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Every published round Sparc Technologies took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Companies Sparc Technologies has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
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Companies Sparc Technologies has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Sparc Technologies did.
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The hydrogen partnership and a university have won a $2.75 million federal Innovate grant to advance a South Australian pilot reactor, adding to money their shareholders committed during 2025.
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.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing updates: Sparc Hydrogen's R&D tax refund, executive appointments at Lockheed Martin Australia, Wellnex Life and Raytheon, a ReNu Energy power purchase deal, and BlueScope joining a low-carbon research centre.
Briefs roundup: Forbidden Foods is acquiring oat milk maker Oat Milk Goodness alongside a $650,000 raise, Orbital Corporation wins a $1 million WA grant, and Sam Roberts becomes Professionals Australia's CEO.
Roundup covering manufacturing placements by Sparc Technologies and Aurora Labs, Wellnex's planned London listing, an autonomous navy boat trial, a workplace fine, a software degree launch and AusBiotech's next CEO.
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.
Sparc Hydrogen has selected a site near Adelaide for a pilot plant proving its solar-driven hydrogen process, after on-sun trials at CSIRO's Newcastle facility, with the project backed by two grant programs.
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.
Sparc Hydrogen, through a University of Adelaide partnership, has won a $470,511 seed grant under Australia's Economic Accelerator to advance reactor testing, including prototype work at CSIRO's Newcastle energy centre.
Sparc Hydrogen will test its photocatalytic green hydrogen process at CSIRO's Newcastle facility, with a $28,688 grant through CSIRO's Kick-start Program backing initial four-week trials starting in Q3 2023.
Mining major Rio Tinto has joined Bill Gates' fund and other industrial and cleantech backers in a US$198 million Series B for hydrogen electrolyser developer Electric Hydrogen; Fortescue's electrolyser investments are also noted.