Ledger. Australian venture funding, tracked

Company

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Melbourne, VIC

Coverage

Stories naming Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

Funding announcement

Science: The World's Shared Language That Carried One Founder Across Continents

Profile tracing Sara Prickett's path from UK labs to co-founding Aravax, the peanut-allergy biotech Brandon Capital backed, as its Phase II trial nears readout in mid-2026.

News

Grit, strategy, and adaptability: the sportsmanship of biotech investing

A profile of Brandon Capital partner Chris Smith, tracing his path from immunology research and a Cambridge postdoc into biotech investing, with resilience lessons drawn from equestrian sport and companies Aravax and ENA Respiratory.

Funding announcement

Meet Proxima Bio: Australia's next-generation biotech startup aiming to clean up cancer-causing proteins.

Profile of Australian biotech startup Proxima Bio, covering its founding, an early MRFF grant through the CUREator program, Brandon Capital's guidance, and a later larger investment that grew the team.

Funding announcement

Professor got nothing from the $2.8b sale of his molecule, and that's okay

Profile of scientist-entrepreneur Andrew Wilks covering the GSK sale of his cancer molecule, his SYNthesis BioVentures fund's family-office backers, and portfolio plays including Aculeus Therapeutics.

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