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Startup 360: StrongRoom liquidation latest, Warren Buffett’s final thoughts, Australian-grown coffee ambitions

- November 14, 2025 2 MIN READ

This week’s Startup 360 kicks off with cohost Simon Thomsen recounting the two days spent in the NSW Supreme Court this week as senior council for the liquidators of failed medtech StrongRoom AI probed cofounder and former CEO Max Mito, and director Divesh Sangvhi, about the potential insolvency of the business. Sangvhi sold his company,… Read more »

Business

VC EVP’s legal fight with StrongRoom AI to recover its $10.4 million investment continues as liquidator grills

- November 7, 2025 3 MIN READ

Sydney venture fund EVP’s Federal Court battle to recover $10.4 million it invested in StrongRoom AI just weeks before it was placed in administration will potentially have new revelations next week when the company’s failure is examined in court by its liquidator. The legal action, begun in March this year, when EVP successfully applied to… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

StrongRoom will be wound up as EVP names the startup’s early investors as defendants in expanded legal action to recover $10.4 million

- June 6, 2025 5 MIN READ

EVP has added 20 more defendants, including earlier VC investors – taking the total to 32 – in its legal action to recover $10.4 million invested in StrongRoom AI. EVP has a freezing order over the company’s assets and during a case management hearing on Wednesday added the company’s other early investors, including Artesian Ventures,… Read more »

Business

The future of StrongRoom AI remains up in the air as legal action, its administration and a potential sale all drag on

- May 27, 2025 4 MIN READ

Ongoing legal action over the assets of failed medications management startup StrongRoom AI have led the company’s voluntary administrators to extend their control to the absolute limit. A case management hearing due today has been moved to June 4, extending Federal Court-imposed asset freeze on four StrongRoom directors and the administrator, initiated by VC investor… Read more »

Business

StrongRoom AI’s administrators recommend liquidation

- May 12, 2025 5 MIN READ

The administrators of medication management startup StrongRoom AI have recommended putting the business in liquidation ahead of a 2nd creditor’s meeting on Tuesday. The decision comes a fortnight before the Federal Court is due to hold another hearing in the legal action by VC firm EVP to recover $10.4 million it invested in the business… Read more »

Business

VC EVP red flags ‘potentially serious issue’ in $17 million startup investment it just led

- March 24, 2025 2 MIN READ

Sydney venture capital fund EVP has reportedly contacted police and is seeking to recoup the investment it made in  StrongRoom AI, less than a fortnight after it  announced leading a $17 million round into the Melbourne software startup. The AFR reported that EVP had called in legal and forensic accounting experts and was warning investors… Read more »