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Sydney-based massive IoT company Thinxtra has raised $5 million in its pre-IPO funding round.

AI-based cyber risk management SaaS platforms provider Safe Security has announced the close of a $50 million Series B round led by Sorenson Capital, with participation from Telstra Ventures, Eight Roads, venture capital arm of Fidelity Investments WTI, and all existing investors.

Australian fintech start-up Till Payments has raised $70 million in its most recent funding round.

UK-based renewable energy company, Hive Energy has invested A$1.6 million in Australia-based Carbon280 alongside Woodside Energy, a UK green energy developer.

Software development company Buildkite has announced the completion of a US$21 million series B funding round it says will to help the company on its mission to “unblock every software developer” on the planet.

Australia-based quantum cybersecurity specialist QuintessenceLabs has recently raised an unspecified amount of additional capital in a round led by Chevron Technology Ventures.

Melbourne-based cybersecurity company Cydarm has closed its second equity round, raising more than $3 million.

Founded in Adelaide and with another office in Houston, Licorice is working to replace traditional IT services trouble tickets with a system that uses AI to match incoming requests with the right engineers, calculate the time required for each task, and allows customers to choose appointment times that suit them.

Identity and fraud prevention platform provider FrankieOne has closed its $20 million Series A funding round, led by AirTree Ventures and Greycroft.

Fintech Airwallex has raised US$200 million in an oversubscribed Series E financing round, giving the company a US$4 billion valuation.

Australian-founded visual communications and collaboration SaaS vendor Canva's latest US$200 million funding round values the company at US$40 billion.

Billing itself as "crypto without the crazy", Cabital says "Cabital Earn is an innovative new investment opportunity that helps you earn sensible returns from crypto assets without unreasonable risks and costs", and the company has just secured new funding.

COMPANY NEWS: Australian AI-as-a-service provider PI.Exchange is set to seize enterprise opportunities across the region, from banking and retail to professional services, after its successful pre series A funding round.

Payments platform for the hospitaity industry Ordermentum has announced a $6 million funding round led by existing chairman David Gordon, SEEK co-founder Matt Rockman and PURE Asset Management. 

Workplace safety solutions company SafetyCulture has completed a $99 million funding round led by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners,

Australian property intelligence platform operator Archistar has raised $6 million in a funding round led by Skip Capital (co-headed by Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar) and AirTree Ventures (which was founded by former Microsoft Australia managing director Daniel Petre).

Global HR technology company Enboarder has closed a $6.6 million (US$5m) series A2 funding round.

Internet payments software provider Stripe has raised $733 million (US$600m) with completion of a funding round, with the capital to be used for investment in its European operations and to expand its Global Payments and Treasury Network to support what it says is “surging demand” from enterprise heavyweights.

Australian agtech start-up and digital livestock management platform provider AgriWebb has completed a new funding round, with a $30 million investment in the company led by the ventures arm of Canadian telecommunications provider TELUS, which recently launched TELUS Agriculture, a division to address food security by leveraging its technology expertise.