Startup · $26m raised
Adelaide, SA
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Southern Launch raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| NRF Corporation | Series A | $10,000,000 |
| Alex Harvey | Series A | - |
| Brindabella and Company | Series A | - |
| Coupland Asset Management | Series A | - |
| Nicholas Moore | Series A | - |
| Australian Space Agency | Grant | - |
| Modern Manufacturing Initiative | Grant | - |
Companies Southern Launch acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Southern Launch. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
The Australian government is lifting its industry-policy focus on space; the National Reconstruction Fund has already put $200 million into local space companies, among them Gilmour Space Technologies and Southern Launch.
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Cut Through Venture's Q2 2026 report counts $1.7 billion announced across 64 venture rounds, carried by two mega-deals, with record median deal sizes, AI concentration, and deal counts at their slowest since before 2020.
Western Australia's government is putting $6.5 million into the local space sector, dividing it between the AROSE consortium and Curtin University's Binar satellite program, with South Australia's bigger spend cited for comparison.
Southern Launch raised a $25m Series A with $10m from the National Reconstruction Fund, led by Brindabella and Company and including ex-Macquarie executives and Coupland Asset Management, to grow headcount and launch services.
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Counter-drone maker DroneShield has appointed retired Rear Admiral Lee Goddard as an independent non-executive director, citing his decades of defence leadership and board experience.
Australia and the US have signed a Technology Safeguards Agreement easing American rocket launches from local spaceports, while Gilmour has banked an extra $55 million ahead of the debut flight of its Eris rocket.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: ARM Hub's anniversary, DroneShield orders, EMVision's milestone grant, SciDev results, a SEA Electric hire, ATSE's policy submission, and spaceport funding for Koonibba.
Roundup of manufacturing news: federal grants for four NSW manufacturers, a Victorian plastics recycling investment, Southern Launch's new Adelaide headquarters, AusBiotech's call for speakers, and Queensland grant applications opening.
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Seven South Australian manufacturers, including Bickford's, Orora and Inovor Technologies, have received federal grants totalling $48 million under Round 2 of the Modern Manufacturing Initiative's Integration and Translation streams.
Interview with Main Sequence partner Martin Duursma on Australia's late but accelerating space sector, his firm's space investments, sovereign capability, and portfolio companies Quasar and Gilmour Space.
Podcast interview with HEO Robotics chief executive Dr William Crowe about his space startup, plus Australian space news: a discovery centre opening, a rocket motor test, and a first space commander.
Twenty Australian small businesses share more than eleven million dollars in the latest round of a federal defence grants program, with individual awards listed alongside each company's stated purpose and state.
Adelaide defence firm DEWC Systems won a $3.1 million government contract to develop a CubeSat electronic warfare sensor constellation, having earlier bought engineering firm AES to build its own hardware.
An Adelaide machine learning research group led by Tat-Jun Chin has won a $600,000 SmartSat CRC grant to continue work on detecting, tracking and removing space debris, collaborating with universities and local space firms.
Adelaide electronic warfare firm DEWC Systems plans to launch its MOESS CubeSat constellation from Southern Launch's Whalers Way site, recalls a grant, and has acquired local engineering firm AES.
Adelaide satellite firm Inovor Technologies wins a Defence Innovation Hub grant to test its satellite stabilisation algorithm, aiming at Defence adoption and later international customers.
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Adelaide startup Ping receives a government commercialisation grant to launch its acoustic wind-turbine blade monitor, while satellite communications firm Myriota's earlier Series A backing and South Australia's space sector are recapped.
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