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Albert Cheng	Chief Growth Officer	Startup Daily (5 Aug 2026), Startup Daily (11 Feb 2026), SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures

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Cheque-in: 10 ANZ startups raised nearly $193 million this week

Weekly roundup of ten Australian and New Zealand startup raises totalling nearly $194 million, topped by Neara's $90 million round at a $1.1 billion valuation, with Splose, Operata, HAMR Energy and Adora also covered.

Startup Daily 13 Feb 2026 Adora Contented eGuarantee Fluency HAMR Energy Neara Operata splose Wellumio Artesian VC Atlassian Canva Chess.com Deel Employment Hero Facebook Gemini Granola Netflix New Zealand government Notion Replit Revolut Siteminder Snowball Effect Spotify Startmate Swinburne Innovation Studio Xero Accel Airbus Altered Capital Archangel Ventures Athletic Ventures Blackbird Ventures Black Nova Venture Capital Booster Carya Venture Partners Correlation Co Ventures Cure Kids Ventures Designer Fund DST Global Partners Enterprise Angels EQT EVP Exhort Ventures Flying Fox Ventures Flying Kiwi Garuda Ventures Ghost VC Glitch Capital Hort Innovation Icehouse Ventures Mixture of Experts NextGen Ventures Nuance Connected Capital NZ Growth Capital Partners Pacific Channel Partners Group Qantas Shearwater Capital Skip Capital Spectrum Equity Square Peg Capital TCV Tenacious Ventures Thyssenkrupp Uhde Tidal Ventures David Stribley Finnlay Morcombe Hannah Hardy-Jones Lucy Pink Nathan Scully Nicholas Sanderson Oliver Farnill Omar Salem Richard Beaumont Simon Carroll Stephen Ellis

Seed $9.9m

Former Canva executive raises $9.9 million for product mapping startup Adora

Product-mapping startup Adora, co-founded by an ex-Canva product chief, has landed seed funding with Blackbird leading and four other backers, earmarked for product work and Sydney hiring.

SmartCompany 11 Feb 2026 Adora Amazon Canva Chess.com Granola Notion Replit Blackbird Ventures Co Ventures Designer Fund Garuda Ventures Skip Capital Albert Cheng Nathan Scully Nick Crocker Omar Salem

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Seed US$7m

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Cheque-in: 10 ANZ startups raised nearly $193 million this week

Former Canva executive raises $9.9 million for product mapping startup Adora

Investment Notes: Adora Seed