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Remy Tucker recounts moving from midwifery and brand marketing into social enterprise, explaining how her ad-supported bathroom screens offering free period products secured $1.7m seed funding and expanded across Australian cities.
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Interview with Juno founder Michelle Gilmore on her AI listening engine, fifth venture and first external funding — $2.8 million with Blackbird's Nick Crocker leading — plus early customers.
Feature on three founder-mothers — Berwick, Battersby and Fulia — balancing startups and babies; Fulia's first round closed a million dollars above plan, with Blackbird among her investors.
Missing Perspectives quizzed five women founders about their fundraising, covering raises at Constantinople, Build Club, Matilda, Sense of Self and Xylo Systems, and sharing their pitching advice.
Interview with Sunroom co-founder Michelle Battersby on her path from Bumble's first Australian employee and Kic CMO to founding the creator platform, plus investor Nick Crocker on backing the team.
Interview with Sunroom co-founder Lucy Mort on founder life and product lessons, recalling three funding rounds totalling $10.4 million from backers including Blackbird and Red Swan Ventures.
Interview with Constantinople co-founder Di Challenor on her banking career and the record $32 million seed round she and Mac Duncan raised from Square Peg, Airtree and Great Southern Bank.
Interview with Xylo Systems founder Camille Goldstone-Henry on her biodiversity tracking platform, lessons from Startmate, gender bias in venture capital, and a capital raise in progress.
Deals recorded from Missing Perspectives's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On The House | Seed | Jan 2026 | $1.7m |
Companies named in Missing Perspectives's articles, most-covered first.
| Company | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Afterwork Ventures | 1 | |
| AirTree Ventures | 2 | |
| ANZ | 1 | |
| Build Club | AI-builder community building an e-learning platform for AI education | 1 |
| Bumble | Dating app | 1 |
| Canva | Online design and visual communication platform | 2 |
| CBA | Major Australian bank where Aigentsphere founders previously held senior roles. | 1 |
| Citibank | Bank where Battersby ran a graduate program | 2 |
| Co-Ventures | 1 | |
| Constantinople | Company where Chris Dwyer worked as a founding engineer | 2 |
| Disney | 1 | |
| Dovetail | Customer insights and research platform | 1 |
| Endeavour Energy | Australian utility partner of Neara | 1 |
| Everywhere Ventures | 1 | |
| EY | Independent consultancy whose EY Parthenon report estimated the economic impact of Breakt… | 1 |
| Technology company operator of Firebase, referenced as comparison | 1 | |
| Great Southern Bank | 1 | |
| Hinge | Dating app where Lucy Mort was lead designer | 2 |
| Hulu | 1 | |
| Innocean Australia | Creative/media agency and early Juno customer | 1 |
| 2 | ||
| J.P. Morgan | 1 | |
| Kic | Wellness app | 1 |
| Leukaemia Foundation | Charity organisation and early Juno customer | 1 |
| Macquarie Group | 1 | |
| Matilda | AI-native immigration law service | 1 |
| Meta | 1 | |
| Missing Perspectives | Media outlet running the High Agency Women profile series | 1 |
| More Good Days | 1 | |
| NAB | 2 | |
| Netflix | 1 | |
| On Deck | a community and platform that, six years’ later, has gone on to create and empower a thou… | 1 |
| On The House | Free period product dispenser | 1 |
| OnlyFans | 2 | |
| Patreon | 1 | |
| Prosus Ventures | 2 | |
| Sense of Self | Startup founded by Freya Berwick with a 38-person team | 2 |
| Shopify | 2 | |
| Square Peg Capital | 2 | |
| Startmate | Early-stage investment and mentorship for founders | 2 |
| Steppen | Gen Z fitness app built and sold by Cara Davies | 2 |
| Sunroom | Women-founded app aimed at bettering women's lives | 3 |
| Taronga Zoo | 1 | |
| The Australian | News media outlet that used Juno's real-time sentiment data | 1 |
| Tinder | 1 | |
| Try Juno | AI agent for qualitative research interviews and synthesis | 1 |
| Typeform | Conversational survey software company | 1 |
| Westpac | Australian bank | 1 |
| Wollemi Capital | 1 | |
| Xylo Systems | AI biodiversity platform | 2 |
Investors named in Missing Perspectives's articles, most-covered first.
| Investor | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Blackbird Ventures | 5 |