mx51 chief executive Victor Zheng. Source: supplied
This week we saw e-commerce platform Little Birdie backed to the tune of $30 million with funding from CBA, and heard from Collabosaurus founder Jessica Ruhfus, who hasn’t raised a cent, but has bootstrapped her way to profitability.
But there has also been more funding activity for Aussie startups, including in both the medtech and fintech sectors, as well as a successful equity crowdfunding campaign for a business digitising property management.
Plus, we take a look at a shiny new unicorn in the US solar energy space.
Here’s some of the funding news you might have missed.
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Faith Reeves still remembers the magical moment 18 years ago when her doting husband first cradled their newborn daughter in his arms.
After already welcoming two sons, the long-awaited birth of their first girl, Hope, was marked by celebration for the growing Queensland family.
But the once-beautiful memory is now a sickening reminder of the years of horrific sexual abuse that would befall Hope at the hands of her father Richard James Smith.
In Faith s mind, that loving first embrace will now forever be contrasted with the nauseating sight when she stumbled upon him 15 years later groping their baby girl s breast.
After such an unpredictable year caused largely by the COVID-19 outbreak, is there anything Australians can expect from real estate over the next 12 months?