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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Snowflake raised.
Companies Snowflake 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kent Graziano | Chief Technical Evangelist (former) | ARN (ARNnet) |
Stories naming Snowflake. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Billionaire Ed Craven backs Maincode's new venture arm, which takes half of each startup's equity in exchange for funding, salaries and AI access, aiming to build sovereign Australian AI companies across several industries.
MatrixOrigin announced completing a Series A above $10 million with HAND, AsiaCom and Australian-headquartered Artesian among the backers; the piece also recalls a 2025 Pre-A+ round and six earlier institutional investors.
Also matrixorigin.io
DataMasque, whose platform masks customer data for AI use, has collected $5.6 million from Wavemaker Partners, OIF Ventures and Icehouse Ventures, with Wavemaker leading.
Data platform vendor Zetaris hires a former Snowflake evangelist as chief technical advisor to support its United States growth, following a thirty million dollar funding injection the article recalls.
Blackbird's investment note explains why it joined Spice AI's seed round led by Madrona Ventures, describing the web3 data and AI infrastructure platform and its founders.
US cloud security firm Lacework has entered the Australian and New Zealand market, hiring 23 local staff including a new A/NZ general manager, having earlier raised US$525 million from Sutter Hill Ventures in January.
Commentary piece on VC exit strategies (IPO, trade sale, secondary sale) referencing recent Australian tech M&A deals and venture funding rounds including Sendle, UpGuard, Sonder and others.
Ignition Lane's weekly column rounds up Australian raises including Octopus Deploy, Neara, Mr Yum and Archistar, ThinkTilt's sale to Atlassian, Latitude's ASX listing, and US moves by Tiger Global, UiPath and Squarespace.
Also Startup Daily
Australian micro-influencer marketplace Tribe has secured $5.5 million in pre-IPO funding from Saville Capital, Cyan Capital and SG Hiscock, with chief executive Anthony Svirskis weighing an IPO amid strong public-market appetite for tech stocks.