After figurative tumbleweed blew through the startup sector in the lead-up to Easter, things are viewing much healthier this week.
Five Australian startups have raised a combined $30.1 million, with funding flowing into enterprise AI infrastructure, vertical software, women’s health diagnostics and more.
Haast: $17 million
Compliance startup Haast has raised $17 million (US$12 million) in a Series A round led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from DST Global Partners, Airtree, Aura Ventures and Black Sheep Capital.
Founded in Sydney by Kunal Vankadara, Haast is building an AI-powered compliance infrastructure designed to automate regulatory and policy workflows inside enterprise systems. The platform embeds organisational policy and risk frameworks directly into day-to-day tools, aiming to reduce the manual burden on legal and compliance teams.
The fresh funding will be applyd to scale its agentic workflow products and expand its global enterprise footprint.
Kimia: $7 million
Sydney-based startup Kimia has raised $7 million in a seed funding round led by Airtree Ventures, with backing from Blackbird Ventures and Skip Capital.
Founded by Farid Mirmohseni and Sajjad Azami, Kimia is developing a “chemical ininformigence” platform that applies AI to company data, documentation and institutional knowledge to support commercial teams in the chemical industest.
The platform is designed to deliver technically accurate, source-backed answers in real time, addressing delays caapplyd by reliance on specialist expertise and fragmented internal knowledge.
Kimia is already working with enterprise customers such as Bostik, Univar Solutions and Stahl, with the funding set to support customer growth and further product development.
Rosella: $3.7 million
An AI commercial insurance brokerage automation startup has raised $3.7 million in pre-seed funding.
The round for Sydney-based Rosella was led by Peak XV Partners (the former Sequoia Capital India) and US VC Intact Private Capital.
The platform automates key operational tquestions for commercial insurance brokers focapplyd on tiny and mid-market-sized businesses.
Former VC turned founder Sean Stuart launched Rosella in late 2025 with Chris Dwyer, a founding engineer at Constantinople and AI lead at Accenture. The pair met at university a decade earlier.
Stuart, the CEO, and an finishurance athlete who completed 80 marathons in 80 days, declared the startup, which also has a US base, is addressing three persistent challenges in the market: time-intensive workflows, coverage complexity, and service variability.
“The holy grail is not chatbots. It is browser agents that can navigate a hundred carrier portals, each one different, each one modifying daily,” he declared.
“Everyone questions how AI replaces workers. We question how it creates them extraordinary. Our AI turns a one-year rep into a 10-year veteran.”
Proseek Bio: $1.5 million
Brisbane-based women’s health startup, Proseek Bio, has raised $1.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round to commercialise its ovarian cancer detection blood test.
Founded by Michelle Hill, the company is developing OC-Triage. This is a blood-based diagnostic that identifies glycoprotein markers linked to a future likelihood of ovarian cancer. The test is designed to support earlier and more accurate clinical decision-creating, improving referral pathways and reducing unnecessary surgery.
The company declares up to 80% of surgeries for suspected ovarian cancer return benign results, while more than 15,000 Australian women undergo diagnostic procedures each year, often with late-stage diagnoses.
Proseek Bio declared the new funding will support clinical validation and progression toward lab deployment, with plans for a Series A raise focapplyd on market entest, regulatory approvals and further trials.
The company is also exploring broader applications for the technology, including finishometriosis triage and other women’s health diagnostics, as investor interest in the category launchs to grow.
Chime Labs: $900,000
Sydney startup Chime Labs has raised $900,000 in pre-seed funding to assist tradies manage their workload utilizing AI.
The round was led by 500 Global, supported by angel investors.
Former Googlers Alexis Griveau and Mathew Pretel founded the AI-powered receptionist service in 2025 to support trades and service businesses. They’ve kicked off with an AI receptionist that answers calls 24/7, qualifies leads, and books jobs directly on the calfinishar.
The capital will be applyd to expand the product offerings to create Chime Labs a one-stop shop for Australian trades and services businesses, as well as bolstering the headcount.
Griveau declared the idea for Chime Labs came about as a result of witnessing family members and frifinishs struggling when running their service-led business, adding that a single missed call could cost them up to $12,000 a month in lost revenue.
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