Company
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Swinburne raised.
Companies Swinburne acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Mark Merolli | Academic Director of Digital Health & Informatics | Startup Daily |
Stories naming Swinburne. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Profile of Bodd, a Melbourne maker of 3D body scanners for uniforms and apparel, covering its Bosch-built hardware, defence and police customers, university ties, scan-based revenues and roughly $8 million raised to date.
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.
LaunchVic has granted Startmate $300,000 to run its Student Fellowship, a three-week program training at least 320 Victorian university students in startup skills over two years.
Breakthrough Victoria launched a $100m program with nine Victorian universities to fund university startups; its first $7.5m went into Melbourne's $15m Genesis Pre-Seed Fund, and RMIT spin-out Atmo Biosciences recently raised $9.6 million.
Profile of Grey Innovation executive chair Jefferson Harcourt on its new venture capital fund, commercialising university research via GreyScan and Eco Detection, ventilator manufacturing, and gaps in Australian engineering skills and venture finance.
Ignition Lane's weekly roundup reports MyDeal and Adore Beauty listing on the ASX, Rokt's US$80 million Series D, several trans-Tasman raises, Quibi shutting down, Westpac trimming its Zip stake, and local executive appointments.
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