building a production facility for its WormGro liquid fertiliser near Bundaberg, expecting ten new jobs, as one of sixteen projects sharing just over $3 million.
Climate Energy Finance analysts review Australian federal and state programs backing critical minerals projects, covering government grants, low-cost loans, new budget funds and the private equity raises and debt facilities they catalysed.
Leilac has licensed its carbon-capture technology for cement making to Heidelberg Materials worldwide. Australian budget cuts have cancelled an $11m grant to Calix and a $30m grant to Boral tied to Calix's technology.
Aura Group's venture arm Aura Ventures is advertising a Sydney-based Investment Associate role to support its investing in Australian technology startups. The post is a recruitment notice with standard legal disclaimers, naming no funding.