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Detox social enterprise Clean Slate Clinic scores $2.8 million ahead of Series A

Clean Slate Clinic, which helps people detox from alcohol at home, has secured a $2.8 million convertible note and $1.5 million debt facility from Giant Leap, Scale Investors and Australian Medical Angels.

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AI co-pilot Indi, which helps carers manage kids with complex needs, raises $1.46 million

An AI app built to help carers of children with high-support needs has banked $1.46 million in a Giant Leap-led round with Antler's backing, funding hires and clinic partnerships.

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Women’s health app raises $1.7 million to ramp up AI focus

Ovum, an app for tracking menstrual and women's health, has secured $1.7m to launch its AI assistant, in a round led by Giant Leap with Antler, Wollemi Capital and other backers.

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Agtech DAS and Hex founder Jeanette Cheah honoured in the Victorian governor's startup awards

Victorian Governor's awards name DAS top startup and Acusensus top scaleup; HEX's Jeanette Cheah is Ecosystem Hero, with Tractor's Jodie Imam and Giant Leap's Rachel Yang sharing Investor of the Year.

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Alberts Impact Ventures: 2023 in review

Investor's own year in review: five new portfolio companies, a follow-on into ULUU, the Verve Super exit, the Equity Clear gender-reporting initiative, a first founders' retreat, and a sweep of awards for portfolio companies.

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Giant Leap's Small Steps: Solving sleep's goldilocks problem with startups

Giant Leap's impact newsletter announces its first fund is complete, discusses sleeptech and healthtech credibility, cites Climate Salad's climate report, and notes new programs for Indigenous founders and climate research commercialisation.

Giant Leap’s Small Steps: Meet the microbe converting CO2 into leggings and jet fuel

Giant Leap's impact newsletter rounds up CO2-eating microbes, precision fermentation, booming health tech funding, a women-in-work survey, its open Analyst role, Glow Capital's launch, Snow Entrepreneurs grants and Investible's climate tech fund.

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Comestri, once Fusion Factory, has raised a $15 million Series B led by Moelis Australia; Giant Leap promotes Rachel Yang to partner; plus Musk on SNL, Dogecoin swings and Goldman Sachs bitcoin trading.

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Australia's new performance-based, debt funding facility invests $600,000 in Xceptional

Sydney startup Xceptional, which places autistic people into tech careers, has borrowed $600,000 under a new revenue-linked debt structure devised with Impact Investment Group, backed by several foundations and a private investor.

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This female founder told investors she had two important projects underway as she raised $2.2 million

Jobs platform Work180 raised $2.2 million led by Skip Capital, with Giant Leap and Investible among new backers; co-founder Gemma Lloyd raised while pregnant, with funds earmarked for US expansion and hiring.