Posts tagged "australian unicorns"

The startup sector in Australia is still overwhelmingly male-dominated, and women are receiving just a teeny-tiny proportion of overall funding.

SafetyCulture has raised a massive $60.5 million, pushing its valuation to $1.3 billion and crowning it the latest Aussie unicorn.

Sydney startup SiteMinder has become the first Aussie unicorn crowned of 2020, with new investment from BlackRock valuing it at a whopping $1.1 billion.

Early-stage startups are inking fewer deals at smaller values as technology success stories eat up investor appetite, Startup Australia says.

Today, 52 companies founded by Australians since 2011 are worth more than $100 million. Fourteen companies are worth more than $500 million.

Fintech startup Airwallex has secured $141 million in Series C funding, valuing the company at over $1 billion and making it Australia’s third ever unicorn.

You have your unicorns and now your minotaurs. But guess what, we can coin terms too, and there’s a third kind of beast. One that breathes fire.

Aussie startups Deputy and Airwallex have been included among 50 startups billed as future unicorns, on track to reach a $1 billion valuation.

From Judo Capital and Deputy to Canva and DataRepublic, let's finish the year by taking a look at the 10 biggest capital raises of 2018.

Sydney-based startup Deputy has bagged a whopping $111 million in Australia’s biggest Series B ever - but how did this founder win hearts, minds and money?

Startup unicorns are part of a community of digital marketplace innovators contributing almost $1.6 billion to the state of Victoria, as well as directly and indirectly providing around 93,000 jobs.

Fresh from her company recently claiming the title of Australia’s latest unicorn, Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins has taken some time to r…