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Y Combinator-backed AI call receptionist raises $22 million Series A
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (307+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. The round for Phonely was led by Base10 Partners, supported by YC, as well as three of the startup's enterprise customers Etech Global Services, customer experience platform TSA Group,…...
What if the problem isn't women's businesses, but the way we talk about them?
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (1270+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. For all the mythology around startup investing, the truth that gets repeated again and again is that investors back founders, not just business plans. That is not just…...
Kiwi fund administration fintech Caruso banks $9. 3 million Series A
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (287+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. The round was led by Kiwi VCs Icehouse Ventures and GD1, who first invested in 2023s $3 million Seed round, with participation from private credit fund manager Balmain, a Caruso customer…...
The $1. 6 billion Eucalyptus exit is worth celebrating - but here's why female founders are also shaking their heads
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (960+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. This is a product built for women without a single woman in the founding team. The female founder-sized hole seemed obvious. So why hasn't the same scrutiny been…...
Quantum sensing defence startup detects $5 million Seed round
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (449+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. The round for Deteqt was led by existing investor Main Sequence, with support from US deep tech investor ATP Fund, AUKUS-aligned VC BOKA Capital, Beaten Zone Venture Partners,…...
AI data centre startup Firmus eyes off another $725 million raise as it readies to IPO on the ASX
1+ week, 3+ day ago (665+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. In a carefully worded statement released Tuesday morning after news of the latest investment leaked, Firmus said it "expects to secure a further USD$505 million strategic equity investment…...
4 months after raising a $10 million Seed round, this mining startup wants to dig up more investors
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (466+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. Dry Flow Magnetics, founded in 2024, has reopened its Seed raise, which was backed by'Orion Industrial Ventures,'Virescent Ventures'and'Taronga Ventures, on the same terms to fund the fabrication of…...
Canva's AI acquisition spree continues, with two more startups from the Stayz founders
1+ week, 1+ day ago (547+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. The design platform has now snapped up eight startups and scaleups in two years. This is the 4th and 5th in 2026 " the latest two coming just a fortnight after spending…...
Fintech VC Triple Bubble nails $10 million first close on its $50m fund
1+ week, 3+ day ago (320+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. A slew of fintech founders and finance execs have chipped in, including We Money's Dan Joveski, Caligra's Grant Bissett and Nitro" Software's Chris Dahl and Tractor Ventures cofounders…...
Angel's sharing: Linked In influencer Rayn Ong spends exit returns on Tassie whiskey distillery
2+ week, 2+ day ago (621+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. Ong's also snapped up a Sydney harbourside apartment block with 8 balconies as a co-investment space for founder meetings in what he's dubbed his "whisky on the balcony" strategy....