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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Envato raised.
The transaction that ended Envato's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.
| Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shutterstock | Acquisition | 2024 | $373m | Startup Daily (Wed 4 Mar 2026), Startup Daily (Fri 3 May 2024) |
Companies Envato acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Envato. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Online trading firm Pepperstone has hired Xero engineering leader Nigel Fernandes as its new technology chief, to oversee engineering, architecture, security and data worldwide from its Melbourne base.
Shutterstock is buying creative marketplace Envato for US$245 million (A$373m), with completion expected in the third quarter, closing out an 18-year run for its three cofounders.
Also Startup Daily
Dom Pym discusses his journey from engineering to founding Up Bank and now investing via Euphemia, focusing on social good and underrepresented founders.
Sydney startup Refilled has raised a A$1.3 million seed round, with Melt Ventures leading and Envato's Ta'eed brothers among backers, to scale refill stations that cut single-use plastic; Google is already a customer.
Ignition Lane's weekly wrap: Tiger Global's losses and past Australian bets, MilkRun and TradeSquare closures, Cyara's Spearline acquisition, a Co Ventures pre-seed fund, Square Peg's partner promotion and LaunchVic's 30×30 picks.
Weekly roundup of Australian raises: Bloom's seed round, Vedi's animal-health funding, Alii's pre-Series A, and Code Like A Girl's government grant, alongside other WiSE grant recipients.
Also SmartCompany
Fintech startup Bloom Impact Investing has raised a $525,000 seed round led by angel investors Dominic Pym, Collis Ta'eed and Cyan Ta'eed to scale its ethical investment app and grow business development.
Carbon accounting platform for small businesses secures a seven-figure round from a broad backer group including a family office and angels, with founders ex-Finder and Macquarie, and an earlier pre-seed recalled.
SmartCompany's year-end list profiles ten Australian startups poised for a big 2022, recalling their 2021 raises, crowdfunding campaigns, government grants and accelerator origins, from mtime and Quantum Brilliance to Zoomo and Superhero.
Also SmartCompany
Climate fintech Bloom Impact Investing has closed a pre-seed round led by EnergyLab, with angel backing including Envato's co-founders, to build its retail impact investing app and climate impact fund.
Weekly roundup covering Canva's huge raise and rich-list climb, a run of Australian startup funding rounds including SiteMinder and Mable, Domain's purchase of IDS, and Mailchimp's sale to Intuit.
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Weekly venture roundup covering Scalapay's giant series A, numerous Australian raises, acquisitions of Clipchamp, Paidy and CipherTrace, Houseparty's closure, crypto regulation developments, and Atlassian appointing a Cloudflare founder as director.
Ignition Lane's weekly roundup reports Tyro buying Medipass, several startup raises, ASX listings, Hey Tiger shutting down, Airwallex culture complaints, CSIRO's technology spending plan, and Musk's bitcoin antics.
Also Startup Daily
Ignition Lane's weekly roundup reports MyDeal and Adore Beauty listing on the ASX, Rokt's US$80 million Series D, several trans-Tasman raises, Quibi shutting down, Westpac trimming its Zip stake, and local executive appointments.
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Envato has named travel industry executive Hichame Assi as its new CEO after a year-long search, succeeding founder Collis Ta'eed, who steps back from operations but stays as chair of the Melbourne marketplace.
Early investor Matt Allen recounts Buildkite's origins in the Ruby community, its sole $200,000 raise from nine individuals, and this week's secondary share sale valuing it at $200 million.
SiteMinder raised from BlackRock at a $1.1 billion valuation, becoming Australia's first unicorn of 2020, joined by AustralianSuper, Ellerston and Pendal; Bailador reported a partial stake sale.
Practice Ignition's chief executive recounts lessons from the firm's recently closed $26 million Series B, explaining why the round's size pushed the Australian software company toward a global venture investor.
A funding roundup reporting raises by training marketplace GO1, online grocer YourGrocer and wearable payments startup Inamo, alongside government grant funding and accelerator programs backing Australian startups.