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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #180, 4th October 2026

Weekly roundup reporting Australian startup funding rounds and government grants, a venture fund close, agreed acquisitions, an IPO pricing, a collapse, plus executive hires and AI policy developments.

Heidi Health expands into AI admin agents to challenge legacy rivals

AI medical scribe firm Heidi Health, backed by Blackbird Ventures, is adding autonomous assistants that handle administrative work for doctors, demoing them at a customer event as it challenges entrenched healthcare software vendors.

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #179, 26th September 2026

Weekly roundup recording a dozen raises and acquisitions, Firmus's scheduled float, a new $50m venture fund, a founder share sale, grant winners, an accelerator intake, and an AI agent's government breach.

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Heidi raises A$475m to expand beyond clinical notes

Heidi, an Australian clinical AI firm, has banked new funding of US$340m, anchored by a Blackbird-led Series C, to move past scribing into AI agents that handle healthcare tasks under clinician oversight.

Heidi hits $1.2 billion valuation with $470 million in fresh funding

Heidi raised US$100m in a Blackbird-led Series C plus US$240m in customer-acquisition finance from General Catalyst, reaching a $1.26 billion valuation as Australia's fourth billion-dollar startup of the year.

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SiteHive named Startup of the Year at the 2026 Best in Tech Awards

Blackbird nails 2nd $1 billion fund

Blackbird has locked in a second billion-dollar fund — its sixth, slightly bigger than the last — bringing in new institutional backers, and the article recalls portfolio wins, writedowns and failures.

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A billion reasons to invest right at the very beginning

Blackbird announces its new early-stage and growth funds have brought in A$1.05 billion, reflecting on early cheques, portfolio outcomes like Eucalyptus's sale, and new international backers.

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Seven ANZ startups that raised $111.5 million this week

Roundup of seven raises across the Tasman spanning fintech, marine tech, agtech, defence and AI, plus a first close for an ACT venture fund.

Bower raises $2M to bring ambient intelligence to the research lab

Bower, an Australian startup, has closed a $2 million pre-seed round led by TEN13 with Admiralty Capital Group, Edale Capital and angel backers, funding ambient AI that captures laboratory work as structured research records.

How Heidi built production-ready AI for healthcare at global scale

A sponsored technical profile of Heidi, an Australian-founded medical AI scribe, describing its MongoDB-based data architecture, regionally isolated deployments, and clinician-facing products serving health systems worldwide.

Rising Australian AI start-up star set to seal $1b ‘unicorn’ status

Heidi Health is negotiating a funding round exceeding 100 million dollars that would value the medical AI company at over one billion dollars.

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Meet our Winter 26 Accelerator cohort

Startmate unveils its incoming Winter '26 accelerator intake, profiling AI, aerospace, legal tech, construction and healthcare startups founded across Australian cities, with others based in San Francisco and Christchurch.

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #170, 19th July 2026

Roundup newsletter tallies seven funding rounds worth $606.5m for the week, plus Heidi's record-scale NHS clinician contract, Canva's Code 2.0 release, and a newly announced Office of AI.

Announcing Marloo’s $10M Series Seed

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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #158, 26th April 2026

Weekly roundup noting AirTrunk's completed purchase of India-based Lumina CloudInfra, alongside items on Heidi Health's ARR milestone, Techboard's analysis of unannounced 2025 funding rounds, and Microsoft's planned Australian AI investment.

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Goodbye, SaaS. Welcome, SaiS.

Blackbird partner Tom Humphrey argues AI panic overstates the threat to software firms, sketching four stages from bolting on models to training them, and pointing to Canva's acquisitions and Springboards' new model as proof.

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Capital returns but discipline and liquidity remain key

A retrospective on 2025 Australian venture activity: large raises at Firmus, Heidi Health, Airwallex and others, deep tech momentum, and Folklore's own backing of Hullbot and Sphere.

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Heidi acquires UK medical AI startup

Melbourne clinical documentation firm Heidi has bought UK healthcare AI company Automedica for an undisclosed sum and launched two AI products; the piece recalls its $98m Series B and $27m Series A top-up.

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The race is on

Blackbird partner Niki Scevak argues SaaS is not dead; winners will be companies that reinvent for AI, citing Canva's AI pivot and Kaleido acquisition, plus Heidi Health's new software category for doctors.

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Airwallex is Blackbird's new Canva, as the VC devalues workplace software unicorns Culture Amp and Safety Culture

Leaked details from Blackbird's investor day showcase Airwallex and Canva as standout performers, record valuation cuts for Culture Amp and SafetyCulture, and detail Kiki's New York shutdown and settlement.

Team Techstars Sydney: VetNotes is the AI scribe veterinarians need

Startup Daily profiles VetNotes, Mitch Sigley's AI note-taking tool for vets, a Techstars Sydney 2025 cohort company; Techstars says it was first to back it.

Backing Heidi and Inviting The Community Alongside Us

Archangel reflects on backing health AI company Heidi since its early days and invites the startup's users to register for a share of the firm's allocation, limited to sophisticated investors.

Six ANZ startups that raised $211.1 million this week

Roundup of six Australian and New Zealand funding rounds, headlined by Heidi Health and Octopus Deploy, also covering Nexl, OpenSolar, Lucent and PAM, with past acquisitions of Stella AI, MagicBrief and Codefresh noted.

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Heidi Health's $98 million raise skyrockets its valuation to $704 million

Melbourne AI medical-notes startup Heidi Health has banked a $98 million Series B led by Point72 at a $704 million valuation, adding two senior clinical and commercial hires to its leadership.

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Investment Notes: Heidi Series B

Blackbird's investment notes announce its backing of Heidi's Series B alongside Point72 Private Investments, describing the AI medical scribe's rapid growth, enterprise traction, and international expansion.

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Cheque-in: 19 ANZ startups that raised $69 million this week

Weekly roundup covering 19 Australian and New Zealand raises, headlined by Andromeda Robotics' $23m Series A, plus Freckle, Marloo, X-Hemp, Harvest B, Wable, Starboard and Techstars Sydney's 12-startup cohort.

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19 ANZ startups that raised $66.7 million this week

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Six Aussie startups that raised $56.7 million this week

Weekly roundup detailing six Australian startup raises announced this week, covering Heidi Health, Instant, Esper, Trusst AI, Flowing Bee and GonGlobal, with investors, founders, valuations and earlier rounds.

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GP administration startup Heidi Health tops up Series A with another $27 million

Heidi Health, whose AI tool drafts doctors' clinical notes, has added $26.8 million to its Series A in a round led by Headline, with Local Globe and Anthology also taking part.

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Investment Notes: Lorikeet

Blackbird's note explains why it led Lorikeet's nine-million-US-dollar round alongside co-investors, describing the startup's workflow-first approach to harder support tickets and its results with Eucalyptus.

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From SaaS to SaiS: A River of Inquiry into how AI is unlocking vertical SaaS

A Blackbird partner argues AI has revived vertical software by turning hard-to-sell customers into product-led buyers, noting the firm recently backed three such startups and recalling Aconex's sale to Oracle.

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Ten Aussie startups that raised $39 million this week

Roundup of ten Australian startup raises totalling $38.8 million, topped by Heidi Health's Series A, also recording an Outstaffer executive appointment and the earlier sale of CarAdvice to Nine.

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Medtech Heidi Health raises $10 million Series A

Heidi Health, whose AI tool trims paperwork for family doctors, has banked a $10 million Series A round led by returning backer Blackbird, with co-investors including Hostplus and Hesta.

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Blackbird backs Heidi Health’s AI platform for overworked doctors

Melbourne healthtech firm Heidi Health has pulled in A$10 million Series A capital, headed by Blackbird Ventures, to grow its AI scribe that lightens clinicians' documentation workload.

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