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Is CommBank's Anthropic investment the best Aus VC bet of 2025? Potential CGT relief for startups and VCs. Blackbird has its biggest quarter of deployment ever, and meet the ex-Tesla engineers who raised $23M for satellite batteries.
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A retrospective tax hike on VC carry, Fitbits for pigs, Seek's Growth Fund wants to sell about $1B in startup stakes, and Five V's First AML deal pays out Blackbird.
2026’s record funding year is halved without Firmus. Archa pivots and lands $11 million; July’s founders back Memobottle; Antler and Nicola Forrest bet big on women founders.
Immersion-cooled Firmus finds its float fully submerged, Square Peg tops $1 billion across two new funds, AI compute in exchange for equity, and Airwallex backs stablecoin near-$50 million seed.
VCs take aim at the startup CGT carve-out, but tax incentives for ESVCLPs get applause, radioactive cancer treatments, Carthona bags a third unicorn, Evie the EV charging startup acquired, and six startups raise capital.
Heidi Health becomes a unicorn, Firmus locks in its $7 billion IPO timetable, and Airwallex's Jack Zhang SLAPS back at US critics while scale-ups make submissions to Parliament on AI