Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University
Stories naming Professor Theo Farrell. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
The Victorian government has granted ACAMI at La Trobe University $10 million to help deploy NVIDIA DGX H200 supercomputers for AI-driven medical research, including a Florey collaboration on a childhood neurodegenerative disease.
AgTech firm YieldX has attracted a $1.7 million round, with Breakthrough Victoria and La Trobe University's Eagle Fund contributing $500,000 apiece alongside Mandalay Venture Partners and LaunchVic's Hugh Victor McKay Fund.
Breakthrough Victoria's update announces its Eagle Fund co-investment with La Trobe University, an $18 million pre-seed vehicle, and details $1 million backing each for agtech startup Yield X and diagnostics spin-out ExCelligent DX.
Roundup: 1414 Degrees locks in as much as $4.7m from Lind Global Fund II; Queensland Hydro awards Borumba dam contracts; FWPA's research chief is retiring; La Trobe and BIRAC sign a biotech corridor pact.