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CUREator+ granted thirteen point five million dollars in non-dilutive funding to six Australian health tech startups to support commercialisation of medical innovations.
Uniseed announces portfolio company BioScout's A$6.75 million round co-led by Demea Sustainable Investment and Astanor to scale its crop disease sensor network internationally.
Robot data analysis startup Alloy Robotics has raised $11.5 million in a seed round led by Square Peg, with Blackbird and Airtree participating, less than a year after a $4.5 million pre-seed.
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Western Australia's government has named 26 businesses sharing nearly $1.3 million in round eight of its Innovation Booster Grant, with awards capped at $50,000 spanning medtech, agriculture, mining and Indigenous-led ventures.
The government-backed growth fund has doubled its largest first-investment size to $30m and may now take majority stakes; it also invested an undisclosed multimillion sum in defence manufacturer Griffin Industrial Group.
Zepto has promoted Emily Curlewis to General Manager, Commercial, heading sales, relationships and marketing after more than four years at the Australian payments company; she earlier held senior roles at PayPal and Atturra.
Hello Clever has brought in Mark Tibbles, a payments industry veteran with a career across major banks and payment firms, to advise the company as it grows.
Safety software firm HazardCo has bought Gtee, which handles post-handover compliance for builders, adding defect and warranty tools across Australia and New Zealand; price undisclosed.
ASX-listed Pathkey.AI has completed a A$2.8 million placement anchored by former Altium chairman Sam Weiss, who becomes a strategic advisor as the company advances its Chipforge chip-design automation technology.
A Perth-based maker of military drones has lodged listing paperwork with the corporate regulator ahead of a planned sharemarket float; its current Defence Force munitions contract is worth $24.2 million.
Wholesale Investor's news listing spanning Australian private capital: deep-tech and biotech company profiles, property and crypto commentary, Q1 2026 venture funding totals, and guides to wholesale investor qualification.
Me&u launches a new AI-powered reservations platform to compete with Resy and SevenRooms, targeting profitability in 2026 after merging with Mr Yum.
Heidi Health is negotiating a funding round exceeding 100 million dollars that would value the medical AI company at over one billion dollars.
Queensland's government has put $2 million into Nbryo, a Brisbane cattle-breeding technology startup, the first investment from its new $30 million farm innovation fund, which QIC manages.
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SafetyCulture, an Australian unicorn selling workplace-safety software, has rebranded as Mitti. Luke Anear, who founded it, is chief executive again, and insurance plus AI now anchor its growth plans.
Climate tech fund manager Impact Ventures has passed $10m under management and taken its follow-on vehicle to a first close; its portfolio spans Amber Electric, Orkestra and Infravision.
Sydney early-stage climate tech backer Impact Ventures says it now manages $10 million and has completed the first close on its follow-on vehicle, which will keep backing its maturing portfolio companies.
Western Australia's government has awarded Round 8 Innovation Booster Grants totalling nearly $1.27 million across 26 startups, including Indigenous-founded, female-founded and regional founders, funding early-stage projects from health and agriculture to space.
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Australian telco enablement group Advantai hires Ben Dobbin as Prvidr's COO and Julian Dell as Staqr's CTO, effective immediately, as it scales across the Trans-Tasman telecommunications market.
WA's government granted ACE Kinetics 50,000 AUD to prototype its Orbital Gearmotor motor-gear system, one of 26 early-stage ventures sharing a 1.275 million AUD grant pool spanning robotics, farming, health and Indigenous enterprises.
Robotics AI startup Alloy has banked an $8m seed at an $80m valuation, led by Square Peg with Blackbird, Airtree and Skip Capital back again; funds earmarked for engineering hires and growth in the US.
Western Australia's eighth Innovation Booster round granted One Kidney and Open Ocean Exchange A$50,000 each, within A$1.27 million shared across 26 early-stage recipients, supporting work from an artificial kidney to farm trade infrastructure.
Sydney robotics maker GMEX has agreed to buy an initial 30% stake in AI firm MediaMeta.Ai, hired a president for its US operations, and signed a preliminary, non-binding deal with a California sensing company.
Hanwha of South Korea has tabled an early, non-binding bid for the American shipbuilding business of Australia's Austal, leaving out its Australian, Philippine and Vietnamese units; a four-week diligence window follows.
Hanwha's US subsidiary has made an indicative offer of US$1.05–1.20 billion for Austal's American business; the target's board approved a four-week due diligence window, with the proposal excluding its home-market operations.
Queensland's government will grant over $500,000 to Gold Coast armour maker Craig International Ballistics from its Sovereign Industry Development Fund, expanding hard armour plate output and creating 47 jobs by late 2027.
Brookfield Asset Management gathered $77 billion in second-quarter commitments across private equity and infrastructure, with an initial close on its AI infrastructure vehicle, and completed its takeover of credit manager Oaktree.
Wealth platform DASH has appointed ex-Betashares executive Glenn Poynton as CEO. The piece also recalls DASH's 2025 purchase of Integrated Portfolio Solutions and its partnership with S64.
Forbes Australia reports the workplace-safety unicorn's new name and its expanding insurance arm, with founder Luke Anear back as chief executive.
Street Talk reports the Sydney-based regional data centre operator, whose backers include DigitalBridge and Soul Patts, is seeking growth funding and has shifted focus toward the neocloud market, with Newcastle expansion plans.
Main Sequence announces a follow-on seed investment in Zabidou, an industrial vision-systems startup it earlier backed at pre-seed, and recalls its previous backing of founder Cibby Pulikkaseril's LiDAR company Baraja.
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Tabcorp has agreed a $283 million takeover of BetMakers, a Melbourne-based racing technology provider, in a cash-and-scrip deal the target's board unanimously backs, pending shareholder, court and regulator approvals.
Fabulate, an Australian creator-marketing platform, has completed an oversubscribed 4.5-million-dollar raise valuing it at 84.5 million dollars post-money, largely from returning shareholders, to fund Asia-Pacific growth.
Eaton Square announces its role advising Hydrobiology on the company's sale to SLR, congratulating the sellers and staff on the completed deal.
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MLA profiles Chief Nutrition, a maker of beef-based snack bars and supplements built from leftover meat cuts, now sold across 12 overseas markets; co-founder and CEO Brock Hatton credits consumer trust in Australian beef.
Global consultancy Sia has acquired Seven Consulting, an Australian business transformation firm, roughly quadrupling Sia's local headcount and adding major banking, government and retail clients.
US battery materials maker Sila has been conditionally offered a defence loan of as much as $1.4 billion; three other materials firms also won Pentagon-backed deals, after a July equity round.
Denmark's Novonesis has signed to acquire the rest of MicroBioGen, the Australian yeast-genetics company it has partly held since 2013, ending a 13-year partnership; price undisclosed, completion awaits regulator sign-off.
Melbourne agtech Bio-Gene Technology completed a A$3.28 million equity raise, closing the second tranche of a 2025 placement, with shareholders also approving options for participants and the deal's lead manager.
Ranch Bot, an Australian internet-of-things firm for ranch water and livestock management, has banked a Series B round from Lewis & Clark Partners and five co-investors, reorganising under a new US parent.
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Australian edtech ClassCover is bringing its casual-teacher booking service to Ireland, backed by €3 million, with a Dublin pilot, 20 planned roles and a rebuild for the local market.
Percheron Therapeutics has appointed Arovella Therapeutics' former leader Michael Baker as CEO from October, with James Garner departing for an overseas role while joining the board as a non-executive director.
Western Australia's government has shortlisted 23 companies for the 2026 Innovators of the Year awards across six categories; $310,000 in prizes will be shared in November, and past winners including Kanopy are recalled.
About page for waste solutions company Jerrara Environmental profiling its holdings and operating boards, with biographies recalling sector transactions including Cleanaway's sale to KKR and later acquisition by Transpacific.
The US Defense Department has conditionally committed a US$400m loan to Sunrise Energy Metals to develop its Syerston scandium mine in New South Wales, announced at a Washington meeting with President Trump.
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Weekly roundup: Firmus completes its $2.85b round; Procore acquires DroneDeploy; Atlassian rebounds while Canva cuts guidance; plus fresh raises for Zabidou, BioScout, Vexev, Enrola, Spacetalk and others.
Firmus, a Sydney company building AI data centres, has raised $2 billion from backers including Coatue and Nvidia, lifting its post-money valuation to $10.5 billion from $5.5 billion in April.
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Roundup of four Australian raises: Firmus Technologies' US$2 billion round at a $15 billion valuation, Eudaemon's $3.75 million, Zabidou's $3.5 million seed round, and Rampart's $2.3 million.