Founder, Flexicar
| Role | Organisation | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Founder | Flexicar | Startup Daily, @AuManufacturing, Business News Australia, innovationvictoria.com |
| Executive (former) | Hertz Australia | Business News Australia |
| Director (former) | Breakthrough Victoria | foodanddrinkbusiness.com.au, Startup Daily, innovationvictoria.com |
| Director (former) | Hysata | Startup Daily, @AuManufacturing |
| Director | Innovation Victoria | SmartCompany, Startup Daily, foodanddrinkbusiness.com.au, innovationvictoria.com |
| Chair (former) | Energy Safe Victoria | Startup Daily |
| Chair (former) | Jet Charge | Startup Daily, LaunchVic |
Stories naming Monique Conheady. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Victoria's opposition pledges to shut down Breakthrough Victoria and sell its investments, calling the state fund a failure. The piece recalls portfolio raises, a rescue deal, an NYSE listing and the LaunchVic merger.
Victoria has folded LaunchVic and its Breakthrough Victoria investment fund into a new body, Innovation Victoria, naming its chair, deputy chair and leader, while recapping agrifood startups the fund has backed.
Roundup of short industry items: Element 25 and Vaxxas win US government grants, Orthocell gets an R&D refund, Convergence Medical completes its Series A, and Monique Conheady takes a Hysata board seat.
Also Startup Daily
Melbourne circular-economy startup Phantm has closed a $2 million oversubscribed seed round with three venture backers, helping firms swap plastics for natural alternatives, with customers including a major coffee chain.
Also worldbiomarketinsights.com·startupscaleup.com.au·Forbes Australia
LaunchVic profiles EV charging firm JET Charge, covering its 2022 Series B raise backed by RACV and other investors and its place in the second 30X30 scaleup intake.
Innovation Victoria launches, merging Breakthrough Victoria and LaunchVic; Geoff Tarrant chairs the board, Monique Conheady deputises and Rod Bristow is CEO; Tarrant co-founded Payapps, bought by Autodesk in 2024.
Also Australian FinTech