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SmartCompany covers Cut Through Venture's report on Queensland's 2024-25 venture funding, which rebounded to $417 million, led by SafetyCulture's Series E, with SaaS and climate tech the standout sectors.
Queensland seaweed producer Provectus Algae raised a $10.1m Series A led by At One Ventures plus a $2.5m government grant to scale indoor Asparagopsis production for livestock methane reduction.
Melbourne preventive health startup Everlab has secured seed backing led by a global growth equity firm to grow its clinical network, engineering and medical teams and AI infrastructure, with international expansion planned through 2026.
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Canva has raised US$40 million at a US$1 billion valuation, becoming an Australian unicorn, with Sequoia China joining long-time backers Blackbird Ventures and Felicis Ventures in a round led by Blackbird.
In its half-year letter, Square Peg explains how it picks AI founders, reports several portfolio companies' recent raises, flags a data engineering hire, and says fundraising for its next funds is well advanced.
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Oz2US Ventures is launching a Melbourne-based accelerator ending in a Silicon Valley residency, with named mentors and applications open for a September start.
Roundup of travel-sector dealmaking: KKR invests in Etraveli at a reported $3.1 billion valuation, Airalo, TravelPerk and Klook raise big rounds, and SevenRooms and MadeComfy are acquired.
Weekly roundup of readers' five favourite stories: a precast factory opening for a Sydney tunnel, a grants panel, Circuitwise's agreed New Zealand acquisition, NSW clean-tech grants, and BlueScope's Whyalla bid position.
Employment Hero has begun Federal Court action against backer Seek to halt its job-listing API shutdown; the piece recalls Seek's 2018 investment and KKR's $95 million stake purchase.
Corval is raising a second urban logistics fund with A$50m committed, and has closed an office vehicle above target after buying seven Brisbane Technology Park buildings from a Dexus fund.
Startup Daily profiles care marketplace Mable, reportedly seeking a buyer, recalling its 2021 and 2019 raises, its purchases of two NDIS businesses, and a consumer regulator's action over unfair terms.
Tracxn figures show Australian tech funding reached $1.8 billion by mid-2025, powered by large late-stage rounds at Protecht, Airwallex, Harrison AI and Advancell, while seed and early-stage raising fell away sharply.
Paspalis Capital's page describes its Territory-backed co-investment fund and lists six portfolio investments — Esper Satellites, Go Locum, Praetorian Aeronautics, Salty Games, Blueflite and Atomionics — with stages, years and leaders.
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Weekly roundup detailing five Australian startups' raises: a PR platform's Series B, a biotech's post-stealth funding, a defence tech round, a pre-seed voice-AI raise, and a crowdfunding campaign.
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DroneShield, a Sydney maker of counter-drone technology, has hired a retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel to lead its sales to that service; the Dutch ambassador also recently visited the company.
Western Australia's wind energy manufacturing co-investment scheme, administered by AMGC, has granted coil maker Australian Winders $488,204, its first award, to automate production, expand capacity and create 25 jobs.
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The NSW government's $2.8 million grant program will add 549 kerbside charging points across 22 council areas, with EVX supplying 278 of them after taking 27 percent of the funding pool.
Quantum firm Q-CTRL ran a shipboard trial of its quantum navigation sensor on a Royal Australian Navy vessel, operating 144 hours unattended and showing GPS-independent positioning, with results validated in a journal.
Sydney adtech firm Linkby secured US$15 million in a Volition Capital-led Series B to expand in the US; CEO Chris Wirasinha earlier founded Pedestrian.tv, later sold to Nine.
Thirteen projects have received NSW government clean technology grants totalling beyond $26 million; among them Kardinia Energy, maker of solar panels deployed on Coldplay's global tour, gains $2,255,000 toward its first-of-a-kind production plant.
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Advanced Navigation trialled technology that tracks commuters' phones inside underground stations at Castle Hill in Sydney, aiming to help people with vision impairment navigate transport interchanges where GPS performs poorly.
ASX-listed Scalare Partners is acquiring coworking operator Tank Stream Labs in a deal of as much as $5.5 million, paid in cash, shares and earn-outs; three earlier Scalare acquisitions are also recalled.
Precision fermentation startup Eclipse Ingredients has come out of stealth with a $7 million round backed by the Australian government and AgFunder to produce human lactoferrin for food and skincare markets.
Weekly roundup of readers' five favourite stories: a hydrogen grant for 1414 Degrees, LS Precast's rail tunnel contract, AML3D's US Navy pact, quantum clock breakthrough, and Suntory Oceania's launch.
Analysis argues Cognition AI's July 2025 buyout of Windsurf, after Google's reverse-acquihire of its leaders, secures IP, talent and revenue, boosting Cognition's Devin product, valuation and investor backing.
Windsurf's chief executive announces the developer-tools firm is joining Cognition, the company behind the Devin AI agent, in an acquisition; he also cites Cognition's funding history and valuation.
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Weekly roundup detailing new capital for Australian startups Diraq, BrainFish, RecycleSmart, Cohabit and Five Faces, alongside Alumly's undisclosed multimillion-dollar backing from UK investor Mauve Group.
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Graphinex has started up a Townsville plant making graphite battery anodes, backed by $3 million from a federal program and $2 million from Queensland, plus overseas backers Idemitsu and Baramulti.
Collections fintech InDebted, which began in Australia, has bought Alabama agency AmSher to grow its US telecom work; AmSher's president and staff join InDebted, which earlier bought Receeve.
ANDHealth secured a thirty-three million dollar government grant to expand its non-dilutive accelerator program for digital health startups, aiming to support fifteen companies over two years.
Sydney biotech Smart MCs and UNSW won Australian Research Council funding of $900,000 for microcarrier development; the company earlier joined Big Idea Ventures' accelerator, raised pre-seed, and received a 2023 government grant.
Sydney strata analytics startup Cohabit has raised $1.2 million from individual backers including Qantas chair John Mullen, six months after soft-launching its building data platform.
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Quantum computing venture Diraq has banked $15 million toward an unfinished round, with earlier backers joined by two new funds, pushing its cumulative funding beyond US$137 million.
Analysis of Diageo's March 2025 withdrawal from accelerator Distill Ventures, where it was sole limited partner, citing strategy changes under new leadership, plus portfolio company Westward Whiskey's bankruptcy.
Alumly, a Melbourne edtech startup founded by ex-Salesforce executive David Yip, has closed a seven-figure angel round led by Mauve Group cofounders Ann and John Ellis to help students find paid work.
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Sydney AI customer-support startup Brainfish has secured a $9.8 million pre-Series A, with Prosus Ventures leading and existing backers Peak XV's Surge and Macdoch Ventures participating, to fund its US expansion.
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Ampyr has locked in bank debt above A$340m, a Zen Energy virtual offtake and Fluence as battery supplier for its first large battery in NSW, with a 6 GWh storage goal for 2030.
Australian crypto exchange Swyftx is buying brokerage Caleb & Brown, reportedly valued above $100 million, extending its reach to wealthy US investors; it also plans to buy New Zealand's Easy Crypto.
The infrastructure fund manager has completed a close on its fifth flagship vehicle, beating its target, while its chairman reflects on LP reaction to the firm's sale to BlackRock.
Australia's renewable energy agency has awarded Orica hundreds of millions for a Hunter Valley hydrogen and ammonia plant, and is consulting on a further two-billion-dollar round for green hydrogen projects.
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The clean energy funder conditionally awarded Orica's Hunter Valley hydrogen hub as much as $432 million under its Hydrogen Headstart program, following CIP's Murchison Green Hydrogen Project's earlier $814 million grant.
BetaShares has acquired investing podcast Equity Mates for a reported $8.5 million; founders Bryce Leske and Alec Renehan will keep running it, with past backing from Matt Leibowitz, Larry Diamond and Magellan.
Roundup of four Australian raises: MagnaTerra formed from a CSIRO merger, Mobile Tyre Shop backed by Sailun, Coinstash's Series A, and MogoPlus funded by New Model Venture Capital.
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The hydrogen partnership and a university have won a $2.75 million federal Innovate grant to advance a South Australian pilot reactor, adding to money their shareholders committed during 2025.
The federal government will open the next Ignite and Innovate grant round on 23 July and has announced 39 newly funded Innovate projects, with about $178 million awarded so far under the program.
Brisbane crypto exchange Coinstash has raised a $4.7 million Series A led by an unnamed family office, taking its total funding past $8 million as it aims to triple its customer base.
NSW startup Owls Eat Rats took the $50,000 top prize at Taronga Zoo's Hatch accelerator pitch night, with $5,000 awards for Reusably and ALBON; six startups formed the 2025 cohort.
Proto Axiom has put $4 million into Sydney IVF biotech JumpStart Fertility, a UNSW spin-out, to pay for human trials of a treatment aimed at age-related fertility decline.
Sydney fintech Volatility Group has bought small-cap news site Small Caps, launched InvestHouse for brokers, and raised $2.5 million in private credit from Tractor Ventures, with a Series A planned.
Founders Factory is seeking applicants for the next intake of its Western Australian biodiversity startup program, which begins in August 2025 with state government backing; six startups it backed earlier are named.