Tuesday, November 10, 2026

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Airtree tops up AI robotics startup’s pre-Seed with another $5 million

Airtree has invested $5 million in Adelaide AI startup Metacognition, just a month after it raised $10m in a pre-Seed round. The AI robotics startup was founded earlier year by professors Anton van den Hengel and Stephen Gould, alongside Dr...

Jetson Home Expands Product Lineup with Launch of EV Charging Tech

Jetson today unveiled new products with an eye toward a more complete “connected home” system. Founded in 2024, Jetson sells heat pump technology—named one of the World’s Best Inventions—directly to homeowners, using a direct, vertically integrated approach. The Vancouver-born firm this...

Six years and $300,000 later – what you need to know about growing a community

“I’ve spent $300k and six and a half years working full-time to create something free for the community …” That post gained 12k shares and 263k reach. I sent her a message immediately, Brehoni responded, and we agreed to...

Chemical threat detection startup Forward Deployed sniffs out $1 million

The two investors tipped in $500,000 each via Innovation Victoria’s University Innovation Platform. Forward Deployed was founded in 2023 by CEO Richard Hebden and CTO Alex Barry – Swinburne alumni who met while studying there – and chief growth officer...

Canva launches a home-grown AI image generation model

Canva says it plans composition, layout and text before generating an image, aiming to produce legible lettering and designs that need fewer corrections. The company said that through advanced model distillation, it reduced the number of inference steps required...

In the AI era, the crucial questions all founders dread are more important than ever

In 2011 she co-founded Booki.sh, a web-native ebook reader that was well ahead of its time and anticipated reader concerns about Amazon and Apple’s ecosystem lock-in. It was acquired by OverDrive, then the leading global distributor of ebooks and audiobooks,...

What the truck, Musk? Tesla finally abandons plans to launch its cyber ute in Australia

You’ll be getting your money back after seven years, with Elon Musk’s EV company finally confirming the bleeding obvious, canning plans to bring a right-hand-drive version to Australia. It’s been four years since Tesla put a hold on taking more...

NorthX Reveals Speakers for 2026 Edition of Climate-Focused Converge

This November, Converge 2026 will connect more than 300 founders, investors, and government partners from across the province. Converge is a flagship gathering of British Columbia’s climate tech community powered by NorthX, formerly the BC Centre for Innovation and Clean...

Victoria’s government-backed Alice Anderson Fund for women founders scores another $10 million

The investment, from the Labor government, just weeks away from November’s state election, comes five years after the sidecar fund began under the auspices of LaunchVic (now part of Innovation Victoria) in 2021. Since then, more than $9 million...

The datacentre games: NextDC tumbles, Firmus scrambles, Pocock pounces and WinDC BFFs Nvidia

In the last 24 hours, three key players jockeying for position have seen dramatic turnarounds for better and worse, as the political heat was also turned up. On Wednesday, ASX-listed NextDC lost $3 billion in market value, while Firmus faces...
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