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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Samsung raised.
Companies Samsung acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Samsung. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Report on OpenAI's Sydney Founder Day profiling two school-student founders: one whose gaming-advertising venture has raised pre-seed funding, and one building a platform helping small businesses coordinate their tools.
OpenAI has handed Australian founders, including two school students, credits worth over $5.5 million; the piece also notes Firmus's $15 billion valuation after a big raise and rising business AI adoption.
Startmate unveils its incoming Winter '26 accelerator intake, profiling AI, aerospace, legal tech, construction and healthcare startups founded across Australian cities, with others based in San Francisco and Christchurch.
IT services firm Entag has bought Rubicon 8, creating a combined 145-person business backed by Anchorage Capital Partners, with both companies recently recognised at the Telstra Partner Awards.
Sydney gaming-marketing firm Livewire names RealVC founder Matt Berriman as New York-based chief; cofounder Brad Manuel heads to Los Angeles. RealVC and other existing shareholders recently put in more money, amount undisclosed.
Crunchbase's analysis finds venture funding for chip startups rebounding in 2024 on AI demand, recapping large recent deals at Black Semiconductor, Tenstorrent, PsiQuantum, Celestial AI, Recogni and Eliyan, plus Astera Labs' IPO.
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Scalare Partners announces its investment in Brauz, an omnichannel retail platform, and that chief executive Carolyn Breeze will take a non-executive board seat at Brauz.
Customisable headphone maker Nura has been acqui-hired by medical device firm Masimo, with its team and technology folded into Denon; the Nura brand will be sunset once remaining inventory is sold.
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Chip startup milliBeam announces a $750,000 seed round from CSIRO's venture arm Main Sequence, funding its mmWave 5G beamforming technology and a planned Sydney research centre.
A weekly technology roundup reporting a New Zealand booking software firm's sale, an Australian beauty retailer's acquisition, several venture raises, executive share sales at an e-commerce firm, and a new government fund committee.
Canva has acquired Austrian AI startup Kaleido.ai and Czech mockup tool Smartmockups for undisclosed sums, adding AI and automation capability, and announced monthly active users have doubled to 50 million.
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Roundup of CES 2021 highlights: pandemic mask technology, rollable phone screens, BioMilq's lab-grown breast milk and its funding, Mobileye's single-chip lidar, and a suite of new home robots.
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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.
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Weekly roundup reporting Salesforce's Slack acquisition, several ASX listings, multiple Australian startup raises, OneVentures' fund tranche close, and international deals including Facebook buying Kustomer.
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Atlassian has acquired Swedish asset management platform Mindville, terms undisclosed, and separately reported 29% quarterly revenue growth and a US$1.6 billion annual revenue for fiscal 2020.
An academic argues the ACCC is right to worry that Google's proposed purchase of Fitbit would hand it sensitive health data and entrench its dominance, while overseas regulators have yet to rule on the deal.
Tech roundup: Casper's NYSE debut valued it far below its private mark, Antler raised US$75 million, Uber reported a large quarterly loss, Samsung leaked Galaxy S20 details, and Australia's consumer data rules arrived.
Challenger banks Xinja and 86 400 reach APRA licensing milestones and launch app-based retail transaction and savings accounts, becoming the first neobanks to offer Australian retail deposit products.
A Melbourne legal automation company has closed a Series A round led by KPMG, with Aconex and Message Media founders also investing, while KPMG's law arm formed a strategic alliance with the startup.
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A Q&A with the Plexus chief executive covering the company's 2011 founding, its Legal Gateway platform, client pricing reform, emerging legal roles, and his outlook for the profession.