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Brisbane, QLD
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Queensland University of Technology raised.
Companies Queensland University of Technology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Alejandro Fontan Villacampa | Lead Researcher | @AuManufacturing |
| Dr Andrew Leech | Researcher | SmartCompany |
| Gary Mortimer | Professor | SmartCompany (24 Jun 2022), SmartCompany (23 Jun 2022), SmartCompany (10 May 2022) |
| James Blinco | Associate Professor | @AuManufacturing |
| Matthew Dunbabin | Professor of Robotics | TechCrunch Australia |
| Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik | Professor | @AuManufacturing |
| Professor Gene Tyson | Professor | SmartCompany |
| Professor Lidia Morawska | Physicist and Air Quality Expert | Startup Daily |
| Professor Peter Corke | Emeritus Distinguished Professor | @AuManufacturing (24 Jan 2024), @AuManufacturing (28 Feb 2022) |
| Professor Peter Talbot | Adjunct Professorial Fellow | @AuManufacturing |
| Professor Phil Pope | Professor | SmartCompany |
Stories naming Queensland University of Technology. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Weekly roundup detailing five Australian startups' raises: a PR platform's Series B, a biotech's post-stealth funding, a defence tech round, a pre-seed voice-AI raise, and a crowdfunding campaign.
Also Startup Daily
Weekly roundup tallying three Australian raises: legal tech firm Plexus ($6m), cattle-probiotics startup Bovotica ($3.4m seed), and beauty group York St Brands ($2m Series C plus a $4m NAB credit line).
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.
Investor post profiling Earthodic, whose bio-based coating Biobarc keeps paper packaging recyclable, and describing Significant Ventures' participation in the raise and its board-observer support role.
Weekly roundup covering seven Australian companies' fresh capital: EV charging, satellite IoT, sovereign cloud, wearables, workplace messaging, plus two crowdfunding raises on Birchal.
Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·@AuManufacturing
First Graphene will supply graphene for Halocell's perovskite solar modules under a new two-year deal; the partners earlier won a $2 million CRC-P research grant for solar cell work at Halocell's Wagga Wagga plant.
AuManufacturing roundup of brief industry news: Wide Open Agriculture banks a $7.5 million raise, Liontown adds a lithium offtake partner, Osteopore signs Zimmer Biomet for distribution, plus quantum, defence, rail and recycling items.
Roundup: Orthocell reports higher revenue, Recce Pharmaceuticals raises $8 million via a placement, executive appointments at Blacktree and Memphasys, Crosbe launches low-carbon grouts, NSW forms a Net Zero Commission, QUT unveils mapping research.
The federal MRFF has granted $50 million to the Artificial Heart Frontiers Program, a Monash-led consortium including BiVACOR, to advance a total artificial heart; the team earlier received $1 million in 2021.
Also @AuManufacturing
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Iluka's refinery cost estimate, a biotech placement with a founder sell-down, a CEO appointment, a retirement, an R&D refund, a distribution deal, a CRC merger and Victorian grants.
A university–industry consortium wins federal grant support to advance printable perovskite solar technology, with graphene electrodes replacing gold and silver conductors, at Halocell's regional NSW factory.
Also RenewEconomy·RenewEconomy
Partner content profiling Gelomics, a Brisbane biotech whose 3D tissue culture technology now reaches over 200 labs internationally, crediting a Queensland government export grant with helping it win its first Japanese customers.
Australian precision fermentation startup Nourish Ingredients secures government funding and grants, recalls its Series A, and outlines plans to launch its first animal-like fat in late 2024.
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Australian manufacturing roundup: IDT Australia's shareholder raise, EV charger rollouts, a mining equipment hire, a plastics recycling plant completion, research collaborations and government funding moves.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: ARM Hub's anniversary, DroneShield orders, EMVision's milestone grant, SciDev results, a SEA Electric hire, ATSE's policy submission, and spaceport funding for Koonibba.
Manufacturing roundup: Memphasys IVF birth and Japanese orders, FIAL chair change, DroneShield's DroneGun Mk4, Austeng's hydrogen burner grant, UNSW recycling hub launch, Symbio laboratory, apprentice award, and MathWorks joining Universal Robots' ecosystem.
Eight projects share 28.9 million dollars in Australian government grants under the National Soil Carbon Innovation Challenge, funding cheaper technologies for measuring soil organic carbon, with ministers Bowen and Watt announcing the recipients.
A weekly roundup detailing nine startup funding rounds totalling $39.6 million, spanning cybersecurity, medtech, healthtech, hospitality, retail media, accessibility, clean energy and agtech ventures.
Mandalay Venture Partners' sustainability-focused agrifood tech fund has secured over $21 million in commitments toward a $50 million target, with NRMA as cornerstone investor plus personal commitments from Phillip St Baker and Angus Cameron.
Roundup covering Victorian zero-emission bus trials, Frew Foods' planned plant expansion, 5B's layoffs and completed capital raise, Wellnex Life's convertible note raising, SafetyCulture investing in Inauro, plus wind farm and university research news.
Analysis of why rapid grocery delivery startups SEND and Quicko have shut down, with a retail academic explaining the tough economics facing remaining players Milkrun and Voly against major retailers and meal apps.
Profile of Feline, a startup founded by Kymberley and Peter Talbot developing safer lithium-ion cells for marine and defence use, supported by AMGC co-funding and defence partnerships.
TechCrunch reveals Oceankind, the secretive grantmaker behind Larry Page, which has quietly funded reef robots in Queensland and more than $121 million in marine projects.
Australian Vanadium Limited wins a $49 million federal government grant to develop its Western Australian vanadium project, with ATCO, Bryah Resources, two universities and ANSTO named as partners on hydrogen and downstream work.
A University of New England-led project with UK firm BioCarbon Engineering will test drone and tractor seeding for cheaper revegetation of cotton farmland, backed by a $1.3 million government grant won by CRDC.