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How to find Australian startups that just raised funding (and when to reach out)

Australian raises reach the public through four free channels: startup news, the ASX for listed companies, ASIC's register, and the government's grant lists. Each one shows something different, on its own timetable. We read every one of them on 25 October 2026 and wrote down what they show, how often they update, and the catch with each. Then: how long to wait after an announcement, and what to say when you do write.

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By the Bingle team · Published 25 October 2026 · Researched from the sources listed below, drafted with AI help and checked against those sources

Short answer

Where can you find Australian startups that just raised funding?

Read the weekly round-up SmartCompany publishes most Fridays (Startup Daily runs it as Cheque-in), the ASX's daily announcements for listed companies raising capital, and GrantConnect for government grants, then write a few weeks later to the person the money pays for. Bingle, made in Australia, watches the news and LinkedIn page posts of companies that fit your ideal customer and shows each raise with its date and a link. ASIC share-issue records can lag the money by up to 28 days and don't say why the shares were issued.

How we researched this

On 25 October 2026 we read each source below on its own site, counted the previous trading day's ASX announcements with a script, and checked Bingle's own code for what its funding signal reads. We didn't test reply rates by timing; where we give timing advice, it's reasoning, and we say so.

Where Australian raises show up, and how often

No single list has every round. Private startups announce through the press, listed companies must tell the ASX, every company must tell ASIC about new shares, and grant money is published by the government. Here is what each source showed when we read it.

Source	What it shows	How often	The catch
SmartCompany's weekly round-up (Startup Daily's Cheque-in)	Each startup's amount, investors, background and often what the money is for. Stage is sometimes given.	Most Fridays. Editions on 25 Sep, 2 Oct, 16 Oct and 23 Oct 2026; none for the week of 9 Oct.	It recaps the week, so a round may be several days old. Every other seller reads it too.
Startup Daily's funding section	Single-deal stories as they're announced, plus fund news.	Several a week: 10 items from 12 to 22 Oct 2026.	Covers only rounds someone chose to announce.
ASX announcements	Listed companies' trading halts, placements, share purchase plans and "Proposed issue of securities" (the Appendix 3B form).	Every trading day. Friday 23 Oct 2026 had 750 announcements, 132 marked price sensitive, 20 titled "Proposed issue of securities".	ASX's terms allow private and personal use only; commercial use needs its written authority.
ASIC company records	That a company issued shares: date, number, class and amount paid.	A share issue must be reported within 28 days.	Document copies are a paid search, and a share issue isn't always a raise.
GrantConnect grant awards	Every Commonwealth grant: recipient, value and category, searchable by recipient name or ABN.	Each award within 21 days of the grant agreement taking effect, browsable by publish week.	Every kind of recipient is listed, so filter by the Industry category.
Industry Growth Program recipients	140 grants totalling A$209.5 million (ex GST), A$50,000 to A$5 million each, with project and state.	No dates on the page, and the program is paused to new applications.	A back catalogue of funded projects, not fresh news.

For a sense of volume: Startup Daily, citing a quarterly venture industry report, counted 92 announced rounds in the September quarter, down from 123 a year earlier. Rounds under A$10 million raised A$162 million between them, and the ten biggest deals took 79% of the rest. That's about seven announced rounds a week, with the money bunched into a few big ones.

Reading each source without wasting a morning

The Friday round-up is the quickest read. The 23 October 2026 edition covered three raises: an adtech startup's A$20 million Series A, an industrial AI startup's A$3 million pre-seed, and a New Zealand edtech's NZ$2.6 million Series A for expanding into Australia. Only the pre-seed said which team the money would grow: "increased headcount in the AI and engineering teams" in Australia and San Francisco. That line is the useful part. It tells you which team will grow and who will soon be choosing tools for it.

The ASX's old-style pages are the easiest to scan. The previous trading day's list shows every announcement with its time, a price-sensitive marker and the headline, and the search by ASX code shows six months for one company. Headlines to watch for are "Proposed issue of securities", "Placement" and "Share Purchase Plan". On 23 October, 5 headlines mentioned a placement and 3 a share purchase plan. Before you build a routine on it, read ASX's terms: market announcements "are freely available for investors' private and personal use only, and cannot be used for any commercial purpose without the express written authority of ASX." ASX defines a commercial purpose as any use other than your own personal and private decision making. Read strictly, that covers prospecting, so ask ASX before you make its feed part of your routine.

ASIC is slower and vaguer. ASIC's page says "The company must tell us about every share issue within 28 days after the issue", with the date, number, class and amount paid on each share. Shares get issued to staff, founders and on conversions as well as in raises, so a filing is a reason to look, not news. Copies of lodged documents are a paid search; when we loaded ASIC's fee page on 25 October the price cells showed placeholders rather than amounts, so check the price at checkout. One ASIC register is the wrong place entirely: the published notices website holds insolvency and deregistration notices, which are useful for knowing who not to pitch.

Grants are money with a project attached. GrantConnect says grant awards "must be published on GrantConnect within 21 days of a grant agreement taking effect", and you can browse each week's awards, filter by value range and category, or look up a company by ABN. The Industry Growth Program's recipient list is a good back catalogue: each row names the business, the project, the state and the amount, and its grants were matched funding, so the business had to put in money of its own. With the program paused, expect no new rows for now.

Friday, mid-morning AEDT: read the round-up and the week's single-deal stories. Note each company that fits your buyer and what the money is for.
If you sell to listed companies, ask ASX for written authority before you scan its daily list for prospects.
Once a week: open GrantConnect's latest publish week, filter to Industry, and skim for businesses in your market.
For each company you noted, find who leads the team the money will grow, and set a reminder for three to four weeks out.

When to reach out after an announcement

We couldn't find a study that compares replies on announcement day with replies a month later, so treat this as reasoning. The day a round is public is the day every seller in your category sees it, and the founder is busy with investors, staff and press. The money gets spent over the following months, often by someone who hasn't started yet. Our funding round guide goes through who that person usually is.

Time since the news	What's going on	What to do
Days 0 to 7
Days 0 to 7	Announcement, interviews, a flood of congratulations and pitches.	Note the company and what the money is for. Don't pitch.
Weeks 2 to 6
Weeks 2 to 6	Job ads go up for the teams the round pays for.	Write to the leader of that team about the problem the new roles will face.
Months 2 to 4
Months 2 to 4	New heads of function start and review the tools they inherited.	Write to the new person a few weeks into the job.
Months 4 to 6
Months 4 to 6	Spending is planned; the raise itself is old news.	Use what they've done since, such as hires or a launch, as your reason.
After 6 months
After 6 months	The round no longer explains much.	Drop it as your reason unless a new signal turns up.

Clocks matter for when the message lands. NSW moved to AEDT on Sunday 4 October 2026 and moves back on Sunday 4 April 2027, so for now 9am in Sydney is 8am in Brisbane and 6am in Perth. Send in the buyer's working hours, not yours. The Australian outreach rules post has the state holidays and the summer break to plan around.

What to say, and what not to

Write about what the round will force, not the round itself. A pre-seed company hiring its first engineers will soon need a hiring process, a laptop policy and a way to pay contractors in two countries. A Series A company opening a sales team will need territory plans and a CRM someone actually maintains. Pick the one your product deals with and ask whether it's true for them.

Name the use of funds they published: "The round-up said the money is going into AI and engineering hires in Sydney and San Francisco."
Ask one question about the problem that use creates: "Are you hiring both teams on the same process, or running them separately?"
Write to the person who will own that problem, which after a raise is often a new hire rather than the founder.
Say who you are, your business, and how to opt out. Australia's Spam Act asks that of commercial messages.

"Congrats on the raise" as the whole opener. Everyone sends it.
Guessing the amount, or quoting a valuation you read in a forum.
Pitching the founder in announcement week.
Treating an ASIC share issue or an ASX trading halt as a confirmed raise before the company says so.
Copying text from ASX announcements into a prospect list without ASX's say-so.

A message that works three weeks after a pre-seed might read: "Saw the team is growing in Sydney and San Francisco after the pre-seed. When you've hired across two countries before, the contracts and payroll usually split in two. Is that something you've sorted, or still on the list?" It's about their situation, and it still makes sense if they've stopped talking about the round. Run your own draft through the message checker if you want a second opinion.

How Bingle picks up a raise

We make Bingle, so here is exactly what its code does on 25 October 2026, and what it doesn't. It doesn't send you a list of every raise in Australia. It looks for raises at companies that already fit your ideal customer, from three places.

Company news. When your ideal customer is in Australia, Bingle's news search uses Google News' Australian edition. It reads headlines from the last 30 days, sorts each one into funding, acquisition, expansion, launch or leadership change, and turns a funding headline into a reason like "raised money" for the people at that company who fit.
A weekly re-read. A good-fit lead with no recent reason waits outside Review while Bingle re-reads their company each week: its news from the last 90 days, checked to be about this company and not another with the same name, and, with your LinkedIn connected, the company's LinkedIn page posts from the last 30 days. A page post announcing a raise becomes a funding signal with the post's link, and the stage when the post states one (pre-seed, seed, Series A to E).
A funding search, if you connect a company-data account in Settings. It finds people at companies that raised in the last 180 days and dates the signal to the round. Without that account this one signal stays off, and raises reach you through the two routes above.

A raise counts for more when it relates to what you sell: Bingle gives full weight to a funding signal only when its evidence mentions your buyers' job titles, the roles you watch for or your topics, and the signal fades slowly over the following months. Every lead shows its reason with the date and a link, ranked by fit and timing. The message writer is told to skip the generic congratulations and not to guess the amount, and each draft waits for your OK unless you switch review off.

What it doesn't read: ASX announcements, ASIC filings, GrantConnect or the Industry Growth Program list, so a raise that only appears there won't reach you through Bingle. It is LinkedIn only, with no email sequences and no contact database. It sends from your own LinkedIn inside your working hours and each sequence's send window. Plans start at US$49 a month after 7 days free; see pricing. Hiring is the signal that usually follows a raise, and our post on using SEEK and LinkedIn job posts covers it.

Questions

How do I find out which Australian startups raised money this week?

Read SmartCompany's Friday round-up, which Startup Daily runs as Cheque-in, and skim Startup Daily's funding section for single-deal stories. On 23 October 2026 the round-up covered three raises worth A$25.1 million together.

Can I use ASX announcements to find sales prospects?

ASX's terms say market announcements are for "investors' private and personal use only" and can't be used commercially without its written authority. ASX counts any use beyond your own personal decisions as commercial, so ask ASX before building prospecting on it.

Does ASIC show when a company raises money?

Indirectly. Every share issue must be reported to ASIC within 28 days, but the record doesn't say why the shares were issued, and copies of lodged documents cost money. Treat it as a hint and confirm with the company's own news.

How long after a funding round should I wait to reach out?

We'd wait two to six weeks and write to the person leading the team the money pays for, rather than the founder in announcement week. That's reasoning, not a measured result; we found no study that compares the two.

Is a government grant a buying signal?

It can be. A grant comes with a project to deliver, and Industry Growth Program grants were matched, so the business put in its own money too. GrantConnect publishes each Commonwealth grant within 21 days of the agreement taking effect.

Sources

SmartCompany, Three ANZ startups that raised $25.1 million this week. published 23 Oct 2026; read 25 Oct 2026
SmartCompany, StartupSmart feed (round-up dates). read 25 Oct 2026
Startup Daily, Cheque-in: 3 startups pocket $18.75 million to start October. published 2 Oct 2026; read 25 Oct 2026
Startup Daily, Funding. read 25 Oct 2026
Startup Daily, Australian startup funding rose 80% in Q3. published 13 Oct 2026; read 25 Oct 2026
ASX, Previous trading day announcements (23 Oct 2026). read 25 Oct 2026
ASX, Appendix 3B: Notification of Proposed Issue of Securities. form dated 1 Dec 2019; read 25 Oct 2026
ASX, Terms of use: Market Announcements. read 25 Oct 2026
ASIC, Company share issues. read 25 Oct 2026
ASIC, Search fees. read 25 Oct 2026; prices not displayed
ASIC, Insolvency notices. read 25 Oct 2026
GrantConnect, Grant Awards. read 25 Oct 2026
business.gov.au, Industry Growth Program grant recipients. read 25 Oct 2026
business.gov.au, Industry Growth Program. read 25 Oct 2026
NSW Government, Daylight saving. read 25 Oct 2026

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