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Perth spaceport venture Space Angel has won Western Australia's entire $1.75 million spaceport establishment grant, to be paired with its own funds for assessing proposed launch sites and a commercial plan.
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Western Australia's government has awarded Round 8 Innovation Booster Grants totalling nearly $1.27 million across 26 startups, including Indigenous-founded, female-founded and regional founders, funding early-stage projects from health and agriculture to space.
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Western Australia's government is putting $6.5 million into the local space sector, dividing it between the AROSE consortium and Curtin University's Binar satellite program, with South Australia's bigger spend cited for comparison.
WA's government is putting $150,000 into Spacecubed's Perth Landing Pad through 2026, sustaining a 90-day program helping overseas startups enter Western Australia; 100-plus international startups have come through it so far.
Western Australia's government has awarded nearly $2.56 million in grants to 14 groups running accelerators and education programs via its Innovation Pathways Program, with the next round due November 2026.
Western Australia's latest Innovation Booster and Commercialisation Bridge grant round gives 21 startups a combined $1.9 million, unveiled at West Tech Fest; two-thirds are regional, First Nations or female-founded ventures.
Radium Capital's R&D lending has passed $1 billion across 1,000-plus companies since 2017; case studies recall WeMoney's $12 million Series A and ElectraLith's $27.5 million Main Sequence-led round.
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Western Australia's government has selected twelve tech startups for its new Global Growth Accelerator Program, delivered by Invest and Trade WA, to prepare them for US markets, culminating at SXSW 2025 in Austin.
Western Australia's government added $15 million to its WAVC fund-of-funds, committing $45 million across seven venture firms to back local startups; Purpose Ventures' fund closed at $55 million after backing My Mirror and SpacetoCo.
Western Australia's government has grown its WAVC fund-of-funds commitment to $45 million, backing seven venture funds, four WA-based, to invest locally; Skalata's WA portfolio already includes C0-architecture and Omni Biotech.
Western Australia's government has awarded $736,157 to twelve startups across its Innovation Booster and Commercialisation Bridge grant programs, with recipients spanning cattle health tech, space monitoring and skincare.
Western Australia's government has awarded $8.5 million in grants across three schemes, a health innovation seed fund, commercialisation bridge grants and innovation booster grants, naming dozens of local recipients.
Six Western Australian innovation programs share $547,300 in the latest X-TEND WA grant round, with applications for the next round open and the maximum grant now $150,000.
Eleven WA health organisations, including grant-backed Metabolic Health Solutions, head to the AusMedtech 2024 conference with ministerial support to present devices and pursue new partners.
Founders Factory is launching its first Australian accelerator in Perth, a nature and biodiversity program backed by a $7.2 million WA government grant, with Rio Tinto funding a separate decarbonisation stream.
WA's government has granted 26 early-stage companies amounts reaching $40,000 each through the Innovation Booster Grant, listing every recipient and project; the program now accepts applications year-round.
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A $2 million Western Australian government matching grant will help Bridgewest upgrade its Bentley drug-making site, NovaCina, adding production lines and roughly 70 jobs while cutting import dependence.
Broome biotech Marine Biomedical opened a facility to make PearlBone, a synthetic bone substitute from oyster nacre, backed by a WA government grant, and plans regulatory submissions in Australia and the US.
Perth EV charging startup Wevolt has rolled its software out to charging stations across three more Australian states, having earlier in 2023 won a Western Australian government innovation grant.
Western Australia's government named nine health and medical start-ups, among them EarFlo, as recipients of seed funding totalling $4.3 million from its FHRI Fund Innovation Seed Fund.
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Western Australia's government has selected three forming local early-stage venture funds, Purpose Ventures, Fund WA and Quokka Capital, for 100,000 dollars each in matched operational funding under its WAVES pilot.
Coworking operator Spacecubed marked its tenth birthday with a $5.9 million Lotterywest grant to back Western Australia's early-stage ecosystem — the funder's largest single award, ten years after a smaller grant helped launch it.
WA's New Industries Fund is backing 34 home-grown ventures with over $643,000 in Innovation Booster Grants, most receiving up to $20,000 for commercialisation support, with four funded via a life sciences stream.
West Australian medtech Avicena won government approval to trial its Sentinel rapid saliva screening system among fly-in fly-out resources workers; the piece also recalls two earlier state grants supporting the technology's development.
Stephen Dawson and Greg Symons have launched Grapple, a peer-to-peer invoice financing platform for Australian businesses, backed by figures including Robert Millner and Bill Moss, after completing an oversubscribed second funding round.