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TechCrunch selects eight Australian startups to pitch at Startup Battlefield Australia during Stripe Tour Sydney on August 19, competing for Stripe fee credits and a Disrupt spot.
Mobility newsletter: a new autonomy index puts Chinese robotaxi operators on top; Cargofy raises $11m, XDOF $70m; Carro buys CarPlace; plus driverless partnerships and a Waymo recall.
Blackstone-backed AirTrunk, an Australian data-centre operator, plans to build 5GW of AI data-centre capacity in India by 2030, having entered the country by acquiring Lumina CloudInfra.
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Sierra, Bret Taylor's enterprise AI company, announced a $950 million round with Tiger Global and GV leading, lifting its post-money value past $15 billion; the piece also covers its ARR growth and Ghostwriter launch.
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Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang recounts turning down Stripe's billion-dollar buyout, describes building a licensed global payments network, and argues the Melbourne fintech can now challenge Stripe directly.
TechCrunch profiles Airwallex's new point-of-sale offering letting businesses take payments in person across countries, pitting the Australian firm against Stripe, Square and Adyen, and recalls its rejection of Stripe's 2019 buyout bid.
Mobility newsletter roundup: Uber's robotaxi deal with Rivian, Nvidia's automaker partnerships, Advanced Navigation's Series C, other startup raises, and acquisitions including Amazon's purchase of robotics startup Rivr.
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Canva rolls out a proprietary design model, broader AI assistant features, Forms, email design tools and Canva Grow, and makes Affinity free; the report also recalls its buyouts of MagicBrief and Affinity.
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TechCrunch profiles Alloy, a Sydney startup whose software helps robotics firms manage sensor and camera data; it has raised a pre-seed round led by Blackbird Ventures and signed four local design partners.
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Atlassian has agreed to buy DX, a tool that measures engineering team output, for $1 billion — its biggest deal yet — after also announcing The Browser Company purchase this month.
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Weekly roundup covering several startup acquisitions, a clutch of venture rounds across AI and other sectors, a Clay employee share sale, and Marathon Venture Capital's new fund close.
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AI agent platform Relevance AI has closed a Bessemer-led Series B with its earlier backers reinvesting, and is rolling out new agent-building tools while expanding its American go-to-market presence.
Melbourne-based digital business card maker Blinq has raised a $25 million Series A round, with Touring Capital leading and Blackbird, Square Peg and HubSpot Ventures joining, to grow its enterprise reach.
A fintech roundup: Bench's closure and sale to Employer.com, multiple acquisitions, fresh raises at Float Financial, Open Ledger, NomuPay and Buk, Robinhood's regulator settlement, and Groww's listing plans.
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A space industry newsletter looks ahead to 2025 missions and financing recovery, and highlights Fleet Space Technologies closing a $100 million Series D round.
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Adelaide satellite company Fleet Space has banked a $100 million Series D, with Teachers' Venture Growth leading and a $525 million valuation, to grow ExoSphere, its space-based mineral exploration platform.
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Weekly deals roundup: Typeface buys two AI startups, Workday and IBM also acquire, Flink, Intezer, GreenLite and EasyDMARC raise, and Era Ventures gathers $88 million for its debut fund.
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Typeface has bought Treat and Narrato, its third and fourth acquisitions. The article recalls Treat's $8.5m-plus raise, Narrato's $1m-plus raise, and Typeface's $165m round at a $1bn valuation.
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Linktree has bought Plann, a Sydney-based startup whose tool schedules and auto-posts social content; Plann's team, including founder Christy Laurence, joins Linktree, which will add scheduling to its link-in-bio platform.
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Fusion startup Type One Energy has pulled in a $53.5m extension to its seed round, led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures with Foxglove Ventures and GD1 taking part, to accelerate its stellarator reactor plans.
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Canva has bought Sydney-based generative AI startup Leonardo.ai, price undisclosed, taking on its 120 staff; Leonardo keeps operating separately. The piece also recalls Canva's earlier acquisitions and Leonardo's backers.
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Australian enzymatic plastics recycler Samsara Eco raised a large all-equity round led jointly by Temasek and Main Sequence, with Lululemon among other backers, funding new recycling facilities and team growth.
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Design platform Canva has launched a genuine enterprise tier with single sign-on, security and brand-management features, while its earlier product becomes a teams offering.
Profile of Airtree Ventures' use of secondary sales for early liquidity; selling part of its Canva stake paid back its debut fund while the firm kept most of its holding.
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Canva has bought UK creative software firm Affinity for roughly US$380 million in a completed deal, and its value dipped to $26 billion in a recent share sale.
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TechCrunch profile of Esper, an Australian startup preparing low-cost hyperspectral satellites, recalling its $1 million pre-seed close, grants from a foundation and the federal government, and a Techstars accelerator stint.
TechCrunch profiles Neara, an Australian startup whose AI models of electricity networks help utilities predict and manage extreme-weather risks, naming its investors and utility customers.
Linktree adds scheduling and archiving tools plus video fetching. The Australian firm also hired a chief product officer and two AI leads, and last year bought Koji and Bento.
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Melbourne food-waste startup Yume announced a A$2 million seed round from Investible's Climate Tech Fund, Launch VIC, Goodrich Group, Veolia and angel Pitzy Folk, bringing its total funding to A$7 million.
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Profile of F5 Collective, an Australian venture firm backing women-led startups across Asia-Pacific, its family-office-funded first fund, and its sponsorship of California's diversity-reporting law SB 54.
Feature on Australia's fast-growing climate tech sector, recounting raises at companies including Neara, Loam Bio, Goterra and Great Wrap, and warning that scarce growth capital and limited foreign investment could stall the industry.
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Linktree has bought rival link-in-bio service Koji from owner GoMeta for an undisclosed sum, its second such purchase of 2023 after acquiring Sequoia-backed Bento in June; Koji's product sunsets in January.
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Relevance AI, an Australian startup whose low-code platform assembles AI agent workforces, has banked a Series A round with King River Capital at the helm; Surge, Galileo Venture and Insight Partners also joined.
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Leonardo.Ai, a Sydney-based AI art platform, has raised $31 million US from Blackbird, Samsung Next and other backers, money it will put toward its enterprise push and hiring.
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Sydney carbon accounting startup Avarni raised an A$2.5 million extension round from Main Sequence, Sprint Ventures and AfterWork Ventures, following a $3 million round in November 2022, to help enterprises track supply-chain emissions.
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Sydney startup Refilled has raised a A$1.3 million seed round, with Melt Ventures leading and Envato's Ta'eed brothers among backers, to scale refill stations that cut single-use plastic; Google is already a customer.
Melbourne healthtech firm Heidi Health has pulled in A$10 million Series A capital, headed by Blackbird Ventures, to grow its AI scribe that lightens clinicians' documentation workload.
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Sydney HR-and-payroll firm Employment Hero announced a TCV-led Series F reaching unicorn valuation; the profile covers its products, remote workforce and global ambitions, citing rival raises.
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Fraud-prevention startup Darwinium, built by ThreatMetrix's co-founders, has announced an $18m Series A backed by USVP; the piece also recalls its 2022 seed round and ThreatMetrix's 2018 sale to LexisNexis.
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Equity podcast panel parses the week: California's venture disclosure law, ALIAVIA Ventures' fund for women founders, Canopy Servicing's Series A1, EVPassport's $200m deal, plus shutdowns and Blue Apron's sale.
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ALIAVIA Ventures has closed its debut fund at A$13.5 million. The US-based firm backs female founders bridging Australian and US markets; backers include Carol Schwartz, Tattarang, the Denholms, Euphemia, Dom Pym and Cynthia Scott.
Profile of BioticsAI, launching AI software that spots missed fetal abnormalities in pregnancy ultrasounds and auto-generates reports, presenting at Startup Battlefield; it has raised pre-seed money from Techstars Boston, Blackbird and Startmate.
Twelve startups, eleven American and one Australian, will join the newest cohort of Techstars' thirteen-week aerospace program, run alongside two US space bodies.
Melbourne vector-search startup Marqo has announced a $4.4 million seed round, with Blackbird Ventures leading and Creator Fund, January Capital and Cohere's co-founders also in; the piece recalls its pre-seed and rivals' raises.
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Splitit announced $60 million in committed investment from Motive Partners, Thorney and Parea Capital, tied to conditions including leaving the ASX; the piece recalls the payments firm's 2019 listing.
Linktree launches a feature letting creators embed their Threads profile and posts on their Linktree pages, following its recent Snap partnership and Threads' rapid user growth.
Australian deep tech venture firm Main Sequence announced the first close of its third fund at A$450 million, backed by new and returning limited partners, with plans to complete the raise by year-end.
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Nura, an Australian audio startup, was acqui-hired by Masimo, and its technology now appears in the first Denon-branded PerL earbuds, which have just launched.
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Sydney coding-platform JDoodle raised 3.2 million Australian dollars in a round led by Main Sequence after bootstrapping to 800,000 users, aiming for eight million within two years.
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Melbourne virtual soccer league One Future Football launched and announced a $3 million pre-seed round led by Blackbird Ventures, with several athlete investors participating.
T. Rowe Price marked down its Canva stake by 67.6%, implying a value near $13 billion versus the $40 billion set in 2021; Canva disputes the figure, citing profitable growth.
Construction materials tracking startup Qflow closed a Series A led by Systemiq Capital to grow in the US and Australia; the piece recalls earlier seed backing and lists construction industry customers.
Australian hydrogen startup Endua raised AU$11.8 million from QIC, Melt Ventures, 77 Partners, Main Sequence and Ampol to scale modular hydrogen power banks that store surplus renewable electricity for later use.
Enzyme-based plastics recycler Samsara Eco announces a multi-year partnership with Lululemon, which makes an undisclosed minority investment, its first in a recycling company.
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Australian learning platform Go1 is buying Berlin's Blinkist to grow its corporate training offering; deal terms are undisclosed, though Blinkist backer Insight Partners is taking $30 million of Go1 equity alongside the purchase.
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Customisable headphone maker Nura has been acqui-hired by medical device firm Masimo, with its team and technology folded into Denon; the Nura brand will be sunset once remaining inventory is sold.
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Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has raised a $10 million round led by Horizons Ventures to develop neuron-based biological computing, with several venture firms participating.
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NovoNutrients uses bacteria to convert carbon dioxide into protein and has secured a three million dollar technology and investment deal with Woodside Energy to build a pilot-scale plant.
Australian cultivated meat company Vow unveiled a mammoth meatball made with engineered mammoth DNA; the article recalls its $49.2 million funding round from months earlier.
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Deals recorded from TechCrunch Australia's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apate.ai | Accelerator | 5 Aug 2026 | $11.4m | |
| Preve | Accelerator | 5 Aug 2026 | - | |
| Sierra | Series D+ | 4 May 2026 | $950m | |
| Alloy | Pre-seed | 23 Sep 2025 | $4.5m+ | |
| Blinq | Accelerator | 18 Jul 2025 | $25m | |
| Relevance AI | Series B | 6 May 2025 | $24m | |
| Fleet Space Technologies | Series D+ | 20 Dec 2024 | $100m | |
| Type One Energy | Seed | 2 Aug 2024 | US$82.5m (A$127m) | |
| Samsara Eco | Series A | 26 Jun 2024 | $100m | |
| Yume | Seed | 29 Jan 2024 | $2m | |
| Relevance AI | Series A | 11 Dec 2023 | $15m | |
| Leonardo.Ai | undisclosed | 6 Dec 2023 | $47m | |
| Avarni | Pre-seed | 21 Nov 2023 | $2.5m | |
| Refilled | Seed | 16 Nov 2023 | $1.3m | |
| Heidi Health | Series A | 25 Oct 2023 | $10m | |
| Employment Hero | Series D+ | 19 Oct 2023 | $263m | |
| Darwinium | Series A | 18 Oct 2023 | $18m | |
| Living Carbon | Series A | Oct 2023 | US$21m (A$32.5m) | |
| BioticsAI | Accelerator | 15 Sep 2023 | - | |
| Marqo | Seed | 16 Aug 2023 | $8.1m | |
| Goterra | Bridge / extension | Aug 2023 | $6.5m | |
| One Future Football | Pre-seed | 20 Jun 2023 | $3m | |
| JDoodle | Seed | 14 Jun 2023 | $3m | |
| Endua | Pre-seed | 26 May 2023 | $11.8m | |
| Fleet Space Technologies | Series C | 24 May 2023 | $50m | |
| Samsara Eco | undisclosed | 18 May 2023 | - | |
| Go1 | undisclosed | 9 May 2023 | $30m | |
| Cortical Labs | Unnamed stage | 20 Apr 2023 | $15m | |
| Loam Bio | Series B | 13 Feb 2023 | $105m | |
| Samsara Eco | Series A | 28 Nov 2022 | $54m | |
| Vow | Series A | 14 Nov 2022 | $49.2m | |
| Darwinium | Seed | 11 Nov 2022 | $10m | |
| Avarni | Unnamed stage | Nov 2022 | $3m | |
| Go1 | Unnamed stage | May 2022 | $100m | |
| Advanced Navigation | undisclosed | 2022 | $108m | |
| Marqo | Pre-seed | 2022 | $840k | |
| Canva | Series A | 2015 | $6m |
Companies named in TechCrunch Australia's articles, most-covered first.
| Company | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Zoox | Robo-taxi company | 1 |
| Zip Co | 1 | |
| Zip | Buy now pay later fintech | 2 |
| Zeetings | 1 | |
| Yume | Platform helping manufacturers redistribute surplus packaged food to businesses and chari… | 1 |
| Wunderman Thompson | 1 | |
| WPP | 1 | |
| Worldpay | 1 | |
| Workday | Cloud-native HRIS/ERP software company | 3 |
| Woolworths | Australian grocery retailer using electric truck delivery fleets | 2 |
| Wollemi Capital Group | 1 | |
| Wix | 1 | |
| Whole Green Foods | Food waste startup converting waste into usable ingredients | 1 |
| Westpac | Australian bank | 1 |
| WeRide | 1 | |
| Webflow | 1 | |
| Waze | Partnered with FloodMapp | 1 |
| Wayve | 2 | |
| Waymo | 1 | |
| Vow | Cultivated meat company | 1 |
| Volkswagen | 1 | |
| Vitu | 1 | |
| Varda Space Industries | Space manufacturing company that grew and returned crystalline pharmaceutical compounds f… | 1 |
| v2food | 1 | |
| v2 | Alternative protein company. | 1 |
| US Space Force | 1 | |
| US Securities and Exchange Commission | 1 | |
| US National Reconnaissance Office | 1 | |
| Up Bank | Digital bank in Australia | 1 |
| UNSW Founders | 1 | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 | |
| University of Technology Sydney | 1 | |
| University of Sydney | 1 | |
| University of Queensland | Research university where Cortisonic's underlying phononic computing research originated | 1 |
| University of New South Wales | 1 | |
| University of Melbourne | University operating the Melbourne Connect innovation precinct | 1 |
| Unilever | Brand using Zitcha's platform | 1 |
| Uber | Ride-hailing and delivery platform | 4 |
| Typeface | 2 | |
| Type One Energy | Advancing fusion energy. | 1 |
| 1 | ||
| Treat | 2 | |
| Trawalla Group | 1 | |
| Toyota | 1 | |
| threatMetrix | 1 | |
| Thoma Bravo | American private equity and growth capital firm | 1 |
| This One | 1 | |
| The Sydney Greenhouse Tech Hub | 1 | |
| The Browser Company | 1 | |
| Thales | 1 | |
| Tesserent | 1 | |
| Tesla | 2 | |
| Techstars | 2 | |
| TechCrunch | Media outlet hosting Startup Battlefield | 2 |
| TCS | 1 | |
| SwitchDin | Develops energy management software for solar and batteries | 1 |
| Suki | Offers ambient-voice or AI-scribe solutions | 1 |
| Stripe | 3 | |
| Stellar Ventures | 1 | |
| Stellantis | 1 | |
| Startupplaybook | Podcast and community for entrepreneurs and investors | 1 |
| Startmate | Early-stage investment and mentorship for founders | 1 |
| StageLabel | 1 | |
| Square | 2 | |
| Spotify | 3 | |
| Splitit | 1 | |
| SpaceX | Aerospace company operating the Starlink satellite constellation and orbital launch servi… | 2 |
| Southern California Edison | US utility partner of Neara | 2 |
| Sony | 1 | |
| Sonalytic | 1 | |
| SoftBank | 1 | |
| Sodexo | 1 | |
| Snapchat | 1 | |
| Snap | 1 | |
| Smartmockups | 1 | |
| Sierra | global customer service player | 1 |
| Shift | A leading provider of credit and payment products to Australian businesses | 1 |
| ServiceNow | Enterprise workflow automation platform | 1 |
| Sequoia Capital China | Heavy-hitter investor in v2food | 2 |
| Sequoia | 4 | |
| Seer | Company of panellist George Fox | 1 |
| SecondBite | National food redistribution charity where Katy Barfield was previously founding CEO | 1 |
| Scottish Power | UK utility partner of Neara | 1 |
| Schneider Electric | 1 | |
| SAP | 1 | |
| Samsung | 1 | |
| Samsara Eco | AI-powered enzyme discovery platform for recycling plastics at scale | 4 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 1 | |
| Salesforce | Software company | 4 |
| SafetyCulture | Workplace safety and operations software company. | 1 |
| SA Power Networks | Australian utility partner of Neara | 1 |
| Rocket Lab | Commercial aerospace company and global launch provider. | 1 |
| Robinhood | 1 | |
| Rivian | 1 | |
| RISE | U.S. nonprofit supporting climate change resilience tech | 1 |
| Rippling | 1 | |
| Relevance AI | 2 | |
| Regrow | AI company in a whitespace industry, likely agriculture-related | 1 |
| Refilled | 1 | |
| Ramp | 2 | |
| Rainstick | Plant stimulation technology company | 1 |
| Raini Studios | gaming studio | 1 |
| QuintessenceLabs | Quantum physics data security tools | 1 |
| Quasar Sat | 1 | |
| Qualified | 1 | |
| Qflow | 1 | |
| Q-CTRL | 1 | |
| Prosus Ventures | 1 | |
| Preve | Helps physical therapy clinics improve patient retention and clinical outcomes | 1 |
| Pony.ai | 1 | |
| Polk Audio | 2 | |
| Plann | Sydney social media scheduling platform | 1 |
| Plaid | 1 | |
| Pixabay | 1 | |
| Pi Labs | 1 | |
| Pexels | 1 | |
| PepsiCo | 2 | |
| Othelia AI | 1 | |
| Orbit Fab | 1 | |
| OpenAI | AI company | 8 |
| Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan | 1 | |
| One Future Football | 1 | |
| Odesli | automated music link aggregation platform | 1 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory | US research laboratory where Quantum Brilliance installed quantum processor units | 1 |
| Nvidia | Technology company developing platforms for AI computing including orbital compute. | 1 |
| Nura | 2 | |
| NovoNutrients | 1 | |
| Notion | Productivity and note-taking software company | 1 |
| Nissan | 1 | |
| New York Stock Exchange | 1 | |
| Netflix | 1 | |
| Nestle | Large consumer goods company that walked away from a carbon offsetting program | 1 |
| Nemo Science Museum | 1 | |
| Neara | Critical infrastructure digital twin modelling company | 2 |
| NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 1 | |
| NASA | Space agency and customer of Advanced Navigation | 1 |
| Narrato | 2 | |
| Multiplex | 1 | |
| Moody's | 1 | |
| Monash University | University partnered on Remagine Labs spin-out | 1 |
| Mobileye | 1 | |
| MIT | University whose Orbit AI platform provides AI-powered guidance to entrepreneurs. | 1 |
| Mind Robotics | 1 | |
| Midjourney | 2 | |
| Microsoft | 6 | |
| MGA Thermal | Developer of Miscibility Gaps Alloy blocks for industrial thermal energy storage | 1 |
| Meta | 3 | |
| Mercedes-Benz | 1 | |
| Melbourne Angels | 1 | |
| Medium | 1 | |
| Masimo | 2 | |
| Mars Food and Nutrition | Manufacturer working with Yume | 1 |
| Marqo | AI company powering ecommerce search | 1 |
| MagicBrief | 1 | |
| Lumina CloudInfra | Indian data centre operator | 1 |
| Lucid | 1 | |
| Loupe | 1 | |
| Loam Bio | Agtech company developing microbial soil-carbon technology and farmer carbon projects | 1 |
| Living Carbon | Creates photosynthesis-enhanced trees to capture carbon | 1 |
| Linktree | 6 | |
| 1 | ||
| LexisNexis | 1 | |
| Leonardo.Ai | AI art production platform for consumers and enterprise users | 2 |
| LeadStory | Video intelligence layer powering the next generation of screens | 1 |
| LAUNCH | 1 | |
| KPMG Australia | 1 | |
| Koji | two-year-old Linktree competitor | 3 |
| Kodiak | 1 | |
| Klarna | Payments and buy-now-pay-later company | 2 |
| Kellanova | Manufacturer working with Yume | 1 |
| Kaleido | visual AI company | 1 |
| JDoodle | 1 | |
| Jacobs | 1 | |
| J.P. Morgan | 1 | |
| Intezer | 1 | |
| Intercom | Customer support software company with AI agent products | 1 |
| Imperva | 1 | |
| Immutable | 1 | |
| IBM | Technology company providing private blockchain infrastructure | 1 |
| IBB | 1 | |
| Hyundai | 1 | |
| Hydrosat | 1 | |
| Hungry Jack’s | Aussie Burger King, owner is joint venture partner in v2food | 1 |
| Humi | Canadian rival | 1 |
| Hugging Face | 1 | |
| HubSpot | Public software company mentioned as example of falling valuations | 2 |
| HowToo | 1 | |
| Hibob | 1 | |
| Heidi Health | Australian HealthTech company | 1 |
| Headline | 1 | |
| Harvard | 1 | |
| Greylock | 1 | |
| Greycroft | 1 | |
| Greenoaks Capital | 1 | |
| GreenLite | 1 | |
| Great Wrap | Makes compostable cling wrap out of potato peels and food waste | 1 |
| Goterra | Sustainable biotech startup processing food waste using insects, now in liquidation | 2 |
| GoPuff | 1 | |
| Technology company operator of Firebase, referenced as comparison | 4 | |
| GoMeta | 1 | |
| Go1 | Startup that reached unicorn status in 1H 2021 | 1 |
| Go Remote | 1 | |
| GM | 1 | |
| Global Payments | American payments company that acquired Ezidebit in 2014 | 1 |
| GitHub | 1 | |
| Gilmour Space | Queensland rocket builder and launchpad scaleup | 1 |
| Get Glossy | 1 | |
| General Fusion | 1 | |
| Geely | 1 | |
| Gatik | 1 | |
| Foodbomb | Wholesale food and beverage ordering platform acquired by Ordermentum | 1 |
| FloodMapp | Flood mapping and prediction technology company | 1 |
| Flink | 1 | |
| Fleet Space Technologies | nano satellite startup | 2 |
| Fiserv | a provider of payments and financial services technology | 1 |
| Firefly Aerospace | 1 | |
| Eugene | Genomics company helping Australians make informed health decisions in areas such as carr… | 1 |
| Eucalyptus | 1 | |
| Essential Energy | Australian utility partner of Neara | 1 |
| Esper Satellite Imagery | 1 | |
| Esper | 1 | |
| ESB Networks | Irish utility partner of Neara | 1 |
| Envato | 1 | |
| Entrepreneur First | 1 | |
| Endua | Queensland energy company backed by Main Sequence. | 2 |
| Endeavour Energy | Australian utility partner of Neara | 1 |
| Employment Hero | Another Australian company backed by TCV | 2 |
| Employer.com | 2 | |
| EMPACT Engineering | 1 | |
| Elevacao | 1 | |
| EDF | Energy company where Hachiko's founder previously worked | 1 |
| Eden Brew | Animal-free dairy company | 1 |
| DX | developer productivity insight platform | 1 |
| Drizly | 1 | |
| Dolby Family Ventures | 1 | |
| Denon | 2 | |
| Delta | 1 | |
| Deel | 1 | |
| Day One Ventures | 1 | |
| Datadog | Monitoring and security platform | 1 |
| Databricks | Data and AI platform | 1 |
| Darwinium | 1 | |
| CSIRO | Australia's national science research agency, from which Terria spun out | 2 |
| Cortical Labs | synthetic biology startup | 1 |
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems | MIT spinout developing tokamak fusion power, building the SPARC prototype and the planned… | 1 |
| Coinbase | US crypto exchange | 2 |
| Cohere | 1 | |
| Coca Cola | 1 | |
| Cloudflare | 1 | |
| Closedloop | 1 | |
| Climate Salad | 1 | |
| Clearwater Analytics | 1 | |
| Clay | 1 | |
| Character.AI | 1 | |
| Cauldron | 1 | |
| Carta | 1 | |
| Canva | Online design and visual communication platform | 6 |
| California | 1 | |
| BYD | Automotive and battery manufacturer | 1 |
| Brex | 2 | |
| Breakthrough Victoria | 1 | |
| Bowers and Wilkins | 2 | |
| Bosch | 1 | |
| Boeing | Parent company of drone maker Insitu. | 1 |
| Blue Origin | Aerospace company targeting large-scale satellite constellation deployment. | 1 |
| Blue Apron | 1 | |
| Blinq | Digital business card product aiming to help people connect and share details quickly | 2 |
| Blinkist | 1 | |
| Blackstone | Investment firm where Kelly Vohs is an alum | 1 |
| BioticsAI | 1 | |
| Bento | Sequoia-backed European link-in-bio startup | 3 |
| Bardee | Startup turning food waste into protein and fertilizer | 1 |
| AWS CloudFront | 1 | |
| AWS | Cloud computing platform | 1 |
| Avarni | 1 | |
| Australian Securities Exchange | 1 | |
| Australian National University | University from which Liquid Instruments spun out | 1 |
| Australian Government | 1 | |
| Australia's Economic Accelerator | federal government program | 1 |
| Atlassian | Australian software company referenced as Accel's earlier investment. | 3 |
| Athena | Sydney, Australia-based online lending startup focused on home loans | 1 |
| Apple | 1 | |
| Apate.ai | Helps banks, telcos, and governments dismantle scam operations | 1 |
| Angel City FC | 1 | |
| Ampjar | 1 | |
| Amazon Web Services | 1 | |
| Amazon | Global e-commerce and technology company | 4 |
| Alloy | 1 | |
| Alder properties | 1 | |
| Airwallex | Fintech payments and financial infrastructure company | 2 |
| AirTrunk | Data centre operator, subject of a major acquisition in Australia | 1 |
| Airbnb | US home-sharing platform | 1 |
| Aigentsphere | Platform for managing and governing enterprise AI agents | 1 |
| Affirm | 1 | |
| Affinity | British design software company | 3 |
| Aeona | 1 | |
| Adyen | Payments infrastructure company | 2 |
| Advanced Navigation | Navigation technology company using AI, robotics and sensing for GPS-independent position… | 2 |
| ADP | 1 | |
| Adobe | Public software company mentioned as example of falling valuations | 3 |
| Adani Group | 1 | |
| Activision | 1 | |
| Abridge | AI healthcare documentation company | 1 |
| 11x | 1 |
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