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Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
Operata	Series A	4 Aug 2026	$11m	Participant	Flying Fox Ventures Tidal Ventures Glitch Capital BlackNova Black Nova Venture Capital	Startup Daily (5 Aug 2026), Startup Daily (13 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (10 Feb 2026), SmartCompany, Black Nova Venture Capital portfolio, Tidal Ventures portfolio

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
Operata	Platform monitoring voice quality, performance and customer experience at cloud contact c…	4 Aug 2026, Series A	1	0

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for Ghost VC yet.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of Ghost VC is recorded as having been acquired.

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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

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Call centre monitoring startup Operata dials in $11 million Series A

Operata, which watches over call centre performance, has banked a Series A of $11 million at a valuation topping $100 million, with Tidal Ventures at the helm and funds earmarked for AI-era integrations.

Startup Daily 10 Feb 2026 Operata AWS Genesys NICE Twilio Black Nova Venture Capital Flying Fox Ventures Ghost VC Glitch Capital Tidal Ventures Andy Scott Georgina Turner John Mitchem Romilly Blackburn

Series A $11m

Operata raises $11 million Series A as AI reshapes contact centres

A Melbourne software firm monitoring AI-driven customer service operations has closed a Series A round led by Tidal Ventures, valuing it at $100 million, with proceeds earmarked for platform integrations and international growth.

SmartCompany 10 Feb 2026 Operata AWS Genesys NICE Twilio Black Nova Venture Capital Flying Fox Ventures Ghost VC Glitch Capital Tidal Ventures Georgina Turner Romilly Blackburn

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

Call centre monitoring startup Operata dials in $11 million Series A

Operata raises $11 million Series A as AI reshapes contact centres