🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #181, 11th October 2026

$6m raised across 2 rounds, Firmus has pulled its $44b ASX float, Square Peg has closed more than $1b across two funds, Maincode, the Australian AI lab…

Oct 10 • Haris Qureshi

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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #180, 4th October 2026

$21.1m raised across 4 rounds, Heidi has launched Heidi II - agents that prep charts, draft referrals and chase patient follow-ups, Eastend Ventures…

Oct 4 • Haris Qureshi

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September 2026

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #179, 26th September 2026

$275.8m raised across 10 rounds, CSIRO is increasing its backing in Main Sequence’s fund to $20m, an OpenAI agent breached a Medicare portal in June…

Sep 26 • Haris Qureshi

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #178, 20th September 2026

$30.6m raised across 6 rounds, Firmus is seeking $7b in its IPO, Anthropic signs its first Australian data centre lease, Gilmour Space is seeking up to…

Sep 19 • Haris Qureshi

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #177, 13th September 2026

$114.3m raised across 12 rounds in the last 2 weeks, Gilmour Space & Hypersonix partner to offer hypersonic flight tests, Canva to launch its own…

Sep 13 • Haris Qureshi

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August 2026

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #176, 30th August 2026

$63.3m raised across 4 rounds, Airtree opens up in San Francisco, Blackbird has officially confirmed Australia’s largest ever venture fund, Airwallex's…

Aug 29 • Haris Qureshi

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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #175, 23rd August 2026

$86.5m raised across 9 rounds, Diraq has opened its first lab outside Australia, Federal parliament has launched its broadest AI inquiry, Alphabet…

Aug 23 • Haris Qureshi

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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #174, 16th August 2026

$61.2m raised across 10 rounds, Firmus Technologies acquires Benmax for $300m, Tabcorp acquired Betmakers for $283m in cash, me&u expands beyond QR code…

Aug 15 • Haris Qureshi

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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #173, 9th August 2026

$2.87b raised across 9 rounds, Atlassian shares up 35%, NRF exceeds it's $1.5b target having invested $1.7b in 25-26, Canva cuts revenue guidance from…

Aug 8 • Haris Qureshi

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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #172, 2nd August 2026

$16.3m raised across 4 round, Maincode has launched Matilda Code an Australian-built terminal coding agent, Aussie Angels has rebranded as Ventari…

Aug 1 • Haris Qureshi

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July 2026

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #171, 19th July 2026

$2m raised across 1 round, Hall gets acquires by Tracksuit, Revolut gets an unrestricted banking licence in Australia, Cut Through Venture's Q2 2026…

Jul 25 • Haris Qureshi

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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #170, 19th July 2026

$606m raised across 7 rounds, Heidi lands largest procurement deal in the history of the NHS for 70,000 clinicians, Canva releases Code 2.0, Albanese…

Jul 19 • Haris Qureshi

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