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Chief Commercialisation Officer, Monash University

Dr Alastair Hick

Coverage

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News

Breakthrough Victoria Fellowship Program

Breakthrough Victoria has launched a fellowship offering graduate founders pre-seed convertible-note backing capped at $150,000 each from a $7.5 million pool, aiming to create as many as 50 companies from Victorian university research.

Fund close $6.8m

Pioneering VC fund Uniseed doubles its backers as five universities, including Monash, UTS and Macquarie, chip in

Uniseed adds Monash and a four-university NSW collaboration, lifting its third fund by $6.75 million to $56.75 million; the article recalls past portfolio sales to Novartis, Shire and Schneider Electric.

Seed $1.8m

Kite Magnetics

Breakthrough Victoria and Investible back Kite Magnetics, a Monash University spinout developing lightweight electric aircraft motors, in a seed round the article reports at $1.85 million.

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