Company
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round StartupAus raised.
Companies StartupAus 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rachael Neumann | Chair (former) | SmartCompany, Women's Agenda |
| Alex McCauley | CEO | Startup Daily |
Stories naming StartupAus. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Techboard's periodic funding analysis reports record Australian startup funding in March and April 2020, driven by large neobank raises, while declining deal counts suggest an emerging Covid-19 downturn.
Techboard's March 2019 quarterly report records over $2.6 billion in startup funding, driven by CBA's PEXA acquisition, Airwallex's unicorn round, several large raises, and a warning that early-stage deal flow is shrinking.
Also Startup News (WA)
An AirTree partner argues Australia's healthtech sector must champion centralised health data, citing local AI diagnostics and bioprinting startups and claiming MyHealthRecord's aggregated data could enable life-saving medical insights.
A year-end reflection on Australian agtech's 2017 rise, covering FluroSat's investment round, several startups' funding totals, SproutX's first accelerator cohort, Observant's acquisition, and the author's hopes for 2018.
Also Tenacious Ventures portfolio·Cotton Research and Development Corporation·SmartCompany·AgFunderNews