Ledger. Australian venture funding, tracked

Company

Nestle

Large consumer goods company that walked away from a carbon offsetting program

Campbellfield, OS

Coverage

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

Funding announcement

Touchable VR, better sexual health, ADHD focus, leaky pipes & startup hiring: Startmate reveals the clever 13 in its latest cohort

Startup Daily profiles the thirteen startups joining Startmate's Winter '25 cohort, covering healthcare AI, agent tooling, recruitment tech, retail promotions, sexual health, water leak detection, VR haptics and ADHD robotics.

Seed $1.3m

Refilled wants to save 100 million plastic bottles from the landfill

Sydney startup Refilled has raised a A$1.3 million seed round, with Melt Ventures leading and Envato's Ta'eed brothers among backers, to scale refill stations that cut single-use plastic; Google is already a customer.

Also Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Forbes Australia

4 deals

Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

Manufacturing briefs roundup: WA government commits $5m to space facility Fugro SpAARC; Starpharma and Micro-X receive R&D tax refunds; Bulla licenses Violet Crumble for ice cream; SCEE wins $50m in contracts.

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