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Every published round Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) 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 Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
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Fund closes reported for Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII), as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) did.
Stories naming Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII). Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Design and technology company Portable received a Business Research and Innovation Initiative grant to build Sweep, its wage-underpayment detection platform, as Australia criminalises intentional wage underpayment.
Portable received a $1.1 million federal BRII grant to advance Sweep, its tool for wage compliance, as Australia cracks down on worker underpayment, which became a criminal offence in January 2025.
Seventeen unnamed startups and small businesses share federal grant funding for feasibility studies aimed at reducing regulatory burdens, under the latest round of a government innovation program.