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FundWA has backed Perth medtech VitalTrace as the second deal from its debut fund. The biosensor startup's co-founders took out a 2021 WA Innovator of the Year award.
Table-ordering rivals Mr Yum and me&u will combine in a stock deal, with Mr Yum's chief executive leading the merged business; earlier raises by both are recapped.
Spend management firm Weel has launched Express Expense Completion, which restricts card use until overdue expense reports are completed, lifting receipt collection by 37% within a day, per customers quoted.
AML3D has won an order to lease its ARCEMY 2600 metal 3D printer to Laser Welding Solutions, a Texas manufacturer of submarine parts for the US Navy.
Startupbootcamp Australia profiles Loop Refine, an EnergyNext 2023 cohort member developing filtration membranes and software to cut energy use in wastewater treatment; fundraising is named only as a future goal.
Simon Anderson discusses building school engagement platform Notis over a decade with overseas funding, and his newer social video app Swayz, on Perth's Startup West podcast.
Hospitality tech firm Ordermentum bought marketplace Foodbomb and closed a $16m round with existing and new backers, valuing the combined group above $100m.
In his column, shark Sabri Suby reviews the week's Shark Tank Australia pitches: a highchair accessory, a fashion label and a children's music group secure deals; a teaching AI tool leaves empty-handed.
Startupbootcamp Australia presents the nine ventures in its EnergyNext 2023 accelerator cohort, outlining each one's focus and the program's remaining weeks before an October Demo Day at SXSW Sydney.
Profile of BioticsAI, launching AI software that spots missed fetal abnormalities in pregnancy ultrasounds and auto-generates reports, presenting at Startup Battlefield; it has raised pre-seed money from Techstars Boston, Blackbird and Startmate.
Telstra Purple, Telstra's services arm, appoints ex-BT security executive Luke Barker to lead its newly formed security division, shortly after the telco announced a cyber security technology alliance with Palo Alto Networks.
Zip Co has named Gordon Bell, a financial services veteran with stints at Westpac and Barclays, as its next Group CFO from 2 October, replacing Martin Brooke who departs after nearly seven years.
Melbourne climate startup Climasens and its ClimateIQ partners have received a Google.org Impact Challenge grant, reported at $8 million, funding expansion of the hazard-mapping platform to cities including New York, Phoenix, Berlin and Barcelona.
Startup Daily covers Startmate's Winter 2023 accelerator intake of 13 startups, the accelerator's reported fund performance, its backer returns, and an upcoming Demo Day alongside SXSW Sydney.
Style Arcade, which builds analytics tools for retailers, has expanded overseas after an $8m Series A led by Acadian Software, a US firm; co-founder Michaela Wessels has moved to New York.
Melbourne climate-risk startup Climasens has received a $5 million Google.org award to develop its ClimateIQ tool with New York's Urban Systems Lab, supporting expansion into the US and EU.
Atturra has lifted its bid for Cirrus Networks to $0.063 a share, an equity value of $58.6 million, with the target's board and biggest holders backing the revised deal.
Startup hub Fishburners appoints two new directors, replacing a departing member now leading a screen agency and another whose term ended, amid funding uncertainty around its Sydney premises.
LaunchVic profiles EV charging firm JET Charge, covering its 2022 Series B raise backed by RACV and other investors and its place in the second 30X30 scaleup intake.
CRE Analyst examines Greystar's pitchbook for its Equity Partners XI vehicle, noting $1.2 billion committed toward a $3 billion goal, plus the strategy, track record and proposed terms.
Two new Western Australian syndicates, West Tech Investor Network and VentureX Capital, have unveiled debut deals via the Aussie Angels platform, eyeing Procuracon and HeyLady; an earlier $100,000 outlay across three startups is recalled.
Sydney social enterprise Scriibed wins NSW government backing to upskill domestic violence survivors, while its not-for-profit Banksia Academy receives $250,000 from the Paul Ramsay Foundation; four other social enterprises also funded.
Flower-farming platform Grown Not Flown's cofounder has taken out AgriFutures' 2023 Rural Women's Award and its grant money, with the national runner-up and other finalists named and 2024 applications now open.
Profile of BindiMaps, a Sydney accessibility wayfinding app founded in 2017, covering its SheStarts grant origins, early funding, customers across Australia and overseas, and expansion plans.
AgFunder's GROW accelerator picked ten companies for its fourth cohort; the three profiled — AgriFi, Invest Inya Farmer and DHF Platforms — connect farmers in Asia Pacific with new sources of finance.
Recap of a Shark Tank Australia episode: ice-mould maker Contour Cube and bushfire device Fire Halo struck investment deals with the Sharks, while two other pitches left without backing.
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Tesserent appoints Andrew Shea, long-time head of a construction training provider, to lead its Academy training division, and recalls the division's $5.8 million January purchase of ALC Group.
Australian X-ray firm Micro-X is developing self-service airport security screening for US checkpoints, backed by Homeland Security funding including a July contract worth as much as $14 million.
AfterWork Ventures explains why it co-led transport ticketing and payments startup tikpay's pre-seed round with Black Nova Ventures, Investible, Func Ventures and Metagrove Ventures, citing the founders' deep sector expertise.
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Flagship, whose software helps retailers optimise in-store merchandising, has raised a $2 million seed round led by Tidal Ventures, with Afterpay cofounder Nick Molnar, brother of founder Simon, among the backers.
Shark Tank investor Dr Catriona Wallace has put $125,000 into Yaala Sparkling, an Indigenous-owned maker of non-alcoholic native-ingredient drinks, after Tara Croker's television pitch; the funds will boost production and distribution.
Sydney app Upstreet, which gave shoppers fractional shares for their spending, is closing; the founders gave no reason, 18 months after a Wattle Hill-led seed round and a lifetime raise near $5 million.
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Home loan marketplace Joust has cut sales staff and launched a process to find a buyer or partner, aiming to steady the business and fund future growth amid tough conditions.
Tidal Ventures reflects on leading Flagship's seed round, describing retail market tailwinds, the visual merchandising product, founder Simon Molnar's background, and its earlier investments in Shippit, Search.io, Carted and Drive Yello.
Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, via a Grok-linked joint venture with Quinbrook, has completed the buyout of SunCable out of administration; the article also recalls earlier raises and names an interim CEO.
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VentureCrowd and Pitch VC are launching a white-label platform that lets newcomers run their own startup funds; Pitch VC's two founders join VentureCrowd's leadership to build it.
Twelve startups, eleven American and one Australian, will join the newest cohort of Techstars' thirteen-week aerospace program, run alongside two US space bodies.
Western Australia's government named nine health and medical start-ups, among them EarFlo, as recipients of seed funding totalling $4.3 million from its FHRI Fund Innovation Seed Fund.
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Tenacious Ventures explains why it led a pre-seed round for weed-control startup Azaneo, with Agfunder and IP Group investing, and describes the company's chemical-free pulsed electric field technology.
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WA venture fund Purpose Ventures stages a discounted founders' dinner on preparing for investment, backed by a state industry fund program and featuring WA founders; the event has since sold out.
MedTech Actuator alumni are behind Synthesis Capital, a new venture fund courting investors for up to $100m to back young health technology companies across Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
Seven Australian manufacturers, including Advanced Navigation and Quantx Labs, have received federal grants under two Defence capability programs, with individual awards from $150,000 to $830,665 supporting projects across four states.
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Startupbootcamp Australia unveils the 22 scale-ups joining its EnergyTech Hub 2023 program, describing each company's energy and sustainability focus, and thanks LaunchVic as program partner.
Ten Victorian manufacturers collect grants worth up to $50,000 apiece — $412,000 in all — from the state government's Low Carbon Manufacturing Grants Program to help them enter low-emission and renewable supply chains.
SmartCompany recaps a Shark Tank Australia episode in which 13-year-old Lucas Lane and his mother Breanna won $75,000 for their men's nail polish venture Glossy Boys from three of the show's investor-panellists.
Credit and payments platform Shift has hired Stephanie Olliver into a newly created General Counsel role, bringing legal experience from PayPal, Nano Digital Home Loans, Macquarie Group and Morgan Stanley.
Wollongong BNPL unicorn Scalapay has created a founders' scholarship, granting $10,000 plus an incubator residency; first recipient is Abbl, a brewery software venture started by the couple behind Five Barrel Brewing.
Carnegie Clean Energy has secured European funding through a tender win for a CETO wave unit off Spain's Basque coast; the article also recalls earlier MoorPower demonstrator support.
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Voluntary administrators now control Nourish Foods, the business behind Whole Kids, after a funding attempt fell short, and interested backers or buyers must come forward by mid-September.