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This Irish drone startup is aiming for a million deliveries a year

Manna has raised $30 million to fund an ambitious expansion, taking on well-funded competitors like Amazon, Alphabet and unicorn Zipline. It could be first to scale a mass drone delivery operation.

  • By Jeremy Bogaisky
  • Forbes Staff

Australian climate-tech start-up Neara bags $45 million

Neara’s Series C round is set to accelerate the company’s global operations as it continues its mission to modernise energy infrastructure.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

Australian start-up funding slumps to $695 million across Q3

Deal numbers might be high but the absence of those over $100 million has seen start-up funding tank to Q1 levels after a six-quarter high (in Q2).

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

Top 20 start-ups to work for in Australia in 2024

What do an insur-tech, a fake meat start-up and quantum computing company have in common? They’re all on this year’s top 20 start-ups to work for list, according to LinkedIn.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff

Asides

Christina Cacioppo’s software startup just raised new funds at a $2.5 billion valuation

One of America’s most successful self-made women, Vanta CEO Cacioppo talks about navigating her company’s growth and putting herself and her company at center stage.

  • By Phoebe Liu
Raising money is tough in good times, let alone when the economic conditions aren’t necessarily ideal.

Quick takes: Three entrepreneurs on our innovation radar

Forbes Australia has picked out three of the entrepreneurs who have been making waves in the startup scene as of late – and they’re ones to watch.

  • By Rosie Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

The Asian funding opportunity for Aussie startups and property ventures

It is undeniably a challenging landscape for Australian startups endeavouring to secure funding right now, owing to a pronounced correction in venture capital markets and the notable increase in interest rates. But Asia could present a promising funding opportunity.

  • By Steve Maarbani

Meet the start-ups tracking clothes made by forced labour 

New import bans have sent retailers scrambling to prove their supply chains are free from cotton originating from places like China’s Xinjiang region — or else risk millions in seized merchandise. 

  • By Lauren Debter

$739 million hits start-ups in Q3 – but funding still lags behind 2022

Seventy-seven deals were announced in the third quarter of 2023, with total funding this year slightly outpacing 2020 – but still well below 2021 and 2022, Cut Through Venture’s Australian Venture Capital Funding Report reveals.

  • By Anastasia Santoreneos
  • Forbes Staff
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