The Gift Collective helps people essentially set up a crowdfunding page asking friends and family to contribute money to help them buy their dream gift.
Australia’s peak fintech body, FinTech Australia has received a $200,000 funding grant from the Federal Treasury to promote Australia as a world leading fintech destination.
New Zealand VC firm Movac has announced it’s raised NZ$105 million for Fund 4, with $75 million coming from institutional investors including Ngāi Tahu.
Crowdsourced delivery startup Go People has announced a raise of over $2 million in the last three months. The startup formerly known as People Post has rebranded and revamped its technology platform to offer yet another service in the competitive logistics space.
Sydney healthtech startup Atomo Diagnostics has been awarded a $3.6 million (US$2.6 million) grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to assist in its mission to develop a next generation HIV self-test.
AirTree Ventures has participated in a US$33.5 million investment round for US data startup Paxata. Australia’s largest venture capital firm has joined Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures and Cisco Investments among others in Paxata’s fourth round of investment.
Townsville startup SafetyCulture has today announced a $30 million Series B round led by international venture capital firm Index Ventures. The investment comes as the second largest funding round secured by an Australian tech startup this year, following a $41 million raise by BigCommerce in June.
The University of Sydney’s on-campus accelerator program Incubate, has announced it has received $1 million in funding from the University, to be provided over five years.
Sydney office space management startup SpaceConnect has today announced a raise of $400,000 following its graduation from BlueChilli’s startup accelerator program Disrupt@Scale. The seed funding will allow the startup to drive growth across its Australian corporate customer base.
Adelaide-founded, San Francisco-based startup HappyCo, which creates apps to help clients run smarter operations, has announced the closing of a US$7.5 million (around $9.8 million) Series A funding round.
Sydney healthtech startup CancerAid has announced the close of a $1.25 million Series B round, bringing the total valuation of the startup to $4.25 million. The app was created to help organise a patient’s cancer journey, helping sufferers to self manage their treatment and expectations.
The funding will go towards expanding the service in new and existing markets, as well as facilitating the continued rollout of RooBox, delivery-only kitchens built out of shipping containers established in areas currently not reached by the core Deliveroo service.
Sydney fintech startup zipMoney has announced an oversubscribed placement of $20.6 million to institutional and sophisticated investors. The placement is part of zipMoney’s funding plan to further expand its product offering, rollout new payments product zipPay and acquire personal finance management software, Pocketbook.
Sydney startup Seatfrog, which looks to bring the joy of the airline upgrade to everyone rather than the select lucky few, has raised $1.2 million in a seed funding round led by London-based VC firm Howzat Partners.
Melbourne startup Plattar, a cloud-based platform that allows users to create, manage, and distribute augmented reality (AR) content, has raised $1.1 million in a seed funding round led by News Corp Australia, with participation from existing investors.
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