Company
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Adyen raised.
Companies Adyen acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Sam Halse | COO (former) | Fintech News Australia, marloo.com (Mon 8 Sep 2025), marloo.com (Mon 8 Sep 2025) |
| Matteo Calo | Startup Daily |
Stories naming Adyen. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Square Peg's half-year investor letter reports two funds reaching final close, three exits including Talon.One's sale to Adyen, realisations past US$1bn, and a framework for judging AI disruption across its portfolio.
Square Peg reports 30% portfolio growth, US$1bn+ cumulative realisations, US$138m returned this half, closes two new funds, and outlines an AI disruption framework.
Ten13's post explains why it led Flyweel's pre-seed round with QIC, Antler and angel investors, backing a platform bringing real-time financial visibility and funding to advertising spend.
Flyweel, a Queensland fintech for financing and managing ad spend, has banked $2.41 million in a pre-seed round Ten13 led, with Antler, QIC and several founder-angels aboard; a US launch comes first.
TechCrunch profiles Airwallex's new point-of-sale offering letting businesses take payments in person across countries, pitting the Australian firm against Stripe, Square and Adyen, and recalls its rejection of Stripe's 2019 buyout bid.
Atlassian has agreed to buy DX, a tool that measures engineering team output, for $1 billion — its biggest deal yet — after also announcing The Browser Company purchase this month.
Square Peg profiles its Global Tech Fund, a listed-markets strategy applying its venture investing approach to early-stage public tech companies, and outlines its team, edge, and focus on fintech, software and AI.
Payments startup Waave has raised a $4.7 million seed round from individual backers including Jack Gance, who also joins as advisor, ahead of an enterprise rollout of its Pay by Bank product.
Blackbird's investment note sets out why the firm led identity-verification software maker First AML's Series B, citing its years as a customer and the data network effect building in First AML's onboarding platform.
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Westpac is backing mx51, a payments spin-off from Assembly Payments, to compete with global payments providers and Tyro, using open architecture supporting systems including Afterpay and Zip.
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Blackbird partner examines plant-based and cultivated meat startups, announcing the firm's recent backing of Brisbane's Heuros and recalling its investment in New Zealand's Sunfed, arguing Australia can lead this space.