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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #180, 4th October 2026

Weekly roundup reporting Australian startup funding rounds and government grants, a venture fund close, agreed acquisitions, an IPO pricing, a collapse, plus executive hires and AI policy developments.

No customers: Plans for Townsville hydrogen project scrapped after failing to find buyers for the product

Edify Energy has shelved its Townsville green hydrogen plant for want of buyers, pivoting to solar and storage builds; governments are separately seeking repayment of hydrogen subsidies, including from Fortescue's closed Gladstone plant.

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The Week in AgriFoodTech: Fly farmer catches $58m, new deals for restaurant tech, TR4-resistant bananas

Weekly agrifoodtech roundup covering startup funding rounds, two venture fund closes, executive appointments, and new products such as a disease-resistant banana and 3D-printed protein.

The Week in AgriFoodTech: eFishery snaps up $30m, impact VC Pollination launches $150m fund

Roundup of the week's agrifoodtech news: an Indonesian aquaculture startup's US$30m debt raise, a Queensland-backed climate fund close, several smaller raises, a micro-fulfillment firm's bankruptcy filing and an ag-analytics platform shutting down.

Pioneering VC fund Uniseed doubles its backers as five universities, including Monash, UTS and Macquarie, chip in

Uniseed adds Monash and a four-university NSW collaboration, lifting its third fund by $6.75 million to $56.75 million; the article recalls past portfolio sales to Novartis, Shire and Schneider Electric.