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Techboard is pleased to present its Latest Report, Australian Startup Funding in Review 2023 which includes an update on the March Q 2024. 

This Review includes in depth analysis of Startup Funding in Australia including breakdowns by deal size, funding label, category and state. The Review contains many breakdowns by founding team gender. An interactive chart of average deal size per category and deal label is also provided.

Highlights from the Review and update:

2023

• In 2023 Techboard captured $4.438 billion in Investment from 621 private announced investments. 
• 2023's result was just over 50% lower than 2021's 's $8.991b and down 37% from the 2022 level of $7.047b.
• In 2023 average deal sizes took a hit almost across the board, with the largest proportional drops being experienced in the later deal stages. In later deal stages, average deal sizes in 2023 had dropped to below levels seen in 2018, with Series B and earlier sitting at closer to 2020 levels or higher.
• In 2023, New South Wales companies accounted for around two thirds of all investment.
• Viewed on a per capita basis all states show a continued decline since 2021 or 2022 except the ACT who has experienced a continuing increase in funding (apart from the nil result in March Q 2024).
• Climatetech was the most funded sector with $777m in announced private investments, closely followed by Fintech with $758m, with Healthtech coming in at $574m.
• In 2023 solely women-founded ventures had their strongest year since 2020, capturing 3.88% of all private announced capital raised during the year from 12.58% of deals.

MarQ24

• Startup investment in 2024 has started quite slowly with $761m captured from 82 deals announced during the quarter. This level is closely comparable to what was seen in the March Quarter of 2020, in terms of dollar value captured but from 27% fewer deals. The quarter was the slowest quarter since the Sept Q 2020 ($401m) but larger than every quarter pre-June Q 2019. In terms of number of deals March Q 2024 had the lowest quarterly number of deals captured by Techboard (going back to 2017).
• In the March Quarter 2024, the dominance of NSW on a dollar basis had dropped to closer to 50%, with Victoria starting to close the gap, moving from around 18% to closer to 30% of all funds.
• March 2024 was the best quarterly result for solely women-founded ventures for the last six years at 16.36% of all capital raised but behind the result of Sep Q 2017 (25.68%).

Techboard is pleased to present its latest FUNDED quarterly update for the September Quarter 2023.

This report provide an update to our recent report FUNDED 2023, Australian Startup Funding in Review.

Techboard is pleased to present its Latest Report, FUNDED FY23, Australian Startup Funding in Review including a follow up to our "Funding of Women-Led Ventures Report"

This report includes in depth analysis of Startup Funding in Australia with a strong emphasis on private funding including breakdowns by deal size, funding label, category and state. The report contains many breakdowns by founding team gender and also includes analysis of investors for FY23.

The report also introduces Techboard's new Fintech Funding Project aimed at putting unannounced deals under the spotlight.

Welcome to our summary of Australian startup and tech company funding news for the month, FUNDED for June 2023.

FUNDED is out a little later than usual as the Techboard Team have been hard at work putting together FUNDED FY23 Australian Startup Funding in review which will be out next week.

For the month of June Techboard captured $309m worth of private investment from 79 deals.  To save you the effort of going back over previous editions of FUNDED this takes the total VC/private funding for the June quarter 2023 to $1.182b from 162 announced and reported deals and $2.193b from 284 announced and reported deals for H1 2023.  

For the record Techboard captured a total of 90 funding events for June, including 79 private investments, 3 public investments, 3 grants, one debt financing and 3 acquisitions. We created new profiles for 69 new companies, 22 new funders/investors and 100 new company founders.

Welcome to our summary of Australian startup and tech company funding news for the month, FUNDED for May 2023.

Private investment levels from deals announced in May 2023 dropped from April's levels from $498m from 40 rounds down to $374m from 42 deals (noting we haven't had any angel deals reported to us for the month). This represents the lowest level of private investment captured for a May since 2019.  What should be noted is that there were no deals greater than $100m for the month and only megadeal of $50m or more. In fact, if we omit deals of over $100m, May had the largest amount of investment reported so far in 2023.

For the record Techboard captured a total of 95 funding events for May, including 42 private investments, 3 public investments, 45 grants and awards and 5 acquisitions. We created new profiles for 41 new companies, 31 new funders and 64 new company founders.

Welcome to FUNDED for April 2023 our summary of Australian startup and tech company funding news for the month.

During the month of April  Australian startups announced they had collectively raised $498m from 40 private rounds. This was a substantial increase in dollar value from March which saw close to $206m from 49 deals (noting that we have added 14 rounds since the last edition of FUNDED... due to a delay in the reporting of generally smaller investments). Funding levels for the month were however buoyed massively by one funding round which accounted for 45% of the total value of the deals announced.