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ANDHealth's blog interviews Australis Scientific's founder about its wearable therapy for bladder conditions, its years in ANDHealth programs, and plans to scale the device at home and abroad.
Zeller has rolled out a point-of-sale application for small Australian businesses, replacing subscription pricing with per-transaction charges and adding an AI assistant inside its merchant dashboard.
Australia's Capacity Investment Scheme storage auction names fifteen grid battery winners; Ampyr takes four projects, with Ascera, Potentia and Equis among the others, and a further tender has opened.
Australia's Capacity Investment Scheme named 15 winning battery storage projects, seven of them in Queensland; Ampyr Energy took the most slots, and a further tender is open for bids until August 2026.
Forbes Australia interviews Amal Clooney at the Cartier Women's Initiative 2026 celebration in Bangkok, where she mentored female founder fellows, including three Australian award winners, and discussed her justice foundation's legal-aid work.
Insect farming company Goterra has entered voluntary administration in Australia; its administrator is seeking a buyer while founder Olympia Yarger blames sector contagion and underfunding for the collapse.
FaBA profiles Nourish Ingredients, a Canberra startup using precision fermentation for dairy-style fats, recounting a co-investment project with Queensland academics that readied its Creamilux ingredient for commercial dairy customers.
Gilmour Space Technologies has appointed ex-NASA deputy administrator and astronaut Pamela Melroy to its board, a move the company says strengthens Australia's sovereign defence space capability.
South Australia's government investment corporation has put $5 million into Eastend Ventures' debut fund, lifting commitments beyond $25 million as the vehicle nears a final close.
Blackbird's post explaining its participation in Baseten's $1.5 billion Series F, its biggest investment yet, and why inference infrastructure will anchor the open-source AI era; notes rapid growth and senior engineering hires.
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A national alliance of disability sporting bodies has engaged a software provider to centralise volunteer registration, onboarding and records across its eight member sporting organisations.
Australian women's health AI startup Ovum AI has raised a 4 million dollar seed round led by Admiralty Capital Group, following an earlier pre-seed, with several impact and government backers participating.
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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's cotton research body CRDC has appointed Dr Georgina Pengilley as Managing Director from late July 2026, with Allan Williams stepping aside after 14 years.
Mobility newsletter: a new autonomy index puts Chinese robotaxi operators on top; Cargofy raises $11m, XDOF $70m; Carro buys CarPlace; plus driverless partnerships and a Waymo recall.
Weekly newsletter edition recaps seven funding deals worth $82.5m, reports Expert360 is seeking a buyer, covers Airwallex's new AgentOS product, notes a proposed capital gains tax break for startups, and unveils a redesign.
Opinion piece argues Goterra's administration shows Australia lacks scale-up capital; the author, AxleTree Capital's co-founder, links the collapse to underfunding of women founders and the system's failure to finance capital-heavy technologies.
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Commentary contends the federal government's near-$53m backing of a Tasmanian cement kiln switch to burning wood waste and tyres is misguided, arguing biomass burning raises emissions, damages forests and wastes public money.
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Perth tax research startup SavvyWise closed an equity crowdfunding campaign on OnMarket, raising $1.56m from 469 investors, half the capital from accountants, to fund tax-specific AI development.
Profile of Demyst founder Mark Hookey recalling his insurance-data startup's acquisition and the $60 million raised via a Series B extension round for his data company.
Profile of Sally Wood, whose venture Kinrest is developing a screen-free device that helps children wind down for sleep, built on customer testing after she joined Startmate's Launch Club.
Interview with Minh Cung about Hyperlocalise, which builds AI agents that adapt marketing and product content for new language markets while keeping cultural context intact; a Launch Club alumnus seeking a co-founder and capital.
MCi Carbon has launched a Newcastle facility that converts captured carbon dioxide into sellable building products, beginning with Austrian customer RHI Magnesita.
MCi Carbon has opened a Newcastle demonstration plant that converts industrial CO2 into sellable construction materials, beginning product testing for Austrian customer RHI Magnesita.
Melbourne preventative health startup Everlab raised a $65 million Series A to fund UK expansion, with Airtree Ventures, Plural, b2venture, Left Lane Capital and cricketer Pat Cummins among the backers.
Dealroom reports SharonAI Holdings' plan to fund an Nvidia GPU deployment for an Australian AI factory via equity and convertible notes, with both private placements likely to wrap up in June.
AFR reports Test cricket captain Pat Cummins backing a capital raising by Melbourne medical diagnostics start-up Everlab, which plans overseas expansion beginning in Britain.
The preventative healthcare startup behind a diagnostics-and-data platform has banked a $65 million Series A, headed by Airtree Ventures with several funds and cricketer Pat Cummins taking part, to fund international growth.
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Flyweel, a Queensland fintech for financing and managing ad spend, has banked $2.41 million in a pre-seed round Ten13 led, with Antler, QIC and several founder-angels aboard; a US launch comes first.
Melbourne-based ENA Respiratory announced US patent allowances covering its TLR2 agonist platform and a COPD treatment method, strengthening IP protection for its INNA-051 nasal spray candidate now in Phase II testing.
Queensland fintech Flyweel has closed a pre-seed round led by Ten13, with Antler, QIC and several fintech founders and executives backing, to help businesses fund advertising ahead of revenue.
Counter-drone firm DroneShield has begun European production of its systems, a milestone unveiled at a Paris defence showcase, as the company also maintains Australian manufacturing and a new Amsterdam regional hub.
Partner content profiling Queensland laundry firm Consolidated Linen Service, whose 2024 minority growth investment from the Australian Business Growth Fund brought capital, governance and hiring support while the founding family kept control.
Rob Hall, who co-founded Playground xyz, has launched Parallel, a customer-suitability ad platform in Sydney and London, with Shearwater Capital investing AU$4 million at seed. Playground xyz was bought by GumGum in 2021.
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A $5 million backing from venture firm Jekara Group will let New Energy Transport roll out twenty electric trucks and mobile chargers across NSW freight routes from late 2026, sooner than first intended.
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Weekly roundup: five raises totalling $87.48m, Fresho buying UK software firm Nation Wilcox, Vinyl Group adding Pedestrian Group and Time Out Australia, and robot maker Andromeda scaling production in a larger facility.
Australian ASX-listed medtech Vitrafy Life Sciences completed a A$30 million institutional placement to fund Guardion cryopreservation manufacturing and its push into the US blood market.
AUDC, issuer of the AUDD stablecoin, has hired Andrew Kitchen as CFO and José Barroso as growth general manager, deepening its executive bench amid rising demand and its recent New Zealand token launch.
Stablecoin issuer AUDC hires Andrew Kitchen as CFO and José Barroso as growth chief, extending an executive build-out to support rising demand for its digital-money and settlement services across Australia and New Zealand.
As Breakthrough Victoria and LaunchVic combine into Innovation Victoria, nine partner organisations will share government funding to run pre-accelerator programs for founders at the idea stage.
The National Reconstruction Fund has put another $40m into Sydney quantum chip maker Silicon Quantum Computing, following its $20m investment three months earlier, part of a larger round still underway.
Weekly roundup covering seven raises across the Tasman: Phonely's Series A, Pay.com.au's private placement, and rounds for Atomic Tessellator, Caruso, Deteqt, Clean Slate Clinic and Earthletica, worth roughly $72 million combined.
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Payments fintech Pay.com.au shelved its planned ASX float amid war-driven market volatility, completing a private placement first reported at $20 million ($750 million valuation), ultimately $40 million at $753.4 million.
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Canberra medtech Dentroid has banked $32 million at a $265 million valuation, with Septodont both investing and signing a worldwide licensing deal for its light-based device that eases dental pain without needles.
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Josh Simons-led Vinyl Group raised $2.4 million and is adding Time Out Australia and Pedestrian Group to its media portfolio for little outlay, alongside earlier buys of Concrete Playground and Val Morgan Digital.
Norship has received a $5.37 million grant from Queensland's Sovereign Industry Development Fund to enlarge its defence-certified Cairns shipyard, a project already under construction and due to finish in early 2028.
Boresight, a Canberra-based maker of target drones for counter-drone training, has begun trading on the ASX after an $8 million IPO, with funds set to lift production and US manufacturing.
Australian wealth-tech firm Briefcase has hired Michael Wang, previously at MLC Asset Management, RoZetta Technology and CreditorWatch, as Lead Portfolio Manager to advance its direct indexing, tax optimisation and AI portfolio capabilities.
Small-business lender Moneytech has hired David Cameron as CTO to speed AI and automation across its lending software, amid rising non-bank investment in automated credit decisions.