ASX-listed Tyro Payments (ASX: TYR) is acquiring small business “CFO in your pocket” startup Thriday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, with the acquisition expected to complete in January 2026. Thriday is an AI-powered financial management platform for SMEs that automates invoicing, expense management, accounting and banking workflows. CEO Michael Nuciforo, a former… Read more »
Neighbourlytics, which unpacks behavioural insights on how people use their ‘hood, has been acquired by ASX-listed REA Group. The Melbourne analytics platform, founded in 2017 by Jessica Christiansen-Franks and Lucinda Hartley, it offers real-time lifestyle and mobility data, including foot traffic, visitor trends, lifestyle personas, top destinations and accessibility to paint an informed picture of… Read more »
Indian online gaming platform Zupee has acquired Sydney AI startup Nucanon in a deal reportedly worth $5 million. Nucanon began life as Stori in 2022, with pre-Seed funding from Antler and high profile US investor Jason Calacanis via his LAUNCH Fund. The startup rebranded in 2023 when it raised $500,000 in a Seed round led… Read more »
Currents, the Gold Coast startup community-building group backed by Torus Ventures, has acquired Michael Batko’s Startup Striders. The purchase price was undisclosed, and the deal was completed entirely in cash. Startup Striders began in 2023 as a Saturday morning run and coffee meetup in Sydney. Since then it has become a large community with more than… Read more »
Just 18 months after serial entrepreneurs Gabby and Hezi Leibovich, teamed up with two young founders keen to take on Linktree with their own digital landing page startup, they’ve gone from trying to beat them to joining them. Linktree has acquired Fingertip, a Melbourne platform helping freelancers, creators, and small businesses manage and grow their… Read more »
A decade ago, Ronen Heine tossed in his career as a corporate lawyer at a top tier law firm for life as a startup founder and adviser. “I was doing lots of fancy work on the outside, but dead on the inside,” the founder of Luna tells Startup 360. “It was funny because no one… Read more »
Melbourne data security engineering platform Redactive AI has been acquired by pan-Pacific data management firm RecordPoint. The startup, cofounded by ex-Atlassians Andrew Pankevicius and Alexander Valente, plus AI Engineer Lucas Sargent, exits after just two years in business. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Their goal was to tackle the missing AI engineering… Read more »
Carbar has bought HelloCars Subscription from Loopit, retaining the brand as its value arm while Loopit refocuses on software. The move builds on Carbar’s earlier Carly acquisition as it positions itself across tiers in the car subscription market.
British risk management firm Ideagen has acquired WorkSafe Guardian, a smartphone safety app for lone workers. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition delivers an exit for South Australian VC Eastend Ventures just three years after investing in the decade-old Adelaide startup. WorkSafe Guardian was founded by Greg Lindner and Adam… Read more »
Video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA), one of the biggest video game companies in the world behind games such as The Sims and Battlefield, has been sold to a consortium of buyers for US$55 billion (about A$83 billion). It is potentially the largest-ever buyout funded by private equity firms. Not AI, nor mining or banking,… Read more »
Scalare Partners has bought Planet Startup to lead its virtual CFO services arm, keeping founder Marc Orchard as CEO. It’s the firm’s fifth acquisition since 2023, alongside Tank Stream Labs, Inhouse Ventures, Tech Ready Women and the Australian Technologies Competition, as Scalare builds out end-to-end founder support.
One of Sydney’s OG fintechs, 29-year-old Ezypay, will be acquired by US software and payments firm Xplor Technologies. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Xplor has its own Australian links dating back to Melbourne entrepreneur Mark Woodland, who founded the startup in 2016, then sold it to TSG in 2019. It’s now based… Read more »
Atlassian has made a second major acquisition this month, handing over US$1 billion (A$1.5bn) for developer intelligence platform DX. The deal comes just a fortnight after the Australian software giant spent US$610 million (A$935m) in cash on AI browser startup The Browser Company. US-based DX, founded in 2020, helps engineering organisations measure, understand, and improve… Read more »
Atlassian (NASDAQ: TEAM) is acquiring a US AI-powered browser startup in a deal worth US$610 million (A$935m) in cash. Atlassian cofounder Mike Cannon-Brookes has been a fan of The Browser Company (TBC), and its product Dia, which he calls “the knowledge worker’s browser”, since it was released in mid-2025 in beta mode, sending bug feedback… Read more »
Financial crime prevention small cap Identitii (ASX:ID8) has sold its remaining stake in joint-venture fintech Payble to existing investor OIF Ventures for $1.6 million. Payble, founded in 2020 by CEO Elliott Donazzan, is a payments platform for local government payments using QR codes and now has 50 customers, including four New Zealand councils after launching… Read more »
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