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Honeywell

Coverage

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

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Crunchbase Predicts: 15 Companies That Could Go Public In 2026 As The IPO Market Gains Momentum

Crunchbase's 2026 forecast lists fifteen late-stage companies it deems probable or very likely IPO candidates, profiling each with past raises, valuations and secondary sales; Australia's Canva makes the list.

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In The Space Of Months, AI Funding Boom Adds More Than $500B In Value To Unicorn Board And Reshuffles Top 20

Crunchbase's unicorn tracker analysis finds AI-driven valuations added over half a trillion dollars in months, reshuffling the top twenty and minting eleven new decacorns in H2 2025, including Figure, Kraken, Mistral and Sierra.

Also Crunchbase News·Forbes Australia·Crunchbase News

Funding announcement

Rosebank begins regional support for F-35 Program at Bayswater depot

Rosebank Engineering has started operating its Melbourne F-35 component repair depot, backed by a $2.26m federal grant, serving Indo-Pacific fleets; the business sits in ASDAM Group, which CPE Capital mostly owns.

Grant $2.5m

Brookfield-backed metering firm buys assets of “smart pool” retailer sunk by energy crisis

Metering firm Intellihub has bought the assets of Pooled Energy, a NSW smart pool retailer that entered administration amid electricity price rises. The article also recalls Intellihub's April purchase of GreenSync and Pooled's ARENA grant.

Series B US$198m

Rio Tinto joins Gates to back renewable hydrogen startup as miners look to future tech

Mining major Rio Tinto has joined Bill Gates' fund and other industrial and cleantech backers in a US$198 million Series B for hydrogen electrolyser developer Electric Hydrogen; Fortescue's electrolyser investments are also noted.

Grant $2.5m

ARENA-backed energy retailer goes into administration as price surge causes havoc

Pool-focused electricity retailer Pooled Energy has entered administration amid soaring wholesale power costs, with administrators appointed. The article recalls its 2018 ARENA grant and notes Weston Energy lost its gas retail licence.

Also RenewEconomy

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Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

SEA Electric orders batteries after a $54m raise; Baraja raises $40m for LIDAR, led by Blackbird; Stealth demos weed detection; Wattle Health lifts profit and sells its dairy arm; Hydac wins VR training grant.

Also Cut Through Venture·@AuManufacturing·@AuManufacturing

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: VC’s $1.6bn year, Christmas collapses, Bassat’s bitcoin bet

Weekly newsletter rounds up venture news: multiple Australian and regional VC fund closes, startup raises including Brighte and Judo, acquisitions of eNett and Sine, neobank collapses, and new revenue-based lenders.

Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Australian FinTech·Australian FinTech·TechCrunch Venture

Funding announcement

Case study: How NASA and Apple tech provider Liquid Instruments took their products to the global stage

A case study of Canberra test-and-measurement firm Liquid Instruments, covering its global expansion supported by the EMDG export grant and consultancy Export Solutions, and naming major international customers.

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