Funding announcement
Today’s waste plastic, tomorrow’s prototype
Profile of PolyLab, whose founders are developing the Eco Pellet Extruder to turn waste plastic into 3D printing filament while completing a Deakin accelerator program.
Company
Holden
Funding history
Investors
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Holden raised.
What Holden bought
Companies Holden acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
People
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Bernhard | Chairman and Managing Director (former) | @AuManufacturing |
Coverage
Stories naming Holden. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Venture debt
$73.4m
Ex-Holden MD joins Carbon Revolution board ahead of planned IPO
Former Holden chief Mark Bernhard takes a non-executive director seat at Geelong wheel maker Carbon Revolution, which recently completed a $73.4 million convertible note raising ahead of a planned ASX listing.
Series D+
$95m
Shell snaps up battery maker Sonnen as it seeks to challenge Tesla and LG Chem
Oil major Shell has completed its takeover of German home battery maker Sonnen, setting up a contest with Tesla and LG Chem, with the piece also noting Sonnen's Adelaide plant and other oil majors' clean-energy purchases.
Also SmartCompany
Grant
$4m
Brisbane company joins solar subsidy scheme
A Brisbane solar technology company's inverter has been accepted into South Australia's home battery subsidy scheme, while the Queensland Government announced $4 million to help it build an energy monitoring platform.
Grant
$700k
Integrated driverless technology trial launched in South Australia
SAGE Automation has launched Matilda, a smart transit hub in Adelaide, for a six-month autonomous shuttle trial with Local Motors, backed by a South Australian government mobility grant.
Also @AuManufacturing