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Funding wrap: Advanced Navigation lands a $158m Series C for GPS-free navigation, legal AI platform MiAI Law launches with $2m, and Deftbiotech raises $1m pre-seed toward a fungal nail treatment.
A roundup of three raises: Advanced Navigation's $158 million Series C, legal AI platform MiAI Law's $2 million launch funding, and Deftbiotech's $1 million pre-seed for a fungal nail treatment.
Pismo announces Australian fintech Vivi Money will build its AI-driven financial platform on Pismo's core banking infrastructure, with Visa card services via Novatti's BIN sponsorship, ahead of a May/June launch.
Semiconductor cooling firm Frore Systems landed a $143 million Series D round led by MVP Ventures, reaching unicorn status at a $1.64 billion valuation; lifetime funding now totals $340 million.
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PipelineRoad reports Goldman Sachs Asset Management has opened early talks with investors toward a $10 billion-plus global direct lending vehicle, West Street Loan Partners VI; its predecessor closed above $13 billion in 2024.
Sponsored profile of Showpo founder Jane Lu, who credits building systems over hustle culture for growing her garage-started fashion label into a business earning more than $100 million in revenue.
Xbow, a startup using AI for cybersecurity, has closed a $120 million round co-led by DFJ Growth and Northzone at a valuation topping $1 billion, with five other investors participating.
Morgan Stanley's property arm has held an initial close on its latest North Haven real estate fund, gathering $2.9 billion toward a $4 billion goal for US and European deals.
Melbourne biotech Deftbiotech secures $1 million combined investment from Breakthrough Victoria and La Trobe University's Eagle Fund to develop a topical nail fungus treatment.
Interview with Alterity Therapeutics' investor relations head on its Phase 2 results for ATH434 in Multiple System Atrophy and its push toward a pivotal Phase 3 trial.
FaBA profiles Pollinate, a Brisbane startup founded by Adeep Mitra and Corey Berther that uses AI to automate food supply chain workflows, tracing its path from a university food challenge to Y Combinator backing.
Eastend Ventures says Brad Feld, who co-founded Foundry and Techstars, will chair the LPAC of its Fund 1, alongside current committee members Sonya Brocklehurst and Dr Roger Voyle; first meeting May 2026.
Navigation technology firm Advanced Navigation has banked a $158 million Series C, with Airtree leading and Quadrant plus the NRFC taking part, funding global expansion and Australian manufacturing scale-up.
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Q-Sera's rapid-clotting blood tube technology has gone to market in Japan via Terumo's VenoJect II launch; the Melbourne startup's backers include MRCF, Uniseed and the UniQuest Extension Fund.
Chinese fintech FinVolution Group has bought local lender Fundo, marking its first move into the Australian market as its overseas operations keep growing.
PipelineRoad reports that Goldman Sachs' asset management arm is seeking about $13 billion for its ninth mezzanine fund, aimed at buyout-backed companies in North America and Europe, citing Private Equity Wire.
Rivian chief RJ Scaringe has secured US$500m for Mind Robotics, his AI robotics venture, with Accel and Andreessen Horowitz co-leading and Eclipse Capital adding funds, valuing the months-old company at US$2bn.
Utiliti Group's post announces its corporate advisory mandate for WinDC, which is beginning a large Series A to place containerised AI compute at stranded renewable sites, alongside a new Armada partnership.
MGA Thermal, a Hunter Valley energy storage maker, has banked $17 million from IP Group and others to commercialise its heat-storage technology, lifting its total funding to $50 million.
Weekly roundup of four Australian funding rounds: thermal energy storage, litigation data software, preventative health, and construction site documentation, together worth $31.9 million.
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AIsphere has secured $300 million in a Series C round for its artificial-intelligence video tools, with funds earmarked for research, computing infrastructure and overseas growth; the report names no backers.
GrainCorp's venture arm has joined a Series A backing PlasmaLeap Technologies, an Australian maker of modular on-farm fertiliser systems, which will use the funds for its first hubs in NSW and Tasmania.
IP Group Australia led a $17 million investment in Hunter Valley thermal storage company MGA Thermal, with Shane Meaney joining the board alongside prior backer Main Sequence ahead of commercial rollout.
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Blackbird's operating chief reflects on four years of the fund's independent, quarterly valuation process, citing the Eucalyptus acquisition and its returns as proof the 2022 policy endured.
Breakthrough Victoria staff attended agrifood, climate finance, women's health and deep tech events, and joined the launch of agritech firm YieldX.
Startmate will resume taking founders to Silicon Valley this May and stage its first San Francisco Demo Day; the article also recalls Fluency's recent US seed round led by Accel.
Hiringa Energy and Sundown Pastoral Company's NSW farm project will produce green ammonia from hydrogen after the state government added $9.4 million in fresh grant funding, with work due to begin in April.
A NSW cotton farm's green ammonia plant near Moree, fed by hydrogen made with solar power, has secured financing via an initial $35.8 million state grant plus a fresh $9.4 million top-up.
DealStreetAsia reports investment firm Partners for Growth has held a $178 million initial closing for its technology-lending income vehicle, the PFG Income Fund.
Index Ventures' post announces Wonderful's $150 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, with Insight Partners leading and Index, IVP, Bessemer and Vine Ventures participating.
Wonderful announced a $150 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, with Insight Partners leading and four earlier backers returning, to scale its enterprise AI platform across more than 30 markets.
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Database entry reporting that Entrepreneurs First secured $200 million in fresh capital, listing $1.1 billion pre-money and $1.3 billion post-money valuations, with no participating investors recorded.
Roundup of international agtech and foodtech items: startup funding rounds, investment funds reaching closes, a New South Wales government lending fund, CEO appointments and new partnerships.
NSW's government is lending startups money to commercialise research via a new repayable fund, and names biotech and RNA grant recipients while reopening a ventures grants round.
Sydney legaltech startup Mary Technology has raised $7 million, led by OIF Ventures with existing backers, to fund US expansion including a new San Francisco office.
Australian e-invoicing firm Link4 has bought all shares of Singapore-based Unifiedpost Pte Ltd from Banqup Group, taking on its customers, with the sellers' accreditations ending as Link4's take over.
Partners for Growth's PFG Income Fund has held a first close on private credit for later-stage technology borrowers, with commitments exceeding A$250 million, deploying structured growth debt in Australia and globally.
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Yann LeCun's new artificial intelligence venture has raised a billion-dollar seed round and appointed an undisclosed chief executive, signalling a shift from research toward commercialisation.
Robotics startup Rhoda AI announced a $450 million Series A valuing it at $1.7 billion, debuting FutureVision, software helping robots handle unpredictable industrial settings; Khosla Ventures, Temasek and others backed the round.
Nexthop AI, which builds networking gear for AI data centres, has banked $500 million in a Lightspeed-led round valuing it at $4.2 billion, and showed off three new switches.
NSW has launched a $20m fund to help startups commercialise emerging tech and named All G, HydGene Renewables, Number 8 Bio and Swan Genomics as recipients of Biosciences Fund grants.
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Betashares leads several digital-asset investors backing Macropod, issuer of the regulated AUDM stablecoin, in an undisclosed minority funding round aimed at scaling the token.
GSFM has filled senior executive roles internally, seeking greater leadership depth across operations, finance and compliance as it prepares for its next growth phase; no appointees are named.
Stone & Chalk awarded its 2026 International Women's Day scholarships to twelve female founders across Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide hubs, doubling the intake after applications rose 60%; a past recipient's climate startup also appears.
AI finance brokerage LoanOptions.ai has completed its first acquisition, buying Sydney equipment finance specialist Asset Alley, whose brokers gain access to its AILO loan matching technology and commercial lending tools.
Indigo Power has energised its first community battery at Beechworth's historic gaol, the first of seven planned across Victoria and southern NSW, supported by a multi-million-dollar commitment from the national renewable energy agency.
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A weekly roundup detailing new funding rounds for six Australian startups: Lyka, PlasmaLeap, Firmable, Veyor, Lumonus and Future Minds Network, with investors and round details.
The funds manager GSFM has filled two senior executive roles: Stuart Osborne as Chief Operating Officer and Peter Nichols as Chief Financial Officer, amid ongoing growth.
GSFM has elevated two long-serving staff: Stuart Osborne becomes chief operating officer and Peter Nichols takes a newly created chief financial officer role, both reporting to CEO Damien McIntyre.