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Roundup of Australian manufacturing briefs: Nova Eye Medical banks $8m, Ridley buys Oceania Meat Processors, Orica sells Deer Park land for $260m, plus appointments, research projects and CSIRO program deadlines.
Australian accounts payable automation provider SpendConsole has entered the Middle East by opening a Dubai office, prompted by regional e-invoicing mandates and a newly signed major tea company customer.
Vast Renewables and Mabanaft have finalised A$40m in government funding for their SM1 green methanol plant at Port Augusta: up to A$19.48m from ARENA, up to €12.4m via Germany's HyGATE program.
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Queensland's QVCDF, managed by QIC, will fund five accelerator programs to ready over 160 local startups for venture capital investment across two years.
TechCrunch profiles Neara, an Australian startup whose AI models of electricity networks help utilities predict and manage extreme-weather risks, naming its investors and utility customers.
QVCDF money is going into Main Sequence to fund Queensland deep tech investing; the state government's extra $55 million takes the program to $130 million.
Canva's long-serving finance chief Damien Singh has left after nearly eight years, reportedly amid an internal inquiry, as the design software company eyes a possible public listing.
PV Industries, a battery-recycling consortium and 1414 Degrees win grants in the newest CRC round, covering panel recycling, battery materials recovery and hydrogen; KGM Services also enters the field with university backers.
Virescent Ventures and TRaCE will jointly back UNSW Founders' Climate 10x accelerator with $1.6m for local climate startups; successful applicants can get $120,000–$330,000 each, and expressions of interest open 12 April.
Queensland's government is committing $130 million across five venture firms — Antler, Five V Capital, Main Sequence, Mandalay and Salus — via a new fund to widen early-stage funding for local startups.
Diraq, a Sydney-based quantum computing startup, has raised a US$15 million Series A-2 extension led by Quantonation, with UNSW and John Higgins Family Investments participating, adding to US$20 million raised at its 2022 spin-out.
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Queensland's government has committed another $55 million to its VC fund, lifting its total outlay to $130 million; five firms including Antler and Main Sequence are set to benefit.
Australian vector search firm Marqo has banked US$12.5 million in a Series A headed by Lightspeed, with Blackbird, January Capital and an individual backer taking part, and is shifting its base to San Francisco.
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KPMG's half-yearly fintech report recorded a 76 percent drop in Australian fintech deal value for 2023, listing acquisitions of A2B and Stockspot and raises by Midkey, Rich Data Co and Lumi.
Birchal's co-founder and CEO argues in an opinion piece that letting customers invest alongside venture backers builds loyalty, pointing to past raises by Replit, Zero Co and Thriday as examples.
Salus Ventures' first fund has closed oversubscribed past its $40 million goal, with Queensland Investment Corporation's venture fund as cornerstone backer, targeting early-stage defence and dual-use technology.
Canva's finance chief Damien Singh has departed after eight years, with the company recruiting a CFO versed in public markets; the piece also recalls two secondary share sales, including Blackbird's $150 million stake sale.
OneVentures insights listing linking to coverage of Eucalyptus's $1.6b sale to a US-listed healthcare company and Vaxxas hiring a former Merck vaccines president as CEO.
Bugcrowd has raised $156.2 million in growth financing led by General Catalyst, Costanoa and Rally Ventures, with two investors joining its board, as the cybersecurity platform plans global expansion and possible acquisitions.
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Roundup: Nova Eye Medical banks $8 million for overseas growth, two Geelong firms each land $25,000 council grants, plus Austal ship trials, EOS's share jump, Vulcan Steel's profit fall and Orthocell's Singapore filing.
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Diraq has added $23 million to its Series A in a Quantonation-led round, with Higgins Family Investments and UNSW also taking part, on top of the $30.6 million raised earlier.
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Startupbootcamp Australia hires Tim Poskitt, formerly of Envestnet | Yodlee and illion, as its APAC fintech lead, to run its sustainable fintech accelerator and help steer its A$5 million fund.
Digital Alchemy, led by Regan Yan, has bought Salesforce consultancy AFDigital, which rebrands as Xenai Digital under CEO Pauline Pangan, keeping independent Australian operations.
Scalare Partners announces an investment in Circadian Health Innovations, whose wearable device guides healthier light habits, and two board additions.
Health insurer Bupa has rolled out a $20 million corporate venture vehicle, Bupa Ventures, for early-stage health startups in Australia; the article also recalls Cassava Bags winning Bupa's eco-Disruptive prize and equity crowdfunding.
Mike Cannon-Brookes' investment vehicle Grok Ventures has hired Tan Kueh, ex-Macquarie, UBS and BlackRock, as CEO, joining CIO Jeremy Kwong-Law, as it sharpens its strategy around climate investing.
Publisher's manufacturing roundup: Anagenics completes a $1.3m placement, Harvest B hires an NPD lead, Great Wrap launches a compostable wrap product, AICRAFT and GoMicro partner on agtech, and Transmutation wins a Telstra business award.
Federal grants roundup: 21 Cooperative Research Centres Projects awards worth $51 million in Round 15, with EQ Plastics, Optiscan Imaging and NEXSEN BioTech each receiving $3 million for product development.
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International Graphite has commissioned Australia's largest micronising plant at Collie in Western Australia, which will make graphite for battery anodes; the project received a $2 million state government grant.
Quantum computing firm SQC names Simon Segars as chair and Fiona Pak-Poy as director; the article also recalls its $83m seed round and $50.4m Series A.
Computer vision startup Visionary Machines brings in two ex-Collins Aerospace executives, Sonny Foster as CEO and Nick Gibbs as COO, to drive its commercial expansion, per a February 8 statement.
Accelerator Startupbootcamp Australia appoints Tim Poskitt, ex-Envestnet | Yodlee and illion, as managing director for APAC fintech, to run its sustainable fintech program backed by a A$5 million fund.
Weekly Australian deals newsletter: Amber Electric's Series C, Saltwater Games' seed round, a Q-CTRL grant, CarbonHQ pre-seed, Preplocal backing, Metcash's triple acquisition plus three other deals, and a new AirTree hire.
LaunchVic case study profiling Mobble, a farm-management software startup whose founders grew it from bootstrapped beginnings, highlighting a fifty-thousand-dollar AgTech grant that funded its Mobble Connect feature.
Round 3 of the Boosting Female Founders Initiative has granted $11.6 million across 34 women-led startups; the article lists each recipient, its project and its grant amount.
Round three of a federal grant program backs 34 women-led startups, with individual awards listed from $133,740 to $480,000 drawn from an $11.6 million pool run by DISR.
Aura's column traces family offices' rise into major capital players, their philanthropy and succession challenges, and notes the closure of its Shippit co-investment vehicle plus Dan Annan's appointment as Distribution Director.
Roundup of seven Australian startups landing fresh capital and grants: Gaia EnviroTech's $4.3 million deal with RFM, four medtechs sharing $3.25 million via ANDHealth+, Q-CTRL's UK quantum prize, and CarbonHQ's $600,000 pre-seed.
Kiki co-founder Toby Thomas-Smith apologised for the startup's girls-only club announcement in New York, while Blackbird general partner Samantha Wong defended the firm's earlier investment and addressed venture capital's gender imbalance.
Mining robotics startup Jevons Robotics, based in Perth, has taken an undisclosed investment from vehicle maker Ausroad Manufacturing; it earlier won a $1 million grant for its ROEVA vehicle.
CarbonHQ, a climate startup cofounded by Allen Fan and Eugene Datsky, has secured a $600,000 pre-seed round from Galileo Ventures and Investible to build a platform improving transparency in carbon credit projects.
Redflow's zinc-bromine flow batteries chosen for a fourth Californian grid project, a tribal microgrid recommended for a multimillion-dollar grant, extending the Brisbane manufacturer's run of US energy storage wins.
Blackbird partner Samantha Wong responds to recent press about Kiki, explaining why the firm backed the subletting marketplace, how it supports founders through pivots, and its work on funding gender diversity.
Profile of a Brisbane predictive-biometrics wearable maker courting NASA's Artemis III mission, alongside news that it and 34 other Queensland exporters received Go Global Export Program grants.
Payments firm Fat Zebra has acquired open-banking platform Adatree, price undisclosed, with all staff moving across; the piece also recalls Adatree's 2021 seed round and the sector's slow consumer-data-right progress.
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Brisbane EV charging maker EVOS Energy receives Queensland government backing to take its chargers into India; the profile also recalls its $5 million Series A and traces its growth.
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Perth food-tech company Whole. took out the Shiseido Award at a Japanese space-ideas contest for its WINX ingredient-processing technology, and the piece recalls its 2023 seed round backed by Artesian and GRDC.
Ten Australian defence manufacturers, including DroneShield and Advanced Navigation, have received federal matching grants totalling $3.4 million under two Defence capability programs, as announced by Minister Pat Conroy.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Gaia EnviroTech's post-investment board meeting with RFC Ambrian, Arafura's chief executive change, Adbri's maintenance shutdown, BioCarbon's relocation, and a federal grants round opening.
German energy group 1Komma5 has bought South Australian solar and air conditioning business Kozco Energy Group, its third purchase in Australia, after earlier buys Natural Solar and Solaray Energy.
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