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Everlab, a preventative health firm, has tapped agency Outside In to shape its brand and debut campaign, due in October; the piece also cites its $65 million Series A.
Melbourne dementia drug developer Kinoxis secured $6.75 million equity led by Main Sequence plus a $2.5 million Medical Research Future Fund grant via CUREator+, funding trials of its agitation and pain drug candidates.
Florida auditor A-LIGN has acquired AssurePoint, gaining IRAP assessment capability and a path into Australian government work; it is the buyer's second purchase this month after Pathfynder.
The renewable energy agency grants Equans Solar & Storage $25 million for Lightspeed, a three-year program trialling up to ten technologies to cut the cost of building and running large-scale solar farms.
Quickli has released Fact Find, a tool automating mortgage broker client intake, document handling and loan scenario generation, alongside mobile and document-analysis updates to its Jiffi AI and Doc Handler products.
Heidi, an Australian clinical AI firm, has banked new funding of US$340m, anchored by a Blackbird-led Series C, to move past scribing into AI agents that handle healthcare tasks under clinician oversight.
Significant Ventures is raising a fourth fund targeting $50 million, with $18 million committed so far from the Snow and Hindmarsh families and CDC founder Greg Boorer.
Profile of Denteric, a biotech developing GPV381, an injectable therapy targeting gum bacteria implicated in Alzheimer's disease; the team is seeking backers to fund its first study in patients.
Brisbane clean-tech firm Graphene Manufacturing Group is issuing shares to a lone private backer for about US$10 million to lift graphene and battery output, with completion due about 23 September.
Sydney biotech Promethean BioPharma has launched an OnMarket crowdfunding round to fund manufacturing, trials and its push for non-prescription status of its CBD pain tablet in Australia.
Heidi raised US$100m in a Blackbird-led Series C plus US$240m in customer-acquisition finance from General Catalyst, reaching a $1.26 billion valuation as Australia's fourth billion-dollar startup of the year.
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Waste platform Jerrara Environmental has taken investment from Direct Capital and MADAUS Capital Partners, the second deal from Direct Capital's $525m fund raised in April 2025.
Airtree Ventures' new Frontier residency offers chosen tech founders $250,000 on SAFE terms plus provider credits; the piece argues a tight peer group beats capital, with lessons for small firms.
Sydney fintech OpenDebt, which applies AI agents to debt recovery, has secured $2 million in pre-seed backing from Blackbird and Antler to grow its team and explore US partnerships.
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Melbourne biotech ENA Respiratory has begun dosing participants in the second part of its Phase IIa trial of INNA-051; its investor lineup, past government funding awards and BLUE KNIGHT alumni status are recapped.
Amber, an Australian home battery automation company, has secured a Series E round led by Morgan Stanley's 1GT climate fund, with earlier backers taking part, to support local growth and European expansion.
Beaten Zone Venture Partners led a US$25 million Series B in HEO Robotics, which images other spacecraft, with the NRFC contributing $10 million; the piece also recalls earlier Series A and seed rounds.
Brisbane weather-technology startup SkySight has won a £718,586 award from UK research agency ARIA to build stratospheric weather forecasting and flight-planning tools for high-altitude pseudo-satellites, delivered through its UK subsidiary.
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Satellite-monitoring camera maker HEO has landed a $37 million Series B, with the federal reconstruction fund contributing $10 million, and will grow its team while pushing more cameras into geostationary orbit.
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Melbourne energy tech firm Amber has banked a $78.5m Series E led by Morgan Stanley-backed climate fund 1GT, with E.ON, ETF Partners and Innovation Victoria joining, to fund growth and European expansion.
Energy retailer Amber has closed an oversubscribed $78.5 million round led by Morgan Stanley's 1GT fund, with existing backers participating, to add vehicle-to-grid capability and expand into Europe.
Melbourne's Telix Pharmaceuticals will merge with German radioisotope maker ITM in a deal worth as much as $3.3 billion, keeping about 76 per cent ownership with existing Telix shareholders once completed.
Also Biotech Dispatch
Listed investor Scalare Partners has taken an undisclosed early-stage stake in Sydney AI scent startup Auric, which has opened a lab at Tank Stream Labs after earlier backing from Antler and Sputnik ATX.
Australian biotech Nyrada has banked US$7.76 million through a share placement managed by Bell Potter, with proceeds going to its clinical pipeline, including the Phase IIa trial of Xolatryp in heart attack patients.
Australian-listed Telix is buying German radioisotope supplier ITM in a $1.65 billion deal with contingent milestone payments, creating an end-to-end radiopharmaceutical business.
Microsoft partner Engage Squared takes an undisclosed growth investment from Alceon to build AI capability and expand across APAC, while promoting co-founder Alastair Cashen and Claudia Piscitelli to bigger roles.
Taronga Group names twelve global startups for its 2026 Asset Impact innovation program, covering power, advanced materials and operations, working with corporate partners including Dexus and Frasers Property.
UQ spinout Proboxis Biotechnology has received $1.5 million via the first round of the Biointelect Venturer incubator to advance a vaccine platform against mosquito-borne diseases toward human clinical development.
RentBetter, a platform letting landlords manage rentals without agents, has secured $5m from VC firm EVP; industry and tenant advocates question whether renters will see the savings.
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Dealroom reports CSIRO lifting its stake in Main Sequence's early-stage Atmosphere vehicle fourfold to US$12.9 million, money earmarked for a fourth fund the firm has yet to raise.
Hysata has received an ARENA grant of up to $49 million to build a commercial-scale electrolyser manufacturing line at Port Kembla, with UOW and TAFE NSW Illawarra supporting workforce training around the project.
Data centre developer Firmus holds a five-year chip agreement with Nvidia and intends an ASX listing in late October; the float and its expansion remain intentions rather than done deals.
Design and technology company Portable received a Business Research and Innovation Initiative grant to build Sweep, its wage-underpayment detection platform, as Australia criminalises intentional wage underpayment.
Hysata has started production on the first line of its AI-monitored electrolyser factory at Port Kembla, within a project worth nearly $100 million, and plans to expand capacity to 200 megawatts.
Column previewing Firmus's planned late-October ASX debut, arguing the neocloud faces two risks: the technology failing, or succeeding too dramatically.
Startup Daily reports Airtree has extended its Frontier founder residency to San Francisco, dangling uncapped US$250,000 SAFE notes at expat Aussie and Kiwi founders; its Sydney edition hosts alumni of major local tech firms.
Investible explains its venture model and reports drawing $50m last year for its third early-stage fund and Club vehicle, with LumonusAI and Outlier Space in the portfolio.
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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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Lunch interview with Eucalyptus's growth manager Jae Lubberink, recalling the telehealth firm's $1.6 billion sale to Hims and Hers and founder Tim Doyle's jump up the Young Rich List.
Xpansiv has wrapped a growth equity round with Blackstone, Macquarie, CBA, Goldman Sachs, Aware Super and Aramco Ventures among its backers, as the IPO hopeful looks to fund expansion in Australia and globally.
ARENA is putting $8.2 million toward Electric Future's Go Electric pilot, which will trial a one-stop digital platform helping as many as 1,000 Canberra households move from gas to electric appliances.
Antler Australia urges founders planning a pre-seed raise to move early and close before the summer break, promoting its five-week Fast Track cheque and citing Refresh's later rounds as proof it works.
Also Startup Daily
Biotech Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals appoints rheumatology specialist Daniel Furtner as chief medical officer; predecessor Donna Skerrett stays as senior scientific advisor, and the firm's late-stage osteoarthritis trial has finished enrolling 538 participants.
Melbourne electric motorcycle maker Savic has launched a process seeking acquirers and strategic investors; the article recounts its earlier crowdfunding, capital injection and government grant, though no new funding is confirmed.
Quillio, an Australian legal AI startup, announces a $775,000 SAFE and a $500,000 debt facility from Mighty Partners after bootstrapping for two years past $1M ARR; client firms' principals backed the round.
Deep-tech investor Main Sequence is seeking $400 million for a fourth fund, with $75 million already committed by the federal government, after two portfolio companies reached unicorn status this year.
Data page reporting Visaible.ai's $1 million seed raise from August 2026; the Sydney hotel-booking platform's founder Sam Rich previously worked at Bain and Goldman Sachs.
Sydney event-tech startup Evatto has raised a pre-seed round led by Perth firm Purpose Ventures to build its platform and expand abroad, after going through Startmate's Summer 26 program under its earlier name Wiingman.
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