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Harvest B, a Sydney-based protein maker, raised a $3.5 million pre-Series A with Mandalay Venture Partners leading and Breakthrough Victoria contributing $2 million, alongside a $2.2 million federal grant and a 2021 seed round.
ARENA is putting as much as $3.96m into Lab 360 Solar, a UNSW spin-out whose drones photograph solar panels in daylight to catch cell-level faults; a fresh $60m solar R&D round is open.
Breakthrough Victoria is putting $2 million into protein technology company Harvest B, joining a $5.6 million pre-Series A round with Mandalay VC leading and several other backers.
Blackbird partners recount backing Marloo's founders before they had settled on an idea, having led its 2024 pre-seed and now announcing its seed round.
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Profile of smart parking firm KERB and founder Rob Brown, covering its shift to car-park software, expansion across Southeast Asian markets, a past Series A raise, and trade agency programs that helped win clients.
ARENA awards Mondo Power a $12.3 million grant to build and run a shared electric truck charging hub for heavy freight vehicles in Melbourne's west, delivered through the Driving the Nation Program.
Climate investor Wollemi Capital has completed its buyout of ASX-listed small-scale solar and battery developer MPower for $19 million and committed over $100 million to fund the business's project pipeline.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing items: gold-nanoparticle cancer diagnostics research, a medical research endowment's ten-year mark, a footballer's ambassador role, EU research program accession talks, a pectin producer's government grant, and battle-tank trainers.
Mushroom-robot firm 4AG has banked a CAD 40 million Series B, Cibus Capital and Astanor leading, Voyager Capital newly arrived, earlier backers returning after a 17.5 million 2023 round.
Ellerston Capital Solutions advised on the $114 million divestment of retailer Doors Plus, with the business sold to Colinton Capital Partners and the founders' property portfolio sold and leased back.
Heat exchanger maker Conflux Technology has joined a Honeywell-led European research consortium building thermal systems for hybrid-electric regional planes, with European Union backing; the article also notes its publisher-run manufacturing innovation award.
Klarna went public on the New York Stock Exchange; most of the $1.4 billion offering came from holders selling stock, with Sequoia the biggest seller and only a small slice newly issued.
Scalare Partners has agreed to buy Tank Stream Labs, an Australian flexible workspace operator for tech companies, its fourth purchase since 2023, bringing TSL chief executive Bradley Delamare into the group.
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Techstars Sydney's 2025 accelerator class holds 12 startups, with US$120,000 invested in each; seven are first-time funded. Supported by Investment NSW, the three-month Sydney program ends with a December Demo Day.
Wable, an app helping neurodivergent people find friendship and dating connections, has secured $1.5 million in a Taurus Capital-led round to support US and UK growth, hiring, marketing and product development.
Tasmanian hempcrete producer X-Hemp has closed a $3.4 million seed round, with the final $1 million coming from investor Danehill Group, to fund infrastructure, research and new hires.
Andromeda Robotics raised a $23 million Series A led by Forerunner Ventures, valuing the Abi humanoid robot company at $100 million, with founder CEO Grace Brown relocating to San Francisco to hire Hollywood animators.
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Melbourne neurodivergent community app Wable has secured $1.5 million in Series A capital, led by a Perth advisory executive, to scale its team and enter the UK and US markets.
Sydney navigation technology firm Advanced Navigation is opening new centres in the UK, Europe and the US to meet demand for GPS-denied navigation systems, after launching its Boreas 50 product.
Macquarie Asset Management's multibillion-dollar property fund is moving into land-lease housing, with sites secured across Queensland and NSW and construction beginning on a first community near Brisbane.
Breakthrough Victoria's CEO sets out the fund's investment record and an EY report finding its portfolio delivers strong returns and economic impact for Victoria.
Counter-drone maker DroneShield will enter the S&P/ASX 200 index on 22 September. The piece also recalls its 2016 ASX listing, record first-half revenue, and a $13 million expansion of its Alexandria production site.
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Cashrewards, a shopping rebates platform once bought by ANZ's venture arm, is shutting down and returning member balances. It had earlier acquired Little Birdie, previously backed with $30 million by Commonwealth Bank.
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Freckle, a Melbourne data-enrichment startup, has banked a seed-stage round from Gradient, Google's AI-focused investment vehicle, alongside several US funds, after an unnamed local VC pulled its term sheet over a portfolio conflict.
Australian crypto brokerage Swyftx has made Cathryn Lyall its permanent Chair and Andrea Yuen its CEO, with co-founder Alex Harper stepping back from interim co-leadership to his board role.
Freckle, whose tool cleans and enriches CRM data for revenue operations teams, announces a $4 million seed round with Gradient and 1984 Ventures at the helm, plus product plans and open roles.
Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company, maker of the Arc and Dia browsers, for $610 million in cash, betting that AI-powered browsing will anchor its workplace software ecosystem.
Column on Atlassian's $935 million takeover of the Arc and Dia developer, arguing the deal fits its workplace software strategy amid intensifying competition in AI browsing tools.
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Sierra has announced a $350 million Greenoaks-led round at a $10 billion valuation. The enterprise AI agent company previously took money from Sequoia, Benchmark and Greenoaks.
Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht says a public float looks more attractive now, arguing its fresh venture-capital valuation undervalues the company; AI product launches and possible price rises were also flagged.
Sydney enterprise AI startup Collabra.ai appoints ex-Finder chief Chris Ellis as CEO as it moves from building its back-office automation product into selling it; cofounder Neill Miller has also put money in.
Identitii has exited Payble in a $1.6 million stake sale to OIF Ventures, with proceeds going to its BNDRY compliance platform; OIF lifts its holding in the council-payments startup it backed in 2023.
Canberra will open a second $150 million Solar Sunshot round for PV component makers, while recapping earlier awards to 5B, Tindo Solar, Stellar PV, Solquartz and Energus.
Atlassian has agreed to buy The Browser Company, maker of browsers Dia and Arc, for roughly $610 million, aiming to build an AI browser for workplace use.
Identitii, an ASX-listed firm, has offloaded its last Payble shares to OIF Ventures, receiving $1.6 million it will direct toward its BNDRY compliance product for hospitality venues.
Airwallex has bought OpenPay, a US billing software maker, to fold its subscription and revenue tools into Airwallex's global platform. Terms were not disclosed.
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Orchard Robotics has banked a $22 million Series A, led by Quiet Capital alongside Shine Capital, with backer General Catalyst returning after a 2024 seed round.
Orchard Robotics has raised $22 million in a Series A round backed by Quiet Capital, Shine Capital and others, and plans to double its team and open a San Francisco office.
Sydney consultancy V2 AI has brought on Bojan Zivic as a director to lead enterprise cloud and AI work; the piece also recalls its $30 million early-2024 raise from Columbia Capital.
Australia's aviation regulator has granted Alauda Aeronautics an experimental certificate to fly its Airspeeder Mk4 racing eVTOL with a pilot aboard; Intel, Dell, AWS and Telstra back the series' computing and race-control systems.
Profile of Advance VC, Max Kausman's Melbourne fund of funds buying secondaries in existing venture funds, which received a $300,000 LaunchVic grant through the VC Support Program to establish itself in Victoria.
Steve Baxter's Brisbane defence-tech fund announces it now holds unconditional early-stage venture capital registration, giving investors tax breaks; it has put A$4.45m into four companies so far.
Beaten Zone's defence-tech fund has won full ESVCLP status, unlocking tax breaks for its backers; the Brisbane vehicle has backed four companies with $4.45m and screens a deep pipeline of defence deals.
Quantum Brilliance's diamond-based quantum processors are running in Oak Ridge National Laboratory's commercial quantum cluster in the US. The piece also recalls the National Reconstruction Fund's $13m Series A investment made in December 2024.
Brief blog post linking out to coverage of an unnamed defence-focused venture fund obtaining tax-advantaged status; the page itself gives no details, names, or figures.
Folklore Ventures welcomes Divine Aaron to its investment team as an investor, in a Q&A covering her move from neuroscience research and consulting into venture capital and her views on AI-era software.
Profiles seven early-stage agtech ventures at Beanstalk's Drought Venture Studio, a program backed by the Future Drought Fund, each developing tools to help farmers withstand drought.
Blackbird's head of impact Kate Glazebrook reports the venture firm's FY25 gender diversity data, noting improved backing of female-founded startups while pipeline volume of women founders remains the main challenge.