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Weekly roundup of seven Australian and New Zealand startup raises totalling $17 million, including two startups entering Y Combinator, plus a new QuantX Labs board director and SmartrMail's earlier sale to Relay Commerce.
Sydney robotics startup Oscorp Energy raised A$1.3 million pre-seed, led by Atlas's AI fund with Antler and Antipodean Capital, to build AI vision systems that detect lithium-ion batteries in recycling waste streams.
ARENA commits $30m as a conditional grant so VSPC, a Livium subsidiary, can build a demonstration plant making battery cathode powder near Brisbane.
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ASX-listed Livium has raised $4.5 million to expand its Envirostream battery recycling hub in Victoria, while its subsidiary VSPC continues talks to match a $30 million ARENA grant for a Brisbane cathode powder plant.
Steel recycler Sell & Parker has won a $28 million NSW government grant toward a $66 million Western Sydney plant making steel parts for wind, solar and transmission projects.
Battery unit VSPC reports growing investor interest after an Australian Renewable Energy Agency grant, while still seeking funds for its demonstration plant and appointing a US sales agent.
VSPC, Livium's battery subsidiary, wins a $30 million ARENA grant toward a cathode powder demonstration plant; the piece also recalls funding for AnteoTech, Li-S, Novonix and Energy Storage Industries, plus Redflow's administration.
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Battery recycler Livium has secured a three-year exclusive contract to process spent locomotive batteries for Wabtec in Western Australia, adding to an $850,000 state government grant awarded to its recycling arm last month.
Roundup of manufacturing briefs: Macquarie University opens a silicon research lab with Atto Devices, Spectur's managing director resigns, Provaris and Noxopharm secure new funding, and Livium sells its lithium project stake.