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Every published round Oracle took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Companies Oracle has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio companies recorded yet. | ||||
Fund closes reported for Oracle, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Oracle has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Oracle did.
| Company | Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price |
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| No portfolio company of Oracle is recorded as having been acquired. | ||||
Companies Oracle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ada Guan | Director (former) | Forbes Australia |
| Gordon Campbell | Software Engineer (former) | Forbes Australia |
| Leigh Warren | Managing Director (former) | SmartCompany |
| Paul Muller | C-suite Exec (former) | Startup Daily |
Stories naming Oracle. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
OpenAI now expects roughly $50bn in annual revenue, well short of what it told investors earlier; the report also recalls its huge March fundraiser, Anthropic's raise, and SoftBank's bond sale and AI spending.
Also cnbc.com·tech-insider.org
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.
Business Kitz, a Sydney document platform, has secured pre-seed backing from angel investors to grow its SME software and expand overseas.
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.
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.
Leigh Jasper keynotes SmartCompany's February 2026 startup event in Melbourne; the profile recalls his Aconex journey to an Oracle sale, Firmable's seed raise and his venture fund roles.
Melbourne payments provider Zeller is launching in Britain, its first overseas market, appointing ex-ByteDance executive Lars Weber to head new London operations and building a 40-strong local team.
Blackbird partner Samantha Wong reflects on a decade of the firm's Sunrise conference and Australia's startup ecosystem, recalling Atlassian's Nasdaq listing and Aconex's float and sale to Oracle.
Also SmartCompany
A Blackbird partner argues AI has revived vertical software by turning hard-to-sell customers into product-led buyers, noting the firm recently backed three such startups and recalling Aconex's sale to Oracle.
Also buildxact.com
Rich Data Co, an AI platform for bank lending decisions, has closed a $28 million Series B with Westpac and nCino leading, its first raise since a $15 million round in 2021.
Weekly roundup covering nine Australian startups' new capital totalling $40.5 million, across solar, quantum computing, marketing tech and crowdfunding, plus a look back at Aconex's $1.6 billion Oracle sale.
Also SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Wholesale Investor
Square Peg's analysis argues generative AI enables startups to attack the databases companies run on, drawing lessons from cloud-era winners and citing its portfolio company Partly as a new-category example.
Data privacy firm DataBench has named security industry veteran Paul Muller as its first outside chief executive, while founder David Christmas shifts to chair parent company Portfolio4 ahead of a planned Series A.
Cloudera's APAC vice president Mark Micallef takes charge of Anaplan across Asia Pacific, succeeding Karen Clarke, who shifts to a Americas role, shortly after Thoma Bravo agreed to buy the software vendor.
Construction software firm Mastt has banked $9.5 million from OIF Ventures and other backers, including the Aconex founders' fund, to fuel its push into the United States and Middle East.
Also Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Cut Through Venture·Startup Daily
Ignition Lane's weekly tech roundup: AirTree raises $700m across three new funds, dozens of Australian startups announce rounds, a wave of acquisitions including Block completing its Afterpay buy, plus Web3 commentary and US market moves.
CX assurance software firm Cyara, co-founded in Melbourne, has shelved ASX listing plans and instead raised US$350 million from K1 Investment Management, with existing backers PeakSpan and Greenspring selling down stakes.
Square Peg's podcast interviews Aconex co-founders Leigh Jasper and Robert Phillpot about building the construction collaboration platform, its 2014 ASX listing, and its 2018 acquisition by Oracle for A$1.6 billion.
Also SmartCompany·SmartCompany
Profile and investment offering for Ravens Masking, a data masking software startup whose co-founders announce a planned USD 1.5 million seed raise for 20% equity; no money has yet been raised.
Pluralsight is acquiring Melbourne cloud-training firm A Cloud Guru in an undisclosed deal rumoured at a billion dollars. The article recalls A Cloud Guru's 2019 raise, AirTree's participation, and its 2019 purchase of Linux Academy.
Also SmartCompany
Daily tech roundup: Google wins its long-running copyright case against Oracle; Facebook user data leaks online; and HR startup Enboarder banks a US$5 million series A2 round with Next Coast Ventures leading.
Weekly roundup by Ignition Lane covering Vend's sale to Lightspeed, Roblox's listing, raises at Pipe, DataGrail, Mastt, Sonnant and Corvus, LaunchVic's new fund for women founders, and Scale Investors' new co-CEOs.
Also Startup Daily·LaunchVic
HR software maker Enboarder lands $45 million from US growth backer NewSpring, with a NewSpring partner joining the board; the piece also recaps its earlier Series A top-up and other recent local rounds.
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Profile of Hudled, a SaaS management dashboard built by two co-founders, which has secured part of its target funding, signed early customers, and came through Antler Australia's Sydney accelerator program.
Also Startup Daily
E-commerce tool Preezie has raised $575,000 in a seed round backed by Skalata Ventures and three angel investors, closed within a month despite the pandemic, with a Series A planned in about a year.
Data analytics vendor Databricks appoints ex-AWS executive Ed Lenta to lead its APJ region alongside other recent hires, with the piece recalling the company's US$400 million Series F backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
Also ARN (ARNnet)
Buildxact raises $8.5m led by Aconex co-founder Leigh Jasper; Redbubble shares plunge on weak trading update; Amazon sues Pentagon over JEDI loss; ACS accredits Deakin cybersecurity courses.
OIF's blog republishes an AFR report on Matrak's $3m convertible note round led by Simon Yencken, recalling his earlier seed, Assignar's prior raises, and Aconex's sale to Oracle.
Also Square Peg Capital portfolio·OIF Ventures portfolio·Blackbird Ventures portfolio·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·thelawyermag.com·LaunchVic·LaunchVic
Foodtech platform Fresho raised $9 million from private investors including Aconex co-founders Rob Phillpot and Leigh Jasper, the Tarascio family, Geoff Tarrant and Andrew Sypkes, to fund growth and hiring.
AI startup MyWave, founded by a NAB board member, has raised $3 million ahead of a planned listing, with Perennial Value Management leading and Patersons Securities running the raise.
Also Australian FinTech