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Firmus is floating on the ASX this month, offering up to US$5.5 billion, with half earmarked for existing backers including Nvidia, Coatue, Blackstone and Jane Street from its August round.
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Bending Spoons is buying collaboration software maker Miro in a cash deal, with some Miro shareholders reinvesting proceeds into the buyer's equity; the acquirer also recently bought Airtable.
SUBCO signed a US$300 million deal giving Firmus long-term capacity on its APX East subsea cable; the article also notes Firmus's recent US$2 billion raise and planned Tasmanian data centres.
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REA Group has created its first chief AI officer role and appointed Thyago Liberalli, a long-serving Seek AI leader, to it; he reports to CTO Steve Maidment.
Profile of the Avnet partnership that helped Liquid Instruments scale its Moku:Pro hardware from design to volume manufacturing; also notes the Canberra firm's recent $50m Series C with Keysight co-leading.
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Australian textile-emissions startup Xefco closed a $10.5 million round led by Main Sequence, with new backers Breakthrough Victoria and Virescent Ventures; existing shareholders Investible and Voyagers back commercialisation of its Ausora technology.
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Applications open for NSW's program supporting 300 female founders, delivered by Tech Ready Women; alumnus Zondii's founder recalls her 2021 seed raise.
Construction tech firm Buildxact has completed a Series A round led by Regal Funds Management with several other backers, to fund overseas growth and product development; the deal values it at $125 million.
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Deals recorded from iTnews's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firmus Technologies | undisclosed | 4 Aug 2026 | $100m | |
| Liquid Instruments | Series C | 2026 | $50m | |
| Xefco | Seed | 29 Apr 2024 | $10.5m | |
| Buildxact | Series A | 1 Feb 2022 | $18.5m | |
| Danielle Morton | Accelerator | 2021 | - |
Companies named in iTnews's articles, most-covered first.
| Company | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Blackstone | Investment firm where Kelly Vohs is an alum | 2 |
| Coatue | 2 | |
| Firmus Technologies | GPU-powered AI cloud and scalable compute infrastructure | 2 |
| Jane Street | 2 | |
| Nvidia | Technology company developing platforms for AI computing including orbital compute. | 2 |
| Airtable | 1 | |
| Avnet | Partner that understands what happens between a breakthrough and a shipped product | 1 |
| Bank of America | 1 | |
| Buildxact | 1 | |
| Clean Energy Finance Corporation | 1 | |
| Investible | 1 | |
| JP Morgan | 1 | |
| Liquid Instruments | Maker of reconfigurable measurement devices originating from ANU research | 1 |
| Miro | 1 | |
| Morgan Stanley | Investment bank where Gabrielle Munzer previously worked | 1 |
| Morgans | 1 | |
| NSW Government | 1 | |
| REA Group | real estate and proptech group | 1 |
| SEEK | Online employment marketplace co-founded in 1997 | 1 |
| SUBCO | Operator of a large program of undersea cable projects connecting Australia to the world | 1 |
| Sydney Startup Hub | 1 | |
| Tech Ready Women | 1 | |
| Telstra | Telecommunications company | 1 |
| Voyagers Climate-Tech Fund | 1 | |
| Xefco | Deep tech company using plasma-based deposition technology to dye and finish textiles wit… | 1 |
| Zondii | Working to provide a real-time smartphone verification and validation solution for the fo… | 1 |
Investors named in iTnews's articles, most-covered first.
| Investor | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough Victoria | 1 | |
| Keysight Technologies | 1 | |
| Main Sequence Ventures | 1 | |
| Ophir Asset Management | 1 | |
| Possible Ventures | 1 | |
| Regal Funds Management | 1 | |
| SecondQuarter Ventures | Liquidity solutions for investors, staff and founders | 1 |
| Shearwater Capital | 1 | |
| Thorney Opportunities | 1 | |
| Virescent Ventures | 1 | |
| Washington H, Soul Pattinson | 1 |