| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.11.2024 | Neara: AI-Based Predictive Modeling Company Raises $31 Million (Series C) | Neara, an AI-based predictive modeling software platform for critical infrastructure, announced a $31 million Series C funding round. The funding round was anchored by a consortium led by EQT, with participation from Partners Group (one of ... |
| 01.11.2024 | Neara's $31 Million Series C: A Leap Towards Energy Resilience | In a world where energy demands surge and infrastructure crumbles, Neara emerges as a beacon of hope. The Sydney-based company recently secured $31 million in Series C funding, a financial lifeline that promises to bolster its AI-powered pr... |
| 31.10.2024 | Neara Announces US$31 Million Series C to Accelerate International Energy Resiliency and Vertical Expansion | Neara closes Series C fundraise, led by some of the world’s largest private market investors and infrastructure owners, cementing its position as a global leader in critical infrastructure resiliency
Neara, the first AI-powered predictive m... |
| 01.10.2024 | Qodo: GenAI-Based Code Integrity Platform Closes $40 Million (Series A) | Generative AI code integrity platform Qodo (formerly CodiumAI) announced $40 million in Series A funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $50M. The oversubscribed round was led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg, with participation fro... |
| 30.09.2024 | Qodo Raises $40M in Series A Funding | Qodo (fka CodiumAI), a Tel Aviv, Israel-based provider of a generative AI code integrity platform, raised $40M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg, with participation from Firestreak Ventures, ICON Continu... |
| 20.09.2024 | Kula launches AI-driven recruitment platform for global market expansion | Today, Kula unveiled what it describes as the world's first complete hiring platform offering advanced AI functionalities. Developed during the AI boom, the platform incorporates a variety of AI advancements specifically designed for recrui... |
| 26.07.2024 | Australian Startups Soar: A $9.7 Million Boost in Innovation | Australia's startup scene is buzzing. This week, three innovative companies raised a combined total of $9.7 million. Each is carving a niche in the ever-evolving landscape of technology and finance. They are not just chasing dollars; they a... |
| 26.07.2024 | Three Aussie startups that raised $9.7 million this week | SeenCulture founder and CEO Nikki Tugano. Source: Supplied. article-article-body
The three Australian startups that raised new funding this week are building platforms to transform the advertising sector, bring a plan B to VC funding, and c... |
| 11.05.2024 | Australian VC Square Peg plans to raise $550m for sixth fund | Australian venture capital (VC) firm Square Peg plans to raise $550 million for its sixth fund in the second half of 2024 while maintaining its focus on investment activities in Southeast Asia, Australia, and Israel, a top executive told De... |
| 08.05.2024 | LottieFiles Receives Strategic Investment From Webflow Ventures & Figma Ventures | LottieFiles Integration (Graphic: Business Wire)
LottieFiles, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an animation design platform, received a strategic investment from Webflow Ventures and Figma Ventures.
The amount of the deal was not discl... |
| 14.11.2022 | Brief: Vow lands $49.2m ahead of its cultivated quail launch in Singapore restaurants | Australian cultivated meat company Vow has secured $49.2 million in Series A funding to bring cultivated quail to Singapore.
PeakBridge participated in the round alongside Blackbird, Prosperity7 Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Square Peg, Grok V... |
| 27.10.2022 | Six Aussie startups that raised $56 million this week | It’s been a huge week for Australian startup raises, with more than $56 million invested into six companies, while Square Peg also banked $860 million for two new funds. Psylo: $5 million
Biotech startup Psylo has raised $5 million in seed ... |
| 25.10.2022 | Square Peg Capital closes $550M fund for Southeast Asia, Australia and Israel | It’s a tough market for venture capital, but Square Peg Capital is plowing ahead with its focus on Australia (where it is based), Southeast Asia and Israel. The firm announced today that it has closed its fifth fund totaling $550 million. T... |
| 31.08.2022 | Sequoia, Square Peg lead $12m round of global recruitment platform | InvestmentsNewsStartups
Xavier Kong · 31 Aug 2022 · 1 min readSequoia, Square Peg lead $12m round of global recruitment platform
Kula, a US-based recruitment platform, has raised US$12 million in a seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital India... |
| 17.06.2022 | Indonesian social commerce enabler raises funds in Square Peg-led round | Consumer TechInvestmentsNewsStartups
Qishin Tariq · 1d ago · 2 min readIndonesian social commerce enabler raises funds in Square Peg-led round
Desty, an Indonesia-based social commerce website builder, has raised another round of funding le... |
| 10.05.2022 | AgriDigital helps Aussie grain players collateralize their crop for working capital. Now it’s heading Stateside | Australian grain management platform AgriDigital raised A$25 million ($17.7 million) in a recently closed funding round, as it seeks to expand its offering to help smaller industry players access same-day working capital loans.
The funding ... |
| 05.05.2022 | Square Peg to raise $550m for more investments in SEA | InvestmentsNewsStartups
Jenina Ibañez · 10h ago · 1 min readSquare Peg to raise $550m for more investments in SEA
Australian VC firm Square Peg is set to raise US$550 million to back tech startups across Southeast Asia while it further inve... |
| 18.04.2022 | Square Peg on building its foothold in Southeast Asia | Square Peg Capital, one of Australia’s largest venture capital firms with current assets under management of about $3 billion USD, is digging deeper into Southeast Asia. The firm is currently raising $550 million in new funding, and if its ... |
| 27.10.2021 | Data Snapshot: Singapore, Turkey move up the agrifoodtech investment leaderboard in H1 2021 | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
As any agrifoodtech observer would expect, the US was the out-and-out leader in terms of agrifoodtech i... |
| 22.10.2021 | Weekly Wrap #71: Bitcoin's explosion, Snap's erosion, Atlassian's culture locomotion | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 21.10.2021 | Why Donald Trump’s media SPAC could be the ultimate meme stock | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump unveiled plans to take a new social media and conserv... |
| 20.10.2021 | Deci : Raises $21M to Enable the World to Benefit from the Full Potential of AI | TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Deci, the deep learning development company that helps enterprises build, optimize, and deploy AI to production, today announced it has raised a $21 million Series A round led by New York-base... |
| 28.06.2021 | Six years in Tel Aviv: Here’s what Dan Krasnostein says Australia can learn from the Israeli tech ecosystem | Israel's Western Wall. Source: Unsplash/Sander Crombach.
I’ve just landed back in Australia after six years in Tel Aviv, investing in the Israeli tech ecosystem and its brilliant entrepreneurs.
I am constantly asked, “what makes Israel tick... |
| 12.01.2021 | Starting with cultured kangaroo dumplings, Vow is on a mission to diversify the world’s protein sources | Most of the meat consumed in modern society comes from a relatively narrow set of animal species: cattle, chickens, pigs, and sheep, for the most part. These four account for an estimated 97% of our protein intake, but represent just 0.02% ... |
| 27.10.2020 | Deci : Raises $9.1M in Seed Funding to Build AI that Crafts Next Generation of AI | TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Deci, the deep learning company dedicated to transforming the AI lifecycle, today announced it has raised $9.1 million in a seed round led by Israel-based VC firm Emerge and global VC fund Squ... |
| 22.10.2020 | Rokt Closes $80M Series D Investment Round | The tech leader sees a 42% increase in valuation in 2020, to more than US$450M
Rokt, the global leader in e-commerce technology, today announced an investment of US$80M. The capital will help accelerate research & development and suppor... |
| 22.10.2020 | Rokt Closes $80M Series D Investment Round | The tech leader sees a 42% increase in valuation in 2020, to more than US$450M
Rokt, the global leader in e-commerce technology, today announced an investment of US$80M. The capital will help accelerate research & development and suppor... |
| 15.09.2020 | Sternum : Raises $6.5M in Series A Funding to Provide Embedded Cybersecurity and Real-Time Visibility for IoT Devices | TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sternum, the IoT cybersecurity company providing embedded protection and unprecedented real-time visibility for connected devices, today announced it has raised $6.5 million in Series A fundi... |
| 15.09.2020 | Sternum Raises $6.5M in Series A Funding | Sternum, the IoT cybersecurity company providing embedded protection and unprecedented real-time visibility for connected devices, today announced it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. The round, led by Square Peg, was joined by e... |
| 26.08.2020 | SupPlant and ClimaCell want to make precision agtech affordable for Asia’s poorest farmers | An awful lot of the business of farming comes down to educated guesswork, preparedness for the unexpected, and more than a fair bit of plain old good luck.
Thankfully, technology is taking much of this uncertainty out of agriculture. With s... |
| 07.08.2020 | Weekly Wrap #14: Capital Raising Inception | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 07.04.2020 | A new normal for startups: How to handle a slowdown when your BAU is hypergrowth | Jelix Ventures founder Andrea Gardiner. Source: supplied.
Last week, Square Peg Capital founder Paul Bassat sent a letter to the VC firm’s portfolio companies, following up on an earlier communication in early-March.
In the letter, Bassat p... |
| 13.03.2020 | Should startups panic about coronavirus? A letter from Square Peg Capital co-founder Paul Bassat | Square Peg co-founder and partner Paul Bassat. Source: supplied
In early-March, Square Peg Capital co-founder and partner Paul Bassat sent a letter about the coronavirus outbreak to the VC fund’s founders and CEOs.
The letter is timely, det... |
| 12.09.2019 | Q-CTRL – Why Sierra Ventures Invested | We are excited to announce our investment in Q-CTRL’s $15M Series A round.
Q-CTRL is a Sydney, Australia based startup working to improve and mainstream quantum computing. They have developed machine learning (ML) software that reduces the ... |
| 10.09.2019 | Q-CTRL raises $15M for software that reduces error and noise in quantum computing hardware | As hardware makers continue to work on ways of making wide-scale quantum computing a reality, a startup out of Australia that is building software to help reduce noise and errors on quantum computing machines has raised a round of funding t... |
| 27.07.2018 | Indonesian Credit Score Fintech Raised USD30 Million Series B to Expand in Southeast Asia | Jakarta based FinAccel has raised a USD30 million Series B equity investment round led by Square Peg Capital, with participation from new investors MDI Ventures and Atami Capital, and from existing investors Jungle Ventures, Openspace Ventu... |
| 02.04.2018 | Q&A: Blockchain Traceability Startup CEO On Selling Blockchain to the Food System | For those paying close attention to the conversation about how blockchain could change the global food system, progress may appear to be crawling. For those just wrapping their minds around what blockchain technologies are and what they can... |
| 15.12.2017 | Australia’s Airwallex raises $6M to grow its cross-border payment business | Airwallex, an Australia-based fintech startup that helps banks and businesses handle cross-border transactions at scale, has closed a $6 million investment ahead of a planned Series B next year.
The new funding comes from Square Peg — a VC ... |
| 12.06.2017 | ROKT Finalizes US$26 Million Series 'B' Funding Round | ROKT today announced the conclusion of a US$26 million Series "B" funding round, led by Moelis Australia Ltd. (ASX: MOE). John Ho, Lachlan Murdoch, Greg Roebuck, Square Peg Capital and Time Inc. (NYSE: TIME) also participated in t... |
| 12.06.2017 | ROKT Finalizes US$26 Million Series 'B' Funding Round | ROKT today announced the conclusion of a US$26 million Series "B" funding round, led by Moelis Australia Ltd. (ASX: MOE). John Ho, Lachlan Murdoch, Greg Roebuck, Square Peg Capital and Time Inc. (NYSE: TIME) also participated in t... |
| 15.02.2017 | Moelis Leads $15M Series B for ROKT | ROKT today announced it has completed a $15 million Series "B" investment led by Moelis Australia Asset Management, part of Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC). In addition, Time Inc. (NYSE: TIME) participated in this round along with... |
| 14.09.2016 | Portfolio mining: The easy way to get introduced to venture capitalists | You know why emailing venture capitals asking for cash never works? Because everyone does it.
When reaching out to VCs, you need to set yourself apart from the pack. The way you do that is via introductions.
“But Thomas, I don’t know anyone... |
| 25.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 25, 2016 | June raised new funding; LifeBeam scored $16M; RevUp Software received $5M Seed Investment
OneRent, a end-to-end residential rental and property management service, closed a $4 million Series A round of funding from Renren, Inc. The financi... |
| 24.03.2016 | LifeBeam scores $16 million to help you track your workout | Wearable technology developer LifeBeam announced today that it scored a $16 million investment led by Squarepeg Capital.
The funds from the round will help LifeBeam further develop its “awareable” products, which promise users the “most per... |
| 24.03.2016 | LifeBeam scores $16 million to help you track your workout | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Wearable technology developer LifeBeam announced ... |
| 04.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 4, 2016 | Snapchat bagged $175M funding; Oro received investment from Highland Europe; Wrap Media landed $4M
Snapchat raised another $175 million in venture funding. The funding came from Fidelity Investments, and it gives Snapchat a total of $1.34 b... |
| 22.12.2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 22, 2015 | Axonics completed $38.5M; Shuttl raised $20M; NextInput Inc., received $8M funding
Motorola Solutions has made a strategic investment in BlueLine Grid, an emerging technology company that previously received an investment from In-Q-Tel, the... |
| 03.11.2015 | Great Aussie startups have paved the way for $200 million VC funds, Niki Scevak says | The emergence of two tech-focused $200 million tech venture funds will help to “rebuild” the Australian venture capital industry, Blackbird Ventures co-founder Niki Scevak says.
Blackbird Ventures announced in September it had raised a $200... |
| 02.11.2015 | Around $200 million whole a good fit for Square Peg | A new $200 million venture fund is set to be launched in Australia, with Square Peg Capital announcing plans to raise the money from its existing investors as well as some new faces.
Square Peg has already invested over $150 million in a wh... |
| 30.09.2015 | Australia’s Biggest Tech VC Firm On What’s Happening Right Now | Earlier this month, a three-year-old venture firm that’s focused on Australian entrepreneurs, Blackbird Ventures, raised an impressive $200 million for its second fund.
That’s nearly seven times the $30 million it raised for its debut fund.... |
| 21.09.2015 | Mal content: Startup community welcomes Turnbull’s ‘cabinet for the future” | Malcolm Turnbull’s appointment as prime minister and the announcement of a “cabinet for the future” gives Australia a “once in a generation” opportunity to become a more innovative nation, SquarePeg Capital co-founder Paul Bassat says.
Turn... |
| 09.06.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Fidelity Management leads $135M round for Blue Apron
Blue Apron cooked up $135 million in a round led by Fidelity Management... |
| 09.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 9, 2015 | Blue Apron completes $135M; Outset Medical raised $91M; Rancher Labs landed $10M
As part of its co-investment activities, E.ON acquired a stake in the US start-up Enervee. Founded in 2012, Enervee provides a dynamic platform on which consum... |
| 09.06.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 26.08.2014 | Feedvisor Raises $6M Series A For Its Repricing Platform | Tel Aviv-based Feedvisor, an algorithmic pricing and business intelligence platform for online retailers, today announced that it has raised a $6 million Series A round led by Australia’s Square Peg Capital. Today’s announcement comes just ... |
| 18.08.2014 | Australia’s ScriptRock raises $8.7m and aims to focus on growth | Australian IT DevOps company ScriptRock, a graduate of Sydney’s Startmate 2012 program, has successfully raised a $US8.7 million ($9.8 million AUD) series A round led by August Capital, which also led investment in Splunk. Also participatin... |
| 15.08.2014 | Australia’s ScriptRock raises $8.7m and aims to focus on growth | Australian IT DevOps company ScriptRock, a graduate of Sydney’s Startmate 2012 program, has successfully raised a $US8.7 million ($9.8 million AUD) series A round led by August Capital, which also led investment in Splunk. Also participatin... |
| 21.07.2014 | Graphic-design-for-anyone tool Canva raises additional $3.6M, launches plugin for third-party sites | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Apparently, people like being able to create attr... |
| 21.07.2014 | Graphic-design-for-anyone tool Canva raises additional $3.6M, launches plugin for third-party sites | Apparently, people like being able to create attractive graphics without a design degree. Canva, the web-based graphic design platform, has just raised an additional $3.6 million in funding.
Canva makes it simple for people without a design... |
| 29.04.2014 | Seek founder Paul Bassat backs startup to lower private education costs | School Places, a startup which aims to lower prices for private education in Australia, while helping schools fill places, is the product of a genuine “light bulb moment”, according to chief executive Natalie Mactier.
The startup, which is ... |
| 05.09.2013 | Bugcrowd Closes $1.6M Seed Funding | Bugcrowd, a San Francesco, CA-based crowdsourced security startup, closed a $1.6m seed funding.
Backers included Icon Venture Partners, Paladin Capital Group, Square Peg Capital and other angel investors.
The company intends to use the fund... |
| - | Four Australian startups that raised $58 million this week | SOurce: MGA Thermal Team
It’s been a quieter week compared to the last in the Australian funding space. Though the same can’t be said for VC rankings. But we still have four, and honestly very exciting Aussie startups that made over $58 mil... |
