Ledger. Australian venture funding, tracked

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PointsBet

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

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Data-scraping bot blocker backed by Malcolm Turnbull pockets $30 million

Bot defence firm Kasada has secured $30 million from EQT plus earlier backers Turnbull & Partners, Reinventure, Main Sequence, OIF, StepStone and Ten Eleven, with founder Sam Crowther back in Sydney.

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Hawke's Brewing and Bare Funerals toast $1 million media-for-equity deals

Scaleup Mediafund's $15 million third fund has made its first two investments, backing Hawke's Brewing and Bare with roughly $1 million in advertising apiece; oOh!media joined as an investor.

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Blast OIF | 23 things from 2023

OIF Ventures' year in review: full Eftsure exit, Opportunity Fund close, Visory, DataMasque and Nullify backed, follow-ons at Inspace and Dataweavers, new team members and portfolio milestones.

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Crypto exchanges Binance and Kraken back anti-fraud regtech FrankieOne in $23 million Series A top up

Fraud and identity verification company FrankieOne has added $23 million to its Series A, led by AirTree and Greycroft, with crypto exchange venture arms Binance Labs and Kraken Ventures joining as new strategic backers.

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AirTree and Greycroft return to lead Australian regtech FrankieOne's Series A+

Melbourne identity verification startup FrankieOne raised a $23 million AUD Series A+ extension led by AirTree Ventures and Greycroft, with new strategic backing from Binance Labs and Kraken Ventures, to fund international expansion.

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