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| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Podolsky | Management Consultant (former) | Shearwater Capital, petnews.com.au, Startup Daily, SmartCompany |
| Anna Podolsky | Consultant (former) | Startup Daily |
| Arrif Ziaudeen | Strategy Advisor (former) | Square Peg Capital portfolio |
| Bridget Loudon-Harris | Management Consultant (former) | Startup Daily, SmartCompany |
| Emily Yue | Management Consultant (former) | Startup Daily, SmartCompany |
| Henry LeGard | Consultant (former) | verisoul.ai |
| James Bowe | Senior Manager (former) | businesstories.com, Australian FinTech, Square Peg Capital (Thu 1 Sep 2022), Square Peg Capital (Wed 2 Feb 2022) |
| Kirstin Hunter | Startup Daily (Tue 11 Mar 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 13 Jun 2023) | |
| Lucy d'Arville | Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice in Australia | Women's Agenda |
| Michael Johnson | Startup Daily (Tue 2 May 2023), Startup Daily (Mon 15 Nov 2021) | |
| Phoebe Harrop | Management Consultant (former) | Blackbird Ventures portfolio |
| Stuart Stoyan | Management Consultant (former) | Australian FinTech |
Stories naming Bain & Company. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Data page reporting Visaible.ai's $1 million seed raise from August 2026; the Sydney hotel-booking platform's founder Sam Rich previously worked at Bain and Goldman Sachs.
Workforce platform Expert360 is being bought by AI hiring firm Swipejobs at a reported $16 million value, while its founder and earliest backers are set to receive nothing for their stakes.
Also Startup Daily
Melbourne preventive-health startup Everlab has banked an A$65 million Series A led by Airtree Ventures with Plural, Left Lane Capital and b2venture taking part, funding overseas growth starting in the UK.
Google Cloud has committed US$750 million to a new partner fund for agentic AI resources and incentives, unveiled at Cloud Next; the piece also recalls Google's March acquisition of security firm Wiz.
Sydney pet food firm Lyka has banked a $67 million Series C led by New York's LGVP, with StepStone Group and Shearwater Capital taking part, to bankroll new products and overseas growth.
Also SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·petnews.com.au
A weekly roundup detailing new funding rounds for six Australian startups: Lyka, PlasmaLeap, Firmable, Veyor, Lumonus and Future Minds Network, with investors and round details.
The fake-account detection startup announces its $3.25M seed round led by BITKRAFT Ventures with King River, Third Prime, HashKey and an angel participating, naming growth plans.
Q&A with Kirstin Hunter and Lauren Fong, who lead Techstars' new Sydney accelerator backed by the NSW Government, on their backgrounds and the first 12-company class starting in July.
E-bike subscription startup Zoomo cut 27 roles in its second restructuring in six months, weeks after client Milkrun's collapse, and disclosed a previously unreported $24 million raise led by Grok Ventures and the CEFC.
Also Techboard
Online home loans marketplace Joust adds Virginia Marshall and Stuart Stoyan as non-executive directors, drawing on their banking and fintech backgrounds at Westpac, SocietyOne, MoneyPlace and Fintech Australia.
Tidal Ventures has launched #ten, an expert network of tech founders and executives who put money into its seed fund and support its portfolio founders, bridging Australian and US ecosystems.
Blackbird announces Phoebe Harrop joining as a Principal to build its New Zealand presence, and recalls opening its NZ office in 2019 and raising a $60M fund for Kiwi startups.
Podcast conversation with Chope's co-founder and chief executive about his career path, building the restaurant booking platform across Asian cities, its relationship with Square Peg, and surviving pandemic lockdowns.
E-bike subscription startup Bolt Bikes, now rebranded as Zoomo, raised $16 million with CEFC contributing $7 million, plus venture debt, to fund expansion in Australia and overseas markets.
Telstra has appointed Expert360 co-founder Bridget Loudon as a non-executive director from August 14; the article also recalls Expert360's $12 million raise from AirTree Ventures and Rampersand earlier in 2020.
A roundup covering Prospa's post-listing share slump, a union appeal over an UberEats dismissal, Disney+ arriving in Australia, a WeWork regulator probe, and Lyka's seed raise.