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Cheque-in: 17 ANZ startups – plus Brooki and The Memo – raised $59.61 million this week

A weekly roundup of funding deals by Australian and New Zealand startups, spanning baked goods, retail, health AI, beverages, edtech, solar, legal tech, and Western Australian medical research grants.

Western Australia backs 12 medtech startup ideas with $5 million in Seed funding

WA's Innovation Seed Fund has awarded almost $5 million in grants to 12 researchers and startups for health projects, from liver cancer tests to endometriosis diagnosis, ranging from $90,000 to $500,000.

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From lab to launch: How CSIRO ON Accelerate 9 is powering the next big deep tech startups

CSIRO's ninth ON accelerator cohort of eleven research teams has completed the program, with three members winning grants, two filing patents, and individual awards announced.

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WA Innovators Share $8.5m In WA Government Grants

Western Australia's government has awarded $8.5 million in grants across three schemes, a health innovation seed fund, commercialisation bridge grants and innovation booster grants, naming dozens of local recipients.

Lab launched to make synthetic human bones

Broome biotech Marine Biomedical opened a facility to make PearlBone, a synthetic bone substitute from oyster nacre, backed by a WA government grant, and plans regulatory submissions in Australia and the US.

WA gov to kickstart medical start-ups

Western Australia's government named nine health and medical start-ups, among them EarFlo, as recipients of seed funding totalling $4.3 million from its FHRI Fund Innovation Seed Fund.

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Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Roundup of Australian manufacturing items: EMVision collects grant money, Anduril completes a large Series E, Adherium receives a tax incentive payment, Tindo Solar's sales double, and Glaciem wins a New York clean energy program place.

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FUNDED July 2022 Anniversary Edition

Techboard's anniversary roundup catalogues a month of Australian startup funding: megadeals, three acquisitions, large debt deals, grants, accelerator intakes, and fund news including Archangel Ventures' committed capital.

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$8M in WA gov grants handed out to health and medtechs

Western Australia's government is distributing $8 million through its new Innovation Seed Fund to 17 health research projects, including $500,000 for medtech VeinTech, and has opened the Major Research Application Support program.

17 grants awarded to help commercialise WA medical and health inventions

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