Startup · $2m raised

Avicena Systems

Perth, WA

Investors

Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Avicena Systems raised.

Investor	Rounds	Invested
Australian Government	Grant	-
Critical Technologies Challenge Program	Grant	-

What Avicena Systems bought

Companies Avicena Systems acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Avicena Systems is not recorded as having acquired anything.

Name	Role	Sources
Dr Paul Watt	Executive Chair	Startup News (WA)

Coverage

Stories naming Avicena Systems. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

10 deals

SQC among 6 startups sharing $12.3 million in quantum grants

Six Australian quantum startups, including Silicon Quantum Computing and QuantX Labs, have received federal grants totalling $12.3 million under the Critical Technologies Challenge Program for projects in energy, health, biosecurity and logistics.

Startup Daily 5 Oct 2026 Avicena Systems FeBI iQ Sense Q Factorial QuantX Labs Silicon Quantum Computing Schneider Electric Siemens Swinburne University of Technology Tech Council UNSW Critical Technologies Challenge Program Defence NRF Corporation SmartSat CRC Professor Andre Luiten Professor Michelle Simmons

12 deals

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #180, 4th October 2026

Weekly roundup reporting Australian startup funding rounds and government grants, a venture fund close, agreed acquisitions, an IPO pricing, a collapse, plus executive hires and AI policy developments.

This Week in Australian Startups 4 Oct 2026 Avicena Systems Eastend Ventures FeBI Heidi Health iQ Sense Q Factorial QuantX Labs R2Crete Silicon Quantum Computing Skopos Bio Trendspek Adobe Advanced Navigation Airwallex Ampol Anthropic Atlassian AUDC Barrenjoey Baseten Big Picture Medical Blackbird Ventures Droneshield Evie Networks Firmus Technologies Fusion Venture Labs Goldman Sachs Harrison AI InDebted Lorikeet Megaport Meta Monoova Morgan Stanley Nearmap Nexl OFX OpenAI Orbit2Orbit Ord Minnett Paperbark Perennial Private Investments Planet Startup Potentia Capital PsiQuantum Queensland RBA REA Group Redbelly Network RedEarth Energy Storage Ltd REX Royal Commission into AI Scalare Partners Sicona Stanford Tank Stream Labs Tech Council Thoma Bravo Thorney Unilever University of Melbourne Watchful WeMoney Blockwall Digital Assets Fund Critical Technologies Challenge Program Funds SA Genesis Pre-Seed Fund OIF Ventures Shape Capital Tenmile Tin Alley Ventures Uniseed Yosemite Brendan Lee Chris Lehane Chris McNamara Christian Westerlind Wigstrom Christopher Manning David Janetzki Iain Ross Ian Wang Josh Foreman Josh Parsons Kate Pounder Matt Redden Philipp Thurner Sam Altman Trevor St Baker

6 deals

$12.3M Backs Australian Quantum Companies

Six Australian quantum companies receive government grants under round two stage two of the Critical Technologies Challenge Program, supporting projects from quantum clocks to biosensors and diagnostic tools.

Mirage News 2 Oct 2026 Avicena Systems FeBI iQ Sense Q Factorial QuantX Labs Silicon Quantum Computing Australian Government Critical Technologies Challenge Program

Also Mirage News·Dealroom·This Week in Australian Startups·Startup Daily

News

Types of business innovation and the problems they solve

An explainer from Radium Capital covering four innovation categories — incremental, breakthrough, foundational research and disruptive — with examples such as Avicena Systems and Airbnb, and advocating varied capital sources including R&D financing.

Radium Capital 15 May 2024 Airbnb Aldi Avicena Systems IBM OpenAI Radium Capital

19 deals

$51 million for CRC-P industry research collaborations

Federal grants roundup: 21 Cooperative Research Centres Projects awards worth $51 million in Round 15, with EQ Plastics, Optiscan Imaging and NEXSEN BioTech each receiving $3 million for product development.

@AuManufacturing 12 Feb 2024 1414 ACE Infrastructure Advanced Navigation AMSL Aero Avicena Systems Ionize KGM Services NEXSEN BioTech Optiscan Imaging PV Industries Q-CTRL Remagine Labs Symex ARRB Group Atomo Diagnostics Australian National University Bygen Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P)CSIRO Cybermerc Deakin University Department of Defence Envirostream Australia Fleet Plant Hire Geodrones Australia Healius Pathology Holmag AG Monash IVF Monash University Net Zero Stack Ouroborous Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Scimita Operations SEA Electric Siemens Spark Renewables Swinburne University of Technology University of Adelaide University of Canberra University of Melbourne University of Newcastle University of New South Wales University of Sydney University of Technology Sydney Vulcan Steel (Australia) Pty Ltd Woodside Energy Technologies Worley Services Australian Government

Also RenewEconomy

32 deals

FUNDED September 2022 Including September Q Review

Techboard's September 2022 roundup reports Australian raises led by Morse Micro's $140m Series B, several acquisitions including ResApp Health to Pfizer, fund closes by Telstra Ventures, OIF and Main Sequence, and open raises.

Also @AuManufacturing·SmartCompany·SmartCompany

2 deals

Avicena FIFO COVID-19 screening system approved

West Australian medtech Avicena won government approval to trial its Sentinel rapid saliva screening system among fly-in fly-out resources workers; the piece also recalls two earlier state grants supporting the technology's development.

Startup News (WA) 21 Mar 2022 Avicena Systems Curtin University McGowan Government Telethon Kids Institute WA Government Dr Paul Watt Stephen Dawson

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