Company

AUDC

Melbourne, VIC

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What AUDC bought

Companies AUDC 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
AUDC is not recorded as having acquired anything.

People

Name	Role	Sources
Andrew Kitchen	Chief Financial Officer	audd.digital, Australian FinTech
Effie Dimitropoulos	Chief Executive Officer	audd.digital, Australian FinTech
José Barroso	General Manager, Growth	audd.digital, Australian FinTech

Coverage

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

12 deals

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #180, 4th October 2026

Weekly roundup reporting Australian startup funding rounds and government grants, a venture fund close, agreed acquisitions, an IPO pricing, a collapse, plus executive hires and AI policy developments.

This Week in Australian Startups 4 Oct 2026 Avicena Systems Eastend Ventures FeBI Heidi Health iQ Sense Q Factorial QuantX Labs R2Crete Silicon Quantum Computing Skopos Bio Trendspek Adobe Advanced Navigation Airwallex Ampol Anthropic Atlassian AUDC Barrenjoey Baseten Big Picture Medical Blackbird Ventures Droneshield Evie Networks Firmus Technologies Fusion Venture Labs Goldman Sachs Harrison AI InDebted Lorikeet Megaport Meta Monoova Morgan Stanley Nearmap Nexl OFX OpenAI Orbit2Orbit Ord Minnett Paperbark Perennial Private Investments Planet Startup Potentia Capital PsiQuantum Queensland RBA REA Group Redbelly Network RedEarth Energy Storage Ltd REX Royal Commission into AI Scalare Partners Sicona Stanford Tank Stream Labs Tech Council Thoma Bravo Thorney Unilever University of Melbourne Watchful WeMoney Blockwall Digital Assets Fund Critical Technologies Challenge Program Funds SA Genesis Pre-Seed Fund OIF Ventures Shape Capital Tenmile Tin Alley Ventures Uniseed Yosemite Brendan Lee Chris Lehane Chris McNamara Christian Westerlind Wigstrom Christopher Manning David Janetzki Iain Ross Ian Wang Josh Foreman Josh Parsons Kate Pounder Matt Redden Philipp Thurner Sam Altman Trevor St Baker

Key hire

AUDC Continues Leadership Expansion for Stablecoin Growth

AUDC, issuer of the AUDD stablecoin, has hired Andrew Kitchen as CFO and José Barroso as growth general manager, deepening its executive bench amid rising demand and its recent New Zealand token launch.

audd.digital 12 Jun 2026 AUDC BNK Banking Corporation Catch Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Hay IAG Macquarie Group NZDC Limited SecurePay Westpac Zai (Assembly Payments)Andrew Kitchen Effie Dimitropoulos José Barroso

Key hire

AUDC continues leadership team expansion to support rapid growth and regional stablecoin rollout

Stablecoin issuer AUDC hires Andrew Kitchen as CFO and José Barroso as growth chief, extending an executive build-out to support rising demand for its digital-money and settlement services across Australia and New Zealand.

Australian FinTech 12 Jun 2026 AUDC BNK Banking Corporation Catch Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Hay IAG Macquarie Group NZDC Limited SecurePay Westpac Zai (Assembly Payments)Andrew Kitchen Effie Dimitropoulos José Barroso

Seed $1.2m

AUDC closes Seed Round to value Novatti’s interest at $7 million

ASX-listed Novatti says its stablecoin unit AUDC has closed a A$1.2 million seed raise, valuing Novatti's 57% stake at A$7 million, with the unit's AUDD token chosen for Project Acacia payment trials.

Australian FinTech 17 Aug 2025 AUDC Australian Payments Plus Circle Novatti Group Mark Healy

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