🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #142, 14th December 2025

$712.3m raised across 8 rounds, Blackbird announces 2026 Sunrise Sydney date, Airwallex to spend $1.1b on UK base, Australia’s world-first teen social media ban comes into effect

Good morning from all the way from Bangkok as I’ve wrapped up for the year and will be spending the rest of the year on vacation with family and friends - the next newsletter will be published on the 4th of January 2026.

The second edition of ‘This Year in Australian Startups’ will be in a very different format to last years, and I’ll be aiming for a pub…