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Disclosed deals

Every published round AUSTRAC took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
No published deals recorded yet.

Portfolio

Companies AUSTRAC has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
No portfolio companies recorded yet.

Funds

Fund closes reported for AUSTRAC, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for AUSTRAC yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies AUSTRAC has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal AUSTRAC did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of AUSTRAC is recorded as having been acquired.

Name	Role	Sources
Brendan Thomas	CEO	Startup Daily

Coverage

Stories naming AUSTRAC. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

15 deals

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #179, 26th September 2026

Weekly roundup recording a dozen raises and acquisitions, Firmus's scheduled float, a new $50m venture fund, a founder share sale, grant winners, an accelerator intake, and an AI agent's government breach.

This Week in Australian Startups Sat 26 Sep 2026 Amber Electric Auric CodeBreakers Fever Heidi Health HEO Hubblenetwork Kinoxis Therapeutics Medcast OpenDebt Remagine Labs RentBetter Significant Capital Ventures TasTest Zeligate Advanced Navigation Afterpay Airtasker AirTrunk Airwallex Anthropic AUSTRAC Australian Government Australian Signals Directorate Catch CDC Centre Droneshield Elixinol Wellness Ellerston Capital Employment Hero Firmus Technologies Genetic Signatures Innovaero Investment NSW Kongsberg Luxury Escapes Medicare Microba Life Sciences Morgan Stanley National Transport Solutions Nearmap News Corp NSW Government Ofload OpenAI ParaScript Ramp South Australian Government Spark Capital Stakk Limited Telix Pharmaceuticals Telstra The U Group The University of Sydney Thoma Bravo University of Canberra University of Newcastle UNSW Sydney Victorian Government Vitable 1GT AirTree Ventures Angel Investors Antler Australia Athletic Ventures Avicella Capital Baillie Gifford Beaten Zone Venture Partners Best Practice Blackbird Ventures Carthona Capital CSIRO DCode Capital Deepwater Dumm Capital E.ON EQT ETF Partners EVP General Catalyst Headline Innovation Victoria Main Sequence Ventures Medical Research Future Fund Monash University NRF Corporation Paspalis Phoenix Court Point72 Salus Ventures Scalare Partners Stoic Venture Capital Ten13 Uniseed UniSuper Greg Boorer Pat Cummins Sam Kerr Albanese Anoulack Chanthivong Gabby Leibovich Hezi Leibovich Jack Zhang Jonathan Lui

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2 deals

Airwallex worth $16 billion after $460 million Series H

Airwallex has closed a Series H valuing it at $16 billion, with Addition in the lead and eight other backers named; the piece also recalls its December Series G.

Startup Daily Thu 25 Jun 2026 Airwallex AirTree Ventures Amex AUSTRAC Blackbird Ventures Square Peg Capital Addition Baillie Gifford Haun Ventures Hedosophia Hummingbird QED Investors T. Rowe Price Washington University in St. Louis Jack Zhang Lee Fixel

Also Cut Through Venture·Forbes Australia·Cut Through Venture·Startup Daily

Key hire

Swyftx confirms appointments of new Chair and CEO

Australian crypto brokerage Swyftx has made Cathryn Lyall its permanent Chair and Andrea Yuen its CEO, with co-founder Alex Harper stepping back from interim co-leadership to his board role.

FinTech Australia (peak body) Mon 8 Sep 2025 AUSTRAC Australia's corporate regulator Chicago Board and Trade CME Group Deutsche Bank Fintech Australia London Stock Exchange Group Redbelly Network Seed Space Venture Capital Swyftx Wisr Alex Harper Andrea Yuen Angus Goldman Cathryn Lyall

Seed $6.4m

Blockchain-powered fintech platform Block Earner raises $6.4m to give savers access to higher yields

Block Earner closed a $6.4 million seed round led by Framework Ventures at a $56.4 million post-money valuation, ahead of an early-2022 launch of its DeFi yield platform for everyday savers.

Australian FinTech Fri 10 Dec 2021 Block Earner Aave AUSTRAC Compound Fireblocks PayPal Relay Synthetix Vodafone Framework Ventures Charlie Karaboga

Unnamed stage $330m

Afterpay is raising $330 million to chase the US market

Afterpay announced an underwritten share placement and purchase plan to raise A$330 million for US growth, while its founders and an executive sold $100 million of existing shares to US hedge funds.

Startup Daily Tue 11 Jun 2019 Afterpay ASX AUSTRAC The Finnies Tiger Management Woodson Capital Anthony Eisen Christopher Stevens David Hancock Dean Litis Julian Robertson Nicholas Molnar

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