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QIMR Berghofer's Ebivanta Therapeutics wins $1.5 million plus backing from biotech incubator Biointelect Venturer's first cohort to ready its mRNA vaccine against Epstein-Barr virus for clinical testing.
Investible announces the promotion of Nicholas Ooi to Investment Manager, describing his deal approach, portfolio work since 2023, and his path from law and consulting into venture capital.
Roundup of the week's Australia and New Zealand raises: Gridsight, Pearler and Apate.AI secure the biggest cheques, Drumbeat and GonGlobal add smaller sums, and ten AI startups join Airwallex's Latitude 37 program.
Australia's competition regulator approved Peter Warren Automotive's purchase of Wakeling Automotive's new car dealerships, on condition eight local dealership sites are divested to protect competition.
An analysis of what happens to brain-implant trial participants once studies end, covering Australia's growing neurotech sector, EpiMinder's FDA approval, Synchron's funding, and recommendations from a convened panel of specialists.
Queensland's government has granted Aviation Australia $3 million from its Sovereign Industry Development Fund to build a Townsville training centre with simulation equipment for future defence aviation maintenance engineers.
Intellivision Holdings of Singapore paid $2.6 million for a 17.71 percent voting stake in ASX-listed CurveBeam AI, disclosed through a filing with the Australian exchange.
Bain Capital, advised by Lazard banker Campbell Ray, is readying a bid for clinical trials provider Nucleus Network, which current owner Blackstone has listed for sale at a hoped $1 billion.
Ritchie Bros has been knocked out of the Pickles sale, leaving buyout houses such as EQT, Warburg Pincus and Pacific Equity Partners to work through the data room ahead of first bids.
Canva is pushing productivity tools like Docs and Sheets to win enterprise subscribers from Microsoft and Google, while slowing its AI rollout to control costs and trimming its revenue growth forecast.
Australian payment-fraud prevention company Eftsure has bought US vendor-data firm Relish, its third international expansion in about a year following backer Level Equity's earlier purchase of France's Sis ID; terms undisclosed.
Airwallex unveils Latitude 37, naming ten young Australian AI startups to its first cohort; members receive equity-free backing, mentorship, worldwide network access and overseas immersion trips.
Workforce platform Expert360 is being bought by AI hiring firm Swipejobs at a reported $16 million value, while its founder and earliest backers are set to receive nothing for their stakes.
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Women's health founders say weak local investment is pushing them offshore; Baymatob, Ovum and BreastScreen leaders describe funding struggles at a Sydney summit, with all-female teams receiving just 2% of 2025 startup capital.
Swyftx has made Andrea Yuen permanent CEO and Cathryn Lyall Chair. Yuen moved up from CFO and interim Co-CEO; Lyall, a Seed Space Venture Capital partner, steps up from interim Chair.
The critical minerals refiner has won government backing exceeding $1.98 million to advance its recovery process from laboratory scale to a pilot facility in Sydney.
FoodNavigator interview with Bramble Intelligence's Chris Mitchell on how AI shopping agents will reshape brand loyalty, category fortunes, and what food makers must do to stay visible to algorithms and shoppers.
Australian biotech ENA Respiratory, whose INNA-051 nasal spray targets respiratory viruses, has been granted $2.98 million via the Biointelect Venturer program to fund a trial in adults with asthma.
Brandon Capital is welcoming a $60 million commitment of public money via the NRF, earmarked for the firm's life-science investing.
HEO has released early imagery from its first close-range orbital inspection mission, with Continuum-1 imaging a rocket body alongside partners Satellogic and UNSW Canberra Space under Defence Trailblazer funding.
A Brisbane-founded ASX-listed operator is funding its biggest data centre build with a fresh share offer to existing holders, plus an expanded hybrid securities deal that drew more pension fund money.
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Private equity firm CVC is taking a majority holding in Ambrose Construct Group, an insurance repair business founded in Queensland, through its sixth Asia Fund; the deal values the company near $700 million.
Truck parts group MaxiPARTS has drawn a conditional buyout approach from Ares and separately agreed to acquire a brake component supplier's assets for $11.2 million.
Brandon Capital has put roughly $60 million of National Reconstruction Fund money into ten biotech companies and warns R&D tax changes would hurt deep tech; portfolio company Myricx Bio went to Novartis.
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Street Talk reports ASX-listed truck parts distributor MaxiPARTS has received a takeover approach from private equity firm Ares, which has appointed Macquarie Capital to advise on the potential deal.
Canberra is funding carbon management demonstrations: round two of a national program directs $32.6 million across seven projects, naming six recipients including Carbonaught, Australian Carbon Vault, Karbonix, MCi Carbon and Electralith.
South Australian soft plastics recycler Recycling Plastics Australia, recipient of a $20m federal grant, has entered voluntary administration with KPMG appointed, after a major supplier's collapse derailed its plan to fill REDcycle's gap.
Plant-based food maker OMG Group has locked in a $1.5 million placement, with beverage manufacturer Slades Beverages taking a cornerstone stake and becoming its oat milk production partner as sales grow.
ARENA marks 100 community batteries installed under its funding initiative and announces $23.2 million in new grants for three Round 2 battery projects led by YES Group, Ausgrid and the City of Newcastle.
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A guide for founders on building AI-native iOS and Android apps, covering architecture choices, platform differences, pitfalls and upcoming Australian privacy rules, with examples from Hyper's portfolio.
Blog item on the AI funding climate: sales platform Clay reportedly raising at a stepped-up valuation with Wellington Management leading, plus a recap of its CapitalG Series C and other AI funding notes.
Defence tech firm Q-CTRL reports a first-at-sea trial navigating a vessel with no satellite positioning, using a quantum gravity sensor hardened by software, reaching nautical-mile accuracy and extending its navigation product line.
Perth robotics group Nexxis has acquired BladeBUG, a UK developer of wind turbine inspection robots, taking the Australian company into the UK renewables sector; no price was given.
Bridget Loudon-Harris's recruitment platform Expert360 has been acquired by Swipejobs in a $16 million deal that wipes out its investors; the buyer is eyeing an ASX float.
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Cold spray manufacturer Titomic has locked in A$16.5 million via a share placement, funding expansion at its Alabama plant and a planned shift of corporate domicile to the United States.
Sydney tech services firm Adactin has bought Melbourne Microsoft partner Focus Dynamics Group, keeping all 82 staff and the FDG brand intact to deepen its Dynamics 365 and Azure capabilities; terms undisclosed.
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Canberra is putting up to $26 million through ARENA behind Element Zero's Perth pilot testing whether the nation's iron ore can become low-emissions iron via a renewable-powered, molten-salt process.
AFR Street Talk reports Eucalyptus co-founder Charlie Gearside and Chris Cuffe's Partners Horizon Fund have joined Sydney investment app Pearler's $16 million Series A.
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Three Western Australian firms, including battery newcomer Magellan Power, have been awarded grants totalling $1.7 million under the state's Local Battery Manufacturing Program to develop prototypes and expand battery manufacturing capacity.
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Bathla Group's administrators expect to wind up the business after a lender meeting and a government bailout request failed, leaving hundreds of staff unpaid and thousands of homes in limbo.
WA's government has announced half a million dollars for National Electric Motor Services via its co-investment program for wind manufacturing, backing a Malaga facility to overhaul turbines locally; earlier recipients are also named.
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Steve Baxter's Brisbane defence-tech venture firm Beaten Zone has wrapped its first fund at $26 million, with Baxter the largest backer at $6 million of his own money.
Gridsight, whose platform maps electricity grid capacity for utilities in real time, has raised a $26 million Series B round with Insight Partners leading, to fund its push into the US market.
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Melbourne medical device maker GonGlobal has received a A$1 million grant, split evenly between Innovation Victoria and RMIT University, to develop Ovulair, which delivers fertility medication by inhalation instead of injection.
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Sydney quantum computing company Diraq will station an eight-qubit prototype machine inside an Equinix facility from October, a step toward moving the technology from lab to market.
The US War Department has announced an estimated US$174m equity investment, partnering with Export Finance Australia, Japan and Sojitz, to build a gallium plant at Alcoa's Wagerup refinery.
Investors approved extending Airtree's 2014 debut fund to mid-2028 so the firm can keep its Canva holding; the piece also recalls Canva's Series A and Airtree's later fund totals.
Energy AI startup Gridsight, co-founded by NSW childhood friends, has raised a $36 million round led by New York's Insight Partners as it expands into the US; Endeavour Energy is among its customers.
Airtree's investors approved prolonging its debut fund to July 2028, safeguarding foundation stakes such as Canva and defusing a limited-partner revolt over the firm's withheld distributions.
Medical imaging company CurveBeam AI completed a share purchase plan raising A$606,150, weeks after a A$5 million placement, with proceeds earmarked for sales, marketing, R&D and a planned China launch.