First up, let’s cope with the elephant within the room – or is it extra unhatched chickens we haven’t counted? – the $725 million investment in AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies.
As we identified earlier this week, the announcement was very rigorously worded – the headline in the present tense – “raises’ earlier than it says Firmus “expects to safe an additional USD$505 million strategic fairness funding led by Coatue… with participation from Nvidia topic to sure closing circumstances”.
As anybody’s who’s ever hooked a really giant fish, not to mention raised (previous tense) capital is aware of, you solely get to weigh/depend it when the fish/cash is within the boat/financial institution.
So we haven’t included Firmus this week, and as a substitute have 5 Australian startups which positively raised a mixed $30.1 million, with funding flowing into enterprise AI infrastructure, vertical software program, girls’s well being diagnostics and extra.
Haast: $17 million
Compliance startup Haast has raised $17 million (US$12m) in a Collection A spherical led by Peak XV Companions, supported by DST International Companions, Airtree, Aura Ventures and Black Sheep Capital.
Based in Sydney, Haast is constructing an AI-powered compliance infrastructure designed to automate regulatory and coverage workflows inside enterprise techniques. The platform embeds organisational coverage and danger frameworks straight into day-to-day instruments, aiming to cut back the handbook burden on authorized and compliance groups.
The contemporary funding might be used to scale its agentic workflow merchandise and develop its world enterprise footprint.
Kimia: $7 million
Sydney-based startup Kimia has raised $7 million in a seed funding spherical led by Airtree Ventures, with backing from Blackbird Ventures and Skip Capital.
Based by Farid Mirmohseni and Sajjad Azami, Kimia is growing a “chemical intelligence” platform that applies AI to firm information, documentation and institutional data to help business groups within the chemical trade.
The platform is designed to ship technically correct, source-backed solutions in actual time, addressing delays attributable to reliance on specialist experience and fragmented inside data.
Kimia is already working with enterprise clients reminiscent of Bostik, Univar Options and Stahl, with the funding set to help buyer development and additional product improvement.
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Rosella: $3.7 million
An AI business insurance coverage brokerage automation startup has raised $3.7 million in pre-seed funding.
The spherical for Sydney-based Rosella was led by Peak XV Companions (the previous Sequoia Capital India) and US VC Intact Personal Capital.
The platform automates key operational duties for business insurance coverage brokers targeted on small and mid-market-sized companies.
Former VC turned founder Sean Stuart launched Rosella in late 2025 with Chris Dwyer, a founding engineer at Constantinople and AI lead at Accenture. The pair met at college a decade earlier.
Stuart, the CEO, and an endurance athlete who accomplished 80 marathons in 80 days, mentioned the startup, which additionally has a US base, is addressing three persistent challenges out there: time-intensive workflows, protection complexity, and repair variability.
“The holy grail isn’t chatbots. It’s browser brokers that may navigate 100 provider portals, each totally different, each altering each day,” he mentioned.
“Everybody asks how AI replaces employees. We ask the way it makes them extraordinary. Our AI turns a one-year rep right into a 10-year veteran.”
Proseek Bio: $1.5 million
Brisbane-based girls’s well being startup, Proseek Bio, has raised $1.5 million in a Seed spherical to commercialise its ovarian most cancers detection blood take a look at.
The corporate is growing OC-Triage. It is a blood-based diagnostic that identifies glycoprotein markers linked to a future chance of ovarian most cancers. The take a look at is designed to help earlier and extra correct medical decision-making, enhancing referral pathways and lowering pointless surgical procedure.
The corporate says as much as 80% of surgical procedures for suspected ovarian most cancers return benign outcomes, whereas greater than 15,000 Australian girls endure diagnostic procedures every year, typically with late-stage diagnoses.
Proseek Bio mentioned the brand new funding will help medical validation and development towards lab deployment, with plans for a Collection A elevate targeted on market entry, regulatory approvals and additional trials.
The corporate can also be exploring broader functions for the expertise, together with endometriosis triage and different girls’s well being diagnostics, as investor curiosity within the class begins to develop.
Chime Labs: $900,000
Sydney startup Chime Labs has raised $900,000 in pre-seed funding to assist tradies handle their workload utilizing AI.
The spherical was led by 500 International, supported by angel traders.
Former Googlers Alexis Griveau and Mathew Pretel based the AI-powered receptionist service in 2025 to help trades and repair companies. They’ve kicked off with an AI receptionist that solutions calls 24/7, qualifies leads, and books jobs straight on the calendar.
The capital might be used to develop the product choices to make Chime Labs a one-stop store for Australian trades and companies companies, in addition to bolstering the headcount.
Griveau mentioned the thought for Chime Labs happened because of witnessing members of the family and pals struggling when working their service-led enterprise, including {that a} single missed name might value them as much as $12,000 a month in misplaced income.
