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2021 AUSTRALIAN STARTUP FUNDING BULLETIN – VENTURE CAPITAL AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT

08/02/202202/09/2022 Peter van Bruchem

Who got FUNDED in November 2021

09/12/202110/12/2021 Peter van Bruchem

Female Founder Funding Roundtable: Redressing the Balance

10/11/202110/12/2021 Peter van Bruchem

UPDATE: EVENT COMPLETED

I was very pleased and honoured to be joined by an awesome group of panellists at Techboard's First Female Founder Funding Roundtable... Our very first mixed format event with live and virtual panellists and audience... pretty challenging but I think we pulled it off... learned some lessons for next time though.

Thanks so much to Kate Griffiths from EY for hosting and facilitating, Kate Harris-Slade from Think & Grow for her assistance and sponsorship We had a great panel Elicia McDonald from AirTree joining us from Sydney and Lauren Capelin from Startmate calling in from Noosa and the local Perth Panellists Ruth Hatherley from Moneycatcha Pty Ltd, Bernadette Olivier from The Volte, Tracie Clark from the just announced VentureX HQ, Glenn Butcher from CP Ventures and Dr Vanessa Rauland from ClimateClever

And thanks also to the Audience both in the room and virtually from across Australia.

We presented our data, got some great insights and suggestions of what can be done to improve the funding successes of female founded businesses... The video and writeup will be coming soon.

Peter van Bruchem

CEO and Co-Founder

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FUNDED October Edition 2021

05/11/202111/11/2021 Peter van Bruchem

Welcome to our fourth edition of FUNDED covering the month of October 2021. Although before we get into October lets just revisit last month's edition of FUNDED. In our September edition we noted that the first quarter of FY22 saw 79% of the total amount of private capital raised in FY2021 in just one quarter. Well it was even bigger than that. After we had finalised our data capture for September private/VC investments tallied to $1.810b from 67 rounds. MASSIVE…... taking our return for the quarter for private/VC investment to around $3.7b in one quarter... compared to $4.26 in the entire FY21, which is over 85% of last year’s funding. WOW!!!

Find out more about FUNDED. While the list below is lengthy it is far from the complete list of what we capture. For access to our full data capture, sorted, catalogued and full searchable, inquire about a data subscription.

October isn’t looking to be as big as September with no mega-rounds (>$50m) reported (unless you consider Fast’s $168m Raise... which we don’t as the company is truly a US company despite its Australian founder). So far for October we have collected 71 funding events from our preliminary review (including 13 Australian Startups from the latest Startmate intake).

October was a month of many themes... with many seed rounds, three closed Pre-IPO investment rounds. The leading sectors for the month are Climatetech and Legal/regtech.

The month saw five acquisitions with CitrusAd, CashRewards, Kaddy, Hyperanna and Family Property.

ClimateTech investments included Loam, Greener, PathZero, RedEarth, Zeroco, 3ME Technology amongst others. There was also major Climatetech funding news from Grok Ventures. See more below

We have also identified 31 companies that have publicised they are raising including eleven who announced they were raising for or in the lead up to an IPO. One of those Judo Bank has already come to fruition with an IPO earlier this week, jumping to a $2.5b valuation.

If you know of stories you think we should include please let us know. Funding events can be reported to us and companies that have claimed their profile on Techboard can make announcements. Contact us at [email protected].

FUNDED Edition 3: September 2021

05/10/202105/10/2021 Peter van Bruchem

Welcome to our third edition of FUNDED, a snapshot of the latest funding news on the Australian Startup and Tech scene. In preparing FUNDED we pick up the news from other news channels as part of our routine data collection activities that have seen Techboard compile the most complete collection of funding events for Australia's startups and young technology companies. This list below is based on our preliminary screen of the month's funding events. Once we have produced this list we do capture additional funding events that makes it into our monthly data release. We also then classify the funding events, create profiles for new companies and new investors before importing them into the Techboard Platform. While the list below is lengthy it is far from the complete list of what we capture. For access to our full data capture, sorted, catalogued and full searchable, inquire about a data subscription.

In this edition of FUNDED we are covering September 2021 and bringing you the latest news on companies that have secured funding, news on the latest funds and also stories about who is seeking funding.

Just from our preliminary screen of September data the month is a rule breaker. So far we have captured 67 funding events (many months are over 100) but from that we have 44 Private/VC raises totalling over $1.5b including six deals of $100m or more. That is more than double the VC investment in August and 36% jump from the largest month on record... July 2021 which saw $1.1b from 54 investments and brings the total VC/Private investment to over $3.3b. This represents a 77% increase over the June Q 21, the largest to date and 79% of the total raised in FY2021 in just one quarter.