Government · 2 deals

the New South Wales government

Disclosed deals

Every published round the New South Wales government 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
Sunman Group	Grant	2 Dec 2025	$171m	Participant	ARENA New South Wales state government the federal government Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)Government of New South Wales	RenewEconomy (2 Dec 2025), RenewEconomy (2 Dec 2025), ARENA
Hiringa Energy	Grant	4 Aug 2023	$35.8m	Lead	NSW Government	RenewEconomy, @AuManufacturing, AgFunderNews (3 Aug 2023), AgFunderNews (2 Aug 2023)

Portfolio

Companies the New South Wales government has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
Hiringa Energy	Proponent of the Good Earth green hydrogen and ammonia project near Moree	4 Aug 2023, Grant	1	1
Sunman Group	Maker of lightweight flexible eArc solar panels, building the Hunter Valley Solar Foundry	2 Dec 2025, Grant	1	0

Funds

Fund closes reported for the New South Wales government, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for the New South Wales government yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies the New South Wales government has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal the New South Wales government did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of the New South Wales government is recorded as having been acquired.

Coverage

Stories naming the New South Wales government. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

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The Week in AgriFoodTech: Konscious Foods snags $26m for alt-seafood, Ocean 14 Capital reels in $33m

Weekly agrifoodtech roundup reporting Konscious Foods' seed raise, commitments into Ocean 14 Capital's blue economy fund, LIVEKINDLY's acquisition of Alpha Foods, several grants, and a Wiliot advisor hire.

Also AgFunderNews

Grant $35.8m

Exclusive: Hiringa Energy & Sundown Pastoral bag $23.6m from NSW govt for green hydrogen and ammonia project

The New South Wales government has granted Hiringa Energy and Sundown Pastoral Co money for a green hydrogen and ammonia facility at Sundown's Good Earth cotton farm near Moree.

AgFunderNews 2 Aug 2023 Hiringa Energy AgFunder DCVC Nium Sundown Pastoral Company the New South Wales government David Heard David Statham

Also AgFunderNews·@AuManufacturing·RenewEconomy

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Christmas comes early for 14 Aussie startups that raised $260 million this week

Weekly roundup covering 14 startup raises totalling over $260 million, headlined by Synchron's $110 million round, plus Roller's shareholder liquidity payout, Partly's record New Zealand Series A, and several government grants.

SmartCompany 16 Dec 2022 Avarni BiomeBank FairSupply GeoMoby Hysata Neighbourlytics Partly Pathzero Roller SiteHive Synchron The Yield Willow Zetifi Zipline.io 7-Eleven Aconex Artesian VC Coles LaunchVic Lendlease Microsoft TechnologyOne the New South Wales government Treasury Wine Estates Walmart Yamaha Motor Co Zambrero Acadian Software Agreement Hub AirTree Ventures Aliavia Ventures Alice Anderson Fund Antler Australia Arch Venture Partners Bezos Expeditions Birchal Blackbird Ventures Carthona Capital Clyde Bank Holdings Common Sense Ventures Ellerston Capital EVP Gates Frontier Khosla Ventures King River Capital Main Sequence Ventures METS Ignited Minderoo Foundation NSW Physical Sciences Fund Octopus Ventures Partners for Growth Previously existing shareholders QIC Ventures SecondQuarter Ventures South Australian Venture Capital Fund Square Peg Capital Sypkes Family Office The Hospital Research Foundation Tidal unnamed investors based in Europe VentureCrowd Vulpes Ventures Adrian Di Marco Leigh Jasper Rob Phillpot Anuj Paudel Dr Arne Geschke Carl Prins Jessica Christiansen-Franks Kimberly Randle Levi Fawcett Lucinda Hartley Luke Finn Mark Finn Misha Cajic Dr Rob Bryant Ros Harvey Samantha Wong Dr Sam Costello Stuart Cook Tony Yammine

Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Techboard·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup News (WA)·Startup News (WA)

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FUNDED MARCH 2022

Techboard's March 2022 roundup of Australian funding: megadeals by Immutable, Saluda Medical, Linktree and Zeller, many smaller raises, acquisitions, an IPO, several fund closes, and companies still seeking capital.

Techboard 18 Apr 2022 Access Capital Ventures Atlassian BGH Capital Bridgit Bunsters Canibuild Cape Carthona Capital Cascade Cassava Bags Chief Nutrition Chimeric Therapeutics DataMesh Funding.com.au Gathar Gilmour Space IFM Investors Immutable Language Confidence Linktree Mastt Next Science Plotlogic Saluda Medical Samsara Eco Upstreet Zeller Zepto Advanced Artesian Ventures Beyond the Billion Blackbird Ventures Ellume Health Equitise Halo Technologies Holdings Hero Packaging Iris Energy Microba Life Sciences NeXTRADE World Perennial Value Management Portt PostHarvest Technologies Potentum partners Premonition Prota Therapeutics ScotPac Shippit the New South Wales government Tic:Toc Tiiik Uniseed Volt Bank Vulpes Investment Management Wattle Hill Capital West Australian government Xpansiv Data Systems AirTree Ventures Albert Tse BHP Birchal EVP Investible Modern Manufacturing Initiative – Collaboration (MMI-C)Moelis Australia NAB Ventures OIF Ventures UniSuper Curtis Stone Albert Tse

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