Welcome to Startup 360, this week with guest hosts AJ Koch and Claire Bull who put the microscope on medtech. While the action this week was in Melbourne for Digital Health Fest, we went under the ...

Australian VC assets under management climbed to A$17 b in 2024 – up 7 % despite a global fundraising slump – fuelled by AI ...

Gilmour Space postponed its historic Eris launch from Queensland’s Bowen Orbital Spaceport after a nose-cone electrical fault, pushing the next attempt weeks away.

NAB’s April 2025 survey shows business conditions at a four‑year low and capacity utilisation back to trend, reviving talk of ...

As I sat at the second ever Systemic Investing Summit in London in March, among 180 hand-picked global wealth holders and controllers, philanthropists, academics and industry practitioners, one ...

Mystery shoppers are not a new concept, but the move to online retail has changed the rules of the game – and hidden the goal posts for retailers. So Sydney startup Humii has raised $300,000 from ...

The Hnry team - Karan Anand, James Fuller and Claire Fuller. Image: Supplied. New Zealand-founded accounting fintech Hnry has raised A$35 million in a Series B as it looks to go global. The round was ...

The NSW startup sector has responded with dismay after the NSW government suddenly shut down a range of funding programs for early-stage companies in the wake of an expenditure review by the new Labor ...

Staff at Canva, along with early-stage investors such as Australia’s leading VCs, are close to hitting the jackpot for their initial belief in the global design platform, with around US$1 billion (A$1 ...

The Airwallex cofounders Xijing Dai, Jack Zhang, Lucy Liu and Max Li. Airwallex, the Melbourne-born fintech unicorn, is preparing to list publicly over the next two years according to one of its ...

Earlier this week the company reportedly cut staffing for the second time in six months, less than a year after banking $18 million in a Seed round. The business such down its social media accounts in ...

A virtual reality startup which has developed the medical version of a flight simulator for doctors has raised $7 million in a round described as a pre-series A. The round for Vantari VR was led by Co ...