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What ASX bought

Companies ASX acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
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People

Name	Role	Sources
Max Cunningham	Listings Boss (former)	SmartCompany, Startup Daily
Paul Stonham		Fintech News Australia, Australian FinTech

Coverage

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

Key hire

BTC Markets Names Lucas Dobbins CEO and Paul Stonham CCO as Regulations Tighten

The cryptocurrency exchange has promoted its longtime technology chief to run the company and hired a new commercial head, pointing to a maturing local regulatory landscape for digital assets.

Fintech News Australia 5 Feb 2026 ASX BTC Markets Lucas Dobbins Paul Stonham

Key hire

BTC Markets appoints Lucas Dobbins as Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director, and Paul Stonham joins as Chief Commercial Officer

Crypto exchange BTC Markets promotes Lucas Dobbins to chief executive and executive director, hires Paul Stonham as its commercial chief, and shifts outgoing CEO Caroline Bowler onto its board as a non-executive director.

Australian FinTech 4 Feb 2026 ASX BTC Markets Caroline Bowler Lucas Dobbins Paul Stonham

13 deals

Nine Aussie startups that raised $40.5 million this week

Weekly roundup covering nine Australian startups' new capital totalling $40.5 million, across solar, quantum computing, marketing tech and crowdfunding, plus a look back at Aconex's $1.6 billion Oracle sale.

SmartCompany 3 Nov 2023 Analog Quantum Circuits Firmable Good Earth Dairy Happly Heartful Mutinex SunDrive A Cloud Guru Aconex ASX Australian Government Birchal Blackbird Ventures Canva Clean Energy Finance Corporation FCX Hannas Group Hosting with Heart Main Sequence Ventures OnMarket Oracle Redbubble Taxibox Tesla University of Queensland AirTree Ventures Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)Cut Through Angels EVP Partners Func Ventures Karthik Venkatasubramanian Leigh Jasper Paul Perrett Uniseed Western Australian government Adam Lewis Andrew Sypkes Cameron Adams Danny Hanna Malcolm Turnbull Martin Hosking Max Cunningham Mike Cannon-Brookes Rob Phillpot Sam Kroonenburg Andrew Weinman Anthony Albanese Arkady Federov Chris Bowen Henry Innis Jen Clark Jeremy Rosen Justin Lipman Karthik Venkatasubramanian Leigh Jasper Marcel Steingiesser Matt Farrugia Paul Perrett Robyn Denholm Stephen Burns Professor Tom Stace

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Seed $1.8m

Proptech startup Happly banks $1.75 million Seed round

Sydney proptech Happly, which simplifies moving house, has secured $1.75 million at seed stage from backers including Danny Hanna and Max Cunningham, with the capital earmarked for product development and national expansion.

Startup Daily 2 Nov 2023 Happly ASX Booking.com CBRE FCX Hannas Group Meriton Taxibox Danny Hanna Max Cunningham Andrew Weinman Jeremy Rosen

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