Queensland's Appian Medical has secured about half the funding it is seeking in a $1m seed round.

University of Miami spin-out RxMP receives funding from the Institute for Commercialisation of Public Research.

DreamIt has introduced the 12 graduates of its three month incubator at the DreamIt Demo Day in New York yesterday.

Three start-ups in the inaugural Muru-D accelerator programme have received funding from SYD Ventures to go with the capital supplied by Telstra.

AOL has launched Nautilus, an accelerator targeting Israeli start-ups, which will invest $100,000 in up to 10 start-ups at a time.

Google Ventures has invested an undisclosed amount in the image searching technology company, according to a report.