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APDR reports that Australian space-infrastructure venture Terram Astra has begun seeking US$10 million in seed funding for sovereign communications and orbital-debris monitoring hubs, starting near Alice Springs.
Valiant Finance, an Australian fintech, has recruited vendor-finance veteran Joe Iavarone from DLL as its North American President, tasked with driving US growth while reporting to co-founder and chief executive Alex Molloy.
Breakthrough Victoria collects press coverage of Infleqtion's New York listing via a SPAC merger, which multiplied the fund's investment in the quantum company fivefold.
Breakthrough Victoria's release marks Infleqtion's New York Stock Exchange listing, the investor's first portfolio listing, and notes further quantum backing of Quantum Brilliance plus Infleqtion's Victorian operations and partnerships.
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Blackbird's investment note sets out why the firm joined Baseten's $300 million Series E with IVP, Capital G, Nvidia and Greylock, praising the inference startup's customer culture and its purchase of Parsed.
Terram Astra, an Australian space and defence infrastructure startup, is seeking US$10m in seed capital for satellite communications and orbital-debris hubs, starting near Alice Springs, with Series A expansion flagged for 2027.
SmartCompany reports HotDoc, a platform for booking GP appointments, has sold a majority stake to private equity buyer Potentia; the price was not disclosed, with Airtree and Acclivis Group among remaining owners.
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Australian fintech LENSELL has unveiled StockLenz, an app ranking shares by quantitative measures across eight global exchanges, feeding shortlists into its Diversiview analysis tool, with free and paid tiers.
MA Financial and CMBI have signed an agreement to jointly manage a new Asia Pacific private credit fund targeting US$600 million, with seed investments and first LP commitments secured.
Seek's venture arm has begun selling its remaining stake in Employment Hero, a year after a $95 million partial sale to KKR, following the recent resolution of their Federal Court dispute over API access.
Nineteen early-stage companies join Startmate's Summer '26 accelerator intake, each receiving $120,000 for 7% equity — $2.28 million overall — spanning construction, healthcare, fintech, energy and manufacturing.
UNSW Sydney unveiled a plan to commercialise research through new spinouts, featuring a pre-seed vehicle for nascent companies and a planned injection into venture firm High Street Ventures.
Defence Connect reports Terram Astra has opened a US$10m seed round to build ground-based hubs for secure satellite links and orbital-debris tracking, positioning the venture for a larger round in 2027.
Australian used-car valuation software firm AlgoDriven has been acquired by Emergence, a San Francisco investor within the Pritzker Organization, for an undisclosed eight-figure sum, with plans to expand the dealership appraisal platform globally.
Sydney and Austin-based defence tech startup Breaker secured $9 million at seed stage, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with Main Sequence following on, after a voice-controlled autonomous systems demo in Rheinmetall's Boxer vehicle.
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Sydney order management firm Fluent Commerce has secured $46 million in a Bain Capital-led round to advance its AI ambitions, nearly seven years after a $33 million Series B.
SEEK's venture arm has begun a sale process for its remaining Employment Hero stake, following a $95 million partial sale to KKR and a resolved Federal Court dispute over API access.
Founders4Impact invites wholesale investors to register as limited partners in its impact fund, which is raising toward a $25 million target, with an initial $10 million tranche aiming to close by mid-2026.
Podcast episode where ProfitPeak co-founder Carla Penn-Kahn tells Antler's Bede Moore why direct-to-consumer brands should prize profit over top-line growth, drawing on her history of buying and growing e-commerce brands.
Techstars' Sydney accelerator will close after three years and 36 startups backed, its NSW government funding having ended; the program's chief and team are departing, while a state diversity pre-accelerator awaits a delivery partner.
Q-Sera's RAPClot blood-collection tube has debuted commercially in Japan, its first market launch, announced via a press release posted on Uniseed's news page.
Order management software firm Fluent Commerce has landed A$46 million from Bain Capital, money earmarked for AI features, the Fluent Connect platform, customer wins and overseas growth; Neu Capital advised on the deal.
The NSW government has ended funding for Techstars Sydney, which closes after three cohorts; its managing director, Christie Jenkins, and her team are departing, and the $4 million diversity pre-accelerator has no operator yet.
Space Connect reports Australian space and defence startup Terram Astra has begun seeking US$10 million in seed funding for ground-based communications and orbital debris infrastructure, with a first hub planned near Alice Springs.
Dealroom reports Emergence Software has bought AlgoDriven, whose AI prices used cars for dealerships, in a cash deal worth $10m–$50m; the two founders are staying on for a minimum of five years.
Beaten Zone Venture Partners' blog post spotlights Queensland scramjet startup Hypersonix Launch Systems ahead of its first Dart AE test flight, framing it as sovereign hypersonic capability with commercial space applications.
Weekly roundup of ten Australian and New Zealand startup raises totalling nearly $194 million, topped by Neara's $90 million round at a $1.1 billion valuation, with Splose, Operata, HAMR Energy and Adora also covered.
Profile of ARIA Research, Robert Yearsley's audio-based AR startup for blind users, recalling a $2 million NSW Medical Device Fund grant among $11 million raised and targeting the NDIS market.
Oaktree Capital Management has reached a $2.4bn first close on its fourth special situations vehicle, short of its $4bn goal, and elevated Thomas Casarella to co-portfolio manager of the strategy.
Blackbird partner Niki Scevak argues SaaS is not dead; winners will be companies that reinvent for AI, citing Canva's AI pivot and Kaleido acquisition, plus Heidi Health's new software category for doctors.
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Breakthrough Victoria interviews a researcher at Monash University who joined its fellowship, describing how program connections redirected his medtech platform from IVF imaging toward endoscopy markets.
Perth-based OncoRes Medical has secured $27 million from Brandon Capital's BB6 Fund, Morgans, Radar Ventures and others to advance its Elora breast-surgery imaging device through an Australian clinical trial toward FDA approval.
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H3D has closed a $5.8m Series A, spearheaded by Significant Ventures with Swinburne University and Co:Act Capital taking part, to push its AI design technology from hearing devices into dental laboratories.
Sydney-based eGuarantee has secured fresh capital to grow its lease bond offering, while backer Correlation has lifted its stake to a controlling majority after rapid growth in bond volumes.
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AgFunderNews roundup of agtech and foodtech items: startup raises across Asia, Europe and Australia, acquisitions including SunOpta and Cosmix, SP Ventures' $50m fund close, executive hires, Avant Proteins' shutdown, and regulatory news.
Investible's climate fund has invested in CounterCurrent with UNSW and unnamed angels; the note argues new shipping carbon rules make its AI navigation technology valuable.
Methanol venture HAMR Energy has secured ten million dollars in Series A backing from Qantas, Airbus and Thyssenkrupp Uhde for its Victorian renewable fuel projects.
HAMR Energy, an Australian low-carbon fuels company, has closed a $10 million Series A backed by Airbus, Qantas and Thyssenkrupp Uhde to advance its sustainable fuel projects in Victoria.
Product-mapping startup Adora, co-founded by an ex-Canva product chief, has landed seed funding with Blackbird leading and four other backers, earmarked for product work and Sydney hiring.
Tenacious Ventures explains why it led Agovor's $3 million pre-seed round alongside Hort Innovation, profiling the startup's compact autonomous farm tractors, founders, new chief executive, and grower savings.
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Operata, which watches over call centre performance, has banked a Series A of $11 million at a valuation topping $100 million, with Tidal Ventures at the helm and funds earmarked for AI-era integrations.
Neara joins the unicorn club after a TCV-led $90 million Series D at a $1.1 billion valuation, with existing backers participating; funds will fuel global expansion and engineering hires.
A Melbourne software firm monitoring AI-driven customer service operations has closed a Series A round led by Tidal Ventures, valuing it at $100 million, with proceeds earmarked for platform integrations and international growth.
Sydney directed energy startup RedTail Technology completed the Catalyst Accelerator's Colorado program, one of six small businesses in the 15th cohort, handpicked by US Air Force and Space Force, with a November demo day.
An Australian counter-drone technology developer has appointed a Singaporean defence distributor to sell its Pandion Sentinel system, its first step toward in-country sales across the Asia-Pacific region.
Breakthrough Victoria's chief executive marks his first year, tallying 70 investments, university and fellowship programs, a Jumar Bioincubator grant with partners, and looks ahead to a consolidated Victorian innovation entity.
KKR will invest up to $603 million in HMC Capital's energy transition arm, funding its first big battery, after HMC bought Neoen's Victorian assets and battery developer Stor-Energy.
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HMC Capital has landed KKR backing of up to $603 million for its new energy platform, unlocking its first grid battery and a multi-gigawatt project pipeline.
Profile of Percheron Therapeutics, an ASX-listed biotech led by Dr James Garner, developing HMBD-002 against the VISTA protein to treat cancers that resist PD-1 immunotherapy, with Phase 2 trials planned for 2026.