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Thanks for 2022

This year has been an epic test. The Overnight Success newsletter kicked off with a slightly different name and three subscribers. The thesis initially was the Australian start-up ecosystem needed more coverage to get more participants, capital and founders involved; looking at the growth of the newsletter as an MVP for this thesis. There is a growing appetite for understanding what's happening across Australian start-ups. In particular, we try to give earlier-stage ventures the same coverage as larger players. Providing the news is only step one; going deeper into the context of the start-up, investors and participants is key to our mission.

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Headlines:

• 👩‍⚕️Square Peg portfolio company DoctorAnywhere finishes the year on a high

  • The Singapore-based company announced they’ve acquired Singapore-listed Asian Healthcare Specialists and also raised an additional US$38.8m “Series C1” funding round to accelerate growth and partly fund the acquisition. (Doctor Anywhere)

• ☀️ Innovation Bay Heads ‘up North’

  • Approaching its 20th anniversary in 2023, the longest-running community for technology startups, scale-ups and investors in Australia and New Zealand is launching in QLD. (Startup Daily)

  • Check out the Notice Board for the juicy details of their first event in Brissy!

• 🙈Prop-tech startup Willow fires 22% of its team to cut costs

  • Another victim of the ‘tech wreck’, the move leaves 99 staff, including full-time employees, and contractors, in the lurch ahead of the holiday season. (AFR)

  • This awkwardly follows Willow announcing a $42.3M round a few weeks ago. (AFR)

1. Start-up Retro: Australia's start-up raises with a smidge of context + a lightning round-up.

2. Notice Board: Signposting key events and opportunities.

3. Accredited Tweeters: Snippets from Twitter.

4. (KaaS) Knowledge as a Service: Articles to make you smarter. Or to share with co-workers to make them think you’re smart.

⚡️Christmas Lightning Round-up⚡️

• Cloud Gaming platform, Radian Arc, closes Series A with funding from AMD Ventures

  • Radian Arc, the cloud infrastructure provider allows for cloud gaming via 5G networks. The Perth-based company offers a low-latency digital infrastructure that sits inside telecommunications services. This allows for a distributed GPU network so consumers and enterprises can complete high computing tasks remotely. The company makes money as an Infastruture-as-a-Service model with revenue-sharing models in place for service providers.

  • 💰: Led by CPS Capital with participation from AMD Ventures (NASDAQ: AMD) and TEC

  • Due Diligence: (LinkedIn Post)

• Healthtech company Vively raises a $1.5M pre-Seed to help users understand their blood sugar levels

  • Vively has developed a constant glucose monitoring arm patch to measure the effects of diet and lifestyle. The software and wearable solution help users understand how their body reacts to food, exercise, stress and sleep to improve their health in real-time. Vively has found product market fit with almost 100% month-on-month growth and over $1M in annual revenue.

  • 💰: Led by Archangel Ventures

  • Due Diligence: (Startup Daily)

• Fintech compliance start-up, Aerotruth raises a $1.3M Seed Round

  • Aerotruth has built a new way for financial service institutions to manage and onboard their fintech and banking partners. The platform takes the pain out of extensive compliance approvals that can take months to complete. Aerotruth already has 40 companies in 25 countries on the platform and will use the new capital to improve its product offering.

  • 💰: Led by Archangel Ventures with investment from Black Sheep Capital, Change Com, Cut Through Angels, Spring Captial and Unlock Capital

  • Due Diligence: (Startup Daily)

• Aravax lands a $20M Series B to build a rapid peanut immunotherapy

  • The clinical-stage biotech company, Aravax, is building the first safe and convenient disease-modifying treatment for peanut allergies. Their proprietary technology hopes to reset the immune system to tolerate allergens. The first phases have been completed, and the company is launching phase 2 in 2023. Peanut allergies affect 1-2% of the global population, who are generally underserved by solutions.

  • 💰: Investment from Brandon Capital and Tenmile

  • Due Diligence: (Press Release)

• Katonic.ai locks in a $1.6M pre-Series A

  • The Australian Enterprise Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) platform (try saying that five times), has raised a $1.6M pre-Series A. Artesian led the round with investment from Boab AI. The software is an end-to-end MLOps platform and allows businesses to leverage data science over their large datasets. In short, the platform allows internal data science teams to accelerate their experimentation and deliver new models to production.

  • 💰: Led by Artesian

  • Due Diligence: (Press Release)

• Potiki, a pet insurance start-up, has landed $1M in pre-Seed funding

  • The pet-focused insurance start-up, Potiki, offers insurance for procedures that many other insurance companies do not cover. Some of these surgeries may be required for 'designer dogs'. Examples include cruciate ligament surgeries, hip joint surgeries and dental. The platform offers several cover levels, including platinum, gold, silver and bronze. Presently, the Potiki covers both cats and dogs. Apparently, only 13% of Australian pets are covered, and Potiki believes there is plenty of opportunity to grow.

If you're a founder or investor who has just closed a round, please reach out!

Notice Board

• Innovation Bay’s first Investor Day event in the Sunshine State

  • Apply to pitch your startup here.

• _SOUTHSTART Odyssey tickets are now on sale

  • After a successful Startup Week program in November _SOUTHSTART has launched tickets to their flagship annual event in March 2023. Learn more & get tickets.

Accredited Tweeters

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(KaaS) Knowledge as a Service

• Narratives and why many got it wrong on FTX, Twitter and Crypto by Ben Thompson.

  • A reflective piece on how narratives can lead people, investors and users astray.

• Why Your Team Needs a Weekly Metrics Review by Julie Zhuo

  • Blog post on why a short reflection on what metrics your company cares about could need a refresh as the business matures.

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