Navi banks $6.8M to take its newborn catheter tech into US hospitals

The Melbourne-and-Boston medtech has FDA clearance and A$6.8 million to bring its neonatal catheter-placement device into US children's hospitals.

Outlier Space lands a record New Zealand pre-seed to manufacture in orbit

The Auckland startup and Rocket Lab spin-out wants to make drugs in orbit, then bring them safely back to Earth in a reusable capsule.

Octopusbot lands $1M to help forecast crop production for farmers

The Sydney agtech says its AI can forecast grain harvests with 95%-plus accuracy up to seven months before official estimates.

Superstat raises $3.5M pre-seed to bring pro game analysis to team sport at every level

The Blackbird-backed Startmate graduate uses computer vision to turn raw match footage into elite-grade analytics, starting with basketball.

Agscent raises $5M to teach AI how to smell, starting with pregnant cows

The NSW agtech uses a NASA-derived "electronic nose" to detect cattle pregnancy in 10 seconds, more than doubling its valuation to $26.9M.

CullBeck raises NZ$20M Seed round to make green iron

The Wellington deep-tech spin-out swaps coal for hydrogen — and says the result is simply cheaper iron that happens to be very green.

Lug+Carrie raises $18M in debt to fund US expansion of eBike subscription service

The Melbourne eBike subscription startup has secured an $18M asset-backed debt facility to grow its fleet across Australia and the US West Coast — without giving up equity.

AdvanCell closes a US$315 million Series D for targeted radiation therapy to fight tumours

The Brisbane radiopharma company has landed what looks like the largest private biotech raise in Australian history, pushing its prostate-cancer alpha therapy toward Phase 3.

BlueNexus lands $2M to help experts build AI agents

The Sydney startup, backed by M31 Capital, wants to take domain experts from idea to a revenue-generating AI agent in about the time it takes to drink a coffee.

Gridcog charges up with $12.5M Series A to kill the spreadsheet in renewable energy modelling

The Sydney energy-modelling startup raises an oversubscribed $12.5M Series A, led by ABB Electrification Ventures, to replace messy spreadsheets with fast simulation.

ESGAgent secures a Seed round for an AI-compliance platform for heavy industry

The Brisbane startup, backed by DNX Ventures, wants to compress sustainability and safety reporting for miners and manufacturers from months to hours.

Hyades secures $910k pre-seed for hyperspectral foundational model

The Auckland spatial-AI lab wants to turn insurers', miners' and farmers' messy map-based data into a single, AI-ready format, starting with flood and disaster risk modelling.