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Bose Quantum has closed a 1 billion yuan Series B, co-led by six investors including Beijing Financial Holdings Group and ICBC Capital, with five further participants and existing shareholders adding to their stakes.
Profile of advertising executive David Bell, Hall of Fame inductee, detailing leadership roles at Interpublic, True North, Bozell, and industry organisations.
ARENA is granting MGA Thermal as much as $3.25 million to conduct engineering design studies advancing its heat-storage blocks toward commercial deployment with industrial customers decarbonising process heat.
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ARENA grants five industrial decarbonisation projects a combined $13 million, spanning brewery electrification, low-carbon laundry, pharmaceutical manufacturing, aluminium extrusion and biochar production, as a new round of its transformation stream opens.
Australia's renewable energy agency is funding Calix's ZESTY demonstration plant with $44.9m, targeting low-hydrogen conversion of iron ore into low-carbon iron for greener steelmaking.
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ARENA grants more than $12 million to McCain Foods, Sugar Australia and Blackmores for projects replacing gas-fired heat with electric systems at their Victorian plants.
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ARENA grants Fortescue $10m toward 6 MW chargers for its big battery mining trucks, to be trialled at Hazelmere and Christmas Creek, with the project finishing in late 2025.
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ARENA announced grant funding of up to $5 million for Queensland startup Banksia Minerals to develop its electrochemical copper processing technology, moving the pilot from laboratory work toward field demonstration.
ARENA awarded Luminous $4.9 million under its Solar ScaleUp Challenge to deploy its LUMI robot fleet at two Australian solar farms operated by Neoen and Engie.
ARENA commits $30m as a conditional grant so VSPC, a Livium subsidiary, can build a demonstration plant making battery cathode powder near Brisbane.
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ARENA's media release marks a milestone in its funded project with Amber Electric: the first vehicle-to-grid charger installed in an Australian home, which the agency frames as transformative for the power system.
ARENA has awarded BluVein a $9m grant to trial its dynamic charging system for heavy electric mining trucks, aiming to cut diesel use in mining; the program's next round opens late 2025.
Glow Capital Partners, co-founded by Justin Ryan and Kate Morris, is acquiring a majority holding in facilities firm Menzies — its fifth investment and first since Morris's departure; she stays on as a shareholder.
Breakthrough Victoria reports investing in xCystence Bio, a Monash University spinout developing polycystic kidney disease therapies, via its University Innovation Platform alongside BioCurate and UniSeed.
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Profiles four Australian fintechs worth watching in 2026: Fat Zebra, WeMoney, Swyftx and Block Earner, covering their growth, past acquisitions and previously secured funding rounds.
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Government agency ARENA has awarded NewVolt funding of up to $25.3 million for truck charging hubs across Melbourne, backing fleet electrification under its Driving the Nation Program.
ARENA awards United Energy $3.54 million toward an $8 million Victorian trial of demand flexibility, covering hot-water control and dynamic solar export limits across three distribution networks, finishing in 2026.
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IP Group Australia and the CEFC launched the Climate Catalyst Fund with a first close of $50 million combined, targeting seed and Series A investments in Australian climate technology.
Stone & Chalk named Stela Solar its new CEO, replacing Chris Kirk. Solar, formerly of Accenture and the National AI Centre, aims to enhance AI support for Australian startups.
Weekly roundup detailing eight trans-Tasman raises totalling A$373.3 million, headlined by Halter's Series E, spanning quantum computing, biomanufacturing, robotics, adtech and agtech, plus a recalled $2 billion founder exit.
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Canberra IT services firm Centrered has been bought by US holding company Evergreen Services Group, its first Australian purchase following January's acquisition of New Zealand's Lancom Technology; brand and staff are retained.
La Trobe University opened its Eagleworks Innovation Centre, home to the $18m Eagle Fund co-funded with Breakthrough Victoria, part of the $100m University Innovation Platform.
Furniture brand Koala has secured $20 million ahead of its ASX debut at a $305 million valuation, while early backers including cofounder Mitch Taylor sold down some of their stakes.
Melbourne biotech Denteric has won US regulatory clearance to trial GPV381, a vaccine-style therapy targeting the bacteria behind gum disease, with a Phase 2 study in the United States to follow.
Fermentation technology company Cauldron has banked fresh capital in a Series A2 extension led by Main Sequence Ventures, with three other backers, and landed on Fast Company's Asia-Pacific innovation list.
Blackstone has put $250 million into Abu Dhabi-based payments platform Advanced Digital Gaming Technology, the first private-equity inbound Gulf deal since the Iran conflict began, Reuters reports.
AgFunderNews roundup of agrifood deal news: eleven startup funding rounds, Generate Capital selling Equinox Growers, executive appointments including a new FFAR board member, and other industry items.
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Halter, a New Zealand cattle-collar startup, has raised $220m in a Founders Fund-led Series E at a doubled $2bn valuation; the piece argues its ambitions reach beyond agtech.
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Main Sequence's post explains why the firm invested in Andromeda Robotics, pointing to aged-care workforce shortages, resident loneliness, and early customer enthusiasm for the Abi companion robot.
Biomanufacturer Cauldron Ferm has banked a $19 million Series A2, led by Main Sequence with Horizons, SOSV and NGS Super aboard, adding to an earlier $9.5 million round and a $4.3 million federal grant.
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Brisbane robotics firm Future Maintenance Technologies has secured an $8 million Series A, with QIC Ventures leading and Brighter Super plus Taronga Group participating; its robots inspect rail networks and aircraft for global operators.
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OFX has hired ex-PayPal Australia marketing head Liz Lord as chief marketing officer as the payments firm broadens its offering for business customers into finance operations tools.
Blackbird's investment note explains why it backed Halter's US$220 million Series E at a US$2 billion valuation, recounting the farm-collar company's growth since the firm led its Series B in 2021.
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AI notepad maker Granola announced a $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Index Ventures with Kleiner Perkins and returning backers, alongside new features for sharing meeting context.
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The article reports that lokol AI has secured $100,000 in initial external funding ahead of its launch, to fund product development and market preparation.
Sydney pet food firm Lyka has banked a $67 million Series C led by New York's LGVP, with StepStone Group and Shearwater Capital taking part, to bankroll new products and overseas growth.
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Adtech firm Cuttable has banked $5.7 million at a doubled $100 million valuation, adding Airtree, Glitch Capital and an angel to existing backers, and is heading to New York on growing American demand.
LaunchVic names The Past Connection and nrtureAI winners of its tourism startup challenge, each winning an extra $25,000 after a bootcamp that funded ten Victorian startups.
Australia's National Reconstruction Fund has put $20 million into quantum chip maker Silicon Quantum Computing via a SAFE note, weeks after backing Diraq; a larger raise remains unannounced.
The National Reconstruction Fund has put $20 million into Sydney quantum chip maker Silicon Quantum Computing via a SAFE note, following its smaller-than-planned 2023 Series A and a similar NRF bet on Diraq.
A Sydney defence and space technology company has completed an oversubscribed funding round led by Paspalis Capital to expand its satellite data coordination platform and grow its engineering team.
Feature on Matt Wright, who built Brisbane used-car business Cars4Us from a four-person startup in 2019 and has now sold its owner, MCT Automotive Group, for $120 million, staying on during the handover.
Victorian pre-seed program BVUIP, backed by Breakthrough Victoria and seven universities, has funded startups EntroMat, Excelligent and Remagine Labs, plus fellowship grants for three PhD-led ventures.
Western Australia's government is putting $2 million into Camco Engineering to create local manufacturing of wind turbine anchor cages, while state utilities signed power purchase deals with three wind farm projects.
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A software vendor has secured $1 million in pre-seed backing led by two venture firms, with an earlier backer and three channel executives also investing, to fund hiring in Australia and the US.
Observability platform Dash0 has announced a $110m Series B round, with publisher Balderton leading and DTCP Growth, Accel, Cherry Ventures, DIG Ventures and strategic partners taking part, at a billion-dollar valuation.
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Breakthrough Victoria interviews fellow Noor E Karishma Shaik, founder of DeepDerm, on building DermAI, an AI skin-cancer detection tool, her clinical trial breakthrough with nurses, and lessons from her first year as a founder.
Mobility newsletter roundup: Uber's robotaxi deal with Rivian, Nvidia's automaker partnerships, Advanced Navigation's Series C, other startup raises, and acquisitions including Amazon's purchase of robotics startup Rivr.
Koala heads to the Australian bourse with a float mixing fresh equity and shareholder sell-downs, while a Test cricketer's decade-old six-figure backing of the furniture startup draws the spotlight.
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