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StrongRoomAI chief Max Mito denies EVP's fraud allegations in Federal Court; the startup is in administration ahead of a sale after the Sydney VC's $17m backing unravelled into litigation.
Sprint Ventures' analysis of the Aged Care Act 2024 reforms, framing them as a market opportunity for aged care technology and noting its early investments in UMPS and Hayylo.
Global IT services company Infosys has agreed to buy cyber security firm The Missing Link for $98 million, with TML keeping its leadership; closing expected in Q4 FY2025, TH Global Capital advising.
Ten13 profiles angel investor Tracie Clark, tracing her path from property and wealth management into early-stage investing, her founder-focused diligence, syndicate work championing women investors, and a new syndicate backing Plus Eight alumni.
Ten battery start-ups, mostly Australian, join Supercharge Australia's first incubator cohort; the piece also recalls earlier Innovation Challenge award wins by Renewable Metals and Veepower.
Feature on Australian capital moving into fusion energy: super fund Hostplus backs Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Foxglove Capital's Matt Bungey backs Type One, and startup HB11 Energy pursues laser proton-boron fusion locally.
EBR Systems has won US regulatory approval for its WiSE implant, the first leadless device for a form of cardiac resynchronization therapy, which the CEO frames as the end of a 22-year development phase.
Administrators confirmed a $40 million deal in which Cadwell Industries, TrialCap and Breakthrough Victoria take equity, rescuing Seer Medical from administration; the article also recalls its funding history and 2024 product recall.
Podcast episode in which Farm Health Guardian's chief executive recounts combining his livestock biosecurity business with a complementary rival, covering the decision process and the opportunities the combination created.
Profile of OncoRes Medical CEO Katharine Giles, tracing her path from surgeon to venture investor and her leadership of the Western Australian medtech firm developing a handheld device for precise breast cancer surgery.
Main Sequence opens a three-part series explaining its AI investment thesis, the market shifts behind it, and where it sees long-term value, citing several portfolio companies.
Macquarie-backed storage developer Eku Energy has bought Bluestone Energy's seven-project, 2 GWh UK battery portfolio, building on their 2022 partnership; Eku also operates major batteries in Victoria and the ACT.
Tasmania's Boyer mill, Australia's last newsprint maker, has won a $24m federal commitment to replace coal boilers with electric ones; the piece also recounts the site's ownership history and past government support.
Payments platform PaySure has obtained a $30m warehouse facility to fund its real estate growth, with Coterie Capital advising on the deal and an unnamed Australian credit fund backing it.
RayGen Resources has closed a $127m Series D round led by SLB, with ARENA, AGL Energy and Photon Energy Group also taking part, to speed global rollout of its solar and thermal storage technology.
Breakthrough Victoria's Dr Olga Hogan explains its University Innovation Platform, which co-invests pre-seed funding alongside Victorian universities, plus a fellowship helping PhD researchers turn research into companies.
Aura Ventures announces Mark Esterhuizen as a new team member, profiling his finance career and his role scaling a seafood e-commerce group from seed through Series B.
Write-up of Matt Barrie's keynote on Freelancer.com's AI-enabled services vision, its Escrow.com and Loadshift units, and a planned US ADR listing; no funding round or completed deal is reported.
InsightWise, an AI platform for consultants, raised a $1 million pre-seed round led by Aliavia Ventures and No Brand Holdings, with Wollemi Capital and FB10x taking part, to fund product development and US expansion.
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Payments provider Fiserv has bought Pinch Payments, an Australian payment facilitator serving merchants in Australia and New Zealand, for an undisclosed sum, to strengthen its digital payment offering across Asia Pacific.
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Solar storage firm RayGen has wrapped up a $127 million Series D a year after it began, with SLB leading and Breakthrough Victoria, ARENA and energy companies among the backers.
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Student-run venture fund NextGen Ventures has locked in $1.5 million toward a $2.5 million target, backed by Blackbird's cofounders, Airtree and angel investors, and has already invested in AI startup Fluency.
RenewEconomy reports that hydrogen developer Infinite Green Energy has gone into administration amid a legal fight with a Queensland investor owed millions from a 2023 share deal.
Woolworths, via its Healthylife arm, led telehealth firm Hola Health's $6m Series A at a $70m valuation, with M8 Ventures and FundWA backing; the Perth company raised $4.5m a year earlier.
Manufacturing roundup: Nourish Ingredients' precision fermentation milestone, MyNu Energy's investment from Melt Ventures, a refused Veolia licence, AusBiotech committee applications, UOW community batteries, a Gold Coast rail contract, and Premcar's South African launch.
Diamond quantum hardware maker Quantum Brilliance raised $20 million in Series A funding from Main Sequence, In-Q-Tel and Australian government investors, and won a German agency contract for a mobile quantum computer.
Qantas and Airbus have committed A$15 million to Climate Tech Partners, a local VC, to back startups in sustainable aviation fuel and aviation decarbonisation, drawing on their 2022 US$200 million SAF partnership.
Quantum sensing startup DeteQt, spun out of the University of Sydney, has raised $750,000 in pre-seed funding from Main Sequence and Austin's ATP Fund, and holds a $3 million defence contract.
Wescover, an American marketplace for custom-made creations, has been bought by Melbourne-headquartered Book An Artist, which plans to merge the platforms; the piece also recalls Book An Artist's 2022 raise.
Australian automotive tech firm Doftek has appointed Jochen Hermann, previously chief technical officer at Mercedes-AMG, to its advisory board as it moves its active wheel alignment technology toward series production with global carmakers.
Athletic Ventures, started by former athletes, has closed its debut fund at $25 million, with about 100 sports stars and several veteran venture figures backing it as limited partners.
RCP Advisors has reached $994m for its fifth co-investment vehicle, RCP Direct V, whose limited partners include family offices, insurers, endowments, foundations, public pensions and wealthy individuals.
Profile of executive Mark Esterhuizen tracing his career from KPMG and Deloitte to leading finance and operations at a seafood e-commerce group, recalling its Seed and Series B funding.
Gridsight, a Sydney energy software startup, has banked $7.5 million in Series A capital, with Airtree Ventures leading and Pat Cummins among the backers, to grow its grid analytics platform.
Also energytransitionventures.com·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany
A profile of ENA Respiratory traces its INNA-051 immune-boosting nasal spray from an accidental lab finding to Phase 2 trials, noting AUD 49 million in funding, a US Defence contract and Flu Lab investment.
A Square Peg investor reflects on interviews with automation veterans, arguing that winning legacy enterprise customers for AI tools hinges on human factors, politics and budget dynamics rather than technology alone.
EVP alleges StrongRoom AI's CEO admitted fabricated revenue and debt figures after the Sydney VC invested $10.4m in a $17m raise; the Melbourne startup is now in administration with assets frozen.
Agtech spin-out Gaia Project Australia has raised $1.7 million from Breakthrough Victoria, La Trobe University's Eagle Fund, Mandalay Venture Partners and LaunchVic to commercialise plant-spacing technology that lifts leafy green yields.
Roundup of two Australian raises: a quantum security company's government-led $20m round and a retail analytics startup's US seed round backing its American push.
BlockTexx, a textile recycler, won the overall honour at the 2025 Banksia sustainability awards in Melbourne. Founders Graham Ross and Adrian Jones established the business in 2018.
Quantum processor maker Diraq has won a US defence agency contract for the first stage of a quantum benchmarking program, leading a consortium with Emergence Quantum, Riverlane, Global Foundries and Imec.
Also Startup Daily
Strong Room AI, a Melbourne medicines-management startup, is in voluntary administration weeks after a February raise; investor EVP's court action froze assets while administrators seek a buyer and creditors meet on April 8.
Portable received a $1.1 million federal BRII grant to advance Sweep, its tool for wage compliance, as Australia cracks down on worker underpayment, which became a criminal offence in January 2025.
Tyson & Blake, which seeded StrongRoom AI, threatens legal action against EVP, which is suing to recover its $10.4 million after the Melbourne medtech entered administration.
A OneVentures blog post flags an artificial heart developer it has backed as out soliciting fresh capital; the text provided names no company, investors, or completed round.
Mint Payments names investor Huy Truong as Executive Chairman while director Bill Bartee retires from the board; Truong also took part in the company's December capital raise.
SmartCompany interviews Springboards.ai co-founder Pip Bingemann about the Noosa startup's AI advertising tools, its Blackbird seed round, SXSW pitching, scepticism and remote hiring.
Lending data insights firm MOGOPLUS appoints Ben Ford as growth consultant and announces a Google Cloud Marketplace partnership as it moves into AI-driven credit decisioning for lenders.