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Galaxy Digital, Dragonfly and ParaFi Capital led a $250 million token sale by the Avalanche Foundation, joined by over 40 investors, ahead of the Avalanche9000 upgrade; a prior $230 million sale occurred in 2021.
Startup Daily reports unit-registry fintech Caruso has banked a fresh $3.2 million from customer Balmain, following a $3 million round a year earlier, targeting growth across Asia-Pacific and North America.
Brisbane market-research software firm Askable, self-funded since 2017 by a father-son duo, has announced a $22m Series A led by AirTree at a $100m valuation, with Skip Capital and founder angels backing it.
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Conry Tech, a Melbourne maker of low-emission air conditioning, banked $1.6 million pre-seed from Bandera Capital, with New Zealand VC Pacific Channel chipping in, to commercialise its modular cooling units.
Caruso, maker of fund administration software, has landed a $3.2 million strategic backing from private credit firm Balmain, having earlier raised $3 million from Icehouse Ventures and other backers.
Terria, a geospatial startup spun out of CSIRO's Data61 lab, has launched with a $3 million seed round backed by deep-tech fund Main Sequence to build digital twin tools for cities and the environment.
Western Australia's government has selected twelve tech startups for its new Global Growth Accelerator Program, delivered by Invest and Trade WA, to prepare them for US markets, culminating at SXSW 2025 in Austin.
Quantum Brilliance, a Canberra-based maker of diamond-based quantum chips, has drawn fresh equity from the National Reconstruction Fund and more from Breakthrough Victoria to build a diamond foundry, with prior grants and backers recapped.
Calix has banked a $20 million raising from institutions, with a second offering for existing holders flagged, to push its cement, steel and lithium decarbonisation technologies toward market; partner Heirloom closed a US$150m round.
The National Reconstruction Fund has taken a $13 million stake in quantum maker Quantum Brilliance, while a defence accelerator funds University of Western Australia quantum research and Germany's Cyber Agency contracts the company.
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Quantum Brilliance has locked in a $30 million Series A, with Breakthrough Victoria and the National Reconstruction Fund backing its plan to open the nation's first foundry making quantum diamond devices.
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GrainCorp Ventures' investment arm announces a backing of BioScout, whose in-field devices detect airborne fungal crop diseases in real time, helping Australian growers cut spray cycles and manage disease threats faster.
Breakthrough Victoria has put another $10m into Quantum Brilliance, which builds diamond-based quantum hardware, funding a new Victorian foundry and its joint research hub with two universities.
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Profile of Annie Liao, 23, founder of Build Club, who has closed a $1.8 million round to build an AI learning platform, tracing her path from Westpac, BCG and Aura Ventures into startups.
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Climate Salad's 2024 Australian Climate Tech Awards honoured eight winners, with MGA Thermal taking the Impact Award; the piece recaps the thermal storage company's year, including ARENA grants and a pre-Series B top-up.
Lendi Group has appointed four senior leaders across content, marketing, creative and PR, rounding out its growth leadership as the Aussie Home Loans owner also flags further roles.
Square Peg's post explains its seed investment in GoodWork.ai, profiling three founders with retail and AI backgrounds and the company's AI models giving retailers fast, unified analysis.
A retrospective on Maxwell Plus, a machine-vision prostate cancer medtech that folded, with founder Elliot Smith and investor Phil Morle sharing lessons; Harrison.ai's later raise underscores the timing they missed.
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Micro-X's Head CT test bench produced its first 3D images, qualifying it for an MRFF progress payment, with US ARPA-H contracts worth $25 million announced this week supporting full-body CT development.
Startup Daily reports on a Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre study of Western Australia's startup ecosystem, urging reforms to talent, diversity, capital and R&D funding so the state can catch up with its eastern neighbours.
Victorian solar tile maker Volt has passed A$1.1 million in an ongoing Birchal crowd-equity campaign, bankrolling a planned United States expansion that pits its roof tiles against Tesla's Solar Roof.
Solar pioneer Zhengrong Shi intends a Newcastle factory for frameless lightweight panels via Sunman's Energus subsidiary, eyeing federal programs; CEFC, Southern Cross Venture Partners and Softbank China are recalled as backers.
SmartCompany roundup covering six Australian funding deals totalling $18.4 million: Visibuild, My Mirror, Cambium Bio, Freckle, Old Young's Distillery and Taly, plus news that Freckle's founder earlier sold Everproof to GO1.
Aged-care technology firm Umps Health of Melbourne has banked a $4 million Series A, with Breakthrough Victoria supplying half the money and InterValley Ventures coming onto the register alongside four existing backers.
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Publisher Breakthrough Victoria reports putting $2 million into Umps Health, a Victorian firm whose in-home sensors and AI flag health risks early for proactive aged care.
Western Australia's government added $15 million to its WAVC fund-of-funds, committing $45 million across seven venture firms to back local startups; Purpose Ventures' fund closed at $55 million after backing My Mirror and SpacetoCo.
Future Generation launched Future Generation Women, a gender-lens fund seeded with $100 million from the Minderoo Foundation, with twelve women portfolio managers deciding investments pro bono; the trust is open to wholesale investors.
Western Australia's government has grown its WAVC fund-of-funds commitment to $45 million, backing seven venture funds, four WA-based, to invest locally; Skalata's WA portfolio already includes C0-architecture and Omni Biotech.
Two Australian winners of Xero's Beautiful Business Fund, Other Matter and Prosthetic Art Technology, describe how their country and global grants will fund scaling, from algae-based decals to digital prosthetics workflows.
Splend, which leases cars to ride-share drivers, has obtained a $300 million debt facility from Macquarie to grow its electric fleet. Chris King founded the Sydney company in 2015.
TALY, a Melbourne startup applying personality data to management decisions, has closed a $500,000 pre-seed round with Skalata leading; founder Peter Treloar previously sold Telmy to US firm Sago.
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A venture firm and a university program launch a co-investment scheme for climate-tech spin-offs, with a growth fund also involved; a hydrogen-diesel startup was the first company funded under it in August.
Profile of Competitive Foods Australia founder Jack Cowin covering Hungry Jack's growth, his Domino's chairmanship and share purchases, overseas investments, and the 1968 raise that launched his fast-food empire.
Main Sequence reflects on Maxwell Plus, an early machine-vision healthcare bet it made in 2017 and later wound up, with founder and investor each sharing candid go-to-market and hiring lessons from the failure.
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Visibuild, a Melbourne-based construction technology company, has raised A$6.6 million in a round led by Skip Capital with other unnamed backers, to grow its site-checking software business.
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Manufacturing roundup: Monash shares 3D-printing guidelines for blind students; MGA Thermal gains syndicate investment atop ARENA funding; UniSA touts a natural obesity treatment; Sparc Technologies signs an MoU with CLP Group.
Business lender Shift has named Praveenesh Pala, previously CFO at Tyro Payments, as its Chief Financial Officer with immediate effect, bringing two decades of financial services experience as the company scales.
Battery recycler Iondrive completed a $6.1 million share placement to fund a pilot plant for its deep eutectic solvent recycling process; proceeds may partly fund acquiring the University of Adelaide technology.
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Western Australia's government has awarded $736,157 to twelve startups across its Innovation Booster and Commercialisation Bridge grant programs, with recipients spanning cattle health tech, space monitoring and skincare.
The children's magic-kit maker paused new orders to clear a Black Friday backlog, after a VIP email campaign lifted sales and a Shark Tank appearance yielded a $400,000 handshake deal from Maxine Horne.
Perth VC Purpose Ventures led My Mirror's $4 million round for its telehealth psychology marketplace, with Roger Allen among backers; funds target product development and New Zealand expansion. SpacetoCo raised $2 million.
Jelix's investment note explains why its fund joined NRN's oversubscribed $4.3m raise ahead of its Series A, covering the startup's solar financing model, rapid revenue growth, and market opportunity.
Jelix Ventures explains its follow-on backing of edtech firm Inquisitive's AUD 6.5 million Series A extension, with Premier Capital Partners leading, and recounts founder Tim Power's edtech track record.
DroneShield has appointed four seasoned national-security figures — van Haren, Osley, McLachlan and Lam-Evans — to strategy, advisory and government-relations roles as the counter-drone company scales.
Weekly funding roundup covering eight local companies that together banked $80m, topped by twin $17m Series Bs at Safewill and Fresho, plus Celosia's $16.75m Series A and five smaller rounds.
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Profile of Lisa Sarago, who leads Land on Heart Foundation, covering AI kiosks for remote communities under a $1.5 million government contract and Indigenous voices being shut out of the tech sector.
Breakthrough Victoria has launched a fellowship offering graduate founders pre-seed convertible-note backing capped at $150,000 each from a $7.5 million pool, aiming to create as many as 50 companies from Victorian university research.
Hostplus has tipped an additional A$125 million into the deep-tech fund IP Group runs, taking its overall backing to A$435 million across companies spun out of Australian universities.
Technology group Cohort plc has bought Australian satellite communications maker EM Solutions, its biggest purchase yet, with the local leadership team staying on and extra research and market support planned.