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GrainCorp Ventures and Telstra co-led a $12 million Series A into Zetifi, a Wagga Wagga company extending Wi-Fi connectivity for regional farmers, with plans to expand teams and enter the US market.
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Roundup of Australian manufacturing items: EMVision collects grant money, Anduril completes a large Series E, Adherium receives a tax incentive payment, Tindo Solar's sales double, and Glaciem wins a New York clean energy program place.
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Bluechiip received a government grant to establish local semiconductor dicing and packaging, moving MEMS chip processing for its biological sample tracking products onshore from overseas facilities.
Contact centre analytics startup Operative Intelligence raised a seed round led by Bonfire Ventures with Wonder Ventures, to help businesses identify why customers contact them.
Australian low-code startup Rowy closed a $3 million SAFE round led by Worklife Ventures, aiming to let spreadsheet users build scalable software back ends, with AI-native code generation planned.
Weekly roundup reporting nine Australian startups that together secured roughly $104 million across sports tech, semiconductors, regtech, legal automation, SaaS, edtech, agtech and biotech, with Vald's $36 million the largest.
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Crypto exchange CoinJar, backed by Blackbird, cut roughly a fifth of its Melbourne staff after FTX's failure; the piece recalls its 2013 half-million-dollar seed round led by Blackbird.
Sydney courier firm Drive Yello and cafe ordering app Hey You have combined as 4You Innovation, aiming to raise funds next year; the piece also recalls past raises and recent collapses among delivery startups.
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Blackbird interviews Jenny Busing, co-founder and co-CEO of employee experience firm Excellent, covering her dance career, mentorship lessons, the EX Revolution manifesto launching in December, and her philosophy that work should not be a drag.
Startupbootcamp profiles Azolla Biodesign, a carbon-capture startup founded by Victor Leshyk, ahead of its Decarbonization Demo Day, noting its work with corporate partners Mitsubishi Corporation and NYK Line.
Investment platform Stake has launched its Stake Black premium membership, adding advanced trading tools for both US and Australian markets, priced monthly, as it passes one million trades and two billion dollars under administration.
Manufacturing roundup covering Cyclopharm's tax incentive payment, Carbon Revolution's government grant payments, CEFC's wind farm debt commitment, Adbri's land sales, a Monash energy report and a Wollongong research showcase.
Fraud and identity verification company FrankieOne has added $23 million to its Series A, led by AirTree and Greycroft, with crypto exchange venture arms Binance Labs and Kraken Ventures joining as new strategic backers.
Saasguru, an edtech platform for cloud skills training, raised a $4 million AUD seed round led by Square Peg Capital; founders previously sold SaaSfocus to Cognizant.
Antler Australia's investor memo profiles Acanthis, a pre-seed SaaS startup founded by Dean Sammut and Troy Haddon offering small businesses integrated data insights, with Antler as its initial investor.
Legal automation firm Josef banks $5.2 million in a round OIF Ventures led, with Carthona, Flying Fox, Jelix and Saniel participating, adding US and UK law firms as clients.
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Ignition Lane's weekly tech roundup covering record Australian VC fund raises, several green-tech startup funding rounds, Deliveroo's administration, the FTX collapse, and takeover offers for ELMO and Nitro.
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Inventia, a Sydney bioprinting startup, is expanding its facility with NSW Government Jobs Plus backing, creating 75-plus jobs; its $35 million Blackbird-led Series B from the prior year is also noted.
Wi-Fi HaLow chip maker Morse Micro raised a further $30 million for its Series B from Australian superannuation funds, lifting the round to $170 million; its earlier seed and Series A raises are also recapped.
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Macquarie University has spun out gene therapy biotech Celosia Therapeutics with $2 million in Seed funding to develop treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, starting with motor neurone disease.
Melbourne identity verification startup FrankieOne raised a $23 million AUD Series A+ extension led by AirTree Ventures and Greycroft, with new strategic backing from Binance Labs and Kraken Ventures, to fund international expansion.
Beaten Zone Venture Partners announces a new investment focus, BeatenZone Ventures, backing Australian entrepreneurs building defence and sovereign technology, citing lessons from the war in Ukraine.
Startup West podcast episode with Artrya co-founder John Barrington on the ASX-listed healthtech firm, which raised $40 million when it listed in November 2021 at a $105 million valuation.
UNSW Founders honoured eight winners at its inaugural awards, with Forage taking Startup of the Year; the piece also notes Psylo's $5 million seed raise and this year's 10x Demo Day cohort.
Australian fintech LENSELL is expanding its Diversiview app so users can analyse and optimise mixed portfolios containing over 70 unlisted funds and alternative investments alongside listed securities.
International Graphite has produced battery-grade graphite at a new WA pilot plant in Collie, supported by a state government grant, as it works toward commercial-scale production.
Weekly roundup covering six Australian startup raises totalling over $54 million, including Sapia.ai's Series A, rounds for Abyss Solutions, HMC Group and eQ8, plus smaller raises for Oceanfarmr and Subpod.
Startupbootcamp Australia profiles PuriFire Labs, a carbon capture startup in its Decarbonization program, ahead of Demo Day, covering its cryogenic technology and problem discovery work with Mitsubishi and NYK.
Startupbootcamp profiles TerraStor, a compressed air energy storage startup founded by Matthew Ciardiello and Paul Button, ahead of its 2022 Decarbonization Demo Day, noting mentorship from Mitsubishi Corporation and NYK Line.
Recruitment AI startup Sapia.ai has raised a $17 million Series A led by Macquarie Capital and Woolworths' venture arm W23, to fund overseas expansion; Woolworths has used the platform for a year.
Analysis of venture investment in AI-powered cybersecurity, citing large 2022 rounds for Salt Security, Velas and SparkCognition, SentinelOne's acquisition of Attivo Networks, and investors' views on the technology's limits.
NSW aquaculture software company Oceanfarmr has completed a $1.45 million raise led by impact investor Katapult, which also placed it among the top candidates in its accelerator, with a Series A planned next year.
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Seer Medical founding member Dr Pip Karoly won a 2022 Prime Minister's Prize for New Innovators for seizure forecasting research; the medtech has raised over $80 million to date.
Merchant payments company Zeller reports rapid growth and a shift to larger Australian businesses, announcing an accounting software integration and partnerships with hundreds of point-of-sale platforms.
Eight projects share 28.9 million dollars in Australian government grants under the National Soil Carbon Innovation Challenge, funding cheaper technologies for measuring soil organic carbon, with ministers Bowen and Watt announcing the recipients.
Payments company Zeller says larger merchants now drive its growth as it moves upmarket, and the piece recalls its 2021 and 2022 venture raises that produced a $1.1 billion valuation.
Profile of Ethic Adviser, a sustainable-investing tool for advisers built by Tom Culver, which is seeking $1 million in seed funding and has partnered with Count Financial; Culver earlier sold Goodments to Douugh.
Byron Bay payments firm Zepto won Business NSW's 2022 Business Awards top honour after an October innovation award; the profile also recalls its closed Series A raise and rapid headcount growth.
Workforce planning software firm eQ8, started by two ex-Qantas and NBN executives, has raised A$5.5 million in a Series A led by OIF Ventures, with customers including Metlife and the United Nations.
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Robotics inspection startup Abyss Solutions has raised $15 million led by AirTree with Australian Retirement Trust support, having previously raised $3.25 million in 2020; its clients include BP, Exxon, Chevron, Total and Scottish Water.
SafetyCulture founder Luke Anear says he threatened to redomicile the company in the US over a reported $61 million loss, and that the federal government has since contacted him about changing auditing rules.
Australian engineering software maker ClearCalcs has raised 2.5 million dollars, with prior backers EVP and Shearwater Capital leading the round; proceeds fund customer growth, product expansion and hiring.
Australian startup coaXion, which offers usage-based heavy machinery finance, has partnered with lender Yellowgate on a pilot and opened a raise of at least $3.5 million as it targets the US market.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: funding for Muncher, Vow, Freight Farms and others, a grant to GreenPod Labs, Bayer buying Targenomix, Bunge and Advanta taking SEEDCORP|HO stakes, and Deliveroo and Voly shutting down.
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Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Orbital UAV's $5m placement with UIL backing, Nufarm's record earnings, a Hazer–Mitsui graphite agreement, Baraja's patent milestone, the new skills agency, and a university research grant.
Kindship, a startup founded by four mothers, has raised $1 million via equity crowdfunding on Birchal to launch its NDIS plan management tool, the Kindship Wallet.
US giant KKR joined navigation-technology maker Advanced Navigation's $108 million Series B, alongside returning local backers; the company also bought ANU spin-out Vai Photonics, and two KKR staff will join its board.
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Techboard's monthly roundup tallies October 2022 startup funding at $661m across 99 deals, listing megadeals such as Airwallex, acquisitions, Square Peg's $861m fund close and government grants to program operators.
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Manufacturing roundup: Vow, Ofload and Vaxev each raise new capital; Ofload buys CIA Logistics; Quickstep upgrades its outlook; Pawsey's Setonix earns green computing honours; Australia backs shipping and plastics pledges.