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Chris Friend

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Role	Organisation	Sources
Founder	Liveheats	Startup Daily, SmartCompany (23 May 2025), SmartCompany (21 May 2025)

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Seven Aussie startups that raised $495.8 million this week

Weekly roundup of seven Australian startup raises, led by Airwallex's Series F, plus EatClub, Kite Magnetics, Termina, Preve, Foremind and Liveheats.

SmartCompany 23 May 2025 Airwallex Buster EatClub Foremind Kite Magnetics Liveheats Preve Tendl Termina Trava Health 86 400 Betty's Burgers Campaign Monitor Canva Car Next Door Eucalyptus Monash University Pizza Hut Uniting Vic.Tas AirTree Ventures Archangel Ventures Blackbird Ventures Black Sheep Capital Boson Ventures Breakthrough Victoria Carthona Capital CoAct Capital DST Global EVP Gandel Invest Giant Leap Hostplus Investible Lone Pine Capital Marbruck Monash Investment Holdings NGS Platform Advisory Salesforce Ventures Skalata Ventures Snow Foundation SQM Lithium Ventures Square Peg Capital Startmate Visa Ventures Alexey Mitko Belinda Hogan Ben Richardson Charlie Gearside Joel Parkinson Robert Bell Trevor Folsom Adam Beaupeurt Caelum Trott Chris Friend Fernando Freire Jack Zhang Joel Anderson Marco Pierre White Michael Koopman Pan Koutlakis Dr Richard Parsons

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Seed $1.3m

Liveheats nets $1.3 million for live sports scoring platform

Sports scoring software maker Liveheats has secured $1.3 million in seed backing from five individual backers to grow its product and sales teams and expand into the US and Europe.

SmartCompany 21 May 2025 Liveheats 86 400 Campaign Monitor Canva Car Next Door DoorDash Investible Linktree UberEats Belinda Hogan Ben Richardson Joel Parkinson Robert Bell Trevor Folsom Chris Friend Fernando Freire

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