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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Binance raised.
Companies Binance acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
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Roundup of four Australian raises: MagnaTerra formed from a CSIRO merger, Mobile Tyre Shop backed by Sailun, Coinstash's Series A, and MogoPlus funded by New Model Venture Capital.
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Decentralised exchange GTE has raised a $15 million Series A led by Paradigm, positioning itself against Uniswap and PancakeSwap with an order-book model and citing a trillion dollars of 2025 trading volume.
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Blackbird partners explain why the firm's 2022 fund led Factor House's $5 million seed round, profiling the Melbourne developer-tools startup, its Kafka and Flink management products, revenue growth and customers.
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Ignition Lane's weekly wrap: Tiger Global's losses and past Australian bets, MilkRun and TradeSquare closures, Cyara's Spearline acquisition, a Co Ventures pre-seed fund, Square Peg's partner promotion and LaunchVic's 30×30 picks.
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.
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.
Ignition Lane's weekly wrap reports falling Australian venture funding, lists several startup raises and fund raises, covers Chargefox's acquisition, Volt's closure, the Zip-Sezzle merger termination, and global tech news.
Also Startup Daily·Techboard
Profile of move-to-earn fitness app StepN, founded in Adelaide, covering its Sequoia-backed seed round, a later Binance investment, rapid user growth, token economics, and Axie Infinity's struggles.
Aura Group announces Calvin Ng's appointment as a director of portfolio company BNK Banking, then analyses Ray Dalio's work on shifting world orders and whether Bitcoin could become a global reserve currency.
Aura Ventures maps the Web3 ecosystem, separating private blockchains from four public layers, and argues genuine value will migrate to scaling and application layers, citing its portfolio firm Lygon and Australian protocol Synthetix.