Contactile: Ledger

Investor	Rounds	Invested
ARM Hub	Accelerator	-
CSIRO	Accelerator	-
Industry Growth Program	Grant	$268,712
MassRobotics	Accelerator	-
UNSW Founders	Accelerator	-

Investor	Listed on
Radar Ventures	its portfolio page ↗

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

Name	Role	Sources
Ben Xia	CTO · Founder	@AuManufacturing (16 Jun 2025), contactile.com, @AuManufacturing (12 Jun 2025)
Benjamin Xia	Founder	Startup Daily, contactile.com, @AuManufacturing
Dr Heba Khamis	CEO · Founder	Startup Daily, contactile.com (23 Jun 2025), @AuManufacturing (16 Jun 2025), contactile.com (12 Jun 2025), @AuManufacturing (12 Jun 2025), @AuManufacturing (4 May 2022)
Dr Stephen Redmond	Founder	@AuManufacturing (16 Jun 2025), contactile.com, @AuManufacturing (12 Jun 2025), @AuManufacturing (4 May 2022)

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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #173, 9th August 2026

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Grant

Robotics company Contactile says new grant will help it get a grip globally

Contactile, a Sydney robotics firm, has received a federal Industry Growth Program commercialisation grant to launch its tactile-enabled gripper internationally; the grant size was not disclosed.

@AuManufacturing 12 Jun 2025 Contactile University College Dublin UNSW Sydney Industry Growth Program Ben Xia Dr Heba Khamis Dr Stephen Redmond

Also contactile.com·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·contactile.com

Seed $3.5m

$US 2.5 million seed round for Sydney sensor maker

@AuManufacturing 4 May 2022 Contactile MYOB University of NSW Flying Fox Ventures Radar Ventures True Ventures UNSW Founders Benjamin Xia Dr Heba Khamis Dr Stephen Redmond

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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #173, 9th August 2026

Robotics company Contactile says new grant will help it get a grip globally

$US 2.5 million seed round for Sydney sensor maker