We appointed the Chief Technology Officer, a technology leadership hire, to take the platform and the engineering organisation to their next stage.
Farmbot — Farmbot is an Australian agtech company, founded in 2014, that keeps watch over the water remote farms depend on. Its connected devices read tank levels, usage trends and infrastructure status in real time, then turn that into timely alerts and clear reporting, so a grazier can check the water from the homestead rather than driving the property to do it. Less time on tank runs, more certainty about the resource a farming business runs on.
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Leadership Change · Oceania
Microba Life Sciences →Director Ian Frazer departed the board of ASX-listed Microba Life Sciences on 21 October 2026; a final Director's Interest Notice was filed.
“a merger would create a leader in microbiome and infectious disease diagnostics, with broader revenue and customer bases and a materially stronger balance sheet to meet the significant global opportunity facing the merged group.”
Capital Raising · Oceania
Forward Deployed →Chemical threat detection startup Forward Deployed raised $1M to turn its DINGO detection system into field-ready equipment for hostile zones.
Partnership · Oceania
Orbis Investment Management →Orbis Investment Management appointed Heathcote Investment Partners to distribute its global equities strategy in New Zealand, widening access for local financial advisers and wholesale investors.
M&A Activity · Oceania
La Trobe Financial →Canadian public pension fund OMERS has acquired a minority stake of nearly 20% in Australian lender La Trobe Financial from its owner Brookfield.
Partnership · Oceania
Brennan →Australian systems integrator Brennan has been designated an OpenAI Select Partner under the OpenAI Partner Network, to build, sell and deliver OpenAI-based AI solutions to enterprise customers.
Partnership · Oceania
SCX.ai →Sydney-based SCX.ai (ASX:SCX) has joined Elon Musk's SpaceX Super Intelligence Partner Network as a launch partner alongside NVIDIA, Snowflake, Databricks and MongoDB. It will integrate its AI models and tools with Grok and build plugins linking Grok to its Australian-hosted infrastructure.