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A Queensland agricultural data startup has banked a half-million-dollar pre-Series A round led by a Sydney venture firm, its ninth climate-fund backing, with a larger future raise flagged but not yet secured.
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Retail adtech firm Zitcha has banked roughly $5 million in seed funding led by OIF Ventures at a $14.8 million valuation, serving retailers including Adore Beauty and The Warehouse Group.
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An AuManufacturing interview with Kite Magnetics co-founder Richard Parsons covers the Monash spinout's newly completed seed raise, its Aeroperm material for electric aircraft motors, and the 2014 sale of MagniX to Clermont Group.
News roundup: Elsight locks in $8 million through convertible notes; Northrop Grumman extends its Quickstep supply agreement; Titomic grows US sales; Fleet Space to survey for Core Lithium; Venture Catalyst Space applications open.
Brisbane edible-cup venture Uuvipak has taken out Nespresso's StartCup competition and its $50,000 prize, weeks after a Kickstarter crowdfunding raise, and is also part of this year's Ocean Impact Accelerator Program.
Podcast interview with SWAN Systems co-founder and CEO Tim Hyde covering the water and fertiliser scheduling platform's farming origins, awards, cumulative raising, team size and overseas clients.
Four defence and space research projects in South Australia, including one by Adelaide startup Safety from Space, have received grants through the Defence Innovation Partnership's Collaborative Research Fund.
Fitness franchise Fitstop, built by Peter Hull, is expanding to California in 2023, supported by a US$2.5 million raise and the appointment of ex-F45 figure Peter Pisani as North American athletic director.
Enzyme-based plastic recycler Samsara Eco has raised a $54 million Series A to build a commercial recycling facility in Melbourne, with investors including the CEFC Innovation Fund, W23, Main Sequence, Breakthrough Victoria and Temasek.
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Blackbird's team marks the firm's tenth birthday by unveiling a new A$1 billion fund to back ambitious Australian and New Zealand startups, sketching a 2032 vision of technology dominating the economy.
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Startup Daily profiles ShopAssist, an Antler-backed pre-seed startup whose marketplace gives local retailers shared online checkout and delivery, as part of a series covering Antler Australia's thirteen newest investments.
Australian crypto startup Clanz has launched Thematic investment products offering diversified blockchain exposure, and reports a $4 million seed round led by private investment, with further public funding still being raised.
Samsara Eco, an Australian National University recycling-tech spinout, has closed a $54 million Series A with returning and new investors, plus an earlier government grant, to expand its enzyme library and build its first commercial facility.
Aura Group announces Darryl Tom joining to lead private wealth and family office services, then walks through five choices families face when establishing a family office, covering charters, assets, services, structures and governance.
Queensland early-stage investor Sprint Ventures reached an $8 million first close toward its $50 million Expansion Capital Fund, hired Georgia Barkell as COO, and has recently backed ausbiz, VAPAR and YouPay.
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Amaero will build its planned titanium alloy powder plant in the UAE rather than Victoria, backed by defence offsets funding, alongside leadership appointments and a shareholder offer tied to a joint venture.
Queensland grant recipient Kookaburra Worm Farms is building a production facility for its WormGro liquid fertiliser near Bundaberg, expecting ten new jobs, as one of sixteen projects sharing just over $3 million.
Climate Energy Finance analysts review Australian federal and state programs backing critical minerals projects, covering government grants, low-cost loans, new budget funds and the private equity raises and debt facilities they catalysed.
Aura Group's venture arm Aura Ventures is advertising a Sydney-based Investment Associate role to support its investing in Australian technology startups. The post is a recruitment notice with standard legal disclaimers, naming no funding.
Aura Ventures' post explains its decision to lead Zenphi's pre-seed round, joined by Afterwork Ventures, citing the founders' Nintex roots and the opening for automation built around Google Workspace.
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NSW Environmental Trust grants $3 million to solar innovator SunDrive within a $6.5 million allocation shared with Hysata, Southern Green Gas and Quickstep; SunDrive's recent series A drew CEFC alongside Blackbird and Grok Ventures.
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Roundup of Australian manufacturing items: two companies raise capital, two receive R&D tax refunds, an electric refueller debuts, a distribution deal is signed, IP is bought with shares, and more Bushmasters head to Ukraine.
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Sydney psychedelic biotech Psylo has banked a $5 million seed round led by CSIRO's Main Sequence Ventures, its second raise since emerging from Startmate, to advance a fast-acting psilocybin therapy toward clinical trials.
Steppen, whose app builds fitness habits for Gen Z, has closed a $1.65 million seed round from Galileo Ventures, Flying Fox, LaunchVic's Alice Anderson fund, Startmate, Anthony Eisen and the Jagen family office.
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Coverage of AgFunder and AgriFutures' new Asia-Pacific investment report, which found Australian agrifoodtech startups attracted $565.5 million across 55 deals in 2021, plus Lyro's raises and evokeAG 2023 applications.
Wholesale Investor promotes its CRIISP AI matchmaking platform, citing DIT AgTech CEO Mark Peart's nearly $3 million raise through its investor network as a capital-raising success story.
Wholesale Investor promotional piece recalling Booktopia's $20 million raise from private investors led by Su-Ming Wong and John Sampson, with founder Tony Nash discussing capital raising on a fireside chat.
Blackbird's founder chat interviews HIVERY's Franki Chamaki on the company's origins in a Coca-Cola hackathon, its values, and its growth plans following this year's Series B round.
TechCrunch's Daily Crunch roundup covering Musk's Twitter purchase and Apple's fees, Zillow layoffs, LatticeFlow and OTI raises, Square Peg's fund close, and Argo AI's shutdown.
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Pet food subscription startup Lyka closed a $30 million Series B led by Israeli investor Itai Tsiddon, with Craig Blair and Paul Wilson returning; the article also recalls its 2018 raise and Adobe's Frame.io acquisition.
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DigitalX has launched same-day settlement for one-off ASX share sales using its own cash. The article also profiles its tokenised HxART property fund and its research partnership with UNSW's UNOVA Lab.
Profile of Zeller's co-founder Ben Pfisterer covering the payments firm's Melbourne base, unicorn valuation, early backers, product range and growth since launching in 2021.
Diagnostic equipment maker LBT Innovations has received a federal government grant via the Medical Future Fund and MTPConnect to develop a smaller benchtop version of its APAS Independence instrument.
Climate tech startup Greener raised a $4 million Series A led by NAB Ventures with RealVC, a year after a $1 million seed round, to help small businesses and consumers reduce and offset emissions.
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Square Peg Capital has closed its fifth fund at $550 million, bringing total funds raised to about $1.6 billion, with superannuation funds among its backers and investments across Australia, Southeast Asia and Israel.
Innovation and investment firm Skafold has hired former Blockchain Australia CEO Steve Vallas as senior technology advisor to guide its blockchain, digital currency and regulatory activities.
Australian wearable-sensor maker dorsaVi has built a beta spinal movement sensor with Medtronic after eighteen months of collaboration, and the two firms have extended their partnership toward commercialisation.
Energy retailer Amber Electric added NRMA as a new backer in a $13.4 million Series B extension led by existing investors, with proceeds earmarked for developing its SmartShift battery and EV charging automation technology.
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A manufacturing roundup covering a China milk powder supply deal, a methane emissions incentive, a nasal spray distribution agreement, a university space course, a government tax refund, and two companies' fresh capital raises.
Profile of SYMBYX, an Australian medtech firm using light therapy lasers to ease Parkinson's symptoms, naming its high-profile investors including ResMed's Peter Farrell and noting clinical trials underway.
QuantumTX's 2022 space and technology incubator has awarded $750,000 across 30 Australian companies, half from Western Australia, working in remote operations fields including robotics, AI and satellite communications.
Gen Z dating experiences startup Urban Swan has raised a $2 million seed round led by existing backer Antler, with funds earmarked for expanding beyond Sydney to other Australian cities during 2023.
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BetaCarbon has launched a blockchain platform letting Australians buy tokenised Australian carbon credits from one dollar, having already sold over four million dollars of tokens, with backing from several investment funds.
Tenacious Ventures reflects on contrasting investor views of ESG versus impact investing, argues agriculture holds commercial impact opportunities, and invites LPs and agri-food founders to connect while its second fund raise continues.
A Northern Territory government manufacturing fund co-funds Arctic Installations' tropical insulating panel project, with the company contributing its own capital, and the business has won a first export deal in Timor-Leste.
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The renewable energy agency announced backing for two storage projects: a feasibility study at AGL's Torrens Island station and conditional funding for Hydrostor's compressed air project at Broken Hill.
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Weekly agrifoodtech roundup reporting funding rounds for alternative fat and agtech startups, acquisitions including Kroger's purchase of Albertsons, and other sector news such as Beyond Meat's job cuts.