Archive - Haris's Newsletter

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #127, 31st August 2025

$186.6m raised across 21 rounds in the last 3 weeks, OpenAI to open first Australian office, Write-downs hurt decade-old Blackbird fund ahead of returns…

Aug 30 •

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #126, 10th August 2025

$54.4m raised across 4 rounds, Airtree closes a $650m fund, UNSW launches startup investment platform Barker Street Ventures and Atlassian tops US$5…

Aug 9 •

July 2025

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #125, 27th July 2025

$35.7m raised across 6 rounds, the Seek vs Employment Hero battle continues, LaunchVic backs new VC funds, Brandon Capital closes a $439m biotech fund…

Jul 26 •

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #124, 20th July 2025

$34.5m raised across 6 rounds, Airwallex announces partnership with Arsenal, Scalare Partners to buy Tank Stream Labs for $5.5m, Start-up dealmaking…

Jul 19 •

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #123, 13th July 2025

$28.75m raised across 6 rounds, Cut Through Venture releases it's Q2 2025 report, Canva overtakes CSIRO for number of patent applications and Swyftx…

Jul 12 •

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #122, 6th July 2025

$22.2m raised across 4 rounds, Tractor Ventures hits $100m lending milestone, SoftwareOne completes $3b acquisition of Crayon, and OpenAI hires former…

Jul 5 •

June 2025

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #121, 29th June 2025

$23m raised across 18 rounds, Canva’s plotting another $773m, Eucalyptus relaunches Compound in the UK, and Xero buys integrated payments platform Melio…

Jun 29 •

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #120, 22nd June 2025

$48.6m raised across 4 rounds, Canva acquires MagicBrief, Vow gets approval to sell meat in Australian & New Zealand, and Kiki shuts down NYC citing…

Jun 21 •

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #119, 15th June 2025

$41.95m raised across 8 rounds, StrongRoom finally gets sold, Unicorn founders launch a new $50M 'Founders Fund' and more.

Jun 14 •

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #118, 8th June 2025

Jun 7 •

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #117, 1st June 2025

Jun 1 •

May 2025

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #116, 25th May 2025

May 24 •

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