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Brisbane, QLD
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round QUT raised.
Companies QUT 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Roberts | Robotics Professor | @AuManufacturing |
| Professor Greg Hearn | Professor | @AuManufacturing |
Stories naming QUT. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Main Sequence sets out its investment thesis for physical AI, describing portfolio companies across robotics, vision, connectivity, compute and simulation, and recalling over $100 million invested since inception.
Manufacturing roundup: Monash shares 3D-printing guidelines for blind students; MGA Thermal gains syndicate investment atop ARENA funding; UniSA touts a natural obesity treatment; Sparc Technologies signs an MoU with CLP Group.
FaBA introduces its newly appointed commercialisation director, who discusses his microbiome industry background and the accelerator's co-funded research projects for industry partners.
Manufacturing roundup: IDT Australia and Genetic Signatures announce capital raisings; Memphasys and Genetic Signatures appoint new chief executives; NIOA opens a US office; DefendTex holds acquisition talks with Brazil's Avibras; a cobotics PhD ends.
Manufacturing briefs: Orthocell swaps royalty entitlement for UWA equity, Quickstep hands an unmanned aircraft frame to Carbonix, Sparc and QUT win a research grant, EOS disputes a lender fee, Neurizer plans a rights issue.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Matrix Composites raises via convertible note, Cronos hits a sales milestone, Ellen Medical finalists, ASC digitises its supply chain, a hydrogen refueller opens, and Titomic signs a US reseller.
Two manufacturers, Leakster and Voltin, are named the first winners of ARM Hub's SPRINTS AI accelerator, each receiving in-kind support after pitching to an industry and academic panel.
Brisbane youth mental-wellbeing app Inspiretek closed a $2.5 million seed round led by Investible at an $8.5 million valuation, with angel backing, and founder Annie Flamsteed is preparing a US expansion and Series A.