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Stories naming Ed Husic. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Roundup of the publication's five most-read stories of the week: a $65 million grant for the SMART regenerative-therapies CRC, QUT's flexible semiconductor research, a Lima Declaration fact-check, and Greensteel Australia's $1.6 billion mill order.
Girl Geek Academy's FemTech project secured a $4.9 million federal grant under the Building Women's Careers Program, among ten projects sharing $45 million, to grow women's participation in tech.
An Australian battery maker shared drone flight test results for its lithium-sulfur cells, alongside mentions of two earlier grants, a new Geelong plant and its cash position.
Weekly roundup: CEA Technologies lands a $272m radar contract, five startups receive federal grants, Victorian factory insolvencies climb, and GFG Alliance's Whyalla Steelworks hunts new financing.
Five companies including battery maker Allegro Energy share $2.51 million in the latest federal Industry Growth Program grants; Allegro receives $1.85 million for its redox flow battery technology.
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Adelaide satellite connectivity company Myriota has secured $50 million, half from the National Reconstruction Fund, with backing from Main Sequence and InterValley; the piece also recaps Fleet Space's recent $150m series D.
Year-in-review column on Australian AI in 2024: five startup raises, Canva buying Leonardo.ai, new government AI regulation and a parliamentary inquiry, the Cosmos AI trial backlash, and a national AI capability plan.
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The National Reconstruction Fund has taken a $13 million stake in quantum maker Quantum Brilliance, while a defence accelerator funds University of Western Australia quantum research and Germany's Cyber Agency contracts the company.
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Allume Energy has received a $3.8 million federal Industry Growth Program grant to scale local manufacturing of its SolShare hardware, which splits one rooftop solar array across apartments.
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The National Reconstruction Fund has placed its first investment, $40 million, into Toowoomba mill relining maker Russell Mineral Equipment, within a wider $100 million co-investment partnership with Resource Capital Funds.
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Industry minister Ed Husic told a Tech Council summit the National Reconstruction Fund is close to its first investments after asking for a $300m drawdown; the piece recaps federal tech funding moves including PsiQuantum's.
Round 16 CRC-P grants, about $55 million across 23 projects, fund work involving CPC Engineering, ZiP Diagnostics, Emesent and Rux Energy across minerals processing, diagnostics, drone mapping and hydrogen storage.
Roundup: 1414 Degrees locks in as much as $4.7m from Lind Global Fund II; Queensland Hydro awards Borumba dam contracts; FWPA's research chief is retiring; La Trobe and BIRAC sign a biotech corridor pact.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: IDT Australia wins a Sanofi mRNA contract, Amplia collects an R&D tax refund, OptiGrid enters EnergyLab's accelerator, plus a ship launch, hydrogen towers, road works and a job listing.
Battery maker Li-S Energy has opened its Geelong pouch cell facility and won a $1.7 million federal Industry Growth Program grant for a lithium foil line; four other firms also received IGP grants.
Ed Husic named the first Industry Growth Program grant recipients, with biomanufacturing startup Cauldron Ferm receiving $4.3 million and four other startups funded for drone batteries, radiation monitoring, anti-phishing and berry-picking robotics.
First grants from the federal Industry Growth Program include battery developer Li-S Energy, announced as Minister Ed Husic opened its Geelong facility. The $392 million program feeds the National Reconstruction Fund.
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Weekly roundup of the outlet's most-read stories: grants for industry bodies, Space Machines' India mission funding, a plastics recycler's Melbourne factory, an Austal ownership debate, and a quantum growth centre.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Pure Foods Tasmania announces a rights issue, Traffic Technologies banks a shareholder raise, Austal USA appoints a president, and Hanwha's Australian defence chief steps down.
Four not-for-profit bodies will share $6.9 million in grants to advise growing small businesses, as the Industry Growth Program opens applications for matched grants of $100,000 to $5 million.
An Australian satellite servicing firm leads an India-Australia debris management mission backed by an $8.5 million government grant; two other companies also won awards under the bilateral space program.
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The Australian federal and Queensland governments are investing $940m in PsiQuantum, which will open a Brisbane regional headquarters; $18.4m will fund a national quantum centre at the University of Sydney.
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PV Industries, a battery-recycling consortium and 1414 Degrees win grants in the newest CRC round, covering panel recycling, battery materials recovery and hydrogen; KGM Services also enters the field with university backers.
Quantum computing firm SQC names Simon Segars as chair and Fiona Pak-Poy as director; the article also recalls its $83m seed round and $50.4m Series A.
Manufacturing news roundup: CSL opens a Melbourne headquarters, Hazer raises $14.7m, Iluka advances its refinery with federal loan backing, plus executive appointments at Lithium Australia, Vast Solar and CSIRO's board.
Sydney spacetech firm HEO Robotics has closed a $12m Series A led by AirTree Ventures, with Salus, In-Q-Tel, Y Combinator and angels also in, as federal cutbacks hit Australian space programs.
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Manufacturing briefs: XRF Scientific posts record results, Universal Biosensors receives an R&D tax rebate, Imugene and SMC appoint executives, FWPA promotes forestry in a new campaign, and AGL agrees a Loy Yang transition fund.
Two Australian consortia, AROSE and one involving EPE and Lunar Outpost Oceania, each received a four million dollar grant under the Space Agency's Trailblazer programme to design lunar rover prototypes.
Weekly roundup of Australian raises: Bloom's seed round, Vedi's animal-health funding, Alii's pre-Series A, and Code Like A Girl's government grant, alongside other WiSE grant recipients.
The federal government announced grants supporting 19 Australian manufacturing collaboration projects, including Dovetail Electric Aviation's electric aircraft conversions, Vaxxas' vaccine patch, and Whiteley's anti-biofilm wound treatments, while opening the next CRC-P round.
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Climate Energy Finance analysts review Australian federal and state programs backing critical minerals projects, covering government grants, low-cost loans, new budget funds and the private equity raises and debt facilities they catalysed.