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A Sydney fintech founder has just closed his seed round and wants to bring on his first four engineering hires. He offers each of them an option package: 40,000 options over four years, exercise price …
A Brisbane robotics founder demonstrates a working prototype at a university industry showcase in late October. Two hundred people in the room, five of them from a competing consortium. He files a …
A Melbourne health-tech founder spends eight months in stealth building “Kindred.” The brand is chosen from a shortlist of forty; the domain is bought for $12,000 on secondary; the logo is …
A Melbourne climate-tech founder is halfway through a $2.4 million pre-Series A. She has closed the lead and about half the balance from warm intros. To fill the round she pulls a list of 180 …
A Sydney seed founder is closing a $1.8 million round. The lead is a family office cutting $600,000 on a signed subscription agreement. There are eleven angels averaging $50,000, three …
A Sydney fintech runs a $6 million ARR lending product. The underwriting decision is made in about 900 milliseconds by a gradient-boosted model that reads open banking data, a bureau file and a …