Company
Bank providing specialised and asset finance
Sydney, NSW
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Macquarie Bank raised.
Companies Macquarie Bank acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Allan Moss | Executive (former) | Startup Daily, ferronova.com.au |
| Craig Swanger | Chief Investment Officer and Head of Innovation (former) | Stoic VC, Australian FinTech |
| Jamie Osborn | Managing Director (former) | Startup Daily |
| Jon Howie | Startup Daily, Australian FinTech (12 Jan 2024), Australian FinTech (17 Aug 2023) | |
| Paul Cilia | Executive Director (former) | Australian FinTech |
| Peter Georgiou | Senior IT Manager (former) | Square Peg Capital |
| Sam Crowther | Forbes Australia, Our Innovation Fund | |
| Trenna Probert | Head of Strategy (former) | Australian FinTech |
Stories naming Macquarie Bank. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
ResetData, half-owned by Centuria, has lined up data centre capacity from CDC, secured 72MW of power, and locked in $165m of Macquarie debt for GPU deployment.
Profiles four Australian fintechs worth watching in 2026: Fat Zebra, WeMoney, Swyftx and Block Earner, covering their growth, past acquisitions and previously secured funding rounds.
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Three seasoned agribusiness and funds figures have launched a boutique fund to buy and turn around overlooked mid-market companies in staple industries, with capital raising under way and first acquisitions planned for early 2026.
Profile of Kasada founder Sam Crowther, a Forbes Australia 30 Under 30 listee, tracing the bot-mitigation firm from a $50,000 angel-backed launch in Newcastle to global operations and lifetime funding of $39 million.
Ex-Shippit logistics executive Dominic Culbert has taken a growth role at Dyspach, a young Sydney company using AI to automate freight sales; co-founder Amit Kumar earlier sold his Addverb stake to Reliance.
Plutora's Australian arm entered administration over an ATO grant dispute, owing about $38 million. Ex-backer Macquarie Bank sold its 45 per cent stake for $1, while Enov8 and Innovo offer affected customers free migration.
Interview with Stoic Venture Capital's Guy Hedley, Craig Swanger and Geoff Waring on backing university science startups, their Uniseed partnership, a planned 2024 All Stars Fund II, and new analyst Safaa Nasrallah.
Tidal Ventures profiles team member Kieran O’Neill, who moved from KPMG and London banking through co-founding Hometime into the firm’s seed investing team in 2022.
Aura Group has appointed Dino Pesce, a financial services sales veteran, as Head of Origination in its Property Credit team, where he will help expand lending for commercial asset purchases.
Investing platform Stake has named Jon Howie its new chief executive, with co-founder Matt Leibowitz shifting to an executive director role after seven years at the helm.
Alberts profile of Brighte founder and CEO Katherine McConnell on her shift from Macquarie Bank to solar payments, the company's expansion and cutbacks, its culture, and her awards.
Podcast interview with OwnHome co-founder James Bowe covering its deposit-boost lending product, the pivot away from rent-to-buy, and its earlier seed and Series A raises.
Investment platform Stake has hired Jon Howie, a financial services veteran with past roles at BlackRock, iShares, Macquarie Bank and VGI Partners, as Chief Commercial Officer to drive product innovation and growth.
Digital lender Alex.Bank hires Oyishi Haque as business development manager for NSW/ACT, citing strong quarterly growth in settlement values and the recent full launch of its secured personal loan product.
Aura Group has hired Elizabeth Dinh, previously CEO of Acceler8 Capital, to lead its Australian real estate credit strategy serving corporate borrowers.
Klarna's Climate Transformation Fund invested over $500,000 in Western Australian carbon-capture startup InterEarth, which stores tree biomass underground; insurer Zurich has also invested, founder Howard Carr told SmartCompany.
Sydney small-business lender Shift, once known as GetCapital, has secured a Series C worth $27 million, with Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia heading the round and earlier backers also taking part.
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Adelaide cancer-focused biotech Ferronova has secured fresh backing: an investor round led by Irish strategic partner Renew Pharmaceuticals plus a federal research grant, to speed clinical trials in stomach and brain cancers.
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Adelaide biotech Ferronova announced an A$11 million package: an A$8 million round led by Ireland's Renew Pharmaceuticals plus an A$3 million government CRC-P grant, with existing shareholders Uniseed and Artesian also participating.
Capitaliz has named Nic Foster as chief executive and Paul Cilia as a non-executive director, strengthening the succession planning platform built by advisory firm Succession Plus.
BizPay is cutting about 30% of its staff amid market uncertainty while a $20 million Series C raise, pursued via convertible note since March, remains underway.
Square Peg explains its rationale for leading Athena's Series B, joined by Hostplus and Airtree, with analysis of the Australian mortgage market, the challenger lender's model, and its founding and senior team.
BizPay has opened a new funding round, aiming to secure over $20 million via convertible notes; it has raised over $45 million to date, with revenue up more than tenfold.
Bot-security firm Kasada, founded by Sam Crowther, raised $23m in a Series C led by StepStone, with OIF and Turnbull & Partners among existing backers; StepStone had recently acquired Greenspring Associates.