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Adelaide, SA
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Companies Flinders University acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Marco Aliberti | Visiting Researcher | @AuManufacturing |
| Dr Saeed Rehman | Researcher | @AuManufacturing |
| Joel Lisk | Research Associate in Space Law | Defence Connect |
| David Glynn | Professor | @AuManufacturing |
| Professor David Lewis | Professor | @AuManufacturing (Tue 16 Aug 2022), @AuManufacturing (Wed 27 Jul 2022) |
| Professor Graeme Young | Professor | SmartCompany, @AuManufacturing (Fri 28 Jun 2019), @AuManufacturing (Thu 27 Jun 2019) |
| Professor John Spoehr | Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Impact) | @AuManufacturing (Mon 6 Feb 2023), @AuManufacturing (Thu 1 Jul 2021) |
| Associate Professor Jonathan Campbell | Associate Professor | @AuManufacturing |
| Jonathan Campbell | Associate Professor | @AuManufacturing |
| Rodrigo Praino | Associate Professor | @AuManufacturing |
Stories naming Flinders University. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
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.
Flinders University and start-up VAWT-X Energy will trial a 6kW next-generation vertical-axis turbine near Adelaide, hoping their design fixes aerodynamic flaws that held back earlier Darrieus-type machines.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing briefs: Provaris bids for a hydrogen tank production cell, Lithium Australia wraps a share purchase plan, QEM launches a rights issue, and Laronix hires a speech pathologist.
Two South Australian space companies, Safety from Space and AICRAFT, each received $100,000 from the state's new Space Collaboration and Innovation Fund for lunar rescue beacons and AI-powered radar payload projects with international partners.
Also @AuManufacturing
Manufacturing sector roundup: Whyalla steelworks resumes production, Maggie Beer Holdings' chief executive to depart, ReNu Energy secures hydrogen funding, Defence names grant recipients, Orthocell gains Canadian approval, and AEA appoints its advisory board.
The Defence Innovation Partnership opens applications for a $2.4 million Activator Fund grant round, and recalls Acacia Systems leading a $1.6 million government-funded undersea surveillance project for the Navy, announced in January.
Australia and the US have signed a Technology Safeguards Agreement easing American rocket launches from local spaceports, while Gilmour has banked an extra $55 million ahead of the debut flight of its Eris rocket.
Sparc Hydrogen has selected a site near Adelaide for a pilot plant proving its solar-driven hydrogen process, after on-sun trials at CSIRO's Newcastle facility, with the project backed by two grant programs.
Redflow banks extra placement money atop its August raise; Flinders University plans a space-cyber forum; VEX Robotics partners with a robotics peak body; a munitions venture wins an award; DXN lands a cable contract.
Australian precision fermentation startup Nourish Ingredients secures government funding and grants, recalls its Series A, and outlines plans to launch its first animal-like fat in late 2024.
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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.
Techboard's monthly roundup tallies October 2022 startup funding at $661m across 99 deals, listing megadeals such as Airwallex, acquisitions, Square Peg's $861m fund close and government grants to program operators.
Also @AuManufacturing
Four defence and space research projects in South Australia, including one by Adelaide startup Safety from Space, have received grants through the Defence Innovation Partnership's Collaborative Research Fund.
Henkel's venture arm has invested an undisclosed sum in Australian recycled-timber company 3RT, whose founders include Flinders University academics. 3RT also recently received an Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre commercialisation grant.
Also @AuManufacturing
Profile of South Australian agtech GoMicro, whose low-cost phone microscope and AI app assess produce ripeness, showcased at a Queensland forum, building on earlier competition wins with Bayer and a food waste accelerator.
Peak Medical's acceptance into the Medical Device Partnering Program is announced, alongside MTPConnect launching a government-funded medtech commercialisation program with partners including Flinders University and Cicada Innovations.
Five South Australian defence research projects led by Flinders, UniSA and the University of Adelaide with industry partners receive the latest Collaborative Research Fund grants from the Defence Innovation Partnership.
Also @AuManufacturing
Sparc Technologies is partnering with the University of Adelaide on a hydrogen joint venture and has secured committed funding via a share placement to cover its share of the project.
Twenty-two CRC Projects share $47 million in grants, backed by $133 million in total investment, funding work on hydrogen storage, electric air transport, plant-based protein, orthotics and other industry research collaborations.
Also @AuManufacturing
Manufacturing roundup: AML3D joins a naval shipbuilding research facility with BAE Systems and Flinders University; Cann Group recovers scam losses; Ridley divests its Westbury plant; Skedulo secures $100m from SoftBank's Vision Fund 2.
News roundup: Das Studio to design Adelaide's Line Zero factory project, Adbri's Mawsons JV buys Milbrae, VEEM wins a modernisation grant, and Lithium Australia secures a European patent.
Cincera Therapeutics has received a million-dollar Biomedical Translation Bridge grant to advance its Des-1 inhibitor drug for obesity-related metabolic diseases. The Monash and UniSA spin-out previously secured venture funding from the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund.
Adelaide defence firm DEWC Systems won a $3.1 million government contract to develop a CubeSat electronic warfare sensor constellation, having earlier bought engineering firm AES to build its own hardware.
Preserve Health, the Flinders University spin-out behind PREPD hydration drinks, raised over A$950,000 in a pre-Series A round from shareholders and private investors including cycling coach Kevin Poulton, funding national growth and a US launch.
Adelaide electronic warfare firm DEWC Systems plans to launch its MOESS CubeSat constellation from Southern Launch's Whalers Way site, recalls a grant, and has acquired local engineering firm AES.