Capital Raise

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.

Capital Raise

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.

Capital Raise

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.

Capital Raise

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.

Capital Raise

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.

Capital Raise

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.

Seed

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.

Debt

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.

Series D

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.

Seed

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.

Series A

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.

Seed

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.

Capital Raise

Syngenis Labs raises $4M pre-IPO round for RNA and DNA platform

The Perth biotech wants to keep RNA and DNA drug discovery and manufacturing under one roof, funded by an oversubscribed $4 million pre-float raise.

Capital Raise

Medlo & Doccy secure an uncapped SAFE from Startmate for their locum marketplace and telehealth products

The Melbourne locum-staffing platform and its telehealth sister product land an undisclosed, uncapped SAFE from Startmate.

SAFE

AO Ventures backs Scottish wearable technology company PlayerData and US sports media platform ScorePlay

Tennis Australia's venture arm expands its portfolio to six with cheques into an Edinburgh grassroots-wearables company and a New York sports media platform.

Capital Raise

LendUs lands a $5M Seed round to share broker incentives with the end user on their home loans

The Sydney embedded-finance fintech raises $5M Seed to let partners bake home-loan broking into their own apps — and hand the commission back to users.

Seed

Wildfire Energy lands $5.15M to convert household rubbish into sustainable aviation fuel

The Brisbane climate-tech firm raises $5.15M — backed by a Qantas-Airbus sidecar and ARENA — to turn unsorted household waste into jet fuel.

Capital Raise

Emesent raises $15M equity, $10M debt for mine mapping technology

The CSIRO-spun drone-mapping scaleup will expand its underground autonomous mapping business with a SAFE raise plus the National Reconstruction Fund's first venture debt deal.

Debt

Baseten lands $1.5B Series F to make inference more efficient

San Francisco inference platform Baseten, co-founded by Sydney-raised Tuhin Srivastava, has raised US$1.5 billion — drawing Blackbird's largest-ever single-round cheque.

Capital Raise

Blackbird writes its biggest-ever single round cheque as Baseten lands $1.5B Series F

Revenue at Baseten has grown roughly 20x year-on-year, and the platform now processes more than one billion inference calls a day across 87 clusters and 18 clouds.

Capital Raise

Everlab raises $65M Series A at ~$500M valuation to bet that prevention beats treatment

The Melbourne healthtech has closed an oversubscribed round to bet that catching illness early beats treating it once patients are already sick.

Series A

MEQ Solutions bags $23M Series A to raise the steaks with ‘truth infrastructure’ in the $1T meat market

The Australian startup is beefing up its global expansion with US$15M to prove that AI, not the human eye, should determine the value of what’s on your plate.

Series A

Electric Future hits $40M valuation with debt and equity round to help Australia eletrify

Electric Future acts as a one-stop shop for home electrification, trading government energy credits to slice 25% off installation costs.

Debt

EdTech Startup Teacher’s Buddy Raises $1.85M Seed Round to Combat Global Teacher Burnout with AI

The 2024-founded company secured the capital from a strong cohort of local investors, led by impact VC firm Giant Leap, with participation from Flying Fox Ventures, Co Ventures, Exhort Ventures, Saniel Ventures, and Soul Capital.

Seed

HOPR raises $3M for Sparkling Hop Water to quench beer tastes

How the hop-infused relaxation drink bucked the trend for high-margin, low-ops startups, raising over $3M from sophisticated angel backers to lead Australia's functional beverage charge.

Capital Raise

Capital Raise

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BlueNexus lands $2M to help experts build AI agents

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

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

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

Syngenis Labs raises $4M pre-IPO round for RNA and DNA platform

Medlo & Doccy secure an uncapped SAFE from Startmate for their locum marketplace and telehealth products

AO Ventures backs Scottish wearable technology company PlayerData and US sports media platform ScorePlay

LendUs lands a $5M Seed round to share broker incentives with the end user on their home loans

Wildfire Energy lands $5.15M to convert household rubbish into sustainable aviation fuel

Emesent raises $15M equity, $10M debt for mine mapping technology

Baseten lands $1.5B Series F to make inference more efficient

Blackbird writes its biggest-ever single round cheque as Baseten lands $1.5B Series F

Everlab raises $65M Series A at ~$500M valuation to bet that prevention beats treatment

MEQ Solutions bags $23M Series A to raise the steaks with ‘truth infrastructure’ in the $1T meat market

Electric Future hits $40M valuation with debt and equity round to help Australia eletrify

EdTech Startup Teacher’s Buddy Raises $1.85M Seed Round to Combat Global Teacher Burnout with AI

HOPR raises $3M for Sparkling Hop Water to quench beer tastes

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