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Main Sequence sets out its investment thesis for physical AI, describing portfolio companies across robotics, vision, connectivity, compute and simulation, and recalling over $100 million invested since inception.
Weekly roundup detailing five Australian startups' raises: a PR platform's Series B, a biotech's post-stealth funding, a defence tech round, a pre-seed voice-AI raise, and a crowdfunding campaign.
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Weekly roundup tallying three Australian raises: legal tech firm Plexus ($6m), cattle-probiotics startup Bovotica ($3.4m seed), and beauty group York St Brands ($2m Series C plus a $4m NAB credit line).
QUT spinout Bovotica has secured seed funding to commercialise probiotic feed supplements and drenches that cut cattle methane emissions; the agtech was also in SparkLabs Cultiv8's 2024 accelerator cohort.
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Roundup of the publication's five most-read stories of the week: a $65 million grant for the SMART regenerative-therapies CRC, QUT's flexible semiconductor research, a Lima Declaration fact-check, and Greensteel Australia's $1.6 billion mill order.
Investor post profiling Earthodic, whose bio-based coating Biobarc keeps paper packaging recyclable, and describing Significant Ventures' participation in the raise and its board-observer support role.
Weekly roundup covering seven Australian companies' fresh capital: EV charging, satellite IoT, sovereign cloud, wearables, workplace messaging, plus two crowdfunding raises on Birchal.
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Manufacturing roundup: Monash shares 3D-printing guidelines for blind students; MGA Thermal gains syndicate investment atop ARENA funding; UniSA touts a natural obesity treatment; Sparc Technologies signs an MoU with CLP Group.
First Graphene will supply graphene for Halocell's perovskite solar modules under a new two-year deal; the partners earlier won a $2 million CRC-P research grant for solar cell work at Halocell's Wagga Wagga plant.
FaBA introduces its newly appointed commercialisation director, who discusses his microbiome industry background and the accelerator's co-funded research projects for industry partners.
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.
Roundup: Orthocell reports higher revenue, Recce Pharmaceuticals raises $8 million via a placement, executive appointments at Blacktree and Memphasys, Crosbe launches low-carbon grouts, NSW forms a Net Zero Commission, QUT unveils mapping research.
Manufacturing roundup: IDT Australia and Genetic Signatures announce capital raisings; Memphasys and Genetic Signatures appoint new chief executives; NIOA opens a US office; DefendTex holds acquisition talks with Brazil's Avibras; a cobotics PhD ends.
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.
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Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Iluka's refinery cost estimate, a biotech placement with a founder sell-down, a CEO appointment, a retirement, an R&D refund, a distribution deal, a CRC merger and Victorian grants.
Manufacturing briefs: Orthocell swaps royalty entitlement for UWA equity, Quickstep hands an unmanned aircraft frame to Carbonix, Sparc and QUT win a research grant, EOS disputes a lender fee, Neurizer plans a rights issue.
Sponsored feature surveying three Australian soil-carbon startups — AgriProve, Agrimix and FarmLab — their measurement technology and research partners, plus openings listed on AgriFutures growAG., noting AgriProve's 2022 government grant.
A university–industry consortium wins federal grant support to advance printable perovskite solar technology, with graphene electrodes replacing gold and silver conductors, at Halocell's regional NSW factory.
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Partner content profiling Gelomics, a Brisbane biotech whose 3D tissue culture technology now reaches over 200 labs internationally, crediting a Queensland government export grant with helping it win its first Japanese customers.
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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Australian manufacturing roundup: IDT Australia's shareholder raise, EV charger rollouts, a mining equipment hire, a plastics recycling plant completion, research collaborations and government funding moves.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: ARM Hub's anniversary, DroneShield orders, EMVision's milestone grant, SciDev results, a SEA Electric hire, ATSE's policy submission, and spaceport funding for Koonibba.
Manufacturing roundup: Memphasys IVF birth and Japanese orders, FIAL chair change, DroneShield's DroneGun Mk4, Austeng's hydrogen burner grant, UNSW recycling hub launch, Symbio laboratory, apprentice award, and MathWorks joining Universal Robots' ecosystem.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Matrix Composites raises via convertible note, Cronos hits a sales milestone, Ellen Medical finalists, ASC digitises its supply chain, a hydrogen refueller opens, and Titomic signs a US reseller.
Eight projects share 28.9 million dollars in Australian government grants under the National Soil Carbon Innovation Challenge, funding cheaper technologies for measuring soil organic carbon, with ministers Bowen and Watt announcing the recipients.
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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 weekly roundup detailing nine startup funding rounds totalling $39.6 million, spanning cybersecurity, medtech, healthtech, hospitality, retail media, accessibility, clean energy and agtech ventures.
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Profile of Extracta, an Australian manufacturer turning farm waste into ingredients, noting $2.5 million in government grants via the Fight Food Waste CRC and partnerships with QUT, Macquarie University and Tamburlaine Wines.
Two manufacturers, Leakster and Voltin, are named the first winners of ARM Hub's SPRINTS AI accelerator, each receiving in-kind support after pitching to an industry and academic panel.
Mandalay Venture Partners' sustainability-focused agrifood tech fund has secured over $21 million in commitments toward a $50 million target, with NRMA as cornerstone investor plus personal commitments from Phillip St Baker and Angus Cameron.
Roundup covering Victorian zero-emission bus trials, Frew Foods' planned plant expansion, 5B's layoffs and completed capital raise, Wellnex Life's convertible note raising, SafetyCulture investing in Inauro, plus wind farm and university research news.
Analysis of why rapid grocery delivery startups SEND and Quicko have shut down, with a retail academic explaining the tough economics facing remaining players Milkrun and Voly against major retailers and meal apps.
Profile of Feline, a startup founded by Kymberley and Peter Talbot developing safer lithium-ion cells for marine and defence use, supported by AMGC co-funding and defence partnerships.
TechCrunch reveals Oceankind, the secretive grantmaker behind Larry Page, which has quietly funded reef robots in Queensland and more than $121 million in marine projects.
Australian Vanadium Limited wins a $49 million federal government grant to develop its Western Australian vanadium project, with ATCO, Bryah Resources, two universities and ANSTO named as partners on hydrogen and downstream work.
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.
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