Monthly roundup · Australia · September 2026

Startup funding in Australia, September 2026: Amber's $79M Growth leads 11 rounds

By Millionrounds ResearchPublished 1 October 2026Updated 29 October 2026

We read 11 equity rounds raised in Australia and announced in September 2026, raising $222M between them: 3% of the rounds we read worldwide that month and 1% of the money. The largest was Amber's $79M Growth, led by 1GT. The median seed round was $2.5M, against $4.0M over the last twelve months in Australia; at Series A it was $16M. 1GT led the most rounds, with 2.

Equity rounds11raised in Australia, 11 with an amount
Raised$222Macross those rounds
Lead named82%of rounds say who led
Share of the world3%of rounds; 1% of the money

The biggest rounds

  1. 1AmberGrowth · led by 1GT$79M
  2. 2Amber ElectricSeries E · led by 1GT, Morgan Stanley Investment Management's 1GT$56M
  3. 3GridsightSeries B · led by Insight Partners$26M
  4. 4HHEO RoboticsSeries B · led by Beaten Zone Venture Partners$25M
  5. 5PearlerSeries A · led by Portage Ventures$16M
  6. 6MMetacognition AIPre-seed · led by Main Sequence Ventures$10M
  7. 7MMedow Health AISeed$3.5M
  8. 8ReFreshSeed · led by Black Nova Venture Capital$2.5M
  9. 9OpenDebtPre-seed$2.0M
  10. 10GonGlobalSeed · led by Innovation Victoria$1.2M

Day by day

Equity rounds raised in Australia and announced each day of September. The busiest day was 21 September, with 3.

1 September30 September

By stage, against the year

Each stage's median this month beside its twelve-month median: Australia's own where we hold enough rounds for a benchmark, otherwise the worldwide one.

Pre-seed3$2.0Mthis month$2.0M12 months, worldwide
Seed3$2.5Mthis month$4.0M12 months here
Series A1$16Mthis month$15M12 months here
Series B2$26Mthis month$50M12 months, worldwide
Growth1$79Mthis month$113M12 months, worldwide

The most active leads

Firms that led two or more of the month's rounds in Australia.

In what

AI was the busiest sector in Australia.

Against the world

  • Rounds, Australia11
  • Rounds, worldwide357
  • Raised, Australia$222M
  • Raised, worldwide$39B

The whole of September 2026

Other countries in September

116 roundsUnited States→ 46 roundsUnited Kingdom→ 25 roundsIndia→ 21 roundsCanada→ 13 roundsGermany→ 9 roundsFrance→ 9 roundsChina→