January has already been piping scorching for startup funding, and this week isn’t any completely different. 4 ANZ startups raised greater than $307 million throughout rockets, AI and engineering platforms.
Right here’s who:
Gilmour House: $217 million
Gilmour House cofounders Adam and James Gilmour, on the Bowen Orbital Spaceport.
Gilmour House Applied sciences has landed $217 million in a Sequence E funding spherical that lifts the Queensland-founded rocket maker’s valuation above $1 billion. This makes it Australia’s first house unicorn.
The spherical was collectively led by the Nationwide Reconstruction Fund Company (NRFC) and superannuation fund Hostplus. It additionally noticed participation from the Future Fund, Blackbird, Funds SA, HESTA, NGS Tremendous, Predominant Sequence, QIC and Brighter Tremendous.
The brand new funding follows a $55 million series D raise again in 2024.
Based on the Gold Coast, the corporate is creating an end-to-end house providing geared toward business, authorities, and defence clients.
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Ivo: $81 million
New Zealand AI startup Ivo has raised $55 million in Sequence B funding for its platform that helps in-house authorized groups assessment, negotiate and handle giant volumes of contracts.
The spherical was led by Blackbird, which additionally backed Ivo’s $25.5 million Series A in February 2025. The deal now values the startup at $530 million.
Based by former company lawyer Min-Kyu Jung and ex-Xero engineer Jacob Duligall, Ivo grew out of Jung’s frustration with the repetitive nature of contract work.
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Dam Safe: $6.1 million
Dam Safe founders Patrick Collins and Simon Harloff.
AI safety startup Dam Safe has raised $6.1 million in seed funding to sort out the safety dangers created by AI-generated code coming into manufacturing at scale, with the spherical led by Washington DC-based cybersecurity and AI investor Paladin Capital Group.
The oversubscribed spherical additionally attracted backing from Safe Code Warrior CEO Pieter Danhieux, RecordPoint CEO Anthony Woodward, Innovation Bay founder Phaedon Stough and Tyro Funds chief product officer Steen Andersson. Paladin Capital managing director Mourad Yesayan will be a part of the corporate’s board.
The increase comes as enterprises quickly roll out AI coding assistants, accelerating software program output whereas introducing new lessons of safety threat that current instruments battle to catch.
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SPEC Toolbox: $3 million
Development engineering platform SPEC Toolbox has raised $3 million in a pre-Sequence A spherical.
The funding was co-led by Black Nova and Investible.
The Melbourne design software program platform particularly for mass timber development was based in 2023 by structural engineers Adam Jones and Ringo Thomas as CLT Toolbox, rebranded after realising that design bottlenecks weren’t only a mass timber downside.
They now assist designers overcome technical limitations to make use of different fashionable supplies in development, automating advanced engineering duties. SPEC beforehand raised a $1 million bridge round in 2024, lower than 12 months after a $1.5 million seed spherical in October 2023.
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