🇦🇺 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 TCA CEO Kate Pounder to lead policy work.

Top News

• Applications for UQ’s iLab accelerator close this Monday (Startup Daily)

• Matt Leibowitz-backed podcast Equity Mates sells to BetaShares in $8.5. million deal (Startup Daily)

• Tractor Ventures hits $100m lending milestone (Capital Brief)

• A very analogue startup, Owls Eat Rats, wins the $50,000 Taronga Zoo accelerator program (Startup Daily)

• Flagship I…