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‘Daunting’: Australian startup funding slowest Q1 since 2019
In the first three months of 2023, Australian startups reported $661 million of capital raised across 82 deals. That was less than 50% of reported capital raised in Q1 of 2021 and 20% of Q1 in 2022, according to Cut Through Ventures’ quarterly report.