NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Ledger

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Name	Role	Sources
Dr Charles Elachi	Director (former)	@AuManufacturing (16 Oct 2023), @AuManufacturing (24 Oct 2022)
Professor Daniel Shaddock	Director's Fellow (former)	Startup Daily (29 Apr 2026), Significant Ventures, Startup Daily (19 Jun 2024)

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Stories naming NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

Series C US$50m

The instrument that does the work of seventeen

Retrospective on Liquid Instruments, the Canberra-born software-defined test instrument maker, which has closed a fifty-million-US-dollar Series C co-led by the reconstruction fund and Keysight, with Significant Ventures among existing investors.

Significant Capital Ventures portfolio 29 Apr 2026 Liquid Instruments Australian National University NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Keysight Technologies National Reconstruction Fund Corporation Significant Capital Ventures Dr Danielle Wuchenich Professor Daniel Shaddock Michele Troni

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2 deals

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Manufacturing briefs roundup: LBT Innovations launches a $4.5m shareholder offer, AnteoTech collects a $3.77m research tax payment, with updates from Pact, Evnex, First Graphene, Austal, ASM and the University of Adelaide's space course.

Also @AuManufacturing

Funding announcement

Techstars selects 12 companies for its fall space accelerator

Twelve startups, eleven American and one Australian, will join the newest cohort of Techstars' thirteen-week aerospace program, run alongside two US space bodies.

TechCrunch Australia 11 Sep 2023 Closedloop Esper Satellite Imagery Hydrosat Orbit Fab Harvard NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Techstars US Space Force Matt Kozlov

3 deals

Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

A manufacturing roundup covering a China milk powder supply deal, a methane emissions incentive, a nasal spray distribution agreement, a university space course, a government tax refund, and two companies' fresh capital raises.

@AuManufacturing 24 Oct 2022 Archer Materials Rhythm Biosciences Wellnex Life Cleanaway Waste Management NASA NASA Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Starpharma University of Adelaide University of Adelaide – Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources Homart Pharmaceuticals the federal government Dr Charles Elachi John Culton Kiran Bhaganagar Mark Schubert

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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The instrument that does the work of seventeen

Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Techstars selects 12 companies for its fall space accelerator

Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed