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Caruso, which handles registry and fund admin for private markets, has raised a Series A co-led by Icehouse Ventures and GD1 with Balmain taking part, at an $80 million valuation.
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Clean Slate Clinic, which helps people detox from alcohol at home, has secured a $2.8 million convertible note and $1.5 million debt facility from Giant Leap, Scale Investors and Australian Medical Angels.
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TechCrunch profiles Airwallex's new point-of-sale offering letting businesses take payments in person across countries, pitting the Australian firm against Stripe, Square and Adyen, and recalls its rejection of Stripe's 2019 buyout bid.
Startmate profiles Brainwaves, which builds strategy software for marketing teams, ahead of its Demo Day pitch, covering the founding team, early revenue and enterprise traction.
Profile of Zabidou, which builds laser-based AI vision systems for factory inspection without stopping production, led by a Baraja co-founder; invites readers to its upcoming Demo Day pitch night.
Founders Anthony See and Jason Hor built FlowGo, an AI agent embedding into WhatsApp and email to automate B2B order processing for suppliers, partnering with platforms like Food Market Hub and Pracbiz.
Profile of iBnk, a payments startup using stablecoin and banking rails to move money across borders in minutes, telling its founders' origin stories and inviting readers to its upcoming Demo Day pitch.
Interview with Cortical Dynamics CEO Ashley Zimpel on the BARM 2.0 anesthesia monitor, its Philips licensing deal, hospital trial plans, regulatory clearances, and path to global commercialisation after nearly 15 years.
Main Sequence reflects on its early backing of Deteqt through its Atmosphere platform, describing the startup's diamond-based quantum magnetic sensing chip and its case that machines need better ways to perceive their surroundings.
Zen Energy says its sale process is advancing with a preferred bidder amid reports naming Gunvor; the piece also recaps HDRE's stake purchase and Zen's financial losses.
Openmarkets Group has bought trading-education provider FXE Trading Academy, paying an undisclosed price, the latest move in a 2025 strategy that also included a DeFi push and a merger agreement with a Nasdaq-listed company.
WhiteHawk is acquiring Sydney cyber firm Quixxi in a share-based deal to add AI governance capabilities, with most Quixxi staff not moving across.
Rampersand's April newsletter: an essay on AI services startups, model releases from Anthropic and Meta, Firmus Technologies' $505 million raise, Dexibit's sale to accesso, plus portfolio jobs, events and market commentary.
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Profile of Prefactor, whose co-founders Matt Doughty and Simon Russell twice pivoted from authentication into AI agent governance, recalling Antler's late-2024 backing and a September 2025 pre-seed raise.
Australian payments firm AP+ is selling its Beem app to Bolt Group to refocus on core infrastructure, while Bolt plans to add features and the two will move customers over by June 2026.
Intercontinental Energy received a $1.56 million federal grant to build a digital twin of its modular hydrogen node design; it earlier received $21 million from ARENA for the Pilbara hub after BP quit.
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A roundup of five Australian startups that together raised $30.1 million this week, spanning compliance AI, chemical-industry software, insurance automation, women's health diagnostics and an AI receptionist for trades.
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Western Australia's government has awarded nearly $2.56 million in grants to 14 groups running accelerators and education programs via its Innovation Pathways Program, with the next round due November 2026.
LaunchVic and dealroom.co report Victorian startups raised a record $2.4 billion in 2025, driven by late-stage deals despite early-stage declines.
Canva has bought AI agent platform Simtheory and marketing software Ortto from the Sharkey brothers, who also founded Stayz — its fourth and fifth purchases this year, prices undisclosed.
Canva has bought Sydney AI startup Simtheory and marketing automation firm Ortto, its fifth and sixth acquisitions in ten months, as it repositions from design tool to AI workplace platform; no prices disclosed.
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Melbourne biotech Aravax, developer of the peanut allergy immunotherapy PVX108, adds former ALK-Abello chief Carsten Hellmann and ex-Aimmune commercial head Andrew Oxtoby to its board ahead of Phase 3.
Uniseed's site announces that Aravax has appointed Carsten Hellmann and Andrew Oxtoby to its board.
Superpower, the health-testing startup of Sydney law dropout Max Marchione, valued at $432 million after a Series A of $43 million, has bought two diagnostics firms and is negotiating a supplements deal with IM8.
Beaten Zone Venture Partners says its defence-tech fund now has $17m committed, $2.6m of it added during March, with founder Steve Baxter commenting on sovereign investment trends in Forbes Australia.
Australian social app Spoony, built for neurodivergent and disabled users, will close in May after a planned raise collapsed; the piece recalls its $1 million raise and notes a pending asset sale.
DroneShield's long-serving chief executive Oleg Vornik is departing, with technology chief Angus Bean promoted to lead; chairman Peter James is retiring and Hamish McLennan arrives as incoming chair from May.
A Brisbane diagnostics venture has banked seed capital to push its blood-based ovarian cancer screen toward clinical lab use, flagging a larger raise ahead.
Sydney-founded AI data centre company Firmus, now Singapore-based, says Coatue and Nvidia are set to back its next US$505 million raise before a planned ASX listing, after earlier raises including Nvidia's A$330 million.
Payments company Airwallex has brought in a new independent chair for its Australian board and added a former New Zealand prime minister as a director; he already leads its NZ board.
Profile of Melbourne biotech Cartherics, which is extending its off-the-shelf cell therapy platform from ovarian cancer to endometriosis; its CEO outlines a capital raise in progress and 2026 clinical trial plans.
Sydney AI receptionist startup Chime Labs has closed a pre-seed round led by 500 Global with angel backing, to broaden its product for trades businesses and grow headcount.
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.
Firmus, an Australian builder of AI data centres, has banked $505 million from Coatue and Nvidia at a $5.5 billion valuation, with a $10 billion debt facility already secured and a sharemarket float planned.
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Australia Post has acquired delivery-tech startup Rendr, undisclosed terms, to expand same-day delivery. Rendr previously raised $2.1 million in 2021.
Antler Australia opens applications for its eight-week residency, profiling recent founders Matteo Calo of Flyweel and Jeff Quach of Indi and detailing its investment offer and ARC follow-on structure.
Graphite Energy has secured $40 million through a $15 million Catalytic Impact Capital loan and a $25 million equity raise, scaling its Green Steam thermal storage that replaces fossil fuel boilers.
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A retrospective on MyFitnessPal's decline: its 2005 founding, Under Armour's $475 million acquisition, a 150-million-account data breach, and its 2020 sale to private equity firm Francisco Partners, contrasted with publisher Nutrola's rival app.
Weekly digest reporting Australia Post's purchase of delivery-software firm Rendr, an $83 million sharemarket raise by 4DMedical, Reserve Bank director Elana Rubin's move to Airwallex, and an Anthropic-government memorandum.
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Sydney AI startup Rosella, which automates commercial insurance brokerage work for small and mid-market firms, has secured pre-seed capital co-led by Peak XV Partners and Intact Private Capital.
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Airwallex has appointed Elana Rubin AM to chair its Australian board and former New Zealand prime minister Sir Bill English as a director there, with both roles starting immediately; their other board roles are listed.
Trading platform eToro has finalised its long-stalled Nasdaq debut, with shares priced near the top of guidance; users see no immediate change, though quarterly public disclosures now apply.
Edify Energy's Townsville green hydrogen project has been pulled from the federal environmental approval queue after two-and-a-half years, despite earlier grant wins from Arena and a federal hydrogen hubs program.
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Lumonus, a GenesisCare spinout chaired by Merrick Howes, is partnering with a New York cancer centre to co-develop automated radiotherapy planning tools.
Bolder Group has introduced BGX, a fund-administration product built on Hatcher's technology platform.
Coterie Capital announces CoterieLabs, an AI consultancy co-founded by Daniel Pi and Christopher Cheung, offering AI opportunity assessments and pilots for private equity-backed businesses, initially focused on four Australian-relevant sectors.
Three Australian founders — of Platform Zero, Womn-Kind and Everform Therapywear — are named Oceania fellows in the Cartier Women’s Initiative, which grants prize money at its June awards in Bangkok.
Debt-data platform 9fin has banked a $170m Series C valuing it at $1.3bn, with HarbourVest leading and CPP Investments joining four returning backers, lifting lifetime funding beyond $250m.