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A women's health startup in Australia has collected $1 million from Arcanys Ventures and Techstars to build its sleep-worn cycle tracker, with more funding sought and an application lodged for LaunchVic's Alice Anderson Fund.
TEN13 announces Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineering leader formerly at Meta, as its first Venture Partner, reinforcing the firm's AI investing focus; its early bets include Rockfish Data, Arintra and Qsic.
Case study of farm-safety software firm AirAgri, built by brothers Paul and James Diamond, recalling a $50,000 government grant and pre-accelerator support that funded its wearable-device R&D.
Subletting app Kiki relaunches its original service months after a controversial switch to a members-only women's club in New York, with its main backer Blackbird publicly endorsing the move.
Mesoblast says the US FDA has confirmed its clinical data now supports refiling the remestemcel-L biologics application for pediatric patients, with resubmission planned next quarter; shares rose on the announcement.
Sydney web3 game studio Illuvium raised a $12 million Series A led by King River Capital to build interconnected blockchain titles, lifting total funding to $60 million ahead of upcoming game releases.
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Sports media firm Forever Network, known for Basketball Forever, has secured a $6 million Series A with Yolo Investments leading, to fund American expansion, extra sports verticals and gamified products.
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Canva has bought creative software maker Affinity, once Serif, for a reported US$380 million (A$582 million), gaining about three million users and a 90-person team and sharpening its position against Adobe.
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Ten13's blog announces Sophie Robertson's promotion to partner after three years leading investor relations there, alongside a Q&A tracing her move from investment banking and a Startmate fellowship into venture capital.
A student-run venture fund launches alongside research showing university founders have attracted backing topping $1.2 billion, though women-led teams receive a small share; Blackbird is the most active backer.
Startup Daily's The Ask column pitches Maslow, a Melbourne fintech whose founders are seeking crowdfunding on Birchal to build a subscription platform selling financial services without profit margins.
ARENA grants $2.85 million toward Horizon Power's trial of Redflow zinc-bromine and BASF sodium-sulphur batteries at two remote Western Australian microgrids, within a $5.7 million storage project.
Queensland's Advance Queensland initiative has granted more than $5.5 million to 56 small businesses across two programs, with Rainstick and Carbonaught among recipients; Carbonaught also recently won a US government grant.
Tidal Ventures profiles team member Kieran O’Neill, who moved from KPMG and London banking through co-founding Hometime into the firm’s seed investing team in 2022.
Blackbird has hired On Deck co-founder David Booth for its New Zealand investing team in an EIR role; the post recounts his career and On Deck's roughly $100 million raise.
Australian consortium ELO2 has shown its Moon rover prototype in Adelaide, competing to collect lunar soil for NASA, with support under the national space agency's Trailblazer program.
Breakthrough Victoria defends its spending and investment record against critics urging its abolition, pointing to portfolio companies, university partnerships and recent backing of startups including Aravax.
Culture Amp is acquiring Orgnostic, a Belgrade-founded people analytics startup, for an undisclosed sum; its cofounders join as vice presidents and a combined People Analytics product is planned for later in 2024.
The renewable energy agency funds an 18-month study by Lochard Energy into storing hydrogen underground in Victoria, the second stage of its H2RESTORE project to provide seasonal storage for the national grid.
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Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: OncoSil Medical's capital raising, an NT grant for a water monitoring project, GoZero's preferred supplier appointment, Micro-X's first Argus order, Aurora Labs' defence work, and Monash waste-recycling research.
A weekly roundup detailing five raises across Australia and New Zealand: Marmalade, Cauldron, Prophet, Hola Health and Buddy, naming amounts, lead backers and founders.
ASX-listed Electro Optic Systems has announced a $40 million equity raise via an underwritten placement and share purchase plan, aiming to capitalise on defence and space demand after record 2023 revenue.
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Lithium Australia has started piloting its LieNA lithium processing technology at ANSTO's Sydney facility alongside Mineral Resources, with a future commercialisation venture planned and a 2021 research grant behind the project.
Breakthrough Victoria's media release marks three years, citing more than $300 million committed across direct investments, a fund, a grant and university partnerships, and discusses its Aravax and Seer Medical investments.
EnergyLab's debut Decarb Debrief reports record 2023 fundraising by its alumni, led by Infravision, Sicona and Renewable Metals, as the accelerator grew to seven programs serving 67 startups.
AuManufacturing briefs: Envirostream's LG recycling deal, Birdon's new harbour vessels, Vitrolife orders for Memphasys, Hazer's oversubscribed share plan, Cyclopharm's first US scans, an MGA job opening, Moderna fellowships and a UOW rover entry.
Perth telehealth firm Hola Health has banked $4.5 million in a pre-Series A round led by M8 Ventures with FundWA and angels; M8 partner Emily Rich takes a Hola Health board seat.
Defence electronics maker REDARC has hired Craig Inns as sales general manager, charging him with lifting the South Australian business into a Tier 2 supplier role for the national defence industry.
Deputy says it is now worth more than A$1.1 billion after US staffing group Express Employment Professionals put in A$37 million, making the Sydney workforce-tech firm Australia's newest unicorn.
Hola Health, a Perth-based on-demand telehealth and pharmacy delivery provider, has banked $4.5 million at pre-Series A with M8 Ventures heading the round, FundWA and angels also in; Emily Rich joins the board.
F5 Collective, a fund backing women founders, has hired Bree Kirkham, until recently a general partner at Flying Fox Ventures, as its chief commercial officer to build corporate partnerships.
ARENA grants nearly $1.7 million to Aboriginal Clean Energy Partnership, a First Nations joint venture, funding phase one of a feasibility study for a renewable hydrogen and ammonia project in the East Kimberley.
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SME invoicing startup Marmalade has banked $16 million in a round that Blue Stamp Company led, with existing backer Paloma Capital also taking part, taking lifetime capital past $32 million.
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ASX-listed Dubber takes a $5 million bridging loan from Alex Waislitz's Thorney vehicle Tiga Trading after $26.6 million went missing, while an equity raise is planned and ASIC investigates.
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Partner-content memo in Antler's investor series profiles pre-seed startup Factory AI, whose AI platform predicts manufacturing equipment failures; covers founders, Antler's backing, customers like Bega, and revenue targets.
An Australian precision fermentation maker has banked a Horizons Ventures-led series A to grow its continuous fermentation capacity, with SOSV, In-Q-Tel and Main Sequence also backing the round.
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Marketing technology company Prophet has raised a seed round of $5 million from individual investors including Antony Catalano, Matt Rockman and Cheuk Chiang, with no venture capital involved.
Newsletter highlights Australian startup funding including Jet Zero, Kismet, VaultEscrow, Jupiter Ionics, ChronoForge, FLK it over, Anni, and Bae Juice, alongside M&A activity.
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LaunchVic has selected ten scaleups for the last intake of its 30X30 mentoring program, which pairs their leaders with mentors from unicorn companies; the 20 earlier participants have together raised over $98.7 million.
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Roundup of seven Australian startups whose raises total $11.8 million, spanning cybersecurity, proptech, seaweed, drinks, antiques, campervan housing and outdoor advertising, plus a government grant to Fremantle Seaweed and the shutdown of Voly.
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Queensland's Backing Female Founders initiative is taking fresh applications across two grant streams and has widened co-investment fund eligibility; Annuo MedTech and Stripped Supply were the fund's first recipients.
Canberra announces up to $840m for Arafura's Northern Territory rare earths project, while Liontown secures $550m in bank debt for its Kathleen Valley mine, with CEFC and Export Finance Australia among lenders.
Anna.Money, a UK business banking and tax app, has bought Sydney spend-management startup Cape, its first acquisition, with Cape's founder Ryan Edwards-Pritchard to head its Australian operations.
Evergreen Services Group has bought Centrered, a Canberra IT services firm, its first Australian acquisition. Sydney Hockett led talks with Centrered CEO Adele Pickering; no price was disclosed.
Victoria's first funding round under its expanded neighbourhood battery program backs 25 batteries across six projects, with AusNet and its Mondo arm taking the largest share and several community energy groups also funded.
Roundup of brief manufacturing news: Wide Open Agriculture offloading Dirty Clean Food to its CEO's company, Osteopore launching a shareholder offer, an EMVision grant milestone, executive moves, a diving-training partnership and university scholarships.
Two Canberra cyber security firms won a $6.4 million federal grant through CRC-P to build Project DFNDR, a managed security and threat intelligence platform for small businesses, alongside the University of Canberra.
TEN13 newsletter reporting Chipper Cash's US$150m unicorn round, Mr Yum's Tiger Global-led Series A, and new investments in Payhippo, Preezie, Pushas and Heaps Normal, plus portfolio updates.
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Ten13's year-end post recaps nine new portfolio additions, follow-on support for existing holdings, the Mr Yum and Me&U merger, Go1's Blinkist acquisition, Smileyscope's FDA clearance, and community events.
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