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Queensland Pacific Metals reports pilot-scale nickel sulfate production meeting offtake specs at SGS Canada, supporting its Townsville refinery project, and recalls a $5 million federal critical minerals grant received in May.
SafetyCulture closed a $34 million round with Morpheus Ventures, Marbruck Investments and Index Ventures, lifting its valuation to $2.7 billion. Bigger investor and employee share sales are still only plans.
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Partner content profiling Gelomics, a Brisbane biotech whose 3D tissue culture technology now reaches over 200 labs internationally, crediting a Queensland government export grant with helping it win its first Japanese customers.
ARENA announces a $20.9 million grant to Wollongong hydrogen electrolyser startup Hysata for a commercial-scale demonstration, with Stanwell contributing $3 million and a site; earlier HyGATE funding is recalled.
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Breakthrough Victoria announces a $148,000 pre-seed investment in Geelong maker Zena Sport, whose protective vests guard female athletes against breast injury; Carbine, Smorgon Family and Euphemia also backed the first external round.
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Vast has brought in CYD to begin early engineering on its VS1 solar thermal project in Port Augusta, simulating the storage tanks digitally; the piece also recaps earlier ARENA backing.
Perth firm Dark Stry has launched a self-guided audio road-trip app for the drive to the Pinnacles, developed with a 2022 SPUR Location grant and help from Landgate.
Weekly roundup of six Australian startups raising a combined $45.1 million across energy, e-commerce, design software, cloud security, climate tech and insurtech, plus Awayco's acquisition of Barcode Solutions and nVest winning SmartCompany's Pitch.
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Feature on Australian manufacturing scaleups profiles The Hygiene Co, Harvest B and Gilmour Space, recounting past raises and founders' views on capital raising, ecosystems and government procurement, plus comment from Breakthrough Victoria.
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Solar developer Vast partners with Spanish engineering firm CYD to simulate molten salt thermal storage tanks for its VS1 project in South Australia, which holds an ARENA funding approval of up to $65 million.
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Kivera, a Sydney-founded cloud security startup now headquartered in New York, has raised a $5.1 million seed round with Round 13 Capital and General Advance leading, and last month hired a new CEO.
Alex Waislitz's Thorney vehicle steered an $11 million round into Awayco, which also bought Sydney point-of-sale firm Barcode Solutions; its chief Shanti Kumar now heads POSConnex, while founder Gideon Gut-Silverman keeps directing growth.
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Interview with Lisa Vincent on building e-learning platform HowToo alongside agency Savv-e, covering government grants, a 2021 raise, backing via Aliavia Ventures, and plans to expand into the US market.
Fintech Driva launches a multi-year partnership letting carsales shoppers see personalised finance options on private vehicle listings; the article also recalls Carthona Capital's earlier backing of the startup.
Cloud security company Kivera has raised a seed round to hire talent and expand overseas, drawing investment from two funds plus angel investors, and has appointed a new CEO while moving headquarters to New York.
Insurtech LifeBid has secured $700,000 from industry partners plus the Stride Group and opened a crowd-sourced funding campaign on Stride Equity's platform, the investor's first backing and first campaign.
Dark web monitoring company Cyble closed a Series B backed by Blackbird, King River and others, with the article recalling its earlier seed and Series A raises.
CRDC announces that an irrigation algorithm developed by University of Southern Queensland and CSIRO researchers has gone to Goanna Ag, which will fold it into its GoField service to guide cotton growers' first irrigation.
Founder-backed syndicate Side Stage Ventures has become a $15 million seed fund, with LocalGlobe and several founders as limited partners, three startups already backed, and portfolio company Joyn acquiring event firm Arinex.
SmartCompany reports Side Stage Ventures has completed a $15 million first close of its debut fund, backed by founders of Airtasker, Linktree and Go1 plus LocalGlobe, targeting $30 million and already backing early startups.
Feature arguing Australia needs more scaleup manufacturers, featuring interviews with Gilmour Space, Breakthrough Victoria and Harvest B, set against the nation's declining economic complexity ranking.
Weekly roundup reporting eight Australian startups together raised $85.6 million across mining tech, cybersecurity, waste, energy storage, health and micromobility, plus a Google.org grant for Global Sisters.
AgFunderNews' monthly roundup of agrifood leadership changes: a new CFO at Little Leaf Farms, co-CEOs at Incredo, Chobani's new CMO, plus appointments, departures and layoffs across sector companies.
Melbourne medtech Navi Medical Technologies has raised $2.4 million to develop its device guiding catheter placement in newborns, led by Breakthrough Victoria with Medtech Actuator and Artesian VC also participating.
The NSW government has engaged Cicada Innovations, via a $7.8m grant, to operate a Westmead incubator supporting early-stage medical technology ventures; the story also recalls Allergan's $350m buyout of Elastagen.
Cicada Innovations is opening a health-tech incubator at Sydney's Westmead precinct with NSW government grant backing, working with Brandon Capital and Brandon BioCatalyst to help researchers commercialise medical discoveries.
Deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations is opening a health-focused facility at Sydney's Westmead precinct with Investment NSW backing, working with Brandon Capital and Brandon BioCatalyst to help early medical startups commercialise.
Filtration specialist ActionLaser launched its MeltFilter plastic-recycling export brand after a $558,500 AMGC Commercialisation Fund grant, with help from Senarc Services, Simple Motion and Heat Treatment Australia.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup reporting Konscious Foods' seed raise, commitments into Ocean 14 Capital's blue economy fund, LIVEKINDLY's acquisition of Alpha Foods, several grants, and a Wiliot advisor hire.
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Payments platform Airwallex has teamed up with venture investing platform OurCrowd, letting investors back global startups in local currencies; since February over a third of OurCrowd's FX flow has run through Airwallex.
Podcast episode in which the co-founders of a medtech startup discuss their vein-visualising device, last year's seed raise, a grant win, and progress toward trials.
Podcast interview with Full Circle Fibres founder Meriel Chamberlin on Australia's textile industry, whose Mud to Marle project recently received a Country Road Climate Fund grant.
A roundup of Australian lifestyle brands bought by international buyers in 2023, covering Bondi Sands, Aesop and Four Pillars acquisitions, plus reported acquisition talks over Zimmermann.
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The New South Wales government has granted Hiringa Energy and Sundown Pastoral Co money for a green hydrogen and ammonia facility at Sundown's Good Earth cotton farm near Moree.
Breakthrough Victoria is putting $700,000 into Navi Medical Technologies' round alongside Medtech Actuator and Artesian VC, helping the Melbourne medtech develop its newborn catheter guidance device toward regulatory approval.
Techboard's June 2023 roundup of Australian startup funding, led by Pet Circle's $75m Series D, lists raises by Stacked Farm, Lyka, In1Bank, Splend, ImmVirX, Midnight Health, Sicona and Nutromics, and teases its FY23 review.
Goterra, a Canberra venture that recycles food scraps with maggots into animal feed, has banked a $10 million bridge to grow its waste plants serving Woolworths, with a Series B planned this year.
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Coterie Capital announces an investment in wealth platform Integrated Portfolio Solutions through a dedicated fund set up with Mantis Funds, with Coterie joining the IPS board.
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The publisher announces it has invested in an unnamed wealth management platform, noting the business now administers ten billion dollars in funds. No company name, amount, or other investors are given.
Coterie Capital announces Travello raised $10 million in a Series B and acted as exclusive financial advisor; funds will support growth, product development and team expansion.
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Crunchbase data analysis ranking the busiest cleantech investors, led by Lowercarbon Capital, and citing large sustainability rounds at Loam Bio, Our Next Energy, Ohmium and Palmetto Clean Technology.
Announcement that Mantis Funds is teaming with Isola Capital, Fullerton Fund Management sub-advising, to give Australian wealth clients access to a global private-markets fund-of-funds through a domestic feeder vehicle.
Brisbane ore-scanning company Plotlogic has raised a Series B with Galvanise, Schneider Electric's venture arm and CSIRO's Main Sequence participating, the latter drawing on a freshly announced $450 million fund.
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Sydney cloud security startup Plerion closed a $10 million seed round led by Prosus Ventures with Cercano and Atlassian Ventures participating, to fund product development, hiring and go-to-market plans.