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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Up Bank raised.
The transaction that ended Up Bank's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.
| Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bendigo and Adelaide Bank | Acquisition | Aug 2021 | $116m | Startup Daily (Wed 29 Jun 2022), Startup Daily (Fri 29 Oct 2021), Australian FinTech |
Companies Up Bank acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Up Bank. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
ASIC filings show Buildkite raised $21m via convertible debt in January 2026 after heavy losses and a CEO change; its earlier backers include OneVentures, AirTree, General Catalyst and Dom Pym.
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Tiimely appoints Faith Brockhoff as product and technology chief and elevates Deion Matulic to lead lending operations, coinciding with renewed deals with two key platform partners.
Ex-Up Bank executives have secured pre-seed backing for a Melbourne venture developing AI-driven consumer finance tools, with Airtree Ventures and Triple Bubble co-leading the investment ahead of a planned local launch.
A fintech venture fund co-founded by Up Bank's Dom Pym has locked in a $10m first close with Commonwealth Bank's x15ventures as cornerstone backer, aiming for $50m ahead of a 2028 final close.
Enterprize Tasmania has appointed Brian Collins, deputy chair of FinTech Australia and co-founder of fintech fund Triple Bubble, as CEO, with the ten-year-old organisation seeking national and global reach for the state's startup ecosystem.
Commonwealth Bank's venture arm x15ventures and specialist fund Triple Bubble announce a partnership to support Australian fintechs with capital, mentoring and talent exchange between the bank and startups.
Dom Pym's fintech fund Triple Bubble has formed a partnership with Commonwealth Bank's venture arm x15ventures spanning joint investment, mentorship and talent exchange; financial terms were undisclosed.
Birchal lifts its charges and shrinks its team under a new chief executive; the piece also recalls past raises on the platform and the collapses of Zero Co and Equitise.
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Melbourne data startup WhyHive is closing next month; founders T Guthrie and Matt Cohen couldn't sustain growth despite a $600,000 pre-seed round revealed last August with backing from Skalata Ventures and several tech founders.
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Weekly round-up of four Australian raises: Shift's $35 million Series D, Inform Ag's $7 million Series A, Cropify's $2 million round and WhyHive's $600,000 pre-seed.
Dom Pym discusses his journey from engineering to founding Up Bank and now investing via Euphemia, focusing on social good and underrepresented founders.
Future Group has acquired Verve Super, a super fund aimed at women, with terms undisclosed; the piece also recalls earlier raises by Verve and by Future Super.
Crowdfunding platform Birchal has opened a new raise on its own site, seeking $3 million; the piece recalls its 2022 raise, 2023's top platform raises and several CSF-funded failures and a listing.
Profile of ALIAVIA, the venture fund Marisa Warren and Kate Vale started to back women founders across Australia and the US, its Australian backers, and its portfolio companies Eugene, Loupe, HowToo and Othelia AI.
Profile of ALIAVIA, the venture fund Marisa Warren and Kate Vale run from California to back women founders across Australian and US markets; also covers its backers, early investments, and Warren's ELEVACAO program.
ALIAVIA Ventures has closed its debut fund at A$13.5 million. The US-based firm backs female founders bridging Australian and US markets; backers include Carol Schwartz, Tattarang, the Denholms, Euphemia, Dom Pym and Cynthia Scott.
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Weekly roundup of Australian raises: Bloom's seed round, Vedi's animal-health funding, Alii's pre-Series A, and Code Like A Girl's government grant, alongside other WiSE grant recipients.
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Fintech startup Bloom Impact Investing has raised a $525,000 seed round led by angel investors Dominic Pym, Collis Ta'eed and Cyan Ta'eed to scale its ethical investment app and grow business development.
Early-2023 roundup of startup raises: a solar software company closed a Series B, an adventure-tech firm landed Series A money, and an angel investing platform raised seed capital.
Devops startup Buildkite has raised a US$21 million Series B led by OneVentures and AirTree, with General Catalyst and angel Dom Pym participating, to build new developer products and grow teams.
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Secondaries fund SecondQuarter has reached an $83m first close on its second vehicle, aiming past $100m, with founder-angels and Minderoo among new backers; its portfolio includes past sales of ActivePipe and A Cloud Guru.
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Startup Daily reports neobank Volt is winding up, returning deposits and selling its mortgage book after a failed capital raise, recapping earlier raises by Judo Bank and Alex plus past neobank failures and acquisitions.
Birchal opens an equity crowdfunding campaign on its own marketplace, an industry first, chasing $3 million with Up cofounder Dom Pym committed, while marking $100 million raised and unveiling secondary trading plans.
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Gathar, an Australian private chef platform, expands into the US with Curtis Stone, following a post-seed raise; the piece also recalls FoodByUs' series A and notes other food-tech players.
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Queensland catering platform Gathar has raised $1 million in post-seed backing from ACAC Innovation and new investors to enter the United States, with celebrity chef Curtis Stone joining the business.
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Consumer crypto wallet startup Minke has secured pre-seed backing ahead of its app launch, with four angels participating. Its founders previously worked at SmartrMail, and the company is currently in Startmate's summer program.
A year-end recap of SmartCompany's most-read startup stories of 2021, recalling raises by Carted, Octopus Deploy, Who Gives a Crap and Judo Bank, plus a bank acquisition, listings and a liquidation.
KPMG's Fintech Landscape 2021 counts 718 active Australian fintechs and highlights record corporate M&A, including NAB buying 86 400, Latitude buying Symple Loans and Square's pending Afterpay takeover.
Melbourne construction software startup BuildPass has closed an oversubscribed pre-seed round, doubling its original target, to grow its team, speed product development and expand nationally before pursuing US expansion.
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has agreed to buy fintech Ferocia, creator of the Up banking app, for up to $116 million in shares, internalising the digital platform and its team while Ferocia runs as a standalone division.
Neobank Xinja is shutting its Australian banking operations, handing back its ADI licence and returning deposits, blaming COVID-19 and difficult fundraising, while pivoting to its US share trading product.
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A profile of open banking API provider TrueLayer, covering its founding, backers, Australian leadership and expansion plans, with no new funding, hires or transactions announced.
NAB is buying neobank 86 400 for roughly $220 million, folding it into UBank, shortly after rival Xinja said it would quit banking, leaving fewer independent Australian neobanks standing.
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TransferWise appoints a new Australian board, a country manager and a chief risk officer, with Timothy Cameron replacing outgoing boss Nicholas Lembo, who moves to New York.
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.
Small-business focused challenger bank Judo Bank has banked a $400 million round from new and returning institutional backers, reportedly the largest single raise by an Australian startup, double its original target.
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Afterpay, Airwallex and Up Bank took major prizes at the 2019 Finnie awards in Melbourne; Airwallex's $141 million raise won biggest raise and Liberty's purchase of MoneyPlace took deal of the year.
FinTech Australia's 2019 Finnies awards recognised Airwallex with three trophies including Biggest Raise, Afterpay as FinTech Organisation of the Year, plus wins for Up, Zuper, Xinja, Athena and others.
Neobank 86400 aims to close a large capital raise later in 2019, while the piece recaps recent funding by Australian neobank rivals Judo, Xinja and Volt plus Airwallex and Deputy.
Profile of a Brisbane bitcoin micro-investment startup, covering its founding team, its completed seed raise, backing from a university investment fund, and plans for a future Series A.