Company

Schneider Electric

Disclosed deals

Every published round Schneider Electric took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
No published deals recorded yet.

Portfolio

Companies Schneider Electric has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
No portfolio companies recorded yet.

Funds

Fund closes reported for Schneider Electric, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for Schneider Electric yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies Schneider Electric has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Schneider Electric did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of Schneider Electric is recorded as having been acquired.

What Schneider Electric bought

Companies Schneider Electric acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Autra	Acquisition	5 Apr 2022	-	Startup Daily (15 Nov 2023), @AuManufacturing (6 Apr 2022), Startup Daily (5 Apr 2022), Startup Daily (25 Mar 2022), ARN (ARNnet), @AuManufacturing (14 Mar 2022)

People

Name	Role	Sources
Colette Munro	Pacific Zone President	Dealroom
Pedro Robredo	VP of Digital Transformer Services	ARN (ARNnet), @AuManufacturing
Terry Woodcroft	Digital Transformer Services Offer Management, Support and Marketing Lead (former)	Startup Daily, ARN (ARNnet), @AuManufacturing

Coverage

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

10 deals

SQC among 6 startups sharing $12.3 million in quantum grants

Six Australian quantum startups, including Silicon Quantum Computing and QuantX Labs, have received federal grants totalling $12.3 million under the Critical Technologies Challenge Program for projects in energy, health, biosecurity and logistics.

Startup Daily 5 Oct 2026 Avicena Systems FeBI iQ Sense Q Factorial QuantX Labs Silicon Quantum Computing Schneider Electric Siemens Swinburne University of Technology Tech Council UNSW Critical Technologies Challenge Program Defence NRF Corporation SmartSat CRC Professor Andre Luiten Professor Michelle Simmons

2 deals

Gratifii acquires Simplicity Australasia

ASX-listed rewards firm Gratifii has announced a deal taking over Auckland-based points specialist Simplicity Australasia, backed by a freshly secured $10m placement that also funds a stake in marketplace business Marketplacer.

firestrike.ai 29 May 2026 Gratifii Marketplacer Dulux Genesis Schneider Electric Simplicity Australasia Gratifii's board of directors

Also Dealroom·grafa.com

Fund close $6.8m

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.

4 deals

Queensland mining tech startup unearths $43 million in Series B

Brisbane ore-scanning company Plotlogic has raised a Series B with Galvanise, Schneider Electric's venture arm and CSIRO's Main Sequence participating, the latter drawing on a freshly announced $450 million fund.

Also @AuManufacturing·SmartCompany·Forbes Australia·Forbes Australia

Grant $871k

Utilising local power poles for street-side EV charging

The renewable energy agency funds a company's trial putting fifty electric vehicle chargers on street power poles across nine New South Wales council areas, with partners supplying hardware, charging services and green power.

ARENA 30 Aug 2022 Intellihub EVSE Inner West Council Northern Beaches Origin Energy Schneider Electric Waverley Woollahra Australian Renewable Energy Agency Darren Miller Wes Ballantine

Unnamed stage $30m

Leading Edge DC secures $30M for regional network rollout

Leading Edge Data Centres has received a 30 million dollar equity investment from DigitalBridge Group to speed up its regional Australian edge data centre expansion over the next two years.

ARN (ARNnet) 9 May 2022 Leading Edge Data Centres Cisco Megaport Schneider Electric DigitalBridge Chris Thorpe

2 deals

Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

Manufacturing roundup: 3D Metalforge raises funds via placement, Recce Pharmaceuticals lands an R&D tax rebate, CoDeAc unveils a nuclear detection solution, A2EP plans a webinar, and Varley Rafael advances local missile production.

@AuManufacturing 29 Mar 2022 Recce Pharmaceuticals Australian Alliance for Energy Productivity (A2EP)Australian Defence Force Cablex Schneider Electric Thales Varley Holdings Australian Tax Office James Graham

Fund close $75m

UniSuper tips $75 million into early stage VC Uniseed

UniSuper commits $75 million to Uniseed, the research commercialisation fund owned by four universities and CSIRO, its first venture investment; past portfolio sales to Schneider Electric, RTP Co and Novartis are recalled.

Startup Daily 25 Mar 2022 Uniseed Autra CSIRO Novartis International Schneider Electric Spinifex TenasiTech University of Melbourne University of New South Wales University of Queensland University of Sydney UniSuper John Pearce Dr Peter Devine

Exit / M&A

Schneider Electric completes acquisition of Australian IoT company

Schneider Electric has finished buying Aurtra, a University of Queensland power-asset-monitoring spinout. Its sensor technology and team, including co-founder Terry Woodcroft, now sit inside the French group's digital transformer services business.

@AuManufacturing 14 Mar 2022 Autra Schneider Electric University of Queensland Pedro Robredo Terry Woodcroft

Also ARN (ARNnet)·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing

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