The Startup Retro🎙

Covering Square Peg's ambitious new funds, the 2023 financial results of Linktree, and a groundbreaking partnership that will see hypersonic rocket launches from South Australian spaceports in 2025. The duo also discuss SafetyCulture's latest $75M raise, Algenie’s mission to replace plastics with algae, and interview Emma Grife from Startmate about their latest cohort.

In this week's episode of The Startup Retro, host Will Richards and standing in for Gemma Clancy this week, Cheryl Mack, dive into Uber's new partnership with Turo after shutting down its Car Next Door acquisition. They also discuss Premier Capital Partners' new fund, AirTrunk’s $23 billion sale, and Cheryl’s experience at the Startup Daily Awards. The episode also features a deep dive into Safe Ag Systems, an agtech safety platform. Plus, catch the latest startup raises and Will’s pick for Knowledge as a Service (KaaS).

Gemma and Will explore Australia’s $66M 66ten fund, Main Sequence’s Atmosphere program, and the latest initiative from SEEK’s co-founder—plus an interview with the co-founder of CAST + a surprise new co-host!

Uber shuts down it's carshare division, after creating it off the back of acquiring Aussie-founded Car Next Door + a bunch of positive startup raises and wins from BindiMaps, SunCable, Metakosmos and Nomad Fleet.

The latest developments in the Breakthrough Vic saga, plus an interview with the co-founder of Slice, Farouk Ismail.

OneVenture's ambitious plans for it's $200M 7th fund, two fresh accelerator cohorts of budding new startups and a review of raises from Eyeonic and Rich Data Co.

A behind-the-scenes look at Canva's acquisition of Leonardo.Ai, the SA state government's independent report on SAVCF's effectiveness + delve into the recent fundraises of Slice and Monty Compost.

Could Microsoft's new design tool be a threat to the Aussie startup ecosystem's 'golden goose', Canva? And why has Coinbase hired an ex-Treasury employee?

Will and Gem interview Kirstin Hunter and Preethi Mohan on their gender funding equity reporting initiative, Funding the Balance, and cover recent raises from ExoFlare and HammerTech.

Will and Gem chat with Chris Gillings from Cut Through Venture and chat all things ClimateTech, including two startups that raised capital this week - Fugu and Sircle.

What happens with fintechs take on the big banks over open banking? A big juicy discussion, that's what!

Listen to the first episode of The Startup Retro - the latest startup news, raises and a bunch of startup-relevant insights to learn from.

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