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Programs: Breakthrough Victoria (University Innovation Platform)
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Australian Catholic University raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough Victoria | Accelerator | - |
Every published round Australian Catholic University took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Companies Australian Catholic University has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio companies recorded yet. | ||||
This is a stake in the fund itself, money that the fund's manager invests, not a stake in the fund manager.
| Fund | Manager | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| University Innovation Platform (UIP) | Breakthrough Victoria | Breakthrough Victoria (28 Mar 2025), Breakthrough Victoria (27 Mar 2025) |
Companies Australian Catholic University has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Australian Catholic University did.
| Company | Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio company of Australian Catholic University is recorded as having been acquired. | ||||
Companies Australian Catholic University acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Abid Khan | Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) | Breakthrough Victoria |
Stories naming Australian Catholic University. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Two Victorian backers put a combined $2.25 million into three university spinouts pursuing biologics, antibody drugs and delivery devices, launching a new $15 million pre-seed vehicle.
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Weekly roundup: Breakthrough Victoria and Monash University co-invest $2.25 million across three university healthtech spinouts, while Blackbird backs Hall, which helps businesses win visibility on AI platforms, with $2 million pre-seed.
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Breakthrough Victoria and Monash University put joint pre-seed backing into three life-sciences spinouts and launched the $15m Monash Ventures pre-seed fund, part of a $100m platform commercialising Victorian university research.
Breakthrough Victoria's Dr Olga Hogan explains its University Innovation Platform, which co-invests pre-seed funding alongside Victorian universities, plus a fellowship helping PhD researchers turn research into companies.
AgTech firm YieldX has attracted a $1.7 million round, with Breakthrough Victoria and La Trobe University's Eagle Fund contributing $500,000 apiece alongside Mandalay Venture Partners and LaunchVic's Hugh Victor McKay Fund.
EntroMat, a Melbourne developer of high-entropy metal powders, has landed $1 million from Breakthrough Victoria and Swinburne under a university research commercialisation platform.
Australian Catholic University signs on as the seventh university in Breakthrough Victoria's co-investment platform, with matched funding pledged; the article also recaps four earlier startup investments via Melbourne's Genesis Pre-Seed fund.
CSIRO has picked twelve deep-tech teams, mostly from Australian universities, for the eighth edition of its ON Accelerate commercialisation program starting in February 2024.
Breakthrough Victoria launched a $100m program with nine Victorian universities to fund university startups; its first $7.5m went into Melbourne's $15m Genesis Pre-Seed Fund, and RMIT spin-out Atmo Biosciences recently raised $9.6 million.