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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #173, 9th August 2026

Weekly roundup: Firmus completes its $2.85b round; Procore acquires DroneDeploy; Atlassian rebounds while Canva cuts guidance; plus fresh raises for Zabidou, BioScout, Vexev, Enrola, Spacetalk and others.

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Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Redflow banks extra placement money atop its August raise; Flinders University plans a space-cyber forum; VEX Robotics partners with a robotics peak body; a munitions venture wins an award; DXN lands a cable contract.

Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

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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Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: ARM Hub's anniversary, DroneShield orders, EMVision's milestone grant, SciDev results, a SEA Electric hire, ATSE's policy submission, and spaceport funding for Koonibba.

IoT leak detector company among two SPRINTS AI Accelerator winners

Two manufacturers, Leakster and Voltin, are named the first winners of ARM Hub's SPRINTS AI accelerator, each receiving in-kind support after pitching to an industry and academic panel.

Gilmour-led group gets $52 million grant for space test, manufacturing and launch facilities

The federal government awarded $52 million to a Gilmour Space-led consortium building rocket and satellite manufacturing, test and spaceport facilities in Queensland, after a $33.4 million grant to a food manufacturing precinct.

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