CEO · Founder, Liquid Instruments

Professor Daniel Shaddock

Roles

Role	Organisation	Sources
CEO (former) · Founder	Liquid Instruments	Startup Daily (Wed 5 Aug 2026), iTnews, Startup Daily (Wed 29 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Wed 29 Apr 2026), Significant Ventures, liquidinstruments.com (Tue 28 Apr 2026), Breakthrough Victoria (Wed 10 Dec 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 10 Nov 2025), Breakthrough Victoria (Fri 28 Feb 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 21 Jun 2024), Startup Daily (Wed 19 Jun 2024), @AuManufacturing (Wed 19 Jun 2024), SmartCompany (Wed 19 Jun 2024), liquidinstruments.com (Wed 19 Jun 2024), Breakthrough Victoria (Wed 19 Jun 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 15 Oct 2021), SmartCompany (Thu 26 Nov 2020), @AuManufacturing (Fri 1 Feb 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 29 Jan 2019)
Director's Fellow (former)	NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Startup Daily (Wed 29 Apr 2026), Significant Ventures, Startup Daily (Wed 19 Jun 2024)
Engineer (former)	NASA	SmartCompany (Fri 21 Jun 2024), SmartCompany (Wed 19 Jun 2024), SmartCompany (Tue 29 Jan 2019)
Professor (former)	ANU	Significant Ventures, SmartCompany (Fri 21 Jun 2024), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Wed 19 Jun 2024), @AuManufacturing, SmartCompany (Tue 29 Jan 2019)

Coverage

Stories naming Professor Daniel Shaddock. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

Series C US$50m

The instrument that does the work of seventeen

Retrospective on Liquid Instruments, the Canberra-born software-defined test instrument maker, which has closed a fifty-million-US-dollar Series C co-led by the reconstruction fund and Keysight, with Significant Ventures among existing investors.

Significant Capital Ventures portfolio Wed 29 Apr 2026 Liquid Instruments ANU NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory NRF Corporation Keysight Technologies Significant Capital Ventures Dr Danielle Wuchenich Professor Daniel Shaddock Michele Troni

Also Breakthrough Victoria·Breakthrough Victoria·Breakthrough Victoria·Breakthrough Victoria·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Cut Through Venture·Startup Daily

Series C $50m

Liquid Instruments Announces $50M Series C Funding Co-Led by Keysight Technologies and Australia's National Reconstruction Fund

Liquid Instruments has raised a $50m Series C for its reconfigurable testing hardware, co-led by Australia's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation and Keysight Technologies; proceeds go to AI development and aerospace, defence and chip markets.

liquidinstruments.com Tue 28 Apr 2026 Liquid Instruments NRF Corporation Keysight Technologies Prof Brian Schmidt Professor Daniel Shaddock Joaquin Torrecilla Dr Mary Manning

Also angelinvestorsnetwork.com·iTnews

Series A $20m

Breakthrough Victoria Portfolio Companies Celebrate Milestones and Global Growth

Breakthrough Victoria highlights recent achievements of portfolio companies including funding, awards, and expansions for firms like Liquid Instruments, Quantum Brilliance, and Samsara Eco.

19 deals

Nine Aussie startups that raised $38.3 million this week

Roundup of nine local startups that together banked a combined $38m-plus this week, spanning precision instruments, proptech, adtech, robotics, food, energy storage and AI, with several earlier raises recalled.

SmartCompany Fri 21 Jun 2024 Archistar Linkby Liquid Instruments Loopit Maxme MGA Thermal Naked Rivals TrueState Andromeda ANU Australian Investment Network Coles Commonsense Ventures Disney HelloCars LaunchVic LUXEM Ventures McKinsey QuantumBlack NASA New South Wales state government Nine Pedestrian TV Pixar Tidal Ventures Woolworths AeroCorp AirTree Ventures Alice Anderson Fund Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)Breakthrough Victoria Galileo Ventures Imprint Capital Partners NAB Ventures OIF Ventures Perennial Private Investments PEXA Purpose Ventures Royal Automobile Club of West Australia Shell Side Stage Ventures Skip Capital Upswell Prabhat Sethi Adrian Fagerlund Dr Alexander Post Andrew Chak Andrew Gordon Dr Benjamin Coorey Chris Wirasinha Professor Daniel Shaddock Dr Erich Kisi Grace Brown Kate Gordon Mark Croudace Michael Higgins Paul Higgins Renata Sguario Robert Coorey Will Ashford

Also Australian FinTech·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·AgFunderNews

Unnamed stage $15m

Liquid Instruments

Breakthrough Victoria announces a $15 million investment in Liquid Instruments, a maker of software-defined test instruments, which plans a Melbourne office, local manufacturing growth and dozens of high-tech hires.

Breakthrough Victoria Wed 19 Jun 2024 Liquid Instruments Monash University RMIT University Swinburne University of Technology University of Melbourne Breakthrough Victoria Professor Daniel Shaddock Grant Dooley

Also Breakthrough Victoria·Breakthrough Victoria·SmartCompany·@AuManufacturing·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·liquidinstruments.com·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany

Funding announcement

Case study: How NASA and Apple tech provider Liquid Instruments took their products to the global stage

A case study of Canberra test-and-measurement firm Liquid Instruments, covering its global expansion supported by the EMDG export grant and consultancy Export Solutions, and naming major international customers.

SmartCompany Thu 26 Nov 2020 ANU Apple Export Market Development Grant Export Solutions Honeywell Liquid Instruments Lockheed Martin NASA NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Nvidia Professor Daniel Shaddock

Unnamed stage $12m

Aussie NASA engineer turned startup founder raises $12 million to capitalise on obscure multi-billion dollar industry

Physics professor Daniel Shaddock's measurement-tech startup Liquid Instruments raised US$8.16 million led by Anzu Partners, with ANU Connect Ventures also investing, after earlier seed backing, to expand its Moku:Lab device globally.

SmartCompany Tue 29 Jan 2019 Liquid Instruments ANU Apple NASA ANU Connect Ventures Anzu Partners Professor Daniel Shaddock

Also @AuManufacturing·SmartCompany·SmartCompany

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