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Does WA need a $100m VC Fund: Techboard Roundtable WA2

25/06/201918/07/2019 Peter van Bruchem

Techboard Roundtable Events

12/06/201914/10/2022 Peter van Bruchem

Startup Genome, Techboard and LaunchVic collaborating to Showcase the Melbourne and Victorian startup ecosystem.

16/05/201917/05/2019 Peter van Bruchem

Techboard’s Report on the March Q 2019 in the Press

13/05/201929/05/2019 Peter van Bruchem

The March Q 2109 was massive for Startup and Tech Funding but is investment growth slowing?

01/05/201924/10/2019 Peter van Bruchem

Airwallex confirms unicorn status with $100M USD raise

26/03/201926/03/2019 Peter van Bruchem

Techboard is pleased to report that international payments fintech start-up Airwallex has raised $100m USD in Series C round led by DST Global. This represents a significant funding event not just for the company but for the Australian Ecosystem, with Airwallex joining Canva in the very exclusive Australian unicorn's club.

This funding round will be captured in Techboard's upcoming funding report for the March Quarter 2019 which will be published early April. Techboard funding reports include deals reported in the startup and more traditional press as well as transactions that are reported to Techboard. Techboard also now provides commercial subscribers with access to its funding data.

Aussie Female Startup Founders Secured 26.5% of Larger VC Investments in 2018 (REVISED)

08/03/201911/03/2020 Peter van Bruchem

It has been well reported by Techboard and others that the level of funding for Australian Startups and Tech has been on the rise so for this International Women’s Day we decided to undertake a partial analysis of our funding data to see how female founded startups fared in the last year.

NOTE: since this post was published we discovered that Judo Capital’s Chief Marketing Officer Kate Keenan was also a co-founder. Given that Judo Capital had the largest funding event we captured for 2018, a $350m debt facility AND a $140m capital raise… this has thrown our figures out just a little… Taking the percentage of funding going to female founded companies to 19.9% of funding events over $5m …. and the percentage of large scale private investment from the previously reported 15.4% to 26.5%.

Techboard data shows the startling growth of the Australian fintech sector

19/02/201918/07/2019 Peter van Bruchem

Funding News: Sydney based Equity Venture Partners launches its Second Fund

13/02/201919/02/2019 Peter van Bruchem

Sydney based venture capital manager Equity Venture Partners (EVP) has closed its second fund, with $35 million earmarked for early stage investments in Australian business-to-business (B2B) software companies. Read More

Over $1 Billion in funding for Australian Startups and Young Tech Companies in the December 2018 Quarter

05/02/201906/02/2019 Peter van Bruchem

Techboard is pleased to present its Report into funding secured by Australian Startup and Young Tech Companies in the quarter ending 31 December 2018. During the December quarter 2018 Techboard identified over 160 funding events across a broad range of funding types ranging from accelerator program funding, acquisitions, equity crowdfunding, major debt instruments (sometimes called venture debt), grants (including awards and prizes), initial coin offerings, initial public offerings and reverse takeovers, ASX placements and private investment (including angel, VC and other large-scale private investment).

The report reveals that Australian Startups and young tech companies received $1.066B in funding during the December 2018 quarter. The quarter was strong in general with a small reduction in funding from the September Q 2018, but a significant increase from the Dec Q 2017 ($762m) by almost 40%.