Funding stories
Soul Machines raises $40m to advance human-machine collaboration. Investment led by Temasek and includes Salesforce Ventures.
The company provides service solutions such as cross-border and local collection, payment, foreign exchange, lending, and other treasury management services.
Digital Alpha Advisors, LLC will invest the $75 million into PacketFabric, which will help PacketFabric rapidly scale in the United States and internationally.
In partnership with Accel, CrowdStrike will co-invest in security startups that are building applications on the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.
Fluent Commerce, the Sydney-headquartered order management provider, has raised $33 million in series B funding, led by US growth equity firm Arrowroot Capital.
Databricks, now valued at USD $2.75 billion, opens offices in Sydney, Tokyo, and Bangalore after securing USD $250 million to drive AI adoption in APJ.
Guardicore plans to use funding to fuel company growth and disrupt the firewall and data centre security space.
With backing including the likes of Intel and SoftBank Ventures Asia, the company intends to expand its operations in the US, China, and Israel.
Illumio secures US$65m in funding to expand across Asia Pacific, EMEA, and the US, as demand for micro-segmentation grows.
The company intends to use the funds from new investor Bain Capital Ventures will go toward future innovation and expansion.
SMBs in Australia face challenges in securing funding, but play a vital role in the economy and driving innovation.
The enterprise DevOps and cloud consultancy company has succeeded in their Series B funding with plans to broaden their presence in APAC.
NGINX secures USD $43 million in Series C funding led by Goldman Sachs, to propel its enterprise application modernisation push, leveraging microservices.
CrowdStrike secures Series E funding of USD $200 million, boosting its valuation past USD $3 billion. The funds will drive global expansion and tech innovation.
Cohesity announced it raised $250 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund.
According to a statement, the grants will benefit more than two million students, first responders, teachers, veterans and community members in 32 countries.
Advanced Navigation raises USD $20m to enhance robotics R&D, with significant support from Main Sequence Ventures and US firms, aiming for global expansion.
KiwiNet secures GBP £2.18 million yearly from MBIE to commercialise deep tech, with an enhanced PreSeed investment of GBP £4.97 million to propel NZ research.
Social media campaigns help New Zealand charities secure $1m in funding in less than two weeks through online community initiative.
Singtel Group's venture capital arm Singtel Innov8 is backing US 'deception technology' firm Attivo Networks through an undisclosed amount of funding.
