This week on Startup 360, we talk to two founders who presented at Cicada x Tech23. Engineer Nick Hazell is back with his second climate tech startup, Algenie, having previously raised $120 million for his plant-based meat startup v2food. Also on the couch is Ana Belgun from CSIRO-developed digital twin pioneer Terria. They were among… Read more »
Companion robots startup Andromeda has raised $23 million in a Series A that values the business at $100 million. The round was led by San Francisco VC Forerunner Ventures, supported by Rethink Impact, Artesian, CSIRO-backed Main Sequence, Visible and Trampoline, as well as ex-Atlassian futurist Dom Price. Existing backers Purpose Ventures, which led 2024’s $3… Read more »
When you talk to Pete Horsley about his career in tech, it doesn’t take long to see that his work is deeply personal. His eldest sister, Jo, was born blind, autistic, and with an intellectual disability. That experience shaped the way he views the world, as he explains to Majella Campbell on episode 29 of… Read more »
V2 AI has added AWS Ambassador and cloud-native specialist Bojan Zivic to its leadership team as director, bolstering the consultancy’s push into AI-led modernisation for large enterprises.
Adelaide’s Fleet Space Technologies has teamed up with Australia’s F1 Academy rising star Joanne Ciconte, adding Fleet branding to her kit from 2026 and aligning the space company’s data-first ethos with a young driver on the rise — as Fleet scales new manufacturing in Adelaide and readies a lunar mission.
Airspeeder’s Mk4 racing eVTOL has received experimental approval from CASA, the company says, pushing crewed flying-car racing closer to reality. The news lands as Fleet Space partners with Australia’s F1 Academy driver Joanne Ciconte to champion women in high-performance STEM.
Nutromics’ latest raise adds fuel to its push for continuous molecular monitoring in the ICU, with vancomycin the first target and a local advanced-manufacturing play on the table.
Episode 28 of Startup 360 is a little different, with cohost Simon away at a company offsite and Majella busy with the Sydney Startup Hub closure. So we’ve picked out two of our favourite interviews of the last six months to shine a light on them once again. Irish-Australian teenager Liam Fuller starred on Startup… Read more »
Vector Capital will acquire Showpad and fold it into Bigtincan—taken private in April—under the Showpad brand, uniting two revenue enablement leaders as analysts flag rapid, AI-driven consolidation in a market tipped to reach US$12.7bn by 2030.
A new $1m-plus competition from City of Moreton Bay and UniSC will hand one scale-up a five-year rent-free headquarters at UniSC’s Moreton Bay campus with fit-out and concierge support, with finalists pitching at a February 2026 gala.
UQ has crowned its 2025 Entrepreneurship & Innovation Award winners and unveiled new scholarships for student founders, as MyHive, Polinate, Kolmi and My PlantCo showcase how the university’s pipeline is converting ideas into high-impact startups.
Akula Tech has joined Australia’s space cohort in orbit, launching its Nexus-01 AI payload on SpaceX via Dhruva Space’s LEAP-1 as Esper’s OTR-2 hyperspectral imager rode along.
Sydney’s Eyes of AI has secured a $2.2m CRC-P grant toward a $6.7m project to build Perio-Detect, an AI-powered, contactless periodontal screening tool with Data61 and the University of Sydney.
Alfred Travel’s AI app generates structured trip itineraries and plans to reward users with tokens, but the bootstrapped startup still faces tough competition from incumbents and giant LLM players.
Perth startup Coursebox raises $750K from Purpose Ventures to scale its AI-powered platform that lets organisations create engaging, compliant training courses in minutes—already boasting users across 180+ countries and strong organic traction.
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