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LIFELENZ founder and CEO Dr. Stephen KirkbyLIFELENZ founder and CEO Dr. Stephen Kirkby

Australia-born workforce management software provider LIFELENZ has completed a successful US$32 million Series B capital raise led by Sydney and New-York based venture capital fund Tidal Ventures and Australian local growth investor Ellerston Capital.

With participation from existing and new institutional investors, the funding round was managed by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Australia. LIFELENZ will use this capital to accelerate growth by supporting expansion among existing clients as well as extending into new geographies. 

As well as implementing new clients in the US, UK, Europe, Canada, and Asia, LIFELENZ will increase staff in its US locations, particularly Chicago and Washington DC, and its 80-strong software engineering team in Adelaide, South Australia. Tidal Ventures Managing Partner Grant McCarthy will join the LIFELENZ board of directors.

LIFELENZ was founded in 2017 by Dr Stephen Kirkby who, with the core LIFELENZ team, led Accenture Digital globally. His previous startups included website optimisation player Maxamine. 

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Redflow Energy Pods deployed at Anaergia’s Rialto Bioenergy Facility in CaliforniaRedflow Energy Pods deployed at Anaergia’s Rialto Bioenergy Facility in California

Redflow completes the 2 MWh energy storage system for Anaergia in California.

The 2 MWh sale was announced on March 9, 2021 and represents Redflow’s largest single sale of batteries to date.

The energy storage system, comprising 192 zinc-bromine flow batteries, is designed to store up to two megawatt hours (MWh) of energy and reduce peak energy use at Anaergia’s Rialto Bioenergy Facility as part of the Facility’s microgrid. The microgrid project was funded in part by a grant from the California Energy Commission and consists of the batteries, a biogas conditioning system to support a 2.0MW biogas-fuelled cogeneration unit, and a microgrid control system. The battery system is comprised of 12 x 160 kWh Redflow Energy Pods which are clustered into four strings tied to four 125 kW Dynapower inverters.

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Solar Juice co-founder Rami Fedda: “It was just a no-brainer. We had to have Enphase”Solar Juice co-founder Rami Fedda:
“It was just a no-brainer.
We had to have Enphase”National solar equipment distributor Solar Juice has signed an agreement to distribute Enphase products in Australia and New Zealand as 2022 shapes up to become the “year of the battery”.

Despite a global shortage of solar supplies due to high shipping costs and disruption in China, Solar Juice is on track to post another year of record sales as demand for solar panels and batteries boom.

Solar Juice co-founder and Supply Director Rami Fedda said his company had signed up with Enphase because it offered important product additions to the Solar Juice installer network. “Enphase provides the missing piece of our puzzle with its panel-level solution,” he said.

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