Software venture Marketplacer, which provides ecommerce solutions for leading Australian retailers such as Myer, Metcash and Bob Jane T-Marts, has raised $20 million as it plans to head to an IPO in early 2021. Founded in Melbourne in 2012, the company creates backend online marketplace software and raised $20 million 12 months ago in what… Read more »
Freelancer and solo entrepreneur accounting platform Bookipi has raised $1.6 million in a seed round co-led by Sydney VC Our Innovation Fund and Steve Baxter’s investment syndicate TEN13. Bookipi, founded in 2017, is targeting the freelancer and micro SME sector with its book-keeping platform and already has a user base of more than 640,000 customers… Read more »
MYOB has led a $22 million Series C round into workplace software startup Flare, with the accounting platform also announcing a new partnership with the five-year-old venture. Existing investors Point72 Ventures, Acorn Capital and David Fite joined the round with Malcolm Turnbull signing on as a new investor. Turnbull and Fite will become special advisors… Read more »
Shares in ASX-listed MedAdvisor have been placed in a trading halt today with the health-tech venture announcing plans to acquire US-based medication adherence company Adheris for US$34.5 million (AU$49m), while also raising AU$45 million to fund the acquisition. The company’s seeking a minimum of AU$35m in funds through an institutional placement at $0.45 per share,… Read more »
Workplace checklist app developer SafetyCulture has raised another $48.6 million just since six months after a $60.5 million round as early investors and staff cash in on the increasing worth of the company, now valued at more than $1.3 billion. Less than a third of the funds, $14 million, were invested as equity. Blackbird Ventures… Read more »
A $9 million project to make cheaper rooftop solar panels by replacing the silver in production with copper has attracted $8 million in funding. The cash for NSW startup SunDrive includes $5m Series A investment led by Blackbird Ventures and Grok Ventures, the family investment fund of Atlassian co-founder and renewable energy campaigner Mike Cannon-Brookes and… Read more »
Australian agrifood tech venture capital firm, Tenacious Ventures has co-invested as part of a US$4 million (A$5.6m) round in carbon marketplace startup, Nori. The round was led by US VC firm Placeholder along with North Island Ventures. Nori, based in Seattle, USA, has developed a marketplace for carbon removal using blockchain technology. Nori’s first supported… Read more »
SME online lender Capify has raised $14 million in an equity round with the Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division continuing to back the fintech through its existing credit facilities. The investment – Capify’s first, having landed a $135 million credit facility from Goldman Sachs in 2019, marks a return to lending for the fintech after… Read more »
Sydney-based non-alcoholic spirits company, Lyre’s Non-Alcoholic Spirit Co. has $16 million in seed round funding 18 months after launching as the startup’s growth continues to grow exponentially worldwide. The backers include VRD Investment, Doehler Ventures, DLF Venture and Maropost Ventures, with family funds in Europe, America and Australia tipping in. Lyre’s CEO and co-founder Mark… Read more »
Small business lender Lumi is on the hunt for $20 million from investors to expand its team and markets over the next year. Cornerstone backer the Josh Liberman Investment Group will tip in again as the company looks to develop additional product lines and improve its technology platform. The fintech offers unsecured business loans of… Read more »
An e-bike subscription venture founded by a former Deliveroo executive and a Bain & Co consultant has raised $16 million, with the government owned Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) tipping in $7 million towards the startup’s expansion in Australian and overseas. Hana Ventures, Maniv Mobility and Contrarian Ventures also took equity stakes in Bolt Bikes,… Read more »
Retail tech startup Longtail UX has raised $2.25 million led by Woolworths Group’s venture capital arm, W23, and Steven Lew’s Global Retail Brands. The supplementary equity comes on top of $3 million round in March this year, led by Investec through its Investec Emerging Companies Fund I. Woolworths is looking at adopting the startup’s technology across… Read more »
US-based puy now, pay later venture Sezzle (ASX: SZL) has tapped the market for A$86.3 million (US$60m) in the second major raise for ASX-listed fintechs with soaring share prices. The company’s share price jumped more than 40% last Thursday before the ASX called a trading halt following a media speculation of the raise, which represents 8.9% of… Read more »
Buy now, pay later fintech Afterpay will raise $800 million in new equity, topped up to $1.05 billion with billionaire founders Anthony Eisen and Nicholas Molnar each selling down a 10% stake in their existing holdings in the company, worth $250 million in total, as part of the raise. Afterpay put its shares in a… Read more »
● Canva raises US$60m for a US$6bn valuation ● The design platform now has 30m+ monthly users in 190 countries; ● Increases workplace collaboration tools, including talking presentations Privately-owned Australia design giant Canva has raised US$60 million (A$87m) in a round that nearly doubled the company’s previous valuation of US$3.2 billion to US$6 billion (A$8.7bn).… Read more »
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