Startup · $432.5k raised

University of Canberra

Canberra, ACT

Investors

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

Investor	Rounds	Invested
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the federal government	Grant	-

What University of Canberra bought

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Coverage

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15 deals

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #179, 26th September 2026

Weekly roundup recording a dozen raises and acquisitions, Firmus's scheduled float, a new $50m venture fund, a founder share sale, grant winners, an accelerator intake, and an AI agent's government breach.

This Week in Australian Startups Sat 26 Sep 2026 Amber Electric Auric CodeBreakers Fever Heidi Health HEO Hubblenetwork Kinoxis Therapeutics Medcast OpenDebt Remagine Labs RentBetter Significant Capital Ventures TasTest Zeligate Advanced Navigation Afterpay Airtasker AirTrunk Airwallex Anthropic AUSTRAC Australian Government Australian Signals Directorate Catch CDC Centre Droneshield Elixinol Wellness Ellerston Capital Employment Hero Firmus Technologies Genetic Signatures Innovaero Investment NSW Kongsberg Luxury Escapes Medicare Microba Life Sciences Morgan Stanley National Transport Solutions Nearmap News Corp NSW Government Ofload OpenAI ParaScript Ramp South Australian Government Spark Capital Stakk Limited Telix Pharmaceuticals Telstra The U Group The University of Sydney Thoma Bravo University of Canberra University of Newcastle UNSW Sydney Victorian Government Vitable 1GT AirTree Ventures Angel Investors Antler Australia Athletic Ventures Avicella Capital Baillie Gifford Beaten Zone Venture Partners Best Practice Blackbird Ventures Carthona Capital CSIRO DCode Capital Deepwater Dumm Capital E.ON EQT ETF Partners EVP General Catalyst Headline Innovation Victoria Main Sequence Ventures Medical Research Future Fund Monash University NRF Corporation Paspalis Phoenix Court Point72 Salus Ventures Scalare Partners Stoic Venture Capital Ten13 Uniseed UniSuper Greg Boorer Pat Cummins Sam Kerr Albanese Anoulack Chanthivong Gabby Leibovich Hezi Leibovich Jack Zhang Jonathan Lui

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Key hire

Bottrell appointed non-executive director with defence company Aurora Labs

Retired Major General Andrew Bottrell has joined defence company Aurora Labs as a non-executive director, bringing senior military and acquisition experience; he also founded Rockpool Partners and holds an academic chair at Deakin University.

Defence Connect Fri 6 Mar 2026 Aurora Labs Australian Army Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group Deakin University Harvard Business School RMIT University University of Canberra US Army Andrew Bottrell David Trimboli

4 deals

Textile sorting robot and fabric trading platform among projects backed by Country Road Climate Fund

Country Road's Climate Fund has named its second-year grant recipients: RediRobots gets $30,000 for automated textile sorting, Circular Sourcing $139,000 for a surplus-fabric platform, with two biodiversity projects also backed.

@AuManufacturing Fri 4 Oct 2024 Circular Sourcing Greening Australia RediRobots A.BCH Cox Inall Ridgeway Monash Sustainable Development Institute Pollination Group University of Canberra Country Road Aleasha McCallion Dr Carter Ingram Courtney Holm Fabia Pryor Yatu Widders Hunt

Grant $6.4m

Ionize and Cybermerc handed $6.4M for SME security development

Two Canberra cyber security firms won a $6.4 million federal grant through CRC-P to build Project DFNDR, a managed security and threat intelligence platform for small businesses, alongside the University of Canberra.

ARN (ARNnet) Wed 13 Mar 2024 Ionize Cybermerc University of Canberra Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P)Andrew Muller Matthew Nevin

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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

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Seed $1.5m

Healthcare simulation startup SimConverse raises $1.5 million Seed round

SimConverse, whose AI simulates patient conversations to train healthcare workers, has raised a $1.5 million seed round, with Folklore Ventures leading and Artesian participating.

Startup Daily Thu 9 Mar 2023 SimConverse King's College London Queensland Health University of Canberra Artesian VC Folklore Ventures Aiden Roberts Alister Coleman

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7 deals

A cosmic comeback: Could Aussie investment in spacetech boost economic recovery on Earth?

Australian government grants totalling $11 million go to space sector startups and universities, including a near-$4 million CubeSat mission, as part of a wider plan to triple the sector's value by 2030.

SmartCompany Thu 25 Jun 2020 Akin Human Aerospace Raytracer Silentium Defence University of Canberra University of Melbourne UNSW Sydney Australian Space Agency Fleet Gilmour Space Myriota the federal government Anthony Murfett Karen Andrews Matthew Pearson

10 deals

Space startups and researchers score $11 million in government grants

Ten Australian space projects, from universities and startups, share eleven million dollars in Australian government grants for work including CubeSats, spacesuits and astronaut training simulations.

Startup Daily Wed 17 Jun 2020 Akin Human Aerospace Melbourne University Raytracer Saber Astronautics Silentium Defence Skykraft Stamen Engineering University of Canberra UNSW Sydney Australian Space Agency Australian Government Karen Andrews Dr Megan Clark AC

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