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Crunchbase News profiles 14 venture-backed companies its predictive models flag as likely IPO candidates, from Stripe to Sierra Space, recapping their funding histories, valuations and financial milestones.
Bunbury manufacturer RCR Advanced Technologies has received a state government grant to pilot making wind turbine transition flanges locally, becoming the second company supported through the $8 million Wind Energy Manufacturing Co-Investment Program.
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Podcast episode in which InDebted's founder discusses scaling the debt-collection business, its earliest backers, and Airtree joining the company's most recent Series C round.
Australian payments fintech Hello Clever hires Kaido Chiwata to lead its new Japan office and regional growth, drawing on his past roles at Stripe, Moneytree, Spenmo and his startup BillPay.
Nutromics has landed A$7.5 million from an unnamed local life sciences backer, taking its total funding to $60 million, with a manufacturing site decision pending between Australia and overseas locations.
Swedish BNPL firm Klarna is preparing a renewed New York float, seeking as much as USD1.27 billion at a valuation a source puts at USD12.5-14 billion, after earlier delays.
Birchal lifts its charges and shrinks its team under a new chief executive; the piece also recalls past raises on the platform and the collapses of Zero Co and Equitise.
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Startupbootcamp recaps the Demo Day for its Cluster Connect scale-up program, profiling eight food and agriculture ventures that pitched, with founder testimonials and a call for mentors.
Breakthrough Victoria publicises an EY study projecting its portfolio could add billions to Victoria's economy by 2035, citing its deal count, committed capital, co-investment leverage and returns to date.
Blackbird shares results from its third year tracking how many women-led teams reach its investment committee, reporting FY25 gains in backing female founders, a market comparison with Cut Through Venture, and new sourcing partnerships.
NASA confirmed the Australian-built Roo-ver will reach the Moon by 2030 under its Artemis program. The ELO2 consortium, technically led by Lunar Outpost Oceania of Melbourne, has $42 million in Australian Government backing.
Weekly roundup detailing five Australian raises: Vaxxas' Series D plus debt facility amid executive changes, Skutopia's growth round, Send Payments' backing and CEO change, Apate.ai's seed, and Coursebox's seed.
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Q-CTRL has won $38 million of DARPA defence contracts to build GPS-independent quantum navigation technology, working alongside Lockheed Martin on jam-proof sensors.
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NT startup Peco Pet Food received a roughly $30,000 government innovation grant to develop freeze-dried buffalo dog treats, part of a $115,000 round shared with three other recipients.
Profile of WAIWIN, an Australian startup linking travellers to Southeast Asian QR payment systems after a co-founder's Thai payments lockout; it is seeking Series A funds to expand across the region.
The NSW government has granted money to two Riverina food processors for facility upgrades, while the article recalls Grove Juice's purchase of the Leeton Juice Factory from Bega Group a year earlier.
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H&B Defence will run nuclear propulsion training courses for Western Australian defence industry from next year, backed by a WA government reskilling grant and input from partners HII and Babcock.
Aura Private Equity has backed Australia Vaccine Services in finishing its purchase of Medimobile, a corporate workplace flu-vaccination provider, uniting two immunisation operators nationwide. No deal price was disclosed.
Vector Capital will acquire Showpad and merge it with Bigtincan, which it took private in April for about $183 million; the combined business keeps the Showpad brand.
Perth AI course-creation platform Coursebox has raised a $750,000 seed round from Purpose Ventures, the ninth deal from the WA-backed fund; both founders previously went through the Plus Eight accelerator.
Nexsen, a biotech developing rapid pregnancy diagnostics for GBS, has kicked off an IPO aiming for ASX listing by end of September; Regal is named as an earlier backer.
News roundup: hydrogen storage firm Provaris Energy lines up a $1 million placement, water monitor Eco Detection takes on Daniel Lambert as advisor, plus emissions figures, offshore wind licences and industry research.
Australian biotech Vaxxas secured a Series D plus a debt facility while overhauling leadership: a new chair, founding CEO shifting to an advisory role, and CFO made redundant amid job cuts.
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Dave Lu's podcast episode features a conversation with the entrepreneur behind the nutrition tracking app MyFitnessPal, covering its bootstrapped beginnings, user growth, and eventual sale to Under Armour.
Defence's innovation accelerator has awarded three more contracts under its emerging and disruptive technologies program, funding quantum and information-warfare work at CSIRO, four universities and Silicon Quantum Computing, adding $9 million to the program.
Visionary Machines has won a 4.4 million dollar government grant, matched by its investors toward an 8.75 million dollar project, to speed commercialisation and Sydney manufacturing of its Pandion counter-drone sensing system.
Apate.ai, which floods scammers with AI bots that soak up their time, has raised a $2.5 million seed round — OIF Ventures leading, Investible taking part — to build product and expand overseas.
Two medical startups have received a $3 million federal CRC-P grant to build RhinoMAP, an AI tool giving clinicians earlier reads on whether respiratory treatments are working, with university and clinical partners.
Queensland drug developer Lucia Bio added $2 million to its seed round from UniQuest Extension Fund and Uniseed-managed funds, bringing its overall raise to $3 million ahead of a planned Series A.
Skutopia, an ecommerce fulfilment startup, has secured $38 million in a round Pemba Capital led, with MA Financial and Blackpeak Growth Partners also backing, to expand warehouses and target the US.
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Archangel Ventures reviews 2021: the Australian early-stage firm closed its first annual fund, made 24 investments, and recalls portfolio raises by Atelier, Bardee, Heaps Normal and Relevance AI.
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Roundup of the week's five most-read pieces: a hydrogen startup's pilot launch after its seed raise, federal grants to three manufacturers, an opinion piece, Codan's annual results, and a battery maker's failure.
Vaxxas announced a roughly A$90m financing — Series D equity led by SPRIM Global Investments plus debt — to advance its needle-free vaccine patch, alongside leadership changes including a new chair.
Cross-border payments firm Send has landed a five-million-dollar round backed by iPartners and existing backers, and named payments veteran Matt Barr chief executive while co-founder Paul Billing steps back.
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Five V Capital announced leading Dataweavers' $5.5 million Series A with QIC and returning backer OIF, funding the cloud-operations platform's continued team, technology and international growth.
Aether, a New Zealand AI presentation startup co-founded by a former TikTok NZ manager, raised NZ$3.8 million in seed backing from Icehouse Ventures and Brand Fund 2 after spinning out of studio New+Improved.
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An interview with STEPN co-founder Yawn Rong covering the app's origins, product roles, token economy, LINE collaboration, plus reports of WebX side events and a Tokyo community meetup.
Interview with Michele Stansfield on building Cauldron, a biomanufacturing company created to take over fermentation firm Agritechnology, her move into deep tech leadership, and plans for a purpose-built facility.
A Greenhouse report argues Australia's climate funding problem is deployment rather than capital, citing case studies including NRN's recent $67.2 million raise and blended finance models from Investible and Wedgetail.
Opinion column argues Canva's fresh $65 billion valuation from a recent raise looks cheap against Figma's listing multiples, with looming competition from Microsoft, Adobe and Google shaping the design software market.
Brisbane graphene producer GMG has raised roughly C$5 million in a bought-deal share and warrant offering underwritten by Red Cloud Securities, with the money set to support operations and product development.
Canva launched an employee share sale valuing the design software firm at $42 billion, led by Fidelity with JPMorgan's asset arm joining, ahead of a planned IPO; US rival Figma listed last month.
Airtree Ventures and Stone & Chalk have opened Venture Suites, a Sydney workspace giving Airtree portfolio startups offices plus mentorship and investor access, with Reejig, CipherStash and Human Health as early tenants.
Forbes Australia profiles Butter, a year-old Melbourne app fighting loneliness through in-person gatherings, now at 10,000 users with $260,000 from backer Antler at a roughly $2.2 million valuation.
Three companies named among recipients of $28.7 million in federal grant funding, with individual awards to SDIP, Iondrive and Caulmar; SDIP also featured on the publisher's innovative manufacturers list.
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Construction firm Northern Trade Solutions is launching a glass-making arm, Northern Glass Solutions, with a $668,072 Northern Territory Government grant toward a $5.4 million, 12-month project alongside industry and university partners.
Canva is letting staff sell shares at a $65.3 billion valuation, with Fidelity and JP Morgan's asset management arm among those buying, ahead of a possible listing this year.
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EVP sets out its case for backing SprintSuite, an operations platform for mining and engineering service firms co-founded by Fredy Galindo Jr. and Sandra Harris, citing insider credibility and strong early growth.