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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #180, 4th October 2026

Weekly roundup reporting Australian startup funding rounds and government grants, a venture fund close, agreed acquisitions, an IPO pricing, a collapse, plus executive hires and AI policy developments.

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #179, 26th September 2026

Weekly roundup recording a dozen raises and acquisitions, Firmus's scheduled float, a new $50m venture fund, a founder share sale, grant winners, an accelerator intake, and an AI agent's government breach.

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Scalare backs AI scent startup Auric, which opens Sydney lab

Listed investor Scalare Partners has taken an undisclosed early-stage stake in Sydney AI scent startup Auric, which has opened a lab at Tank Stream Labs after earlier backing from Antler and Sputnik ATX.

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Scalare rescues Fishburners from administration

Scalare Partners has bought Fishburners out of administration, keeping the founder community operating within Scalare's ecosystem, with planned hub access, revived pitch nights and a future investment vehicle for startups.

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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #164, 7th June 2026

Weekly roundup: eight funding rounds totalling $12.1m; Airwallex bought Leapfin; 4DMedical agreed a deal for Contextflow; Scalare Partners took over Fishburners; Airtree and Build Club each unveiled new founder programs.

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E-commerce legends praise Click Frenzy founder after business liquidation

Grant Arnott's Click Frenzy and Power Retail have entered liquidation and receivership, drawing warm public messages from e-commerce peers; Tanarra Capital, which invested in 2016, no longer holds a stake.

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The Founders Union startup services hub launches

Scalare Partners has launched The Founders Union, an AI-driven hub connecting founders to education, community, services and investment providers; Westpac, MYOB, Atlassian and Zoho are among its partners.

Venture Studio Nakatomi pulls in $3.5m to ‘back and build’ Aussie startups

Nakatomi, an Australian startup studio, has collected $3.5 million from backers including Scalare Partners and Leonardo.AI's Chris Gillis, cash it will deploy creating several companies each year.

Scalare Partners Acquires Planet Startup

Scalare Partners has bought 100% of Planet Startup, a Brisbane vCFO firm serving early-stage tech founders — its fifth purchase since 2023 — with co-founder CEO Marc Orchard staying on to lead.

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Scalare Partners Acquires Tank Stream Labs

Scalare Partners has agreed to buy Tank Stream Labs, an Australian flexible workspace operator for tech companies, its fourth purchase since 2023, bringing TSL chief executive Bradley Delamare into the group.

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Tank Stream Labs sells to ASX-listed Scalare Partners in $5.5 million deal

ASX-listed Scalare Partners is acquiring coworking operator Tank Stream Labs in a deal of as much as $5.5 million, paid in cash, shares and earn-outs; three earlier Scalare acquisitions are also recalled.

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Digital currency exchange BetterX mints $2.3 million pre-Series A

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Scalare Partners Acquires Inhouse Ventures

Scalare Partners announces it has acquired Inhouse Ventures, an Australian platform linking tech founders with investors, after taking a minority stake in 2023; the deal is the accelerator's third purchase.

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Accelerator Scalare Partners posts $1.3 million loss following ASX debut

Scalare Partners' first results since its ASX debut show an EBITDA loss with revenue up 115%; its November listing raised $4.3 million and its 27 startups are worth $10.7 million.

Worker credentials platform MyPass clocks on with $7.5 million Series A

Workforce credentialing platform MyPass has secured $7.5 million in Series A backing from OneVentures to grow across the Americas and further build its Skills Passport product. Scalare Partners seeded the company in 2020.

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A month after its IPO raised $4.3 million, a share price decline for accelerator Scalare Partners has trimmed $6.5m from its market cap

ASX-listed accelerator Scalare Partners has seen its shares fall 28% in the month since listing, cutting its market value, while listed peers Touch Ventures and Bailador back Tixel, Dash and Updoc.

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Scalare Invests in Brauz

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.

Scalare Invests in Inhouse Ventures

Scalare Partners announces an investment in Inhouse Ventures, a marketplace linking startups with investors and advisors, with James Walker taking a board seat there.

Scalare Invests in Circadian Health Innovations

Scalare Partners announces an investment in Circadian Health Innovations, whose wearable device guides healthier light habits, and two board additions.

Expense management fintech Cape raises $33.1 million in pre-Seed round

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A revolutionary cochlear hearing startup has raised $10 million in a series A

Hearing implant developer Hemideina has closed a $10 million Series A with new investors Escala Partners, InterValley Ventures and Geoni Capital, to grow its team and advance pre-clinical testing of its wireless cochlear device.

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Sydney startup FreeGuides hits the road with $360,000 seed round for a $2.6 million valuation

Travel app FreeGuides raised a $360,000 seed round from Scalare Partners, Little Fish VC and angel Malik Irfan at a $2.5 million valuation, with a global launch planned for 2022.

Afterpay-led buy now, pay later sector booms as more money pours in

Payright raised $12 million in a round led by Escala Partners, while fellow BNPL firm Limepay raised $6 million, as listed buy now, pay later stocks buoy private-market investment.

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Business lender Moula raises $20 million in Series D

Stellar growth helps Moula close $20m capital raising

Moula has closed a $20 million Series D round led by wealth manager Escala Partners, with existing shareholders Liberty Financial and Acorn Capital also allocating, after strong 2019 loan book growth.

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Buy-now-pay-later competitor bags $27 million after seeing 650% revenue growth

Payright secures debt and equity financing led by Henslow with Escala Partners, following an earlier round months prior, as the payments firm reports strong revenue and customer growth and eyes New Zealand expansion.

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Buy now, pay later startup Payright has raised $27 million in a Series D

Melbourne instalment payments firm Payright secured an oversubscribed Series D combining debt and equity, led by Henslow with Escala Partners, to fund expansion, new markets and technology as it eyes New Zealand.

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Buy-now-pay-later startup PayRight raises $30 million for filling a gap left by Afterpay and Zip

Big-ticket instalment-payment provider PayRight has gathered $30 million in debt and equity, with recent backing led by Henslow and Escala Partners, and is preparing New Zealand expansion and an e-commerce offering.