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Dicker Data has launched Advanced Logistics Services, a vendor-agnostic offering that receives, stores, consolidates and prepares equipment for partners' complex AI infrastructure deployments before coordinated delivery to site.
Legal services provider Consilio has bought Australian electronic-evidence firm icourts, the parties announced on September 1, terms undisclosed, as Consilio keeps expanding its local operations and AI offerings.
Actinogen Medical has signed a deal making shareholder Forrest Capital underwrite its unlisted options, guaranteeing the biotech roughly A$4.77 million before Alzheimer's trial results due in November.
Melbourne biotech Percheron Therapeutics has locked in $2.3 million through an institutional placement to fund a Vanderbilt Health trial of its HMBD-002 antibody in blood cancers.
AFR's Street Talk column reports ASX-listed additive manufacturing company Titomic is out seeking fresh equity, noting the manufacturer's $273 million market capitalisation.
Skalata Ventures, the seed fund and founder-training program led by Paul Little and Rohan Workman, is raising a second vehicle plus growth capital, reporting 30 investments and a 44 per cent IRR.
Touch Ventures' investment lifts commitments in Skalata's second fund beyond $25 million, with Afterpay co-founder Anthony Eisen investing personally; Touch also recently headed a $5.5 million raise for portfolio company Preezie.
Australian startup capital climbed 30% in early 2024 even as deal counts fell; Skalata Ventures topped investor activity with 13 participations, ahead of Blackbird and Investible.
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Skalata Ventures unveils its October 2021 seed intake of 13 startups, among them Ardacious and Strength By Numbers, and notes alumnus Preezie recently secured a $5.5 million Series A.
Profile of Skalata Ventures' Rohan Workman and Maxine Lee recounting the firm's founding, pandemic-era restructuring, $7 million raise, second fund deployment, and backing of Flux, Explorate and Preezie.
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Skalata announces a $5M allocation from Western Australia's $45M venture capital program to back local startups, recalls its existing WA investments, and plans a permanent WA base from 2025.
Victorian agtech firm Smart Paddock has raised a $1.7m seed round co-led by Breakthrough Victoria and Telstra's muru-D, with Skalata, Twynam and Little Group also investing; Telstra executive Jon Young Flores joins the board.
LaunchVic selected nine Victorian start-ups, including Preezie, for a mentoring bootcamp with executives from Atlassian, Uber, Dropbox, Seek and Canva.
Skalata Ventures uses its recent accolade as Australia's busiest early-stage investor to pitch founders on its hands-on, seed-specialist approach, arguing most VCs overpromise support and underdeliver.
Skalata's rebrand announcement explains its shift to year-round seed investing, wider cheque sizes and follow-on plans, recaps team hires including a Venture Partner and three associates, and notes portfolio companies' Series A raises.
Queensland government screen agency awards its third online production grants round, giving four local online series $50,000 each in production funding.
ARENA will spend up to $105.6 million on 20 solar research projects, including grants for Sunspence, Proa Energy and a University of Sydney tandem-cell team working with panel maker Unison Solar.
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Airwallex's inaugural Latitude 37 program has selected ten AI startups, each receiving $100,000 in non-dilutive cash alongside mentorship, connections and overseas travel.
Administrators Teneo warn the debt-laden developer Bathla Group could close within days without emergency funding; 350 staff are unpaid and the NSW government has declined a bailout.
ARENA has announced $105.6 million in grants for twenty solar research projects, mostly at Australian universities, plus two companies, targeting cheaper cells, modules and solar farm operations.
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REA Group has created its first chief AI officer role and appointed Thyago Liberalli, a long-serving Seek AI leader, to it; he reports to CTO Steve Maidment.
Australian grid-analytics startup GridSight raised a $36 million Series A led by Insight Partners, funding US expansion of its AI platform that helps utilities integrate renewables and modernise operations.
Apate.AI, which deploys conversational AI to disrupt phone fraud, has banked $11.4 million in seed backing from Lobby Capital and others, with proceeds earmarked for overseas growth and a US re-incorporation.
Canyon Resources shareholders question whether majority owner and bidder A2MP is connected to second-largest holder World Metal Alloys, which likely blocked a March capital raising.
An Australian infectious-disease incubator has selected six local biotechs to divide $10.48 million from its inaugural funding round, pairing non-dilutive cash with commercialisation support; the program is backed by an earlier MRFF grant.
Alterity Therapeutics has appointed MST Financial Services to backstop its expiring listed options ahead of a pivotal Phase 3 trial of its lead drug candidate for a rare neurodegenerative disorder.
Biotech Alterity Therapeutics has signed MST Financial to backstop an option-exercise fundraising, shoring up its cash position ahead of its Phase 3 work.
SmartAIConnect's homepage launches its TestaMark assurance platform, lists an April 2026 oversubscribed $1m seed round alongside the SuppliAssure launch, and names Terrence Liu Managing Director for Asia expansion.
A Western Australian drone-detection project run by UXMachines with the University of Western Australia has won 190,000 dollars under the state's Defence and Research Teaming grant program.
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Weekly roundup: Blackbird confirms a record fund close and Galileo reaches a first close, Genesis merges with Proudi, IREN secures massive debt, and several startups report raises, grants and program wins.
WeedRemeed, a drone-image weed detection platform built by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions with 2pi Software, becomes easier to use, backed by a government grant and ACEN Australia's social investment support.
Profile of a Sydney-based medical device maker developing a hydrogel condom, noting its human safety trial, manufacturing build-out, patent portfolio and grant backing.
Two raises reported: Superhero has banked $20m of a hoped $30m round led by Salter Brothers at a $176m valuation, while New Zealand crime-intelligence startup Azonic took NZ$1m in a Blackbird-led pre-seed.
Healthcare AI vendor Arintra has banked $25m in Series B funding, led by Define Ventures, as prior backers such as Peak XV Partners, Y Combinator and others return; total backing now stands at $51m.
MUFG's pension services arm has signed a binding deed to buy GROW Inc, which provides superannuation administration technology in Australia; completion awaits approvals, the price is undisclosed, and client fund HESTA backs the move.
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Results story: Tinybeans' completed Qeepsake acquisition lifted subscribers about 80% and drove positive EBITDA, Qeepsake's former CEO now leads Tinybeans, and further acquisitions are flagged.
Airtree is in a dispute with longtime backers over poor proceeds from its Canva stake and could not rally enough support to prolong its debut fund.
MUFG's pensions arm has struck a binding agreement to acquire Grow Inc, a Sydney-founded superannuation administration startup whose shareholders — among them HESTA, Five V Capital and AirTree Ventures — must still approve the deal.
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AVA Risk Group, an Australian security tech firm, took A$7 million in debt funding from Hale Capital and named Bryant Henson group CEO as annual revenue declined and its US push continued.
Main Sequence explains its decision to back Facet Amtech again alongside Uniseed in a $3 million round, funding the startup's water-based ammonia catalyst work and its first pilot plant.
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Blackbird is weighing an early sale of its Canva stake through continuation funds, while Airtree's longtime backers are pushing it to return profits; no deal has been done.
Melbourne pharma Clinuvel is weighing a restructure into a US holding company listed only on Nasdaq and an ASX exit, weeks after completing a Nasdaq ADS uplisting, alongside a tenth straight annual profit.
Queensland feedlot cattle are being swabbed for BRD bacteria to support AgriCureX's phage and genomics research into antibiotic alternatives, a project MLA co-funds, with a first trial planned for mid-2027.
Agtech firm AirAgri has released a WhatsApp channel for on-farm safety and biosecurity reporting, timed to National Biosecurity Week and enabled by Telstra's satellite-to-mobile expansion, with founder James Diamond explaining the adoption rationale.
YesPress profile of Amy Errett, who moved from banking and Maveron venture investing to launch hair-color brand Madison Reed, and later joined the True Ventures investment team.
US infrastructure investor DigitalBridge has agreed to acquire PLUS ES, a major Australian smart meter provider running about two million meters, via its managed vehicle, with the deal still awaiting regulatory approvals.
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DigitalBridge has reportedly been chosen as the leading bidder for Ausgrid's Plus Es, the largest holder of utility smart meters, in what would be the New York-listed investor's first major Australian deal.
Street Talk reports L Catterton is in exclusive due diligence to buy Byron Bay dog food brand Eureka Pet Co, which earlier this year brought in Miras Capital to seek a capital partner.
Mesoblast's yearly report shows revenue leaping on first-year American sales of Ryoncil, losses narrowing, and a US$125 million debt refinancing, with its spinal disc trial fully recruited ahead of 2027 data.
Edge Early Learning, a Brisbane childcare chain backed by HEAL Partners, Centennial Property Group and Normanby Capital, has gone into administration under KordaMentha following a rental standoff with Arena REIT, its landlord.