CEO · Founder, WearOptimo

Professor Mark Kendall

Roles

Role	Organisation	Sources
CEO · Founder	WearOptimo	@AuManufacturing (Wed 12 Mar 2025), @AuManufacturing (Mon 27 Jan 2025), @AuManufacturing (Sun 19 Jan 2025), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Fri 20 Dec 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 11 Nov 2022)
Founder	Vaxxas	@AuManufacturing (Wed 12 Mar 2025), @AuManufacturing (Sun 19 Jan 2025), SmartCompany
Lecturer (former)	Oxford	@AuManufacturing (Sun 19 Jan 2025), @AuManufacturing (Mon 1 Jun 2020)
Professor (former)	University of Queensland	@AuManufacturing (Wed 12 Mar 2025), @AuManufacturing (Sun 19 Jan 2025), @AuManufacturing (Mon 1 Jun 2020), SmartCompany (Mon 9 Feb 2015), SmartCompany (Thu 4 Aug 2011)

Coverage

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Grant $15m

Best of the week — the five most popular stories among readers, January 20 – January 24, 2025

Roundup of the week's five most-read manufacturing stories: a defence radio contract for Codan, university facility funding, a WEF white paper, ASCA missile-defence awards, and a port chair's farewell.

@AuManufacturing Mon 27 Jan 2025 Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator Australian Defence Force Federal Government Port of Newcastle SYPAQ Systems University of Newcastle WearOptimo World Economic Forum Anthony Albanese Catherine King Professor Mark Kendall Pat Conroy Professor Roy Green

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Australian F1 legend Mark Webber backs hydration monitoring wearables startup in $8 million raise

Brisbane hydration-wearable startup WearOptimo has secured $8m from Aspen Medical, ex-F1 driver Mark Webber and Adam MacDougall, and unveiled its new sensor manufacturing facility, supported by a federal grant of nearly $1m.

Startup Daily Tue 24 Dec 2024 WearOptimo Man Shake Newcastle Knights Aspen Medical Modernisation Manufacturing Fund Adam 'Mad Dog' MacDougall Mark Webber Professor Mark Kendall

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Seven Aussie startups that raised $155.5 million this week

Weekly roundup covering seven Australian companies' fresh capital: EV charging, satellite IoT, sovereign cloud, wearables, workplace messaging, plus two crowdfunding raises on Birchal.

Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·@AuManufacturing

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Nine startups that raised almost $40 million this week

A weekly roundup detailing nine startup funding rounds totalling $39.6 million, spanning cybersecurity, medtech, healthtech, hospitality, retail media, accessibility, clean energy and agtech ventures.

Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Forbes Australia

News

Slowly getting closer to the pointy end

Profile of Brisbane medtech firm Vaxxas on scaling its needle-free vaccine patch from prototype toward commercial manufacture, with pharma partner Merck and production specialist Harro Hofliger announced as collaborators.

@AuManufacturing Mon 1 Jun 2020 Harro Höfliger Merck Oxford University of Queensland Vaxxas Dr Angus Forster Professor Mark Kendall

Unnamed stage US$12m

Merck to use Australian platform technology for unnamed “vaccine candidate”

@AuManufacturing Fri 29 May 2020 Vaxxas Gates Foundation Harro Höfliger University of Queensland MSD Daria Hazuda Dr David L Hoey Professor Mark Kendall

Also Startup News (WA)

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$25 million funding round gives Queensland vaccine biotech Vaxxas a boost

Vaxxas, a Queensland biotech developing needle-free vaccine patches, has banked a $25 million Series B led by OneVentures, following an earlier $15 million Series A round.

SmartCompany Mon 9 Feb 2015 Vaxxas Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology University of Queensland Brandon Capital Healthcare Ventures Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF)OneVentures Dr David L Hoey Professor Mark Kendall

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