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Analysis of Neuralink's first human implant, its clinical and ethical challenges, and the competitive threat posed by Melbourne brain-computer interface startup Synchron.
Profile of Bodd, a Melbourne maker of 3D body scanners for uniforms and apparel, covering its Bosch-built hardware, defence and police customers, university ties, scan-based revenues and roughly $8 million raised to date.
Four Australian medtech companies have received a share of $3.25 million through the ANDHealth+ program, with the money aimed at clinical milestones and global expansion.
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AMSL Aero has landed its first civilian customer, Aviation Logistics, which ordered ten Vertiia aircraft with deposits and options for more; the aircraft maker earlier received an ARENA grant.
Artesian reports closing eight venture investments between October 2023 and January 2024, briefly describing each backed company; Zeta, building robotic packing technology, is the only one named.
Battery metals firm Australian Vanadium has merged with Technology Metals Australia, combining adjacent WA projects; the report recalls a $49m federal grant backing AVL and its subsidiary's first flow battery build.
Roundup of five Australian startups that secured new capital this week: Amber Electric's $29m Series C, ProcurePro's $6.15m, Yume's $2m seed, Alt.Leather's $1.1m seed, plus an undisclosed Tenacious Ventures investment in Nbryo.
Clean tech executive Sophia Hamblin Wang discusses her Davos panel appearance, urging climate action, and recalls MCi Carbon's 2021 federal government grant for its Newcastle carbon-to-materials demonstrator plant.
Access Group has bought ChangeGPS, an Australian provider of tax and compliance software for accounting firms, marking its fourth purchase of an accounting technology business in the Australia-New Zealand region in three years.
Canberra's first critical-industry grants send $135.8m to Bluescope for a Port Kembla furnace refit and $63.2m to Gupta's Liberty Steel for a low-carbon Whyalla furnace.
The VC firm's blog post recaps capital it has put into dozens of Australian climate startups and floats a second fund still at the planning stage, with nothing yet committed.
VSUN Energy has built its first residential vanadium flow battery in Western Australia, backed by $3.69m from the Modern Manufacturing Initiative, with another unit heading to Horizon Power.
Fintech firm Parpera has brought in Scott Bales, whose background spans Moven and Microsoft, as an advisor to speed its growth with sole traders and small businesses.
Tenacious Ventures' investment note explains its backing of Nbryo, an Australian startup speeding genetic improvement in beef and dairy via embryo technologies, and notes research funding from MLA and the Gates Foundation.
SunCable appoints two industry executives — Cameron Garnsworthy as Australian managing director and Martin Hay as chief development officer — to drive the onshore component of its Northern Territory baseload solar and storage project.
More than eleven Australian defence firms have contracted to build drone prototypes under ASCA's Sovereign UAS Challenge, with contracts worth a combined $1.21 million and demonstrations planned for April.
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Eleven companies will develop prototype drones for Defence's Sovereign UAS Challenge, run by ASCA, under contracts worth a combined $1.21 million, with demonstrations due in April.
Trade publication outlines FutureFeed's 2024 priorities for the asparagopsis seaweed additive business, noting industry investment and a research paper questioning the product's safety, which the company rejects.
Salesforce consultancy Cloudwerx has bought data and AI firm Lightfold, its first acquisition since CVC Emerging Companies invested in 2022.
Brisbane construction procurement software maker ProcurePro has secured $6.15 million in a Series A backed by AirTree and Leigh Jasper's Saniel Ventures, funding its push into the UK.
Melbourne biomaterials startup Alt. Leather closed a $1.1 million seed round, oversubscribed past its $750,000 target, with backing from Startmate, Wollemi Capital Group, the Alice Anderson Fund, The Austin Group and angels.
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Linktree adds scheduling and archiving tools plus video fetching. The Australian firm also hired a chief product officer and two AI leads, and last year bought Koji and Bento.
Melbourne food-waste startup Yume announced a A$2 million seed round from Investible's Climate Tech Fund, Launch VIC, Goodrich Group, Veolia and angel Pitzy Folk, bringing its total funding to A$7 million.
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Gaia EnviroTech, a regional Victorian organic waste and bioenergy company spun out of Gekko Systems, has received a $4.3m commitment from RFC Ambrian Funds Management's decarbonisation fund to support its expansion.
Roundup of January raises: Sonder took $16 million in a Series B extension, Ultra Violette landed $15 million from Aria Growth Partners, VAPAR added $5 million; Sonder also named a new chairman.
Quarterly update on Archer Materials: $21.5m cash and no debt, progress on quantum processor readout and Biochip multiplexing, plus a UNSW seed grant for reflectometry readout development.
Queensland's Made in Queensland program backed Rockhampton agrochemical producer Cirrus Ag with a grant of nearly $1 million, funding a granule plant, five jobs and new customers.
Profile of KidsXpress founder and CEO Margo Ward, whose charity helps children affected by trauma through creative therapies, with long-running support from The Tony Foundation and a federal government contribution.
Michigan is funding Fortescue's new Detroit plant with a US$12.7 million grant plus city tax incentives, where the Australian company will make batteries, chargers and electrolysers from 2025.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Iluka's refinery cost estimate, a biotech placement with a founder sell-down, a CEO appointment, a retirement, an R&D refund, a distribution deal, a CRC merger and Victorian grants.
Melbourne sunscreen brand Ultra Violette has taken its first outside capital, $15 million from US investor Aria Growth Partners, to enter North America; the piece also recalls Aesop and Bondi Sands exits.
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Linktree has brought on two audio AI specialists and a new product chief as it pushes into AI-driven commerce; the hires previously built sound-recognition startup Sonalytic, sold to Spotify in 2017.
Breakthrough Victoria announces a $12 million investment in Aravax, part of a $66 million Series B, advancing the biotech's peanut allergy immunotherapy into phase two trials in Australia and the United States.
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Roundup of manufacturing news: Namoi Cotton agrees a takeover scheme with Louis Dreyfus, Bio-Gene receives an R&D tax payment, SPEE3D and NIOA appoint executives, and Cicada opens workshop applications.
FBR announced a share placement of roughly $12.6 million, with Bell Potter managing and existing holder Brickworks among supporters, to fund working capital for its United States expansion alongside new CRH Ventures agreements.
Australian AI software firm VAPAR has secured $5 million in a PureTerra Ventures-led round to fund North American expansion, with Autodesk, Halma, Access Capital, Metagrove and Sprint Ventures also taking part.
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Square Peg's latest letter to investors reviews 2023 performance, recalls early bets on Canva and Airwallex, and introduces three hires across fundraising, public-markets investing, and people functions.
Square Peg's half-year letter to investors reviews 2023: fewer new bets, portfolio revenue milestones led by Canva, an AI investment thesis, conditions in Israel, and three new hires.
Commentary questioning Kiki's pivot from a sublet marketplace to a New York women's club, revisiting its 2023 seed raise and scrutinising Blackbird's investment judgment, governance and record on female founders.
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Roundup of January 2024 funding: Futurerent, Prota Therapeutics, National Renewable Network and Getmee together secured $94.5 million across debt, equity and a government grant, with investor details for each deal.
An analysis of Guzman Y Gomez's financials ahead of a rumoured IPO, covering its franchise economics, store buybacks and earlier raises and stake sales by TDM, Magellan and Aware Super.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup covering Agrotoken's Series A, raises by Mediterranean Food Lab, Better Juice, Burro, SeeTree and farm-ng, the MaxAB–Wasoko merger, v2food's brand acquisition, a Flashfood CEO change, and Drizly's shutdown.
Canva is turning a purchased Sydney office tower into its eighth global campus, with headcount up by more than a thousand; the piece recalls its fund for paying creators whose content trains its AI.
GoPro has agreed to acquire smart helmet maker Forcite Helmet Systems from Australian shareholders including Uniseed, with completion expected in the first quarter of 2024.
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Prota Therapeutics, a Melbourne biotech, has secured $32 million in equity and debt ahead of a Phase 3 trial of its peanut allergy therapy, with Singapore's SPRIM Global Investments leading the round.
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Sydney green-energy startup NRN has locked in a credit facility of up to $10 million from impact lender Catalytic Impact Capital to equip Australian homes with solar and storage.
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DroneShield's 2023 results hit record revenue and a first profit as war-driven demand for its counter-drone equipment surged, with strong cash receipts, a growing order backlog and expanded production planned in Sydney and Adelaide.
Australian laser-enrichment firm Silex Systems will bid to supply high-assay uranium fuel for next-generation reactors under a US Energy Department program; the piece also recalls its $120 million raise for the technology.
UTS has won a Space Research Network seed grant to collaborate with Sydney spacesuit startup Metakosmos on digitally optimising spacesuit fit for varied body types.
Podcast profile in which EMVision chief Scott Kirkland discusses the company's portable bedside brain scanner for stroke, its origins in Queensland research, grant backing, and plans for 2024 trials and a second device.