Company
Nathan, QLD
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Griffith University raised.
Companies Griffith 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brendan Mackey | Director | RenewEconomy (Fri 19 Jun 2026), RenewEconomy (Fri 19 Jun 2026) |
| Dzung Dao | Professor | @AuManufacturing |
| Professor Bernd Rehm | Director of the Centre for Cell Factories and Biopolymers | @AuManufacturing |
Stories naming Griffith University. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Commentary contends the federal government's near-$53m backing of a Tasmanian cement kiln switch to burning wood waste and tyres is misguided, arguing biomass burning raises emissions, damages forests and wastes public money.
Also RenewEconomy
Canberra medtech Dentroid has banked $32 million at a $265 million valuation, with Septodont both investing and signing a worldwide licensing deal for its light-based device that eases dental pain without needles.
Also Dealroom
Weekly roundup of seven Australian and New Zealand startup raises totalling $17 million, including two startups entering Y Combinator, plus a new QuantX Labs board director and SmartrMail's earlier sale to Relay Commerce.
PsiQuantum has relocated its $940m government-backed quantum computing project to Moreton Bay after dropping the Brisbane Airport site, with groundbreaking set for June following timeline slippage flagged in Senate Estimates.
Griffith University researchers, backed by an Economic Accelerator seed grant, have built a proof-of-concept silicon carbide transistor that removes energy-wasting losses; startup Silvertech is partnering to commercialise it.
Queensland smart-grid company Elexsys Energy, trading as Planet Ark Power, won federal and state grants and partial Series B backing before being wound up on a tax office application.
AuManufacturing roundup of brief industry news: Wide Open Agriculture banks a $7.5 million raise, Liontown adds a lithium offtake partner, Osteopore signs Zimmer Biomet for distribution, plus quantum, defence, rail and recycling items.
The federal MRFF has granted $50 million to the Artificial Heart Frontiers Program, a Monash-led consortium including BiVACOR, to advance a total artificial heart; the team earlier received $1 million in 2021.
Also @AuManufacturing
CSIRO has picked twelve deep-tech teams, mostly from Australian universities, for the eighth edition of its ON Accelerate commercialisation program starting in February 2024.
Vaccine maker BioCina is partnering with defence and university researchers on a project to create immunisations against biological warfare agents including Q Fever, tularaemia and melioidosis.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Orbital UAV's $5m placement with UIL backing, Nufarm's record earnings, a Hazer–Mitsui graphite agreement, Baraja's patent milestone, the new skills agency, and a university research grant.
A geotechnical consultancy is partnering with a university research group and a manufacturing research corporation to build compact, low-cost roadway monitoring sensors, with the work backed by support from a program grant.
Canberra dental robotics startup Dentroid is leading a collaborative micromirror project with Griffith University and the IMCRC, backed by a $100,000 IMCRC grant, to advance drill-free, laser-based dental surgery.
A consortium led by Monash University and BiVACOR won a $1 million Medical Research Future Fund grant to commercialise an Australian total artificial heart; BiVACOR had earlier closed a US$19 million Series B.
Questsemi and Griffith University won an Innovative Manufacturing CRC Activate grant for silicon carbide diode fabrication research; the $1.3 million project includes a pilot production facility, and Alcolizer and FormFlow are past program recipients.
A Queensland agricultural technology startup has been chosen by Microsoft for one of six local grants under its AI for Earth program, giving it cloud resources to improve its weed-detecting software.