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Publisher's post about a venture firm multiplying its money thirteen-fold on one startup bet; the page also carries linked reports of Eucalyptus's $1.6 billion sale and Vaxxas naming David Peacock chief executive.
Perth fitness equipment maker Vitruvian has raised $21.8 million from existing backers, extending its 2022 Series A after two earlier seed rounds, with the money earmarked for product development.
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A Startupbootcamp profile of climate tech firm BOOM, whose software streamlines building electrification, covering its growth, a home-electrification pilot with a bank, and past backing from Boundless Earth.
Blackbird announces it led Clove's US$2.75 million pre-seed round. Founders Anna Guerrero and Sam Killin, formerly of Canva, are building a recipe creation and discovery platform ahead of a beta launch.
Hydration-tracking startup Omni Biotech, based in Perth, has completed a $300,000 pre-seed round from Skalata Ventures to develop phone- and wearable-based hydration monitoring, founders Will Poot and Zac Farrow announced at West Tech Fest.
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Bupa's eco-Disruptive program funds six Australian and New Zealand sustainability startups to pilot health and planet solutions; past winner Cassava Bags now supplies the insurer with its biodegradable bags.
Interview with Code Like A Girl founder Ally Watson on 2023's challenges — a federal grant, loyal partners, burnout — and 2024 plans for a new business-to-business product.
Breakthrough Victoria puts $2 million into Cyban's $6.25 million Series A round with Significant Early Venture Capital and InterValley Ventures, backing the Melbourne company's non-invasive brain oxygen monitor.
Straand, an Australian scalp-care startup, has landed $4 million from Unilever Ventures and the Harvey family office, on top of a $2 million pre-seed round, to fund its global retail expansion.
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Profile of Startupbootcamp alumni Liquidstar, which has launched pay-per-use battery hire and water sales in Djibouti alongside USAID and the local energy ministry, and is seeking backers for a $500,000 pilot.
KordaMentha controllers, appointed by creditor 1Venture, now control collaboration software firm LiveTiles and are weighing sale or recapitalisation options, with ASX trading halted and an earlier Bigtincan takeover offer lapsed.
French energy company EDF has committed €10 million to back Vast Renewables' concentrated solar plans across Australia, adding to earlier government grants for its plants and an agreed-but-unclosed Nasdaq listing deal with Nabors' SPAC.
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LaunchVic profiles Nutromics, a wearable diagnostic patch maker whose co-founders joined the 30X30 scaleup program; the piece recalls a $2 million government grant and over US$14 million raised to date.
Roundup of eight local raises totalling roughly $81.5 million: generative AI, sustainable packaging, VR medical training, optical radar, drinks, preventive health and wholesale retail software.
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Neumann Space will adapt its thruster for a Spire satellite using Commonwealth funding secured via the Australian Space Manufacturing Network, and has finished early space trials of its drive aboard a Skykraft satellite.
CSIRO has picked twelve deep-tech teams, mostly from Australian universities, for the eighth edition of its ON Accelerate commercialisation program starting in February 2024.
Vantari VR, which trains doctors in virtual reality, has closed a $7 million pre-Series A led by Co:Act Capital; the article recalls earlier grants, an Epic Games award and a Slingshot accelerator cohort.
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AuManufacturing reports the CSIRO-linked satellite startup Quasar unveiling digital multibeam ground stations, recalling its 2021 seed raise, a NSW Physical Sciences Fund grant and a Defence Innovation Hub contract.
Advanced Navigation received a $306,631 grant from the Australian Department of Defence's Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority program to develop local photonic chip manufacturing; its Boreas X90 will fly on a Space Machines orbital vehicle.
Sydney AI platform Leonardo.Ai has completed a Series A on top of its seed round, taking total backing past $47 million from Blackbird, Side Stage Ventures, Samsung Next, Smash Capital and TIRTA Ventures.
Profile of Caitlin Zotti, who became Pin Payments' co-CEO, covering her merchant background, serving small businesses, gender diversity challenges in fintech, and advice for aspiring founders.
Consortium ELO2, co-led by EPE and Lunar Outpost Oceania, reveals a prototype rover that could become Australia's first Moon rover, developed under the Australian Space Agency's Trailblazer program for a possible NASA Artemis mission.
Aviation startup AMSL Aero has named ex-Navy commander Max York as its top executive, with founders Andrew Moore and Siobhan Lyndon shifting to engineering and operations duties ahead of a planned 2024 capital raise.
Profile of Pendula, whose AI-driven platform personalises upselling for telcos and insurers, as it prepares a takeover offer for ASX-listed Whispir, whose board urged rejecting Soprano Design's bid.
Leonardo.Ai, a Sydney-based AI art platform, has raised $31 million US from Blackbird, Samsung Next and other backers, money it will put toward its enterprise push and hiring.
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AfterWork Ventures has promoted Jessy Wu, its first employee, to partner, with its founding partners praising her investment thinking, her advocacy work, and her role in building the firm's portfolio.
Toowoomba livestock equipment maker Leicht's CIA is adding robotic welding and laser cutting with a Queensland rural development grant, expecting efficiency gains and up to six new roles.
Australian fintech Zeller has launched Corporate Cards, adding expense management features such as instant card creation, budget controls and real-time visibility, with a free trial for customers until April 2024.
A profile of PowerTec, the battery-systems company Michael Jansen founded in 2014, covering its grid projects, an award-winning trial, ARENA-backed work, and ambitions in a market it values at hundreds of millions.
UniSA, SMR Australia and VPG Innovation are collaborating under the iLAuNCH Trailblazer programme to develop additively manufactured freeform optics for satellites, with a space demonstration planned.
The University of Melbourne's SpIRIT gamma-ray nanosatellite has launched, with Australian Space Agency grants of nearly $7 million supporting the project alongside Italian and local industry partners.
Blackbird shares a six-month progress update on its push to back more women and non-binary founders, covering pipeline data, program outcomes, targets and bias-reduction changes to its investment processes.
Profile of PaySquad, a fintech startup letting groups split purchases at checkout, and its entry into Startupbootcamp Australia's Sustainable Fintech Accelerator Program for mentorship and networks.
Profile of climate tech startup Ubiquitherm, which is developing nanomaterial-based temperature control, covering its origin story, its co-founders' backgrounds, and their acceptance into the Startmate accelerator.
Weekly roundup of funding rounds at eleven Australian startups, including a $28 million Series B, a $14 million raise paired with an acquisition, and a neural-implant company appointing a new chief executive.
Future Group has acquired Verve Super, a super fund aimed at women, with terms undisclosed; the piece also recalls earlier raises by Verve and by Future Super.
InterEarth, a Western Australian biomass carbon storage venture, has drawn investment from Fund WA — its third deal — alongside Counteract and Foxglove Capital, and is working with Nasdaq-owned carbon registry Puro.earth.
Platform Zero, a Melbourne marketplace for surplus supermarket produce, won the Accelerator for Enterprising Women's 2023 Kickstarter Challenge and $30,000, with four other women-led startups each receiving $7,500 as runners-up.
Boutique venture capital and advisory shop Happenco has completed its debut fund at $12 million, most of which is already invested across a portfolio of early-stage companies.
Infinity Avionics leads a SmartSat CRC and ACT Government backed project with UNSW Canberra Space and Nominal Systems to build a twin neuromorphic camera for spotting and identifying objects in orbit.
Rich Data Co, an AI platform for bank lending decisions, has closed a $28 million Series B with Westpac and nCino leading, its first raise since a $15 million round in 2021.
AI lending-decision firm Rich Data Co has banked a $28m Series B co-led by Westpac and nCino, with BMYG reinvesting and Singapore's Octava Fund joining, to speed its North American push.
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Crowdfunding platform Birchal has opened a new raise on its own site, seeking $3 million; the piece recalls its 2022 raise, 2023's top platform raises and several CSF-funded failures and a listing.
Eaton Square says it acted for Extent Heritage, an archaeology and heritage consultancy, in the company's sale to RSK Australia, with principals Roger Collins-Woolcock and Mark Goodwin leading the mandate. No price disclosed.
US regulators cleared first-in-human testing of BiVACOR's total artificial heart; the OneVentures page also links earlier coverage and the Biomedical Translation Fund's investment in the device.
EnvisionVR, which makes virtual and augmented reality walkthroughs for off-the-plan property sales, has raised $2.585 million to fund international growth; its founder cites billions wasted on holding costs in Australian developments.
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Melbourne tax app maker TaxLeopard has bought Airtax, a PwC-born tax tool with tens of thousands of users, and is now seeking new funding.
Australian agtech startup Rainstick treats seeds and microbes with targeted electrical fields to lift germination and crop yields; cofounder Mic Black describes early trial results, university validation work, and the company's funding position.
Equity crowdfunding operator Birchal is courting investors for a new capital raise of its own, sized to demand; one live food-brand campaign sits close to target, and past platform raises are recalled.