Startup

Swinburne University of Technology

Hawthorn, VIC

Disclosed deals

Every published round Swinburne University of Technology took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted, and a place in one of its own programs is under Cohorts.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
h3d-logo-white-bg.jpg	Series A	16 Sep 2025	$5.8m	Participant	Significant Capital Ventures CoAct Capital	h3d.ai, CoAct Capital portfolio
H3D	Series A	16 Sep 2025	$5.8m	Participant	Significant Capital Ventures CoAct Capital	swinburne.edu.au, Significant Ventures, Startup Daily (Fri 19 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 16 Sep 2025), SmartCompany, CoAct Capital portfolio, Significant Capital Ventures portfolio
Fluency	Pre-seed	29 Apr 2025	$1.5m	Participant	Bradley Tabone Archangel Ventures 1MX.ai Orvel Ventures Brad Tabone Andrew Cicutto OneMX.ai NextGen Ventures Exhort Ventures	Startup Daily (Fri 13 Feb 2026), SmartCompany (Tue 10 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Mon 9 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Wed 25 Jun 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 2 May 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 29 Apr 2025), Exhort Ventures portfolio
EntroMat	Pre-seed	27 Mar 2025	$1m	Participant	Breakthrough Victoria	Startup Daily, @AuManufacturing, SmartCompany, Breakthrough Victoria

Cohort members

Everyone Swinburne University of Technology has named to a program in published coverage. A place in a program is not a raise: the cheque is the figure recorded with the place, which is the program's standard terms where we hold them, and a blank is one we don't.

Member	Program	Announced	Cheque	Sources
Rachael Barritt	Founder in Residence	4 Feb 2023	-	@AuManufacturing (Tue 7 Feb 2023), @AuManufacturing (Sat 4 Feb 2023), @AuManufacturing (Tue 31 Jan 2023)

Portfolio

Companies Swinburne University of Technology has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds
EntroMat		27 Mar 2025, Pre-seed	1
Fluency		29 Apr 2025, Pre-seed	1
H3D		16 Sep 2025, Series A	1
h3d-logo-white-bg.jpg	AI CAD software and 3D scanning tools for dental and hearing labs	16 Sep 2025, Series A	1

Funds

Fund closes reported for Swinburne University of Technology, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for Swinburne University of Technology yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies Swinburne University of Technology has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Swinburne University of Technology did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of Swinburne University of Technology is recorded as having been acquired.

What Swinburne University of Technology bought

Companies Swinburne University of Technology acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Swinburne University of Technology is not recorded as having acquired anything.

Investors

Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Swinburne University of Technology raised.

Investor	Rounds	Invested
Australian Government	Grant	-

People

Name	Role	Sources
Dr Werner van de Merwe	Vice-President of Innovation and Enterprise	swinburne.edu.au, @AuManufacturing
Professor Pascale Quester	Vice-Chancellor	Startup Daily
Dr Werner van der Merwe	Vice President Innovation and Enterprise	Breakthrough Victoria, @AuManufacturing
Dr Erol Harvey	Professor of Microtechnology (former)	@AuManufacturing
Luke Downey	Professor in Performance and Psychology	Startup Daily
Professor Alan Duffy	Professor	Startup Daily
Professor Jay Sanjayan	Professor	@AuManufacturing
Professor Matthew Bailes	Professor	@AuManufacturing
Sara Webb	Lecturer in Astronomy	Forbes Australia
Dr Vito Butardo Jr	Lead Researcher	@AuManufacturing
Dr Dimitrios Salampasis	Fintech Leader	Startup Daily
Dr Steve Petrie	Earth Observation Research Fellow	@AuManufacturing
Prem Prakash Jayaraman	Director	@AuManufacturing
Dr Daniel Perkins	Adjunct Associate Professor of Mental Health	Forbes Australia

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