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WA government delivers $1.275 million in grants to 26 startups

Western Australia's government has awarded Round 8 Innovation Booster Grants totalling nearly $1.27 million across 26 startups, including Indigenous-founded, female-founded and regional founders, funding early-stage projects from health and agriculture to space.

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NASA is sending an Australian-made lunar rover to the Moon by 2030

NASA confirmed the Australian-built Roo-ver will reach the Moon by 2030 under its Artemis program. The ELO2 consortium, technically led by Lunar Outpost Oceania of Melbourne, has $42 million in Australian Government backing.

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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Here are the 11 deep tech startups to emerge from CSIRO's ON Accelerate

CSIRO's ON Accelerate program presents its ninth intake of eleven research startups, drawn from universities nationwide and the agency itself, spanning biotech, healthcare and sustainability, at a Melbourne showcase.

Skip to the Moon: the team behind a $42 million Australian Space Agency project to build Australia’s first lunar ‘Roo-ver’ revealed

Winner named for $42 million lunar rover contract

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HPA processing, ‘4D digital twins’ and breakthrough hydrogen storage among newly-funded CRC-P projects

Round 16 CRC-P grants, about $55 million across 23 projects, fund work involving CPC Engineering, ZiP Diagnostics, Emesent and Rux Energy across minerals processing, diagnostics, drone mapping and hydrogen storage.

ClearVue to build WA solar PV and nanoparticle manufacturing facility

ClearVue Technologies has received a $2 million Western Australian government grant to build an onshore facility manufacturing photovoltaic and nanoparticle components in WA.

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Woodside invests stake in WA cyber start-up

Woodside has taken a ten per cent stake in Perth cyber security start-up Sapien Cyber, with its CTO joining the company's advisory board as an observer.