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Perth medtech spin-out Cytophenix raised a pre-seed round above its target to advance trials and grow the team behind FloCAST, a rapid test identifying effective antibiotics, after earlier grants and accelerator programs.
Roundup of eight funding deals: Synchron's Series D, plus raises by Lumonus AI, Hullbot, Nbryo, Cytophenix, Giftbee, Understanding Zoe and Zeligate, spanning medtech, robotics, agtech and AI.
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Sydney health-tech firm Lumonus AI has secured a $25 million Series B led by Aviron Investment Management with returning backer Oncology Ventures, to grow its US presence and develop medical-data tools.
Startup Daily profiles Zipline AI, a startup in Techstars Sydney's 2025 cohort whose tool helps brands build products alongside their audiences; repeat Techstars founder Michelle Reeves counts Forty-Love and Lemon Perfect as clients.
Sydney e-waste recycler Sircel has been put into voluntary administration, an appointment its directors dispute, stunning Australia's solar recycling sector; the piece recalls Kilara Capital's $5 million backing and industry warnings.
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IT services firm Entag has bought Rubicon 8, creating a combined 145-person business backed by Anchorage Capital Partners, with both companies recently recognised at the Telstra Partner Awards.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: raises for more than a dozen companies including Australia's Uluu and Nbryo, executive and board appointments, Leon's buyback from Asda, and the collapse of two insect firms.
Singaporean investor Verge HealthTech Fund has put $770,000 into Understanding Zoe, whose app helps parents of neurodivergent children coordinate care, with the round still open to further money.
Online used-car platform Carma slid on its ASX debut after a $70 million IPO; the piece recalls its earlier seed, Series A and convertible note raises and names its backers.
Metigy co-founder David Fairfull has admitted in court to deceiving investors and misusing his director role, after the marketing software startup's raises were built on fabricated figures before its 2022 collapse.
Radium Capital's R&D lending has passed $1 billion across 1,000-plus companies since 2017; case studies recall WeMoney's $12 million Series A and ElectraLith's $27.5 million Main Sequence-led round.
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Cattle genetics startup Nbryo has landed $10 million co-led by Tenacious Ventures and AgriZeroNZ, plus an $18 million research grant, to commercialise its embryo technology.
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Australian spend management platform ProSpend has been acquired by UK software group ISH, joining its new Fintech Track, while retaining its brand and ANZ leadership and planning a UK and Ireland launch in 2026.
ANDHealth reported portfolio metrics including patient impact and job creation, while securing additional MRFF funding to expand its digital health commercialisation program.
Queensland cattle-breeding biotech Nbryo has secured $10m in seed backing co-led by Tenacious Ventures and AgriZeroNZ, alongside an $18m research grant from the Gates Foundation and Meat and Livestock Australia.
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The co-founder and ex-CEO of collapsed marketing software firm Metigy has admitted to deceiving investors and misusing his director role in a corporate regulator prosecution.
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The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is putting up to $40m into Brighte through a federal program, letting the home-energy fintech offer cheaper green loans for solar, batteries and other household upgrades.
Airwallex's co-founder and CEO recounts the company passing a billion dollars in annualised revenue, crediting multi-product customers and global expansion, and flags AI, new markets and brand as growth levers.
The ACT Government launched the ACTivate Capital Fund with $23 million committed, backed by Epicorp, UNSW Canberra and family offices, targeting Canberra early-stage companies.
Scalare Partners has launched The Founders Union, an AI-driven hub connecting founders to education, community, services and investment providers; Westpac, MYOB, Atlassian and Zoho are among its partners.
Australian robotics company Hullbot has raised A$16 million in a Series A led by Regeneration VC to expand its ship hull-cleaning technology worldwide; the deal is the first from Climate Tech Partners' new fund.
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Blackbird's investment note recapping its backing of Coherence Neuro and the neural implant startup's development milestones, institutional collaborations, and path toward first-in-human glioblastoma trials.
Federation Asset Management hires Rebecca Thomas to head responsible investments as investment director and brings in Tahlia Rozis to manage business development.
Ranking of Australia’s five best-funded fintechs — Airwallex, Athena, Zeller, InDebted and Brighte — profiling each one’s total raised, most recent raise, backers, valuation and growth moves.
Profile of a Melbourne medtech firm making lifelike artificial organs that let surgeons rehearse robotic procedures, noting its 2023 capital raise, rapid growth, and leadership training through a Victorian scaleup program.
Podcast interview in which the founders of Earthbuilt Technology and Crest Robotics discuss their Charlotte construction robot, which prints buildings from onsite materials, its lunar ambitions, and government program backing.
Blackbird partners reflect on their early pre-seed backing of AI entertainment studio Wonder Studios, covering its client projects, original shows and StoryEngine tooling since that first investment.
Nbryo closed a A$10 million round co-led by Tenacious Ventures with AgriZeroNZ, QIC, the Murdoch family and Mandalay, and has drawn over $18 million in grants from Gates Foundation and Meat and Livestock Australia.
Crunchbase's unicorn tracker analysis finds AI-driven valuations added over half a trillion dollars in months, reshuffling the top twenty and minting eleven new decacorns in H2 2025, including Figure, Kraken, Mistral and Sierra.
Antler led Giftbee's $1 million seed round, with Brisbane Angels also taking part, funding product development and expansion of its gift-card marketplace.
Weekly funding roundup covering eight raises totalling over $113 million across aerospace, biotech, materials, health and software, plus a pharmacy firm's acquisition out of administration.
Weekly roundup of eight trans-Tasman startup raises worth a combined $113 million-plus, alongside Joe Zhou's buyout of StrongRoom AI from administrators.
Roundup of manufacturing news: Archer Materials' biochip results with IMEC, Resmed's CPAP mask launch, Boeing's RAAF P-8A upgrades, Breakthrough Victoria's $75m across venture funds, an Avalon Airport freight facility, and Sleeptite's FlexiSense.
Queensland's critical minerals fund, run by QIC, has provided aluminium chemicals maker Alpha HPA with $30 million under royalty deed agreements, funding its Gladstone expansion project.
Beaten Zone Venture Partners will host ten Australian defence startups pitching to a judging panel in Sydney this November, with prizes including a SHOT Show trip and Reveille tickets.
Podcast episode in which Grown Not Flown founder Nikki Davey reflects on shutting down her flower-marketplace app, covering scaling struggles, investor challenges and the personal toll of a startup's end.
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Tidal Ventures explains why it has invested in SecurePII, a voice-compliance startup whose platform redacts payment card data from calls, covering market timing, product, channel model, founders and seed-stage plans.
Breakthrough Victoria's CEO reviews its 2024/25 year: growing capital base, strong co-investment leverage, portfolio milestones including Amber's $10m raise, first fellows awarded, and projected economic impact ahead.
Pepper Money says a consortium it belongs to is in early negotiations with Westpac over its mortgage broking book, as the bank faces a franchisee class action and a penalty over RAMS lending misconduct.
Startup Daily profiles VetNotes, Mitch Sigley's AI note-taking tool for vets, a Techstars Sydney 2025 cohort company; Techstars says it was first to back it.
An exclusive interview with founder Sonia Kaurah discloses the culturally focused mental health platform's previously unreported $500,000 pre-seed round, backed by crowdfunding and angels, as the company relocates from London to Melbourne.
CPI Card Group has bought a minority stake in Australian payments firm Karta and will integrate Karta's SafeToBuy card-security technology across its US prepaid card range, with a stateside launch planned for early 2026.
Perth seaweed materials maker Uluu has closed a Series A led by Burda Principal Investments to fund a commercial-scale facility, with Main Sequence returning after leading its 2022 round.
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Human Health, a Sydney patient-care platform built by two ex-Canva product leaders, has landed $8.5 million in a round led by LocalGlobe to expand across the US and UK.
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Profile of the small Australian game studio behind Crawl and The Drifter, covering its steady sales, an early grant from Film Victoria, and its founders' path from big studios to independence.
Uniseed chief executive Peter Devine departs after two decades; Monash's Alistair Hick takes over in 2026. The piece recounts Uniseed's fund history and recent stakes in ENA Respiratory and Morse Micro rounds.
Australia's Uniseed venture fund has named Dr Alastair Hick as its chief executive, with the appointment announced as the fund marks 25 years of operation.
Archangel reflects on backing health AI company Heidi since its early days and invites the startup's users to register for a share of the firm's allocation, limited to sophisticated investors.
Twelve ventures from the Hunter and Central Coast, several founded by University of Newcastle students or alumni, are through to the last stage of the 2025 I2N accelerator across cleantech, healthtech and all-industries streams.