Startup · $53.6m raised
Adelaide, SA
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Micro-X Ltd raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Varex Imaging Corporation | Unnamed stage | $7,500,000 |
| US Department of Homeland Security | Grant | $20,800,000 |
| U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) | Grant | $25,300,000 |
| Billion Prima | Grant | $900,000 |
Companies Micro-X Ltd 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anthony Skeats | Chief Operating Officer | @AuManufacturing (8 Dec 2024), @AuManufacturing (20 May 2024) |
| Dr Brian Gonzales | Chief Executive Officer | Dealroom, Forbes Australia, @AuManufacturing (24 Jul 2023), @AuManufacturing (26 Sep 2022) |
| Kingsley Hall | Chief Executive Officer (former) | Dealroom, @AuManufacturing (7 Jul 2025), @AuManufacturing (8 Dec 2024), @AuManufacturing (22 Mar 2024), @AuManufacturing (12 Mar 2024) |
| Peter Rowland | Managing Director | @AuManufacturing |
Stories naming Micro-X Ltd. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Micro-X has lined up A$8 million through convertible notes to advance Head CT work and the Rover launch, while installing Dr Brian Gonzales as CEO in place of departing Kingsley Hall and cutting costs.
Eight university- and company-led Australian quantum projects share $12.7 million in stage-two Critical Technologies Challenge Program grants, funding prototypes for data-centre cooling, medical imaging and rare-earth detection.
Micro-X's Head CT test bench produced its first 3D images, qualifying it for an MRFF progress payment, with US ARPA-H contracts worth $25 million announced this week supporting full-body CT development.
Podcast conversation marking ten years of cold-spray printer maker SPEE3D, its technology chief discussing the TitanSPEE3D printer for US defence needs, roughly 100 units shipped, and ambitions for off-world manufacturing.
Micro-X will trial its lightweight portable CT brain scanner at two hospitals this year; the Adelaide company's stroke technology was developed with $8 million in grant funding, as was rival EMVision's approach.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: OncoSil Medical's capital raising, an NT grant for a water monitoring project, GoZero's preferred supplier appointment, Micro-X's first Argus order, Aurora Labs' defence work, and Monash waste-recycling research.
Micro-X has released footage of its portable head scanner for diagnosing strokes in ambulances, built with $8 million flowing from a government grant to the Australian Stroke Alliance; EMVision is developing similar technology.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing items: DroneShield's Ukraine orders, CEO appointments at Bridgewest Perth Pharma and Sentinel Boats, SPC's community capital raise, LBT's underwritten raising, a university defence consortium, wine grants and new facilities.
Manufacturing briefs roundup: WA government commits $5m to space facility Fugro SpAARC; Starpharma and Micro-X receive R&D tax refunds; Bulla licenses Violet Crumble for ice cream; SCEE wins $50m in contracts.
Australian X-ray firm Micro-X is developing self-service airport security screening for US checkpoints, backed by Homeland Security funding including a July contract worth as much as $14 million.
Adelaide X-ray maker Micro-X has won US Homeland Security funding of up to $21 million to build self-screening airport checkpoints, extending earlier contract work on its miniaturised CT scanner technology.
Also Forbes Australia
EMVision has delivered its first portable brain scanner to a Sydney hospital for stroke trials and won a $2.5 million NSW grant, while ASA-funded Micro-X advances its rival ambulance imaging technology.
US Homeland Security has extended its development contract with Adelaide X-ray maker Micro-X and funded the second phase of a passenger self-screening project, taking the two contracts to US$4.5 million.
Adelaide x-ray technology firm Micro-X announced a strategic deal with Varex Imaging, which pays a licence fee and buys shares for a 9.9 percent stake, together giving the company $15 million in backing.
Also @AuManufacturing
Roundup of Australian manufacturing items: Manildra draws on CEFC money to quit coal, Ankere Therapeutics launches with seed backing, Micro-X gear reaches Ukraine, plus a vessel naming, precinct tenders, an FFI appointment and a cable rebrand.