The most important elevate got here from GXE, which secured $3.3 million in Collection A funding for its personal asset administration platform, adopted by local weather tech startup Conry Tech, Optimaze, Good Warmth, PredicTX and Inaam rounding out the listing.
GXE: $3.3 million
Serial entrepreneurs Ed Hooper and Andrew Armstrong lead this week’s funding round-up, after elevating $3.3 million in an oversubscribed Collection A spherical for his or her all-in-one platform that provides a “easier and smarter” strategy to handle personal belongings.
That is the third capital elevate for GXE, which was based by Hooper and Armstrong in 2020, one yr after Omny Studio, the audio administration platform they co-founded in 2012, was bought to Los Angeles-based Triton Digital.
An earlier iteration of the corporate, referred to as Startup Galaxy, supplied a startup listing and jobs board earlier than later including an funding function.
The newest funding spherical included participation from US-based fund Second Century Ventures and Australian traders Archangel and Australian Medical Angels. It brings GXE’s whole funding raised up to now to $5.3 million.
GXE’s software program platform acts as a one-stop store for fund managers, household places of work and funding professionals to handle their personal investments higher. It’s designed to assist these traders streamline operations by enhancing the effectivity of their securities administration, investor communications, and tax and regulatory compliance.
Conry Tech: $3 million
Melbourne-based local weather tech startup Conry Tech has raised $3 million in seed funding for its Australian-made air con system, named BullAnt.
The spherical was led by specialist local weather investor Audacy. It follows a $1.6 million pre-seed elevate in late 2024 and brings Conry Tech’s whole capital raised to $13 million.
The startup, which was based in 2020 by HVAC trade veteran Ron Conry, alongside Sam and Brenda Ringwaldt, is planning to boost a Collection A spherical in 2026.
It can use the brand new funding to progress the subsequent steps for taking its air-conditioning system to market, highlighting its potential to considerably cut back industrial vitality payments and carbon emissions.
“The purpose is straightforward. Construct the world’s greatest air-conditioner,” stated CEO Sam Ringwaldt.
“We’ve spent 5 years in R&D to get up to now, and this elevate permits us to speed up by means of the subsequent steps of our go-to-market technique.”
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Optimaze: $3 million
An AI-based “cloud waste” startup has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to assist corporations save billions on their cloud prices.
The spherical for Optimaze was led by Arconic and The Innovation Membership. The Sydney startup is at present in personal beta, with a waitlist for preview entry to the software program.
The funding will likely be used to develop its engineering group, speed up the product roadmap, and arrange strategic partnerships with cloud providers, kicking off with AWS.
Australian spending on cloud computing is anticipated to hit $15 billion subsequent yr, and Gartner estimates at the least 30% of cloud spend is wasted.
However Optimaze founders Ralf Capel and Dawshiek Yogathasar imagine the true price and inefficiency could possibly be considerably larger than $4.5 billion, particularly when the environmental impacts are additionally taken into consideration.
“Cloud waste has spiralled uncontrolled, costing companies billions and demanding roughly 1% of worldwide vitality consumption,” Capel stated.
“As a substitute of addressing the basis trigger, at this time corporations are pouring extra money into increasing cloud infrastructure and monetary operations, making the issue exponentially worse.
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Good Warmth: $2 million
A Sydney startup utilizing batteries to exchange fuel for industrial warmth and minimize enterprise vitality prices has raised greater than $2 million.
Good Warmth will deploy large-scale thermal vitality storage programs powered by low cost renewable electrical energy to offer industrial warmth at costs beneath fuel.
Plans for Australia’s largest warmth battery growth, for a big industrial buyer, are already underway in Victoria, with the startup saying the venture will save the manufacturing unit greater than $1.5 million yearly on its vitality invoice, in addition to minimize carbon emissions by changing fuel.
The elevate was led by Understorey Ventures, the household fund of AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot, with help from native local weather tech VC Investible, and 2100VC, the European fund linked to the Benetton industrial group.
Good Warmth was co-founded by Bauke van Gent, Tom Geiser and Bruis van Vlijmen in early 2025.
Their expertise spans greenfield vitality venture growth and vitality markets on the likes of Neon and Infigen, in addition to batteries.
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PredicTX: $1.6 million
PredicTx Well being, a College of Melbourne spin-out that makes use of AI to personalise chemo dosing primarily based on physique composition evaluation, has raised $1.6 million in contemporary capital.
The funding got here from the college’s Genesis Pre-Seed Fund, a authorities grant and angel funding, and will likely be used to commercialise a world-first AI-powered precision oncology platform.
PredicTx was co-founded by professor Justin Yeung, head of surgical procedure at Western Well being, and Abhijeet Waykar, founder of worldwide health-integration startup Lenia Well being, utilizing College of Melbourne analysis.
The venture is supported by Western Well being, the place the primary medical validation research will likely be held.
Waykar stated the funding from Genesis is the College of Melbourne’s endorsement of the industrial viability and world potential of PredicTx’s know-how, which makes use of CT scans and machine studying to analyse a affected person’s muscle and bone composition, permitting clinicians to personalise chemotherapy doses somewhat than counting on the present one-size-fits-all “physique floor space” technique.
“This elevate provides us the momentum to maneuver from analysis into real-world medical impression,” he stated.
“Our rapid focus is on validating the know-how with oncologists and most cancers centres in Australia and India, earlier than scaling internationally.”
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Inaam: $500,000
Melbourne-based startup Inaam has secured $500,000 in pre-seed funding to gasoline the launch of its impression funding platform for younger traders.
The funding comes from Startupbootcamp’s Sustainable Fintech Fund and Singapore-based enterprise capital agency Hatcher+ VC, in addition to Startmate mentors, executives from ASX50-listed corporations, some distinguished ladies traders and household places of work.
Based by CEO Arjun Agarwal, Inaam’s purpose is to assist younger individuals make investments responsibly and observe the real-world results of their investments.
These traders can use the platform to entry customized micro-portfolios beginning at $10 a month, whereas additionally enhancing their funding literacy by way of the app’s gamified consumer expertise.
Inaam additionally permits customers to measure the consequences of their investments in tangible phrases, similar to timber planted, renewable vitality generated, or carbon emissions averted.