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Name	Role	Sources
Rodrigo Cortes		SmartCompany, Startup Daily

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Eight ANZ startups that raised $102 million this fortnight

Roundup of eight Australian and New Zealand startups whose late-July funding totals $102 million across space capsules, medical devices, livestock breath analysis, sports analytics and AI crop forecasting.

SmartCompany 30 Jul 2026 Agscent Early Bird Navi Medical Technologies Octopusbot Outlier Space Partly Superstat Wellumio AFL Amazon Blinq Dairy Farmers of America Elders Eucalyptus Heineken Kirin Macquarie Group Mindset Health PepsiCo Snowball Effect Startmate AirTree Ventures Artesian VC Bioshore Ventures Blackbird Ventures Booster Cure Kids Ventures DST Global Enterprise Angels Flying Kiwi Folklore Ventures GD1 Hyper Ventures Icehouse Ventures Innovation (formerly Breakthrough) Victoria Investible Jumpspace Ventures KP Rx Medtech Actuator No Brand Nova Threshold Nuance Connected Capital Pacific Chan Pacific Channel Scale Investors Side Stage Ventures Tundra Capital Victorian government fund Alex Naoumidis Benny Kleist Brian Cartmell Chris Naoumidis Jarrod Webb Tim Doyle Alex Debney Carolina Ferreira Cordelia King Dan Cable Dr Dr Bronwyn Darlington Jamie France Kai Bloomfield Levi Fawcett Rodrigo Cortes Sam Hung

Unnamed stage $1m+

Agtech startup using AI to predict grain crops plants $1 million first raise

Sydney AI grain-forecasting startup Octopusbot has raised over $1 million from Folklore Ventures and No Brand to grow its platform and enter further commodity markets.

Startup Daily 28 Jul 2026 Octopusbot Elders Heineken Kirin PepsiCo Folklore Ventures No Brand Alister Coleman Carolina Ferreira Rodrigo Cortes

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Eight ANZ startups that raised $102 million this fortnight

Agtech startup using AI to predict grain crops plants $1 million first raise