Levi Fawcett: Ledger

Role	Organisation	Sources
Chief Executive	Partly	SmartCompany

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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

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Christmas comes early for 14 Aussie startups that raised $260 million this week

Weekly roundup covering 14 startup raises totalling over $260 million, headlined by Synchron's $110 million round, plus Roller's shareholder liquidity payout, Partly's record New Zealand Series A, and several government grants.

SmartCompany 16 Dec 2022 Avarni BiomeBank FairSupply GeoMoby Hysata Neighbourlytics Partly Pathzero Roller SiteHive Synchron The Yield Willow Zetifi Zipline.io 7-Eleven Aconex Artesian VC Coles LaunchVic Lendlease Microsoft TechnologyOne the New South Wales government Treasury Wine Estates Walmart Yamaha Motor Co Zambrero Acadian Software Agreement Hub AirTree Ventures Aliavia Ventures Alice Anderson Fund Antler Australia Arch Venture Partners Bezos Expeditions Birchal Blackbird Ventures Carthona Capital Clyde Bank Holdings Common Sense Ventures Ellerston Capital EVP Gates Frontier Khosla Ventures King River Capital Main Sequence Ventures METS Ignited Minderoo Foundation NSW Physical Sciences Fund Octopus Ventures Partners for Growth Previously existing shareholders QIC Ventures SecondQuarter Ventures South Australian Venture Capital Fund Square Peg Capital Sypkes Family Office The Hospital Research Foundation Tidal unnamed investors based in Europe VentureCrowd Vulpes Ventures Adrian Di Marco Leigh Jasper Rob Phillpot Anuj Paudel Dr Arne Geschke Carl Prins Jessica Christiansen-Franks Kimberly Randle Levi Fawcett Lucinda Hartley Luke Finn Mark Finn Misha Cajic Dr Rob Bryant Ros Harvey Samantha Wong Dr Sam Costello Stuart Cook Tony Yammine

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Why this executive believes a Kiwi auto parts startup could replicate Amazon’s growth

Former Amazon executive Tony Austin joins New Zealand auto parts startup Partly as chief strategy officer and co-founder; the piece recalls its 2021 pre-Series A raise and valuation.

SmartCompany 21 Apr 2022 Partly Airwallex Amazon eBay Rocket Lab Zeller Peter Beck Levi Fawcett Tony Austin

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Eight ANZ startups that raised $102 million this fortnight

Christmas comes early for 14 Aussie startups that raised $260 million this week

Why this executive believes a Kiwi auto parts startup could replicate Amazon’s growth