Data registries and analytics business Illion, formerly Dun & Bradstreet, has acquired Adelaide fintech startup Proviso as it gears up for the arrival of Australia’s open banking regime.
Startup Daily understands Ticketbooth this week turned down an acquisition offer of around $22 million from a large player in the ticketing industry.
Catapult Sports has announced the acquisition of SportsMed Elite and Baseline, two digital sportstech products from SMG Technologies, for $3.9 million.
Online talent marketplace OneShift, founded by Gen George, has announced its acquisition by Perth-based recruitment company Programmed.
Melbourne IT has announced its intent to acquire digital marketing agency WME Group for $39 million to further the growth of its SMB division.
HealthEngine has announced the closure of a $26.7 million Series C round led by Sequoia India, which will help expand the startup’s team and offerings.
Campaign Monitor has announced the acquisition of Tagga, which will be integrated to allow businesses to track and visualise customer’s behavioural data.
Spacer has acquired San Francisco-based company Roost. Launched in 2014, Roost will rebrand to Spacer, with its employees to stay on to lead US operations.
Kaplan has announced the acquisition of Sydney-based AI startup Red Marker, with the deal to see the company onboard Red Marker’s AI compliance technology.
Accounting software company MYOB has announced its intent to acquire Paycorp, a payment processing provider, for $48 million.
Atlassian has kicked off 2017 with a bang, today announcing its acquisition of Trello for US$425 million ($577 million) to further its mission to help teams work better.
If any Australian-founded company embodies the lean startup mentality it would be WPCurve, launched in June 2013 after two other failed startup attempts.
Having invested $1.5 million into Sydney-based personal finance platform MoneyBrilliant in 2014, financial services company AMP has today announced its acquisition of the startup. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Startup Daily has just confirmed that Netcomber.com has just been acquired by Profound Networks.
Netcomber.com was founded by Sydney based Luke Metcalfe, who owns Rapid Intelligence and also publishes NationMaster.com in December 2012 and Andre Weyher, who was part of Matt Cutts’ famous Search Quality team at Google later joined to head up PR and Marketing and drive the business forward.
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