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LaunchVic profile of Tractor Ventures, a Victorian revenue-based lending fund co-founded in 2020, covering LaunchVic's initial backing, a $10 million second capital raise, and its support for profitable mid-stage startups.
Rokt raised a record A$458 million Series E led by Tiger Global, valuing it at $2.75 billion, while employees and investors sold down shares; the founder aims for a US listing in 2023.
Rokt's Series E tops a week of Australian raises including Dovetail, Inventia, DiviPay, Atomi, 6clicks, Replica Studios and ProForm Foods, with SimPro's recent raise noted.
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Spanish utility Iberdrola has bought Australian commercial solar and battery firm Autonomous Energy, months after its management buyout from administration, extending an Australian acquisition spree that included Infigen Energy.
New Zealand agritech startup Croptide raised a $1 million pre-seed round led by Icehouse Ventures, with K1W1 and Masfen Group, to advance plant water-sensing trials with wine and kiwifruit growers.
Sydney insurtech Picnic Labs received a $25,000 NSW Government MVP grant to grow Our Ark, its customer-owned mutual offering community groups an alternative to traditional insurance.
ASX-listed lender Wisr has added Cathryn Lyall, a veteran of exchanges and Deutsche Bank's UK board, as a non-executive director from January 2022, its second board addition in months.
New Zealand fleet inspection software firm Whip Around raised a Series B led by Punakaiki Fund and Amplo, to grow its product and engineering team.
ASX-listed lender MoneyMe is acquiring rival consumer credit fintech SocietyOne in a scrip-based deal valued at $132 million, aiming for scale, cost synergies and revenue growth.
Sydney cyber security firm Haventec announced an $11 million capital round led by Macquarie Group and Future Now Capital, funding US expansion, alongside two North American hires and recent industry award wins.
Atomi, an online teaching platform, has closed a $9 million Series A led by OIF Ventures, which backed it before, with angels also taking part; schools in Australia and the UK use its tools.
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Sydney pet-care platform Pet Circle has raised $125 million in a Series C round backed by Prysm Capital, TDM Growth Partners, Baillie Gifford and AirTree Ventures, reaching unicorn status.
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OIF Ventures reports New York's Level Equity has bought a large stake in Eftsure, letting the Australian backer sell most of its holding, with the same investor recently in simPRO's huge round.
1inch Network, the decentralised exchange aggregator, has secured $175 million in a Series B token round led by Amber Group, with several trading and crypto investors joining, taking its lifetime funding towards $190 million.
OIF Ventures' third monthly portfolio roundup: XM Cyber's roughly billion-dollar sale to Schwarz Group, Assignar's secondary raise, new investments in Inspace, mod.io and Atelier, plus portfolio awards, customers and product launches.
Nightingale Partners announces its completed sale of Academic Assessment Services to Janison Education Group, receiving nine million dollars upfront plus an earn-out, roughly fifteen times its capital after backing the company from 2016.
OIF announces it followed on into Atelier's $3 million seed round. Atelier's marketplace helps creators and brands manufacture and launch beauty and wellness products; OIF first backed the company's December 2020 pre-seed.
Aura Ventures maps the Web3 ecosystem, separating private blockchains from four public layers, and argues genuine value will migrate to scaling and application layers, citing its portfolio firm Lygon and Australian protocol Synthetix.
Tenacious Ventures' investment note on its participation in Jupiter Ionics' AUD 2.5 million seed round; the startup develops carbon-neutral ammonia production using technology invented at Monash University.
Leona Murphy retires as Stone & Chalk Group chair after six years, succeeded by board member Richard Kimber. Michael Bromley serves as the newly appointed CEO.
Tenacious Ventures' investment note explains why it led agrifood blockchain platform Geora's AUD 1.5 million seed round alongside NAB Ventures and Flying Fox Ventures, its ninth investment.
OIF says its early stake in Israeli cybersecurity firm XM Cyber, bought by Schwarz Group for US$700 million, returned the firm's entire first fund; Macquarie and others joined its 2020 Series B.
Tenacious Ventures' co-founders reflect on three years running Australia's first agrifood tech VC, describing their oversubscribed $35 million first fund, sector-focused thesis, and lessons about backing founders.
Tiger Global led a US$16.5m secondary funding round in construction software firm Assignar, co-led by SecondQuarter Ventures, with Fifth Wall and HighSage taking part; past backers and a $20m Series B are recalled.
Mod.io, which lets gamers build and share in-game content, has raised $34 million from Tencent, LEGO's venture arm, Our Innovation Fund and earlier backers.
Cut Through Venture's November newsletter rounds up October 2021's record deal count for Australian startups, listing raises across climate, fintech, cybersecurity and legal tech, plus Startmate Demo Day graduates and active investors.
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Nightingale Partners' blog records its October 2020 investment, alongside Phoenix Development Fund, in PayOK, a payments-verification venture from CreditorWatch founder Colin Porter, with Lindsay Phillips joining PayOK's board.
Virtual inspection platform Inspace has secured A$4 million in fresh capital, with Our Innovation Fund leading the round alongside Leigh Jasper, Investible and Artesian. OIF partner Geoff Levy joins the board.
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Interview with Zedosh's founder and chief executive about his attention marketplace that pays Gen Z users for watching ads targeted via open banking data, its pandemic growth, and plans to reshape advertising.
Main Sequence recounts how personal relationships across CSIRO, Woolworths, ANU and prior ventures converged over years to found plastic-recycling startup Samsara Eco.
Hong Kong payments network EMQ closed a $20 million Series B led by WI Harper Group alongside ten other backers, funding expansion, product work and licensing across Asia, Europe and the Americas.
David Yuan's investment firm Tidemark closed its first fund well above its original goal, collecting 575 million dollars after roughly half a year of marketing to backers.
Nightingale Partners and Phoenix Development Fund announce an initial investment in content marketing platform Fabulate, and outline its leadership team and a new director appointment.
Aura Ventures sets out its blockchain thesis and announces it led seed funding in Lygon, a platform digitising bank guarantees built by a consortium of major banks and IBM.
Org-design software maker Functionly announced a AU$3.6m seed round with Black Nova Venture Capital leading and several funds plus angels taking part, bringing its overall funding to AU$5.9m alongside an earlier A$598k government grant.
Main Sequence announces Australian Ethical has joined its second fund as a strategic backer, pairing ethical capital with deep tech investing to address challenges across health, food, space and industrial productivity.
OIF's write-up of bridging-loan startup TechLend: a two-month-old lender fielding heavy loan demand, already holding $50 million in venture debt from a Silicon Valley fund, now chasing a larger facility plus equity.
OIF Ventures' newsletter rounds up portfolio achievements: award wins and list placements for several companies, new product launches, and partnerships including Go1 with Employment Hero and Adobe, plus community masterclasses and webinars.
Australian health-data analytics firm Prospection has closed a $45 million Series B, cornerstoned by Ellerston JAADE with Main Sequence and Horizons Ventures participating; its $10 million Series A dates to February 2020.
Toilet paper social enterprise Who Gives A Crap has taken its first outside capital, a $41.5 million round led by Verlinvest with Grok Ventures, Airtree, Giant Leap and prominent founders and athletes involved.
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A former TCV general partner has started a new investment firm focused on growth-stage technology companies, with a debut fund of roughly $350m currently being marketed to backers.
Prospection's $45 million Series B has Ellerston Capital's JAADE fund as cornerstone investor with $30 million, while existing shareholders Main Sequence Ventures and Horizons Ventures also backed the healthcare data company.
Profile of Serenade, an NFT and performance marketplace for musicians, tracing founder Max Shand's route from Afterpay employee to venture investor, with OIF among its backers.
OIF Ventures' first portfolio newsletter: OIF Fund II closed above $100 million, plus recent raises at Go1, Circle In, Assignar, Arcade, Visionary Machines, Neara, Futurerent and Adventus.io.
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Independent fibre network operator DGtek has raised above $7m in a Series A led by MA Financial's growth arm, with Treia Capital clients also taking part; proceeds partly funded its purchase of FG Telecom.
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Nightingale Partners announces a backing of LiveWire, the new automation venture of experienced founder Peter Walsh, with Francisco Dias Costas appointed to its board.
Aura Ventures' thesis post explains its plant-based protein outlook and announces co-leading Harvest B's pre-seed round alongside Woolworths' venture arm W23.
Tenacious Ventures' investment note explains its backing of Regrow's US$17 million Series A alongside Cargill, covering Regrow's agricultural MRV technology, its FluroSense platform, and its formation from the FluroSat-Dagan merger.
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