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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Fairfax Media raised.
Companies Fairfax Media acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| David Kirk | Boss (former) | Startup Daily (Wed 29 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 1 Oct 2019) |
| Greg Hywood | CEO (former) | Startup Daily (Fri 19 Aug 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 1 Feb 2021) |
| Rob Antulov | Exec (former) | Startup News (WA), Australian FinTech, SmartCompany |
Stories naming Fairfax Media. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Live entertainment and ticketing group TEG has promoted Karen Chapple to an expanded customer and product leadership role and hired Cameron Curtis, previously at News Corp Australia, into a new marketing and data position.
Vinyl Group is buying Nine's youth publisher Pedestrian Group for nominal consideration, ending Nine's costly ownership. The piece also recalls Nine's stake purchases, Linkby's Series B, and Vinyl's acquisitions and shutdowns.
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Canva has bought AI agent platform Simtheory and marketing software Ortto from the Sharkey brothers, who also founded Stayz — its fourth and fifth purchases this year, prices undisclosed.
Bellabox, an early Australian beauty subscription service, is shutting down this month after rising costs; the piece recalls its 2013 $1.3 million raise and Allure Media's 2014 purchase of half the company.
Rokt hires former Google and Amazon engineering executive Claire Southey for its Sydney engineering leadership, with other senior hires, as the ecommerce marketing firm eyes a future public listing.
Also Startup Daily
Main Sequence, CSIRO's deep tech venture fund, adds Cochlear chair Alison Deans as a venture partner, extending her investment committee service since 2017; its third fund brought in $450 million in July.
Profile of Sendle managing director Laura Hill tracing her career from television and digital media through Gumtree to logistics leadership, with her views on transferable skills and women in the transport sector.
Seven West Media's venture arm joins Antony Catalano and Alex Waislitz in backing their proptech consortium View Media Group, with cash, capital and media services pushing the package past $100 million; the piece also recalls earlier property media deals.
Venture firm Touch Ventures debuted on the ASX, raising $100 million in its IPO and closing sharply higher; Afterpay backed it, and the firm recently put $1 million into Refundid's seed round.
Proptech chatbot startup Propic has raised a $6 million Series A from Antony Catalano and Alex Waislitz at a reported $22 million valuation, and joined a US real estate accelerator program.
Also Startup Daily
Roundup covering Zip's new chair, 6clicks' $5 million raise, a Koala data exposure, Andrew Forrest's criticism of Elon Musk, and Melvin Capital's bailout.
Serial founder Alborz Fallah has secured $3 million from private backers for CarExpert, his new automotive reviews platform, four years after his earlier car media business was bought by Nine.
Also SmartCompany
Perth fintech WeMoney has launched publicly with a $2 million round led by RAC's venture arm BetterLabs, joined by Full Circle VC and several angel investors, for its community-based money management app.
Also Australian FinTech·SmartCompany·Startup News (WA)·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup News (WA)·Australian FinTech·Startup News (WA)·Australian FinTech
Tech roundup: WeWork pulls its US float, a listed VC writes down its Stackla stake, Investible closes its debut fund, NAB loses its cloud chief, and a payments firm's shares surge.
Home services marketplace Oneflare has acquired cleaning startup TidyMe, its third acquisition, with founder Stacey Jacobs staying on; TidyMe previously raised from Airtree Ventures.
Also Wholesale Investor
Carsales pioneer Greg Roebuck will retire in March, with COO Cameron McIntyre becoming CEO. The piece recalls Carsales' dealer-funded launch, Fairfax's classifieds sale, the CarsGuide buyout and merger into Cox Automotive Australia.