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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round DeepSeek raised.
Companies DeepSeek acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming DeepSeek. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Canva has bought Sydney AI startup Simtheory and marketing automation firm Ortto, its fifth and sixth acquisitions in ten months, as it repositions from design tool to AI workplace platform; no prices disclosed.
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Forbes Australia profiles billionaire Ed Craven's funding of MainCode, a Melbourne venture where chief executive Dave Lemphers leads a team building Australia's own large language model on home soil.
Meliora, Clive Dickens' advisory firm, has started backing AI companies alongside a student-focused venture fund that is closing in on its fundraising target.
Also Forbes Australia
Aura Group's blog post explains how DeepSeek's R1 reaches near-frontier AI results with far less computing power and why its cheaper, self-correcting methods threaten today's AI incumbents.