Funding roundup January 29 – 3: FoodByUs, Fingerprint for Success and more
Summary
This campaign, which marks the second round of crowd-funding for the tech startup, aims to raise an impressive $1 million.The funds will be used to optimise Ziinkles current singles offering, implement additional features to drive deeper commercialisation and additional revenue streams, build the functionally required to support more businesses and help to accelerate acquisition strategies.Fingerprint for Success (F4S) today announced a new AU$ 5 million funding round led by Investible with other Australian and U.S. VCs, including Five V Capital and Salesforce Ventures. This brings the total funding to $9 million.Sydney quantum software startup QCTRL has raised US$27.4 million (A$39m) in an extension of its Series B. Several new investors joined QCTRLs cap table, including Salesforce Ventures, the VC arm of the US software giant.Other new investors include Alumni Ventures, ICM Allectus, Mindrock Capital, former General Dynamics Vice President Bill Lightfoot, and World Cup-winning former Wallabies captain John Eales.Australias largest wholesale hospitality marketplace, FoodByUs, has completed a $12 million Series B funding round. The company intends to use the funds to strengthen product, sales and marketing efforts.Wink provides a device-agnostic multifactor biometric identity and payments platform that combines face and voice recognition, AI, advanced ML, and ChatGPT technology.The company intends to use the funds to continue to strengthen and commercially roll out its platform offering. The financing was led by Cerracap Ventures, with participation from Flying Point Industries and several family offices from Texas and California.Risilience, a Cambridge, UK-based climate analytics company, raised $26M in Series B funding.