This website uses cookies
Read our Privacy policy and Terms of use for more information.
Home
Description
DealsOS
Startup Database
Job Board
Find your next role!
Startup Events
Events happening across Australia!
Submit News
Share your news with us
CGT carveouts announced but still work to do. Canva is hiring for an IPO; AMSL Aero is up for sale after raising more than $50 million; and Nvidia wants 2 GW of AI factories in Australia.
OS Weekly
Expert360 and Grow Inc both sell, but the earliest investors are getting zero. Airtree's Canva fund is extended. Plus, fintech funding doubled to $1.73b, with Airwallex taking more than half.
Blackbird's $1.05b sixth fund goes official. Constantinople bank in a box platform lands $62.5M. Plus, founders call the government's Buy Australian AI scheme "performance theatre".
Blackbird closes another billion-dollar fund. Meet the founder solving cancer in dogs with AI-powered research. Airtree declares AI or out across its portfolio. And Sydney Harbour Ferries might be getting a glow-up.
Heidi Health closes in on unicorn status, Alloy Robotics gets backing from the big 3, SafetyCulture rebrands Mitti, and South Australia takes both sides of the AI debate.
Canva downgrade, Atlassian upgrades. A $2.9 billion equity round for Firmus and meet Contactile, a Sydney startup giving robots a sense of feeling.
Cover Genius hits US$1.9B valuation. Aussie Angels rebrands. DroneDeploy signs exit papers for US$845M. Startmate unveils its 17-company Winter '26 cohort. Plus, the hydrogel condom combatting Gen Z STI's with Olympic dreams.
$1.7B in Q2 and VC investment looks like a barbell, Blackmagic's co-founder feud, a hangover pill raises $2M, PsiQuantum's $125M DARPA win, and a Geelong startup lands on the Tour de France podium
Australia's biggest-ever private biotech raise. What is the new Office of AI? The startup sector torches the CGT olive branch, Australia's first chip plant breaks ground, and Melanie Perkins brings product development to democracy.
Novartis drops $2bn on an Aussie-backed biotech, Firmus banks a US$720m Nvidia cheque, Southern Cross AI to float, Diraq cracks quantum scaling, and Goterra collapses. Plus, 5 captial raises.
Shark skin on planes for fuel savings, Australia's spaceport gets serious funding, meet the startup that's technology reads your thoughts, plus Medical Angels graduates into a $40M doctor-led Venture Fund.
Aussie founder sells AI company for $5.6B, Airwallex hits $16B, Immutable ditches Web3 for AI and Blackbird writes it's biggest cheque ever into a single round.
The CGT carve-out proposal has a catch - don't be too ambitious, Australia apparently the world's fastest-growing VC market, founder gets 9 years for lying to investors and Canva's worth $500B?
CGT workaround incoming, dentist without the needle, Goterra runs dry, Fresho conquers the UK + Airwallex fires back
NZ courts Aussie founders as their founders fly, Blackbird tries to define a startup, Dashdot collapses, Airtree offeres $250K in for builders to start building and Fishburners finds a new home!
4 new venture funds hit ANZ (3 in Australia), the Fair Work Commission pays AI to clean up after AI, finding the silver lining in an 80% down round, plus the startups that raised $110M this week
Canva doesn't need to IPO (apparently), The LaunchVic-Breakthrough successor finally has a name, New Zealand has it's own version of the Thiel Fellowship, and $100M+ flows into hospitality tech, construction robotics and quantum.
LinkedIn went to war with Canberra, Elicia McDonald takes the Airtree helm, and $40M+ flowing into defence, construction and AI finance. Plus, the postivies that came out of the budget for Aussie startups.
Founders and GPs freak out about potential changes to the capital gains tax discount. Fishy's goes into voluntary administration, and LaunchVic & Breakthrough Victoria's fate hangs in the balance.
A$1.8B raised in Q1, up 63% on Q1 2025, but there's plenty to be said behind the data. Blackbird Sunrise... sunsets for 2026. VentureCrowd's holding company goes into administration, and Airwallex is giving away A$1M a year to young Aussie founders.
3D printing houses, a new early stage fund, and does Australia have a self belief problem? This unicorn founder thinks so.
Two FinTechs make some big moves. Canva to IPO in 2027, how much CO2 does a data centre create? Plus, meet the startup building rare earth alternatives via simulations!
Two new venture funds hit the market. Canva can't stop acquiring. Meet the new MedTech Actuator Accelerator cohort and the hot new drone startup shaking the tin for fresh capital.
Airwallex recruits an ex-Prime Minister, April Fools Jokes gone wrong, fresh data on how Australians are using Claude and see how America is winning the AI investment race through sheer volume of capital.
The steaks have never been higher: Halter hits $2.9B valuation for fenceless cow herding. Plus, Canva makes its 6th acquisition in 2 years as it expands into digital outdoor marketing to combat AI design tools.
