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Retired Major General Andrew Bottrell has joined defence company Aurora Labs as a non-executive director, bringing senior military and acquisition experience; he also founded Rockpool Partners and holds an academic chair at Deakin University.
Expeditions' news page carries a stub announcement: defence startup Uforce has picked up $50 million at a valuation above a billion dollars, with the captured text offering no investors, stage, or location details.
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Newcastle printed solar company Kardinia Energy has won a $2.1 million federal grant to scale up its flexible panel technology, following a state government grant the previous year.
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PlasmaLeap, a Sydney maker of emissions-free fertiliser technology, has closed a US$20m Series A backed by Gates Foundation, Investible, Yara Growth Ventures and other investors.
Sleep tech firm Eight Sleep has secured a $50 million strategic round led by Tether Investments at a $1.5 billion valuation, its second raise in a year, funding an expansion into preventative health tools.
Guardhouse, a Sydney workforce management platform for physical security, announced a strategic growth investment from Sundance Growth; the firm's $125 million debut fund from 2025 is also noted.
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Q&A with Inaam's Arjun Agarwal reflecting on how Startupbootcamp's accelerator and a Money20/20 Asia 2024 booth built credibility that helped close a funding round; ends pitching 2026 exhibitor kiosks.
Investible announces it backed Lumonus' A$28 million round with three co-investors, the first deal from its new early-stage fund; Lumonus builds AI software that automates cancer clinic workflows.
Birchal's CEO promotes four women-led companies raising now on its crowdfunding platform ahead of International Women's Day: a NSW brewery, a cardiac medtech, sustainable activewear and a cocktail foamer.
Pet food subscription company Lyka has closed a $67 million Series C led by New York fund LGVP, which backed its earlier raises, lifting the startup's lifetime funding to $155 million.
Sydney construction logistics software firm Veyor has banked US$7.5 million in Series A money, with Marbruck Investments leading and CoAct, Investible and SpringCapital taking part; CEO Richard Fifita is relocating stateside.
Payments automation firm Lessn reports over $100 million transacted on its platform in its first year, recalling a small November 2025 round at a $30 million valuation, with further investment under consideration.
European buyout firm Charterhouse has reached a roughly €1bn first close for its latest fund, targeting €1.5bn, after recently selling Casa Optima and a Novetude stake and acquiring medtech business Winback.
Vinyl Group is buying Val Morgan Digital, publisher of BuzzFeed and PopSugar, from Hoyts for $10.5 million, with funding via a shareholder facility and Hoyts CEO Damian Keogh joining the Vinyl board.
Firmable, which sells AI sales-intelligence tools, has banked a $14 million Series A with Airtree leading, plus angel money from Sue Morphet, Sam Kroonenburg, Martin Hosking and Rob Phillpot, to fund a US push.
WorkOS has closed a $100m Series C at a $2bn valuation — its first external backing in over four years — with founder Michael Grinich pointing the company at identity infrastructure for enterprise AI agents.
AndHealth has appointed Seer Medical's co-founder and former COO George Kenley as its 2026 ACTIVATE Executive in Residence; she will mentor Victorian digital health startups, with applications due 22 March.
Firmus announces three new non-executive directors joining its grid board from March 2026, each bringing finance, governance or resources and energy delivery experience.
Profile of 2026 Cartier Women's Initiative fellow Rosie Dumbrell, whose femtech firm Everform Therapywear makes wearable garments supporting pelvic-floor recovery in women with incontinence or prolapse.
Screen Queensland allocates $3.7 million across 20 digital game projects, with the Queensland government predicting the funding will support 330 jobs and deliver a sixfold economic return.
Weekly roundup covering UpGuard's $105 million Series C and EatClub's $27 million Series B, plus earlier funding history for both Australian companies.
IP Group-backed copper-tech spin-out Banksia Minerals has won a federal renewable energy grant worth as much as $5 million, a year after banking $1.05 million in seed capital.
Recap of a Growth Summit panel where Rampersand's Paul Naphtali explains what VCs mean by 'too early', why the phrase signals a fit or product concern, and how rejections can turn into investments.
Podcast interview in which Btomorrow Ventures' Karen Xiang discusses the firm's funds, its drinks-sector investing, and how founders should weigh strategic capital.
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Interview with the investment lead of British American Tobacco's venture arm about corporate venture capital in drinks, its two funds, and the growth platform it offers beverage brands.
Hobart cybersecurity company UpGuard has landed US$75 million in Series C backing led by Springcoast Capital, with the article also recalling earlier Startmate and Firemark Ventures rounds.
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Q&A introducing Adam Taylor, Tenacious Ventures' new insights lead, covering his engineering and consulting background, his interest in agrifood, and plans to expand the advisory offering.
Breakthrough Victoria recounts how its joint fund with La Trobe University seeded hydroponics developer YieldX, now running a commercial greenhouse in Victoria and expanding to India via a deal with Zomato's Hyperpure.
A retrospective on 2025 Australian venture activity: large raises at Firmus, Heidi Health, Airwallex and others, deep tech momentum, and Folklore's own backing of Hullbot and Sphere.
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Cybersecurity firm UpGuard has announced a $75 million Series C round led by Springcoast Partners, with existing backers joining, to fund product development, global expansion and acquisitions.
MGA Thermal, a NSW-based thermal energy storage developer, has received a $3.25 million grant from ARENA to fund engineering design studies aimed at commercialising its block-based heat storage technology for industrial use.
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Payments firm Zepto has elevated long-serving security lead Mariana Paun to a newly created Chief Business Resilience Officer role, pulling information security, operations, risk and compliance together as Australian scam and payment rules tighten.
Australian AI infrastructure company SharonAI Holdings has debuted on Nasdaq at a valuation above $1 billion, with a December pre-IPO round, backing from Digital Alpha and USD.AI, and an April ASX float planned.
Payments company Zepto has promoted its first security hire, Mariana Paun, into a newly created executive role, Chief Business Resilience Officer, uniting security, operations, risk and compliance under one leader.
Design company Canva has bought US marketing AI startup Mango.AI and UK animation platform Cavalry, its fifth acquisition in two years, adding their founders and a chief algorithms officer to its team.
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Melbourne clinical documentation firm Heidi has bought UK healthcare AI company Automedica for an undisclosed sum and launched two AI products; the piece recalls its $98m Series B and $27m Series A top-up.
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ANDHealth appoints Anne O'Neill and George Kenley to senior leadership roles while outgoing COO Grace Lethlean departs after nine years.
Q&A with a Breakthrough Victoria fellow reflecting on her early months building Mental Jam, a mental-health games startup, and her plans to apply for an AEA grant.
HEO and UNSW Canberra Space have performed Australia's first propelled satellite rendezvous manoeuvre with the Continuum-1 spacecraft, a Defence Trailblazer-funded effort advancing sovereign space domain awareness skills.
Australian dining-discounts marketplace EatClub has secured $27 million from Marbruck and earlier backers to accelerate its British rollout, with its valuation reportedly climbing past $200 million.
Eight university- and company-led Australian quantum projects share $12.7 million in stage-two Critical Technologies Challenge Program grants, funding prototypes for data-centre cooling, medical imaging and rare-earth detection.
Australian tax-research AI startup SavvyWise has closed an oversubscribed seed round topping $600,000, valuing it at $10 million, seven months after incorporating, with funds going to marketing, specialist tax content and platform development.
Magellan Power, a Perth maker of energy storage systems, has brought in Viburnum Funds as its first private equity backer, a stake reported at $15 million, to fund local battery manufacturing and recycling.
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Freeplay, which runs the indie games event Parallels, lost its state government grant support, throwing its future into doubt; peak industry body IGEA has asked Victoria's creative industries minister to reconsider.
South Australian hollow-core fibre navigation project by Adelaide University, Northrop Grumman Australia and Norseld won almost half a million dollars in federal Ignite grant funding, adding to earlier Defence Trailblazer support.
Roundup of the week's Australian startup funding: fresh raises for five companies, Startmate's Summer '26 accelerator intake of 19 startups, and Affinda's acquisition of Pathfindr.
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Profile of physiotherapist Rosie Dumbrell, who started Everform Therapywear to make discreet, clinically grounded garments supporting women's pelvic recovery during pregnancy and after birth.
Ten13's post sets out its reasons for backing Appetise's A$7 million Series A with OIF, Icehouse, NZVC and K1W1, highlighting the grocery platform's shopper dataset and growth.
Interview with Terria founder Ana Belgun on the geospatial digital-twin company's CSIRO origins, government and infrastructure customers, 3D data challenges, and a planned Singapore hub.
Australian space startup Terram Astra has opened a seed round to fund a sovereign ground-station network near Alice Springs, offering satellite communications and space-junk monitoring for defence and government users.