🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #169, 12th July 2026
Weekly roundup: four raises totalling $20.5m, WiseTech's founder-chairman leaving his board role, Firmus nearing a large capital raise, and Aura's agreed ASX backdoor listing through Qoria.
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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Aura raised.
Companies Aura acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Aura. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Weekly roundup: four raises totalling $20.5m, WiseTech's founder-chairman leaving his board role, Firmus nearing a large capital raise, and Aura's agreed ASX backdoor listing through Qoria.
Terem Capital's founder analyses Catapult: origins, acquisitions, capital raises, the 2014 listing, market size, rivals and financial performance.
Venture firm TNB Aura, jointly created by Australia's Aura and Singapore's TNB Ventures, has completed the final close of its debut SG$31.1 million fund targeting Series A and B deals across Southeast Asia.