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Latitude

Disclosed deals

Every published round Latitude 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.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
Heidi Health	Series B	6 Oct 2025	$65m	Participant	Blackbird Ventures Headline Point72	Tech Funding News - Australia, Blackbird Ventures
Heidi Health	Series B	2025	$98m	Participant	Point72 Blackbird Ventures Headline	Startup Daily (16 Sep 2026), SmartCompany (6 May 2026), Forbes Australia, Startup Daily (24 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (23 Dec 2025), SmartCompany (23 Dec 2025), Startup Daily (25 Nov 2025), Startup Daily (10 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (10 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (6 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (6 Oct 2025)

Portfolio

Companies Latitude has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
Heidi Health	Australian HealthTech company	2025, Series B	2	0

Funds

Fund closes reported for Latitude, as distinct from the investments it has made.

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

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies Latitude has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Latitude did.

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

Name	Role	Sources
Ahmed Fahour	CEO (former)	Startup Daily

Coverage

Stories naming Latitude. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

13 deals

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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4 deals

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.

Also Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Forbes Australia

4 deals

The Ignition Lane Wrap: Life in the fast lane. And calling road service

Ignition Lane's weekly wrap: Tiger Global's losses and past Australian bets, MilkRun and TradeSquare closures, Cyara's Spearline acquisition, a Co Ventures pre-seed fund, Square Peg's partner promotion and LaunchVic's 30×30 picks.

Funding announcement

Funding continues to scale and grows the BDM Team

Gold Coast lender Funding.com.au, following a recent $37.5 million Series B raise, hires two business development managers, Nathan Armstrong and Jade Lee, to support broker and aggregator channels.

Australian FinTech 6 May 2022 CBA Freedom Property Services Funding.com.au Future Finance Group Latitude Jade Lee Lee Slattery Nathan Armstrong

Seed

Our investment in Fortiro

OIF, an Australian VC, announces a $3.5 million investment leading Fortiro's seed round, profiling the document fraud-detection startup's technology, PwC-experienced founders, and customer traction.

OIF Ventures portfolio 22 Feb 2022 Fortiro Athena Bank Australia Latitude PwC Tasmanian Government University of Melbourne Our Innovation Fund David Weber Sean Quagliani

Also OIF Ventures portfolio·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Australian FinTech

Unnamed stage US$750m

Australian fintech investment rebounds: KPMG Pulse of Fintech

KPMG's half-yearly fintech report finds Australian fintech funding rebounded in 2021, recapping local raises, listings and acquisitions alongside record global deal figures and a bullish outlook for 2022.

Australian FinTech 9 Feb 2022 Celsius 86 400 Afterpay Airwallex Alex Bank Judo KPMG KPMG International Latitude MoneyMe NAB Symple Loans Till Payments Anton Ruddenklau Dan Teper

Also SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Australian FinTech

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