CAPITAL RAISED
Spoke Phone raises $6.7 million Series A funding round to kill the desk phone
Mobile voice company Spoke Phone announced it has raised $6.7 million in Series A funding, in a capital raising round led by Australian venture capital firm, Marbruck Investments, with support from New Zealand-based Icehouse Ventures and Sir Stephen Tindall’s K1W1 fund.
Ashton Kutcher and Samsung invest in virtual reality start-up’s NZ$20 million Series A round...
Wellington virtual reality start-up 8i secured NZ$20 million from Samsung Ventures, Ashton Kutcher (through his fund Sound Ventures) and many more big names
Tank Stream celebrates ‘Shark Tank’ success and launches ‘Shark Edition’ of seed money
The panelists also included Edwina Sharrock, Birth Beat founder and Tank Stream Labs & Slingshot HCF Catalyst Program Alumni who will be featuring on the final episode of Shark Tank and James Willis, owner & founder of The Mason Baker, who appeared live in Shark Tank and received investment from Andrew Banks and Naomi Simson.
Why venture debt funding could save Aussie founders a motser and let them keep...
There’s no end to the long line of early stage startups looking for cash to grow. After burning through first round FFF (friends, families...
DC Power Co raises $1.6m in round two of its fight against the big...
DC Power Co plans to unlock the collective power of Australia’s two million solar households to create a large-scale competitor to the big energy companies’ coal fired power plants.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup Reejig raises $2.2 million to transform HR
Reejig, an AI company that uses big data, deep learning and audited AI to help companies find, recruit and move talent today announced it has completed its first capital raise of A$2.2 million.
Airbnb of dinner parties, Gathar, raises $600,000 in seed investment funding
Food-tech startup Gathar, described as the Airbnb of dinner parties, has just closed $600,000 in seed investment funding, at a time when eating at home is surging in popularity.
Aged care health-tech Better Caring has raised $3 million from Ellerston Ventures
Better Caring, a peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace for aged care and disability support services today announced it has closed a Series B round of AUD$3m with investment from Ellerston Ventures, the growing venture arm of Ellerston Capital.
The University of Queensland’s ilab smashes $56 million investment in startups
The University of Queensland (UQ) has cemented its position as a leading launchpad for entrepreneurs and a magnet for major investors, with startups from its ilab programs attracting more than $57 million.
This Internet-of-Things startup has closed $23.8 million in a series A funding round
Australian
semiconductorIoT start-up, Morse
Micro,
has secured $23.8 million in Series A funding to take its ultra low power Wi-Fi HaLow chip...
New workspace redefining flex work for women launches equity crowdfunding campaign to raise $2.5...
FRANKLY CO, an up-and-coming flexible workspace, community, and digital platform dedicated to helping women make work work, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign with Birchal to raise up to $2.5 million to get off the ground.
News Corporation & REA Group invest in property platform BRICKLET’s Series A round
BRICKLET will be looking to use its Series A capital raise to further scale the platform by investing heavily in branding and marketing activity.
Lumos Diagnostics raises AU$25m in oversubscribed pre-IPO capital raise
The unique ability of the FebriDx test to identify patients as viral or bacterial within 10 minutes helps guide clinical decision making – whether that is isolation for those identified as having a virus, antibiotic prescriptions for bacterial infections, or simply reassurance that an infection is not present.
Future of Work tech startup BenchOn has raised $650,000 in a seed funding round
BenchOn, a B2B talent mobility platform that solves the problem of employee underutilisation by matching a business’s idle staff to short-term contracts, has raised...
Humanforce secures A$22.5 million to scale up global operations with Accel-KKR
Humanforce, a Sydney based global provider of workforce management solutions, has announced it has secured A$22.5M in growth equity investment from Accel-KKR, a leading Silicon Valley technology-focused investment firm.
This Sydney-based tech company has raised $4 million in a round led by Investec
Investec has expanded its local emerging
companies’ portfolio by leading a $4million capital raise for Sydney-based technology
company Fusion Factory.
The...
HashChing completes successful capital raise to transform its mortgage brokerage platform
Leading Australian mortgage broker platform, HashChing has announced it has recently completed a successful capital raise. HashChing has over 60,000 customers who have utilised the platform to find better loans and make lending more efficient for mortgage brokers.
A start-up disrupting logistics is the first to raise capital from this new Australian...
Logistics disruptor Premonition is the first to be funded by new seed capital fund Rimon Investments backed by investors in Australia, South Africa & Israel
AgriWebb secures $14 million investment to transform the future of digital agriculture
With the FarmWizard acquisition, AgriWebb is positioned to develop a more advanced farm management product suite that will consolidate FarmWizard’s dairy and individual animal management functionality with AgriWebb’s existing cloud-based livestock herd management software.
This Aussie wholesale food platform has raised AU$1.4 million to get a larger share...
Foodbomb, a wholesale food platform for the food service industry in Australia, recently announced a AU$1.4 million investment led by EVP Fund...
