Ledger. Australian venture funding, tracked

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ADF

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Stories naming ADF. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

Seed

Beaten Zone Venture Partners Backs Seitec in turning a passive, all-weather sensing modality into a new class of defence capability – detecting the threats conventional sensors cannot and reshaping the military and security landscape.

Beaten Zone Venture Partners announces Fund 1 joined Activate Capital and UNSW in a seed round for Seitec, a Canberra defence startup whose seismic sensors find unexploded ordnance and hidden drones.

Beaten Zone Venture Partners portfolio 20 Aug 2026 SeitecADFAir Warfare System Program OfficeAustralian Office of National IntelligenceDroneshieldPIPE NetworksRAAFRiver City LabsRiver PitchSE NetStartup CatalystTen13USAFActivate CapitalBeaten Zone Venture PartnersUNSWBevan FairleighDaniel StevensPeta EllisSteve Baxter

Also Dealroom·Business News Australia·Defence Connect·Startup Daily

Seed $3m+

Beaten Zone Venture Partners Backs Zendir in AU$3M+ Seed Round to Advance Space-Cyber Defence Capabilities

BZV's post announcing it co-led Zendir's oversubscribed seed round with Investible, joined by Galileo Ventures, TEN13, Jelix Ventures and Innovation Bay, to fund overseas growth of the spacecraft digital-twin platform.

Beaten Zone Venture Partners portfolio 17 Sep 2025 ZendirADFPIPE NetworksRiver City LabsRiver PitchSE NetStartup CatalystUNSW Canberra SpaceBeaten Zone Venture PartnersGalileo VenturesInnovation BayInvestibleJelix VenturesTen13Dr Brenton SmithDr Christopher CaponPeta EllisSteve Baxter

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