Startup · $500k raised
Melbourne, VIC
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Grey Innovation Group raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre | Grant | - |
| Victorian Government | Grant | $500,000 |
Companies Grey Innovation Group 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Harcourt | Chairman · Founder | @AuManufacturing (Fri 19 Jul 2024), @AuManufacturing (Fri 25 Aug 2023), @AuManufacturing (Wed 28 Jul 2021) |
| Jefferson Harcourt | Executive Chair · Founder | @AuManufacturing (Mon 20 Sep 2021), @AuManufacturing (Thu 9 Apr 2020) |
| Lachlan McLaren | Project Manager | @AuManufacturing |
Stories naming Grey Innovation Group. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Melbourne water-quality monitoring firm Eco Detection has announced a $10 million investment from London-listed mining services firm Capital, which it says will speed production growth and push sales into new markets.
Profile of Grey Innovation executive chair Jefferson Harcourt on its new venture capital fund, commercialising university research via GreyScan and Eco Detection, ventilator manufacturing, and gaps in Australian engineering skills and venture finance.
Grey Innovation is seeking investors for a new ESVCLP venture fund backing startups from its portfolio, citing tax advantages; the piece also recaps the group's history and Covid ventilator program.
Profile of GreyScan, which is re-engineering its explosives trace scanner to detect SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces, backed by a $260,000 CSIRO grant and collaboration with University of Tasmania specialists.
The Victorian government has funded Gekko Systems to ready its ventilator design for manufacturing, while also supporting Grey Innovation's ventilator, in a regional project facilitated by the Committee for Ballarat.
Canberra will buy ventilators built by a Grey Innovation-led consortium, while Victoria has granted the group half a million dollars toward local manufacturing during the pandemic.
Also @AuManufacturing