Yesterday
Fortescue, Playground-backed hydrogen flight start-up collapses
Universal Hydrogen had attracted almost $150 million in funding, including from Aussie Peter Barrett’s Playground Global, but it wasn’t enough for it to take flight.
- Yolanda Redrup
- Exclusive
- Funding
Ex-Atlassian insiders pull in millions for AI development start-up
Redactive has raised $11.5 million from local and US-based investors after convincing financial services clients to use it to help software engineers develop AI tools.
- Paul Smith
This Month
- Exclusive
- Start-ups
The untold story of struggling start-up survival rounds
Delivery company Sendle raised almost $90 million in good times, but venture capitalists have likened the terms on its latest raise to payday lending.
- Nick Bonyhady
What this start-up founder learned from the public death of her company
Mina Radhakrishnan, the only founder of a collapsed start-up brave enough to speak at the Financial Review Entrepreneur Summit, hopes the industry values battle scars as she tries again.
- Tess Bennett
- Exclusive
- Software
Frazis unveils venture capital fund, makes first investments
The Gen Y tech investor has nabbed stakes in a dozen start-ups in tech, health and e-commerce, thanks to $10 million raised from wealthy investors.
- Tom Richardson
- Exclusive
- Funding
Financial adviser tech firm $20m richer after funding dash
Dash Technology, a Sydney fintech that sells software to financial advisers, has secured $22 million funding, with $20 million coming from ASX-listed VC firm Bailador.
- Paul Smith
How Kim Teo pulled off a mega-merger with her start-up’s biggest rival
The co-founder of restaurant ordering app Mr Yum is now the boss of its former competitor me&u, after the heavily backed Aussie start-ups merged to survive.
- Aaron Weinman
June
The ‘grindset’ is back in vogue for start-ups – with a health twist
Start-up bosses no longer just enthuse about working innumerable hours – now they recommend an ice bath after the innumerable hours.
- Nick Bonyhady
PsiQuantum backer Playground Global back in town looking for cash
The Palo Alto-headquartered, Australian co-founded, investor has already secured government backing for its quantum bet. Now it is fundraising for a new fund.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Start-up founders take us back to basics. It’s refreshing
It’s refreshing to hear from founders and their investors who aren’t tied up in corporate spin. Their stories are about survival.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- The AFR View
No easy super money for next-gen risk-takers
A start-up golden age is coming because without plentiful money to hide the risks, entrepreneurs will be forced to focus on what really works for customers and investors.
- The AFR View
Property payment fintech Coposit taps Ad Astra for a $10m fundraise
The platform allows buyers to pick up an off-the-plan property for $10,000, saving for the remainder of the deposit during the construction in instalments.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
‘I fire people just as quickly as my male co-founders’
High-profile female entrepreneurs including Airwallex’s Lucy Liu have hit out at sexist attitudes, and male-led venture capital investors.
- Tess Bennett
1pc of your super for venture capital? Add it to the list
Everyone wants a piece of the $3.9 trillion super system and now we can add venture capital. The problem is, it is not the government’s money to redirect.
- Anthony Macdonald
Super funds ‘should be forced’ to back start-ups
Employment Hero chief executive Ben Thompson has proposed a novel aid for the flagging start-up sector: reserving 1 per cent of superannuation money for it.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Tech & Telco Winner
- Women in Leadership
‘What she’s doing is shaping not just Telstra, but Australia’
Cybersecurity boss Narelle Devine, the winner of the Tech & Telco category, uses lessons from a decade in the Navy to fight off international hacking attacks.
- Tess Bennett
Telstra looks to cash out of venture capital investments
Telstra Ventures has changed its name to Titanium Ventures, as the telco mulls selling its venture capital investments.
- Tess Bennett
- Exclusive
- Quantum Computing
Cashed-up Diraq says it can win the quantum computing race
It hasn’t got as much money as government-backed PsiQuantum, but the UNSW start-up says it makes up for that in qubit size, as it banks a big funding round.
- John Davidson
- Exclusive
- Funding
Start-up funding bounces back, as two-speed sector emerges
New data shows early signs that the tech funding winter is thawing, with Aussie tech deals up 30 per cent on this time last year.
- Tess Bennett
Robotic friend company raises $3 million to build Abi
The Funded blog is the home for news on the tech deals that are done in Australia, as soon as we hear about them.
- Updated
- Paul Smith