Ledger. Australian venture funding, tracked

Startup · $2m raised

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Melbourne, VIC

Coverage

Stories naming Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

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Federal government slips $12.7 million to 8 quantum projects tackling energy, minerals and health

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.

Grant $2.1m

Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Roundup of Australian manufacturing items: gold-nanoparticle cancer diagnostics research, a medical research endowment's ten-year mark, a footballer's ambassador role, EU research program accession talks, a pectin producer's government grant, and battle-tank trainers.

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Additional contract recipients announced for emerging, disruptive tech program

Defence's innovation accelerator has awarded three more contracts under its emerging and disruptive technologies program, funding quantum and information-warfare work at CSIRO, four universities and Silicon Quantum Computing, adding $9 million to the program.

Funding announcement

1414 Degrees confident of its SiBox energy storage technology

1414 Degrees says its SiBox silicon heat-storage technology is nearing commercialisation, with federal expansion support on offer, and recalls a February consortium grant win for its SiPHyR hydrogen project.

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ARENA awards $59.1 million to hydrogen, steel-related R&D projects

Australia's renewable energy agency handed out $59.1 million in grants across two rounds, backing 21 university, CRC and startup projects in green hydrogen and cleaner iron and steel production.

Also RenewEconomy

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ARENA boosts funding and names winners for green hydrogen, iron and steel projects

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has expanded its hydrogen and green metals research funding to $59.1 million across 21 projects, with recipients including Hysata, Curtin University and Fortescue subsidiary MIH2.

Also @AuManufacturing·@AuManufacturing

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Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

Roundup of Australian manufacturing briefs: Nova Eye Medical banks $8m, Ridley buys Oceania Meat Processors, Orica sells Deer Park land for $260m, plus appointments, research projects and CSIRO program deadlines.

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$51 million for CRC-P industry research collaborations

Federal grants roundup: 21 Cooperative Research Centres Projects awards worth $51 million in Round 15, with EQ Plastics, Optiscan Imaging and NEXSEN BioTech each receiving $3 million for product development.

Also RenewEconomy

Grant $1.5m

Two-year, $5.2 m project will apply Australian sensors and AI to aged care delivery

A consortium led by Vlepis received a $1.48 million federal CRC-P grant for a two-year sensor and AI project supporting aged-care triage, with partners including CARETEQ, UTS, RMIT and the NSW Smart Sensing Network.

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