Australian and New Zealand Venture Rounds

Australian and New Zealand venture rounds
Date	Company	Stage	Investors	Raised A$m	Status
Jul 2026	Orva	Funding round	Startmate	–	Completed
Jul 2026	Outlier Space	Pre-seed	GD1 (lead)InvestibleIcehouse VenturesNova ThresholdSide Stage VenturesAirtreeBrian Cartmell	–	Completed
Jul 2026	Quarter	Funding round	Startmate	–	Completed
Jul 2026	SecurityBreak	Funding round	Startmate	–	Completed
Jul 2026	Sunburnt Space Co	Funding round	Startmate	–	Completed
Jul 2026	Superstat	Seed	Blackbird Ventures (lead)Startmate	–	Completed
Jul 2026	Veltora	Funding round	Startmate	–	Completed
Jul 2026	Octopusbot	Seed	Folklore (formerly Tempus Partners)	–	Completed
Jul 2026	CullBeck	Funding round	Punakaiki FundOutset Ventures2040 VenturesNZGCPMotion CapitalK1W1Icehouse Ventures	12.4	Completed
Jul 2026	AdvanCell	Series D	Ally Bridge Group (lead)Alpha Wave (lead)Bain CapitalFidelity Management & Research CompanyT. Rowe PriceEventide Asset ManagementVelosity CapitalBrandon Capital PartnersEli Lilly and CompanySanofi VenturesSV Health InvestorsAbingworthCatalio Capital Management	454.3	Completed
Jul 2026	Totoniks	Venture debt	Pioneer Capital	–	Completed
Jul 2026	Emesent	Venture debt	National Reconstruction Fund (lead)	10.0	Completed
Jul 2026	Zitcha	Funding round	Iona Star	–	Completed
Jul 2026	Emesent	Funding round	National Reconstruction FundHostplusNGS SuperQIC VenturesOrion Resource PartnersMain Sequence	15.0	Completed
Jul 2026	Flyweel	Pre-seed	TEN13 (lead)QIC VenturesAntlerMatteo LeibowitzLarry DiamondKoen KöppenMatt Leibowitz	2.4	Completed
Jun 2026	MAKO (formerly MicroTau)	Series A	Virescent Ventures (lead)Clean Energy Finance CorporationIAGi VenturesZero Infinity PartnersGrok VenturesSkip CapitalIP GroupTreeArc	28.0	Completed
Jun 2026	Navi Medical Technologies	Funding round	Breakthrough Victoria	–	Completed
Jun 2026	Number 8 Bio	Funding round	Breakthrough Victoria	–	Completed
Jun 2026	Type One Energy	Funding round	Breakthrough Victoria	–	Completed
Jun 2026	Airwallex	Series H	Addition (lead)Square Peg CapitalBaillie GiffordT. Rowe PriceAmex venture arm	464.2	Completed
Jun 2026	Westmag	Funding round	Outset Ventures	–	Completed
Jun 2026	Baseten	Series F	Altimeter Capital (lead)Conviction Partners (lead)Spark Capital (lead)Sands CapitalWellington ManagementIVPT. Rowe PriceDurable01ABlackbird Ventures	2,140.3	Completed
Jun 2026	Dream	Series C	Bicycle Capital (lead)Bain Capital VenturesBRVTru Arrow PartnersAntler	371.2	Completed
Jun 2026	Everlab	Series A	Airtree (lead)PluralPat CumminsLeft Lane Capitalb2venture	65.0	Completed
Jun 2026	Dawn Aerospace	Series B	Balerion Space Ventures (lead)Mana VenturesANA Future Frontier FundGreen Eight CapitalSeven Peak VenturesNZVCAlpha FundsGaingelsCrosscourt	35.1	Completed
Jun 2026	Limitless Labs	Series A	Square Peg Capital (lead)DTC (lead)	28.1	Completed
Jun 2026	Partly	Series B	DST Global (lead)	70.3	Completed
Jun 2026	Earlytrade	Series A	S3 Ventures (lead)Brick & Mortar Ventures (lead)	–	Completed
Jun 2026	Omniscient	Series D	OIF Ventures (lead)National Reconstruction Fund (lead)Will VicarsGina Rinehart AO	41.1	Completed
Jun 2026	QuantX Labs	Seed	Serendipity Capital (lead)	7.0	Completed
May 2026	AlleSense	Funding round	Welcome Ventures (lead)Breakthrough Victoria	–	Completed
May 2026	Byron	Seed	Square Peg Capital (lead)Sorenson CapitalLiquid 2 VenturesCorrelation Ventures	9.1	Completed
May 2026	Ordermentum	Growth equity	Five V Capital (lead)	55.0	Completed
May 2026	Aigentsphere	Seed	Main Sequence	4.0	Completed
May 2026	Arkeus	Series A	QIC Ventures (lead)Folklore (formerly Tempus Partners)R+ VCDyne VenturesMain SequenceSalus VenturesBeaten Zone Venture Partners	25.0	Completed
May 2026	ProcurePro	Series B	QIC Ventures (lead)Brighter SuperBouyguesAirtreeGlitch Capital	15.0	Completed
May 2026	Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities	Growth equity	Mubadala Investment CompanyAustralian Retirement TrustCBRE Investment Management	876.0	Completed
May 2026	ON THE HOUSE	Seed	Purpose Ventures (lead)UniQuest Extension FundStartmate	1.7	Completed
May 2026	NextWork	Seed	Shakti VC (lead)Cake VenturesGD1Icehouse VenturesPhase One VenturesBlackbird Ventures	6.2	Completed
Apr 2026	Manifest	Pre-seed	Brand Fund by Previously Unavailable (lead)Henry InnisMark CoadJamie MackayJonathan IsaacsJames HutchinsonJordan Taylor-BartelsConnon BrayTim Burrowes	2.0	Completed
Apr 2026	Marloo	Bridge or extension	Blackbird Ventures (lead)	13.9	Completed
Apr 2026	Liquid Instruments	Series C	National Reconstruction Fund (lead)Keysight Technologies (lead)Significant VenturesBreakthrough Victoria	69.5	Completed
Apr 2026	Ideally	Series A	Shearwater Growth Equity (lead)Altered CapitalIcehouse VenturesEcliptic VC	13.2	Completed
Apr 2026	Syenta	Series A	Playground Global (lead)National Reconstruction Fund (lead)InvestibleSalus VenturesJelixWollemi Capital	37.0	Completed
Apr 2026	BiomeBank	Funding round	Blackmores (lead)	15.0	Completed
Apr 2026	Atomic Tessellator	Funding round	Outset Ventures	–	Completed
Apr 2026	Phonely	Series A	Base10 Partners (lead)Y CombinatorEtech Global ServicesTSA GroupEngage CX	22.7	Completed
Apr 2026	Deteqt	Funding round	Main Sequence	–	Completed
Apr 2026	Zeus Street Greek	Growth equity	Whiteoak	–	Completed
Apr 2026	Firmus Technologies	Growth equity	Coatue Management (lead)Nvidia	–	Completed

Rounds come from investors' and companies' own pages and the press that allows us to read it; much of the Australian startup press does not, so the list is not complete. A size is the whole round, not one investor's cheque. How the data is built

Australian and New Zealand venture rounds