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Tidal Ventures' investment note explains why it led disability and aged-care AI startup Minikai's seed round, covering the market opportunity, product features, founding team, early traction and planned use of funds.
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Melbourne startup Shopfront has secured $800,000 in a pre-seed round led by Antler, Co-Ventures, 5H Values Capital and Jam Pad Investments, with angel syndicates joining; its founders met through an Antler program.
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Insurance broking platform UpCover secured a $19 million Series A — $11 million equity led by RealVC plus $8 million debt from Marshall Investments — with Antler Elevate, Betterlabs, Gandel Invest and individual investors taking part.
Manufacturing roundup: Convergence Medical hires Dr Kevin Plancher after its Series A; Patties buys National Pies; GFG Alliance's unpaid water bills surface; ARENA grants EVX Australia $2.4 million for kerbside chargers.
Rod Bristow, lately of venture firm Investible, takes the top job at the Victorian government's investment fund Breakthrough Victoria, succeeding Grant Dooley, with COO Lauren Morrey having held the role meanwhile.
Commentary on Dovetail's CEO being sued by the company's in-house lawyer, with notes on the startup's near-billion-dollar valuation and its Blackbird and Grok Ventures backing.
Breakthrough Victoria has appointed Rod Bristow, previously Investible's CEO, as its chief executive, citing a 33-company portfolio, over $300 million invested and $1.06 billion attracted from co-investors.
Breakthrough Victoria names Rod Bristow chief executive, citing his Investible and financial-services background, and outlines the fund's portfolio scale, co-investment record, and ambitions for patient capital and eventual exits.
Rosterfy, an Australian maker of volunteer-management software, has landed fresh capital from OIF Ventures as its platform runs Super Bowl volunteering; the piece also recalls earlier Bailador investments from 2024 and 2023.
Curtin Accelerate has started its 2025 program with twelve Perth founders, offering mentoring, Venture Studio expertise, a modest equity-free grant, AWS credits and potential Kickstart+ investment consideration.
ARENA commits $2.4 million to EVX for 250 kerbside EV chargers across three Australian states, funded through the Driving the Nation Program, with electricity distributors and a retailer supporting the rollout.
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Guest bio for Madison Reed founder Amy Errett, covering her earlier roles at Maveron, E*TRADE and True Ventures, her board seats, and links to her Masters of Scale episodes.
Founder Steve Taitoko recounts losing Eratos through voluntary administration, the personal toll of eight years building it, and his deliberate rebuild of health, family bonds and purpose afterwards.
Brisbane defence-tech VC Beaten Zone Venture Partners has reached a first close of over $10 million toward a $60 million target, with early investments in three startups and a new general manager.
ADT and Penten have received federal contracts totalling above $8m through a national defence accelerator, funding year-long electronic warfare prototype projects which, the minister says, secure over 150 jobs.
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Brisbane defence-tech fund manager BZV says Fund I has drawn over A$10 million in commitments, meeting its ESVCLP condition, with A$60 million targeted and a final close expected inside 18 months.
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SmartCompany details how a Melbourne broadcaster for startups unravelled: staff still unpaid, a creditor's court bid to wind it up, and investment that never arrived.
Investment firm Silver Point closed its new CLO-focused fund with $250 million committed, buying equity portions of syndicated loan obligations it manages; the firm oversees $37 billion across its credit strategies.
Tenacious Ventures' podcast episode interviews Azaneo founder and CEO Liam Hescock about the startup's electrical weed-killing technology for farms.
LaunchVic picked ten young companies for its newest CivVic Labs farm-safety sprint; each receives $15,000 in equity-free support, with two teams later in line for another $35,000.
Jason Ashton, formerly NBN Co's wireless networks technology chief and BigAir's co-founder, rejoins Superloop on 3 March in a newly created role leading acquisitions and its smart communities portfolio.
Westpac has invested $10 million in legal tech platform Lawpath, deepening an existing partnership; the article also recounts Lawpath's earlier raises from LegalZoom, Adcock Private Equity and other backers between 2015 and 2021.
Blackbird's note explains why it led Lorikeet's nine-million-US-dollar round alongside co-investors, describing the startup's workflow-first approach to harder support tickets and its results with Eucalyptus.
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Ovum, an app for tracking menstrual and women's health, has secured $1.7m to launch its AI assistant, in a round led by Giant Leap with Antler, Wollemi Capital and other backers.
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Lighter Capital, a revenue-based lender, has added another $30 million to lend to Australian startups, extending the facility the Victorian government and iPartners first backed.
Superannuation data platform Nuj has secured a $2 million seed round led by Mimecast cofounder Peter Bauer within a $4 million debt-and-equity package, to grow its compliance offering.
Cold-spray maker Titomic is partnering with a Huntsville university on materials research. The piece recalls its $30 million raise around the CEO change and its 2017 ASX listing.
Selfwealth has received a higher non-binding buyout proposal from Svava at 28 cents per share, topping the scheme it already signed with Bell Financial Group at 25 cents; Svava also holds an 18.8% stake.
Carbon Group's case study describes how it supported Perth coffee roastery Timely Coffees through a company restructure, a successful Birchal crowdfunding campaign, new financial systems and business insurance.
Insurtech firm Indemn has secured $1.9 million in a pre-seed round led by Markd, with Afterwork Ventures and Everywhere Ventures taking part, backing its conversational AI platform for buying insurance.
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Five Australian space companies receive federal grants under the Moon to Mars program, totalling $3.6 million, for projects including navigation systems and radioisotope heaters; Gilmour Space says launch approval delays cost it $20 million.
Sydney cancer-therapy developer AdvanCell has completed a US$112 million Series C that was oversubscribed, co-led by four investors, with Brandon Capital among new backers; three investor representatives join the board.
Five grants under a Moon to Mars supply chain program, worth $3.6 million combined, have gone to recipients including Advanced Navigation, which will develop a high-shock navigation system with Gilmour Space Technologies.
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Aura Group's blog post explains how DeepSeek's R1 reaches near-frontier AI results with far less computing power and why its cheaper, self-correcting methods threaten today's AI incumbents.
ARENA recalls two community electrification grants, $6.2 million to SA Power Networks and $5.4 million to Electrify 2515, and says the minister has asked it to consider expanding such funding.
Melbourne biotech Diag-Nose.io raised a seed round led by Breakthrough Victoria for its AI respiratory diagnostic, backed by physicians, funds and executives; one investor joins its board.
In-store audio advertising firm Qsic, founded in Melbourne and now Dallas-based, has secured US$25 million in a Hedosophia-led Series B, after a $4 million Carthona Capital-led Series A in 2021.
Roundup of six Australian and New Zealand startup raises totalling $63.5 million, covering in-store audio, EV charging, respiratory biotech, health AI, gig-economy fintech, and inclusive social media ventures.
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Mitsubishi UBE Cement has taken a roughly A$8m stake in MCi Carbon within a committed round valuing it at $320m, funding the Newcastle company's carbonation demonstration plant.
ARENA is granting A$20.8 million to Western Power for Project Jupiter, a three-year distributed energy marketplace in Western Australia run alongside Synergy, Energy Policy WA and AEMO.
Retrospective timeline of Catch's journey from its 2006 launch through Tiger Global's investment, the Menulog and Luxury Escapes deals and Wesfarmers' $230 million acquisition, to Wesfarmers' announced wind-down.
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Breakthrough Victoria has put $800,000 into Diag-Nose.io Medical, a Melbourne respiratory health company whose RhinoMAP platform maps disease subtypes using a nasal biopsy device and AI; the firm began in a Stanford program.
Qsic, which puts audio advertising inside retail stores, has landed a Series B investment headed by Hedosophia, lifting its total backing to $50.5 million as it grows its North American speaker footprint.
Engineering and consulting group Akkodis is buying Barhead Solutions, an Australian Microsoft applications partner, in a deal awaiting closing conditions; the acquisition extends Akkodis' Microsoft capability across its national client base.
MyGigsters, a fintech for gig workers' financial wellbeing, has secured $1.1 million in seed funding from angel and customer backers, adding to earlier pre-seed support from Antler, LaunchVic and Startmate.
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Harrison.ai has received $32 million from the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation toward its Series C, with the federal investor's December backing of Vault Cloud, Myriota and Quantum Brilliance also noted.
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Endpoint management vendor NinjaOne is buying Melbourne-founded cloud backup firm Dropsuite for US$252 million, with completion expected by June subject to shareholder, court and customary approvals.
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Breakthrough Victoria's update announces an $800,000 seed investment in Diag-Nose.io Medical, a Melbourne medtech whose RhinoMAP AI platform aids chronic respiratory disease drug research, supporting Victorian hiring and manufacturing growth.
Amber Electric has bought EV charging app Charge HQ for an undisclosed price; the piece recalls the retailer's Series A, B and C raises from Gentrack, NRMA, Commonwealth Bank, Main Sequence and Square Peg.
Spoony, an Australian app helping disabled and neurodivergent people connect, has secured $1 million in a pre-seed round backed by Antler Ventures, Melba Support Services and Trampoline.