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Research university where Cortisonic's underlying phononic computing research originated
St Lucia, QLD
Every published round University of Queensland 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 University of Queensland has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pollinate | Jan 2026, Accelerator | 1 | 1 |
Fund closes reported for University of Queensland, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies University of Queensland has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal University of Queensland did.
Stories naming University of Queensland. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
UQ spinout Proboxis Biotechnology has received $1.5 million via the first round of the Biointelect Venturer incubator to advance a vaccine platform against mosquito-borne diseases toward human clinical development.
Weekly roundup: Constantinople raises $62.5m; Blackbird wraps fund six above $1b; Guardhouse buys Mobohubb; SCX.ai debuts on the ASX; plus seed rounds, exits and executive changes across the ecosystem.
Uniseed-backed Australian medtech Q-Sera's blood-clotting tube technology has debuted in Japan via Terumo's VenoJect II launch; the post also credits MRCF and UniQuest Extension Fund as backers.
Spirits giant Diageo has bought the Sydney-founded coffee liqueur maker Mr Black; the piece examines the price, the cocktail trend behind it, rival acquisitions, and what comes next for the brand.
A launch profile of Wingman Money, a personal finance app built by two University of Queensland graduates that rates financial wellbeing with a single score; its founders earlier took part in Startmate's 2025 pre-accelerator.
UQ medtech spin-out Ceretas sold its IPO, raising about $8 million, and now targets a fast-tracked ASX debut; the article also recalls ResApp's 2022 acquisition by Pfizer.
Also kalkine.com.au·Dealroom
Ceretas, a university spin-off, has sold A$8 million of shares in a stockmarket float valuing the ultrasound medtech at A$18 million, with the proceeds going toward device trials.
Also kalkine.com.au·Dealroom
FaBA profiles Nourish Ingredients, a Canberra startup using precision fermentation for dairy-style fats, recounting a co-investment project with Queensland academics that readied its Creamilux ingredient for commercial dairy customers.
Canberra medtech Dentroid has banked $32 million at a $265 million valuation, with Septodont both investing and signing a worldwide licensing deal for its light-based device that eases dental pain without needles.
Also Dealroom
Profile of a Peter Mac spinout advancing solid-tumour cell therapies; recounts its Series A backers, later investment, grant support, and chief executive Sam Cobb's earlier career building and listing AdAlta.
Q-Sera's rapid-clotting blood tube technology has gone to market in Japan via Terumo's VenoJect II launch; the Melbourne startup's backers include MRCF, Uniseed and the UniQuest Extension Fund.
IP Group-backed copper-tech spin-out Banksia Minerals has won a federal renewable energy grant worth as much as $5 million, a year after banking $1.05 million in seed capital.
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.
Main Sequence announces backing Cortisonic, a deep-tech startup coming out of stealth with phononic chips for low-power edge AI, plus an Australian defence contract and a Lockheed Martin partnership.
Also Forbes Australia
Artesian's write-up of its first Yield summit in Melbourne, where agrifood leaders discussed AI, biologicals, robotics, agri-energy and biosecurity, and how RDCs, investors and corporates can together speed Australian agricultural innovation.
A Queensland cattle genetics business has opened a laboratory to process bull semen at Glen Aplin with government grant support, and a partner will sort sexed semen there from early 2026.
Uniseed chief executive Peter Devine departs after two decades; Monash's Alistair Hick takes over in 2026. The piece recounts Uniseed's fund history and recent stakes in ENA Respiratory and Morse Micro rounds.
Brisbane hypersonic aircraft developer Hypersonix Launch Systems has raised a $46 million Series A led by High Tor Capital with Saab, RKKVC, QIC and federal backing, valuing it at $141 million.
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.
Brandon BioCatalyst has named Peter Beattie its chair as Bill Ferris retires, with Andrew Nash joining the board and Ross King becoming deputy; manager Brandon Capital's newly raised $439 million fund was noted.
Sanofi is buying Vicebio for up to US$1.6 billion in the biggest-ever exit of Australian university IP, with UQ keeping equity; the article also recalls the Inflazome and Spinifex sales and Vicebio's Medicxi seed.
Weekly roundup of readers' five favourite stories: a hydrogen grant for 1414 Degrees, LS Precast's rail tunnel contract, AML3D's US Navy pact, quantum clock breakthrough, and Suntory Oceania's launch.
Proto Axiom has put $4 million into Sydney IVF biotech JumpStart Fertility, a UNSW spin-out, to pay for human trials of a treatment aimed at age-related fertility decline.
UniSuper adds a further $25 million to its backing of Uniseed, reaching $100 million in total support for the university research commercialisation fund; past cheques to quantum and biotech startups are recapped.
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.
Meat scientist Louwrens Hoffman joins FaBA and discusses meat quality, alternative proteins, sustainability and food waste in an interview.
Roundup of brief items: Memphasys hails fertility device trial results; a concrete recycler is fined; Wurrba, Hazer and University of Queensland land government grants; Aus J gains a North American distribution partner.
Weekly roundup of seven Australian and New Zealand raises totalling $42.8 million, spanning property-investment AI, workforce credentialing, allied-health practice software, conversation analytics, maths learning games, copper processing and holiday-park bookings.
Profile of La Foundary co-founder Anh Van, who grows mycelium from food waste to create sustainable packaging and art, ahead of future fundraising plans.
Queensland smart-grid company Elexsys Energy, trading as Planet Ark Power, won federal and state grants and partial Series B backing before being wound up on a tax office application.
Industry body AMGC publicises two past grant recipients that commercialised imaging technology: mDetect's muon system for tailings dam safety and EQ Resources' hyperspectral tungsten sorting, with grants of $248,191 and $600,000.
EMVision has finished its first scanner production line and collected the last milestone instalment of a federal manufacturing grant, taking the brain-imaging company's award to its full value.
CUREator, Brandon BioCatalyst's government-backed grant program, has awarded $7.21 million across eight Australian biotech firms in its newest round, split between clinical-stage and preclinical recipients.
Also Brandon BioCatalyst portfolio·Startup Daily·ausceleratesa.org
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Matrak closes a Series A, Queensland Pacific Metals receives an R&D tax refund, ARENA funds a household energy trial, Ampcontrol appoints a transformation chief, plus policy and launch briefs.
Also @AuManufacturing
The federal and Queensland governments say they will put nearly a billion dollars into PsiQuantum for a fault-tolerant quantum computer in Brisbane, anchoring the company's regional headquarters and creating 400 roles.
Stoic Venture Capital has promoted Harikesh Pushpapathan into its partnership, with co-founder Guy Hedley crediting two years of work helping university researchers commercialise their science.
AuManufacturing's briefs roundup records Electro Optic Systems' completed $35 million placement and Environmental Clean Technologies' completed $1.5 million placement, alongside Incat's best-managed-company award, Osteopore's approvals in two Asian markets, and GLAM applications opening.
Brisbane battery developer Graphene Manufacturing Group has signed an agreement with the Queensland government for a grant worth as much as $2 million toward a planned pilot plant expected to create twelve jobs.
Also @AuManufacturing
Tidal Ventures profiles team member Kieran O’Neill, who moved from KPMG and London banking through co-founding Hometime into the firm’s seed investing team in 2022.
US electronics firm Keysight has bought $15.28 million of new EMVision shares, taking 8.73 per cent of the ASX-listed maker of a portable brain scanner for stroke detection.