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

Coverage

Stories naming Swinburne University of Technology. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

10 deals

SQC among 6 startups sharing $12.3 million in quantum grants

Six Australian quantum startups, including Silicon Quantum Computing and QuantX Labs, have received federal grants totalling $12.3 million under the Critical Technologies Challenge Program for projects in energy, health, biosecurity and logistics.

Startup Daily Mon 5 Oct 2026 Avicena Systems FeBI iQ Sense Q Factorial QuantX Labs Silicon Quantum Computing Australian Department of Defence Schneider Electric Siemens Swinburne University of Technology The Tech Council of Australia UNSW Sydney Critical Technologies Challenge Program NRF Corporation SmartSat CRC Professor Andre Luiten Professor Michelle Simmons

Funding announcement

Paul Little's Skalata Ventures raising up to $50m for fund two

Skalata Ventures, the seed fund and founder-training program led by Paul Little and Rohan Workman, is raising a second vehicle plus growth capital, reporting 30 investments and a 44 per cent IRR.

Grant $15m

Reinventing the Condom: How an Australian Deep-Tech Startup Plans to Disrupt a $12 Billion Market

Profile of a Sydney-based medical device maker developing a hydrogel condom, noting its human safety trial, manufacturing build-out, patent portfolio and grant backing.

Wholesale Investor Fri 28 Aug 2026 Eudaemon Technologies Gates Foundation Swinburne University of Technology Wollongong University Nick Northcott

News

Entropy takes TRP-8803 to the US in head-to-head depression trial

Entropy Neurodynamics has agreed with UCSF to run a US Phase 2 trial of its psilocin drug TRP-8803 against escitalopram in young adults with depression, pending FDA clearance, with Swinburne and BioCina supporting.

Biotech Dispatch Wed 26 Aug 2026 BioCina Swinburne University of Technology

Funding announcement

News and Announcements

Wholesale Investor's news listing spanning Australian private capital: deep-tech and biotech company profiles, property and crypto commentary, Q1 2026 venture funding totals, and guides to wholesale investor qualification.

Wholesale Investor Wed 12 Aug 2026 Altair International Pty Ltd Australian Business Growth Fund Beaten Zone Venture Partners CapitalHQ Centuria Capital EntroMat Hatcher+Percheron Therapeutics PredicTx Swinburne University of Technology University of Melbourne Wholesale Investor Andrew Essey John Sharp Steve Baxter Steve Torso

8 deals

Four Aussie startups that raised $2.86 billion this week (sort of)

Roundup of four Australian raises: Firmus Technologies' US$2 billion round at a $15 billion valuation, Eudaemon's $3.75 million, Zabidou's $3.5 million seed round, and Rampart's $2.3 million.

Also This Week in Australian Startups

News

Breakthrough Victoria's university platform funds EntroMat, Excelligent and Remagine Labs

Victorian pre-seed program BVUIP, backed by Breakthrough Victoria and seven universities, has funded startups EntroMat, Excelligent and Remagine Labs, plus fellowship grants for three PhD-led ventures.

Funding announcement

Infleqtion lists on the NYSE

Breakthrough Victoria's release marks Infleqtion's New York Stock Exchange listing, the investor's first portfolio listing, and notes further quantum backing of Quantum Brilliance plus Infleqtion's Victorian operations and partnerships.

Breakthrough Victoria Wed 18 Feb 2026 Australian Research Council Breakthrough Victoria CSIRO Infleqtion Innovation Victoria New York Stock Exchange Quantum Brilliance RMIT University Swinburne University of Technology The University of Sydney University of Adelaide University of Colorado University of Melbourne Victorian Government Dana Anderson Danny Pearson Matthew Kinsella Rod Bristow

Also Breakthrough Victoria·Breakthrough Victoria·Breakthrough Victoria·Breakthrough Victoria·Startup Daily·SmartCompany

Series A $5.8m

H3D Secures Series A Funding to Expand its AI

H3D has closed a $5.8m Series A, spearheaded by Significant Ventures with Swinburne University and Co:Act Capital taking part, to push its AI design technology from hearing devices into dental laboratories.

h3d.ai Thu 12 Feb 2026 h3d-logo-white-bg.jpg Swinburne University of Technology CoAct Capital Significant Capital Ventures Iain Mcleod Kate Eriksson Michele Troni Dr Philip Kinsella

Series A

Breaking the bottleneck

Significant Ventures' post explains why it led H3D's Series A, profiling the AI company automating custom-fit design for hearing and dental labs, its Swinburne origins, customer traction, and expansion from audio into dental.

Significant Capital Ventures portfolio Mon 20 Oct 2025 H3D Swinburne University of Technology Significant Capital Ventures Iain Mcleod Michele Troni Dr Philip Kinsella

Also SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·swinburne.edu.au

Grant $500k

Austeng-led project will demo onsite green hydrogen generation and use for high-heat purposes

Engineering firm Austeng won a $500,000 federal grant to demonstrate onsite green hydrogen production and blending for industrial burners, working with SunGreenH2, Deakin University and Swinburne at its Geelong facility.

@AuManufacturing Tue 23 Sep 2025 Austeng Deakin University SunGreenH2 Swinburne University of Technology Ross George

Unnamed stage US$110m

Breakthrough Victoria and Infleqtion: Powering Victoria’s Quantum Future

Breakthrough Victoria reflects on its 2022 investment in quantum company Infleqtion, part of a larger raise, detailing Victorian operations, university partnerships, workforce programs and a planned US listing via SPAC.

Breakthrough Victoria Tue 23 Sep 2025 Infleqtion Australian Research Council Co-Labs CSIRO EY-Parthenon Industry Growth Program Melbourne Connect RMIT University Swinburne University of Technology The University of Sydney University of Adelaide University of Colorado University of Melbourne Breakthrough Victoria

6 deals

Cheque-in: 5 Australian startups banked $340.2 million this week

Funding roundup covering five raises totalling $340.2 million: Firmus's Nvidia-backed round, plus H3D, Puralink, Escape This and Isaacus, across AI infrastructure, health tech, robotics, entertainment and legal AI.

Also SmartCompany

2 deals

NASA is sending an Australian-made lunar rover to the Moon by 2030

NASA confirmed the Australian-built Roo-ver will reach the Moon by 2030 under its Artemis program. The ELO2 consortium, technically led by Lunar Outpost Oceania of Melbourne, has $42 million in Australian Government backing.

Startup Daily Fri 29 Aug 2025 ELO2 Australian Space Awards Edith Cowan University Lunar Outpost Oceania Monash University NASA RMIT University Swinburne University of Technology The University of Sydney University of Melbourne University of Tasmania Australian Government Australian Space Agency Enrico Palermo

5 deals

Four Aussie startups that raised $4.25 million this week

Weekly roundup: Breakthrough Victoria and Monash University co-invest $2.25 million across three university healthtech spinouts, while Blackbird backs Hall, which helps businesses win visibility on AI platforms, with $2 million pre-seed.

Also Startup Daily

Funding announcement

BREAKTHROUGH VICTORIA AND MONASH UNIVERSITY INVEST IN THREE GROUNDBREAKING STARTUPS TO IMPROVE LIVES AND EASE PRESSURE ON VICTORIA’S HEALTH SYSTEM

Breakthrough Victoria and Monash University put joint pre-seed backing into three life-sciences spinouts and launched the $15m Monash Ventures pre-seed fund, part of a $100m platform commercialising Victorian university research.

2 deals

Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Manufacturing roundup: OncoSil Medical locks in commitments for an $8.7 million raise, Soilco completes its purchase of Martins Fertilizers, Avecho collects an R&D rebate, alongside items on apprenticeships, Myriota, Recce and Swinburne research.

@AuManufacturing Wed 28 May 2025 Avecho Biotechnology OncoSil Medical Electrical Trades Union Martins Fertilizers Myriota Recce Pharmaceuticals Soilco Swinburne University of Technology Federal Government Pengana Capital Group Andrew Giles Charlie Emery Dan Franklin James Graham Nigel Lange Dr Vito Butardo Jr

Also thecfigroup.com·divestmergeacquire.com·redchip.com.au·wastemanagementreview.com.au

13 deals

Meet the Aussies on the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list

Forbes Australia Thu 15 May 2025 Adrielle Touma Alexander Valente Alexis Aaron Andrew Pankevicius Annabel Hay Bianca Stern Charlotte Vieira CLUTCH Glue Connor Balfany Damian Sofrevski Daniel Palmer Daniel Vassilev Dylan Coyne Elliephant Gaby Rosenberg Grace Brown Holly Fowler Humpday Isabella Choate Jacky Koh Jodine Wolman Kim Russell Loughlan Dalton de Burgh Lucas Sargent Mary Fowler Matthew Blode Natasha Etschmann Neurode Pretty Privilege Redactive Sara Webb Sortd The Leaf Protein Co.UpDoc AFR AirTree Ventures Andromeda Australian Securities Exchange Basketball Australia Blossom App Catch Constantinople ELMO Software EQ Fingertip Flying Fox Ventures Forbes Australia Fortlake Asset Management Get Rich Slow Club Linktree Luxury Escapes MA Growth Ventures Manchester City Mass Dynamics Menulog New South Wales state government Peak XV Partners PredictHQ Rampersand RelevanceAI Swinburne University of Technology Tash Invests The Kimbino University of Melbourne Wable Western Australian government Youth Disability Advocacy Network Antler Australia Atlassian Ventures Bailador Technology Investments Bessemer Venture Partners Blackbird Ventures Felicis Galileo Ventures Khosla Ventures King River Capital LaunchVic Loyal VC Purpose Ventures Darryl Garber Ned Coten Ali Rosenberg Gabby Leibovich Hezi Leibovich

News

Q&A with Dr Olga Hogan

Breakthrough Victoria's Dr Olga Hogan explains its University Innovation Platform, which co-invests pre-seed funding alongside Victorian universities, plus a fellowship helping PhD researchers turn research into companies.

Breakthrough Victoria Mon 14 Apr 2025 Australian Catholic University Breakthrough Victoria Deakin University La Trobe University Monash University RMIT University Swinburne University of Technology University of Melbourne Dr Dr Olga Hogan

Funding announcement

YieldX | with La Trobe University's Eagle Fund BREAKTHROUGH VICTORIA CO-INVESTS IN AGTECH COMPANY FOR EARTH AND SPACE VIA ITS UNIVERSITY INNOVATION PLATFORM PARTNERSHIP... Read 28 Mar 2025

AgTech firm YieldX has attracted a $1.7 million round, with Breakthrough Victoria and La Trobe University's Eagle Fund contributing $500,000 apiece alongside Mandalay Venture Partners and LaunchVic's Hugh Victor McKay Fund.

Breakthrough Victoria Fri 28 Mar 2025 Breakthrough Victoria Labor LaunchVic Mandalay VC NASA RMIT University Swinburne University of Technology YieldX Pty Ltd Australian Catholic University Deakin University La Trobe University Monash University University of Melbourne Danny Pearson Nadun Hennayaka Rod Bristow Professor Theo Farrell

Pre-seed $1m

Investment Update: EntroMat

EntroMat, a Melbourne developer of high-entropy metal powders, has landed $1 million from Breakthrough Victoria and Swinburne under a university research commercialisation platform.

Breakthrough Victoria Thu 27 Mar 2025 EntroMat RMIT University Australian Catholic University Breakthrough Victoria Deakin University La Trobe University Monash University Swinburne University of Technology University of Melbourne

Also SmartCompany·@AuManufacturing·Startup Daily

2 deals

VC firm EVP calls in police at startup StrongRoom AI weeks after leading $17 million investment

EVP has involved police and forensic experts as it seeks to claw back its $17 million backing of Melbourne medication firm StrongRoom AI, weeks after the round it led with Artesian and InterValley Ventures.

SmartCompany Tue 25 Mar 2025 StrongRoom AI Swinburne University of Technology Artesian VC EVP InterValley Ventures Christopher Durre Kieran Start Max Mito

Funding announcement

Breakthrough Victoria and ACU Co-Invest $14 Million In State's Future Growth

Australian Catholic University signs on as the seventh university in Breakthrough Victoria's co-investment platform, with matched funding pledged; the article also recaps four earlier startup investments via Melbourne's Genesis Pre-Seed fund.

Breakthrough Victoria Fri 7 Mar 2025 Australian Catholic University Breakthrough Victoria Cell Bauhaus Deakin University Genesis Pre-Seed Fund La Trobe University Monash University Psychae Therapeutics Remagine Labs RMIT University Swinburne University of Technology The Leaf Protein Co.University of Melbourne Professor Abid Khan Rod Bristow

2 deals

Skip to the Moon: the team behind a $42 million Australian Space Agency project to build Australia’s first lunar ‘Roo-ver’ revealed

Startup Daily Tue 17 Dec 2024 EPE Oceania Australian Space Awards BHP Edith Cowan University ELO2 Lunar Outpost Oceania Monash University NASA RMIT University Swinburne University of Technology The University of Sydney University of Melbourne University of Tasmania Australian Space Agency Dr Rebecca Allen

3 deals

Winner named for $42 million lunar rover contract

Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·This Week in Australian Startups

Pre-seed $500k

Personality testing AI analysis startup Taly lands $500,000 pre-Seed from Skalata

TALY, a Melbourne startup applying personality data to management decisions, has closed a $500,000 pre-seed round with Skalata leading; founder Peter Treloar previously sold Telmy to US firm Sago.

Startup Daily Wed 4 Dec 2024 TALY Maurice Blackburn Motorola Swinburne University of Technology VendorPanel Xero Skalata Ventures Luke Downey Maxine Lee Peter Treloar Soon-Ee Cheah

Also SmartCompany

News

Breakthrough Victoria Fellowship Program

Breakthrough Victoria has launched a fellowship offering graduate founders pre-seed convertible-note backing capped at $150,000 each from a $7.5 million pool, aiming to create as many as 50 companies from Victorian university research.

Breakthrough Victoria Fri 29 Nov 2024 Breakthrough Victoria La Trobe University Melbourne Entrepreneurial Centre Monash University Startup Network Swinburne University of Technology University of Melbourne Dr Alastair Hick Professor Chris Pakes Professor Colin McLeod Lauren Morrey Dr Werner van der Merwe

5 deals

Breakthrough Victoria posts $3 million loss

The Victorian government's VC fund Breakthrough Victoria slipped to a loss, its annual report showing startup investments, cost cutting and boardroom departures amid criticism of its spending and performance.

Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily

2 deals

Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

A news roundup covering a government-backed hydrogen project for Telstra, a climate tech fund's first close, new appointments at a South Australian agency and a feed company, plus export approvals and science prizes.

Also @AuManufacturing

2 deals

High-tech imaging projects help manufacturers unearth new wealth

Industry body AMGC publicises two past grant recipients that commercialised imaging technology: mDetect's muon system for tailings dam safety and EQ Resources' hyperspectral tungsten sorting, with grants of $248,191 and $600,000.

@AuManufacturing Tue 6 Aug 2024 EQ mDetect BHP Oz Minerals Plotlogic Swinburne University of Technology TOMRA University of Queensland Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre Dr Jens Goennemann Dr Jerome Donovan Kevin MacNeill

Unnamed stage $15m

Liquid Instruments

Breakthrough Victoria announces a $15 million investment in Liquid Instruments, a maker of software-defined test instruments, which plans a Melbourne office, local manufacturing growth and dozens of high-tech hires.

Breakthrough Victoria Wed 19 Jun 2024 Liquid Instruments Monash University RMIT University Swinburne University of Technology University of Melbourne Breakthrough Victoria Professor Daniel Shaddock Grant Dooley

Also Breakthrough Victoria·Breakthrough Victoria·SmartCompany·@AuManufacturing·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·liquidinstruments.com·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany

3 deals

Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Pure Foods Tasmania announces a rights issue, Traffic Technologies banks a shareholder raise, Austal USA appoints a president, and Hanwha's Australian defence chief steps down.

Funding announcement

Media release 21 March 2024

Breakthrough Victoria's media release marks three years, citing more than $300 million committed across direct investments, a fund, a grant and university partnerships, and discusses its Aravax and Seer Medical investments.

Breakthrough Victoria Thu 21 Mar 2024 Aravax CSL Deakin University Jumar Bioincubator La Trobe University Monash University RMIT University Seer Medical Swinburne University of Technology Tin Alley Ventures University of Melbourne Breakthrough Victoria Grant Dooley

2 deals

Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Roundup of manufacturing briefs: Latrobe Magnesium's share placement, DroneShield and Cyclopharm results, Graphene Manufacturing Group's US OTCQX listing, an Electro Optic Systems dispute settlement, HEO London recruitment, and a green steel partnership.

2 deals

Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

Roundup of Australian manufacturing briefs: Nova Eye Medical banks $8m, Ridley buys Oceania Meat Processors, Orica sells Deer Park land for $260m, plus appointments, research projects and CSIRO program deadlines.

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$51 million for CRC-P industry research collaborations

Federal grants roundup: 21 Cooperative Research Centres Projects awards worth $51 million in Round 15, with EQ Plastics, Optiscan Imaging and NEXSEN BioTech each receiving $3 million for product development.

@AuManufacturing Mon 12 Feb 2024 1414 ACE Infrastructure Advanced Navigation AMSL Aero Avicena Systems Ionize KGM Services NEXSEN BioTech Optiscan Imaging PV Industries Q-CTRL Remagine Labs Symex ANU ARRB Group Atomo Diagnostics Australian Department of Defence Bygen Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P)CSIRO Cybermerc Deakin University Envirostream Fleet Plant Hire Geodrones Australia Healius Pathology Holmag AG Mission Systems Monash IVF Monash University Net Zero Stack Ouroborous RMIT University Scimita Operations SEA Electric Siemens Spark Renewables Swinburne University of Technology The University of Sydney University of Adelaide University of Canberra University of Melbourne University of Newcastle University of Technology Sydney UNSW Sydney Vinyl Council of Australia Vulcan Steel (Australia) Pty Ltd Woodside Energy Technologies Worley Services Australian Government

Also RenewEconomy

Funding announcement

Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Gaia EnviroTech's post-investment board meeting with RFC Ambrian, Arafura's chief executive change, Adbri's maintenance shutdown, BioCarbon's relocation, and a federal grants round opening.

Funding announcement

Quantum Australia Conference 2023

Breakthrough Victoria's technology director writes on quantum trends from the Sydney conference, noting the firm's earlier investments in Infleqtion and Quantum Brilliance and Infleqtion Australia's launch under a new president.

Breakthrough Victoria Wed 12 Apr 2023 Breakthrough Victoria CSIRO Infleqtion La Trobe University Quantum Brilliance RMIT University Swinburne University of Technology Professor Jim Rabeau

2 deals

Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: a university metaverse partnership, a CSIRO digital appointment, electric buses in Queensland, two secured funding facilities, and several workforce and recycling initiatives.

Also @AuManufacturing

2 deals

Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: Austin Engineering and Thales win government grants, IMCRC hands futuremap to the Australian Industry Group, AMSL Aero completes its eVTOL's first flight, and Gale Pacific reports half-year earnings.

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