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Technology company providing private blockchain infrastructure
Every published round IBM took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Companies IBM has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio companies recorded yet. | ||||
Fund closes reported for IBM, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies IBM has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal IBM did.
| Company | Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio company of IBM is recorded as having been acquired. | ||||
Companies IBM acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Company | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enviz | Acquisition | 11 Jan 2022 | - | Techboard, ARN (ARNnet) |
| SXiQ | Acquisition | 4Q 2021 | - | Eaton Square, ARN (ARNnet) |
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Goldschmidt | Management Consultant (former) | Startup Daily |
| Kareem Yusuf | AI Applications General Manager | ARN (ARNnet) |
| Mark Mattingley-Scott | Executive (former) | Startup Daily |
| Satish Gupta | Vice President (former) | Startup Daily |
Stories naming IBM. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Allens' Cyber Brief podcast hosts QuintessenceLabs founder and CEO Vikram Sharma discussing quantum computing threats to encryption, harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks, and the governance steps boards should take toward post-quantum readiness.
Firmus announces three new non-executive directors joining its grid board from March 2026, each bringing finance, governance or resources and energy delivery experience.
Profile of Updoc co-founder Dylan Coyne, whose telehealth firm has passed 200,000 patients and banked a $20 million Bailador-led round; the article also recalls Bailador's InstaScripts sale to Wesfarmers.
Weekly deals roundup: Typeface buys two AI startups, Workday and IBM also acquire, Flink, Intezer, GreenLite and EasyDMARC raise, and Era Ventures gathers $88 million for its debut fund.
Weekly agri-foodtech roundup: raises at THIS, Tender, Ever After Foods, Farmbot and Beta Bugs; two acquisitions; Proterra's rural fund raise; grants; and AgriFORCE appointing Jolie Kahn CEO.
An explainer from Radium Capital covering four innovation categories — incremental, breakthrough, foundational research and disruptive — with examples such as Avicena Systems and Airbnb, and advocating varied capital sources including R&D financing.
Tom Stace and Arkady Federov launch AQC, a Queensland venture making miniature superconducting components for quantum computers, with Uniseed investing $3 million; the piece also recaps Australia's quantum funding momentum.
Also SmartCompany·SmartCompany
Technology services firm The Factor has hired a former Microsoft director to drive its sales to the federal government in Canberra, adding three decades of industry experience to the team.
Telstra Purple, Telstra's services arm, appoints ex-BT security executive Luke Barker to lead its newly formed security division, shortly after the telco announced a cyber security technology alliance with Palo Alto Networks.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: funding rounds led by CH4 Global's $29 million Series B close, acquisitions of Aitme and The Weather Company, SoftBank selling Zomato shares, partnerships, an IPO filing and Toyota's greenhouse trial.
Also AgFunderNews·AgFunderNews
Profile of Cortical Labs founder Hon Weng Chong, whose dish-grown brain cells learned Pong, recalling a US$10 million raise led by Horizon Ventures and covering the CL1 commercial product.
ARN reports Michelle Bendschneider becomes CEO of Connetico, new parent of cloud firms Arinco, Cevo and D6, with Lara Wright as CFO, after Quadrant fund backing; Kloud's earlier sale to Telstra is recalled.
Roundup of six Australian startup raises totalling $94 million: Q-CTRL, Hnry, FoodByUs, F4S, STRAAND and Lenexa Medical, backed by investors including Salesforce Ventures, AirTree, Base Capital, Investible, Unilever Ventures and Stoic VC.
Also stoicam.com.au
Sydney quantum software firm Q-CTRL announced a $27.4 million Series B extension with new backers including Salesforce Ventures, following its $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures in late 2021.
Also Startup Daily·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·@AuManufacturing·Forbes Australia
Techboard's September 2022 roundup reports Australian raises led by Morse Micro's $140m Series B, several acquisitions including ResApp Health to Pfizer, fund closes by Telstra Ventures, OIF and Main Sequence, and open raises.
New Zealand conversational AI company Ambit has raised NZ$1 million from Quidnet Ventures and an angel investor to grow its Australian presence, where it already serves clients including Laybuy and Glassons.
A UNSW-backed quantum computing startup says it has built the world's first atomic-scale processor and has launched a $130 million Series A to push toward a commercial quantum computer by around 2028.
US IoT security vendor Armis has launched a Melbourne APAC office and hired nine staff under former Nutanix manager Andrew Draper; the piece also recalls its 2020 acquisition and 2021 investment round.
Eaton Square's quarterly review summarises eight featured Australian and New Zealand technology acquisitions from the December 2021 quarter, including Unity's purchase of Weta Digital, and introduces its Sydney-based technology M&A advisory team.
Also ARN (ARNnet)·ARN (ARNnet)
IBM has bought Envizi, a Sydney-based sustainability data and analytics software firm, to strengthen its environmental performance offerings; the deal closed 11 January 2022, terms undisclosed. IBM also bought Melbourne's SXiQ late last year.
Also Techboard
Startup Daily interviews Quantum Brilliance's EMEA chief Mark Mattingley-Scott, ex-IBM, on the quantum sector's 2021 momentum and his company's progress, including a $13 million seed round completed during the year.
Also SmartCompany·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Forbes Australia
Aura Ventures maps the Web3 ecosystem, separating private blockchains from four public layers, and argues genuine value will migrate to scaling and application layers, citing its portfolio firm Lygon and Australian protocol Synthetix.
Aura Ventures sets out its blockchain thesis and announces it led seed funding in Lygon, a platform digitising bank guarantees built by a consortium of major banks and IBM.
Venture firm Reinventure has invested in Akin, an artificial intelligence startup building personal AI that mimics human intuition; the piece also notes CEO Liesl Yearsly earlier sold Cognea to IBM.