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Hobart, TAS
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round University of Tasmania raised.
Companies University of Tasmania 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lousie Grimmer | Senior Lecturer in Marketing | SmartCompany |
| Michael Breadmore | Professor | @AuManufacturing |
| Professor David Castle | Professor of Psychiatry | @AuManufacturing |
| Professor Dr. Anya M. Reading | Professor | @AuManufacturing |
| Professor Simon Ellingsen | Dean of School of Natural Sciences | @AuManufacturing |
Stories naming University of Tasmania. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Explorer Right Resources secured A$755,000 in debt against its expected research refund, advancing gold and critical minerals exploration at Tumbarumba with CODES researchers, following a prior A$930,000 facility.
Tasmanian hempcrete producer X-Hemp has closed a $3.4 million seed round, with the final $1 million coming from investor Danehill Group, to fund infrastructure, research and new hires.
Profiles seven early-stage agtech ventures at Beanstalk's Drought Venture Studio, a program backed by the Future Drought Fund, each developing tools to help farmers withstand drought.
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.
SaaS vendor ReadyTech has officially opened a Tasmanian Centre of Excellence to build local tech skills, with planned training partnerships with the University of Tasmania and TasTAFE as it works toward doubling its workforce.
Roundup: BrainChip's completed placement plus an LDA Capital stake sale, Arafura's committed raise, a $76m Queensland regional fund, ARENA and ACCC appointments, a Tryp advisory hire, and Steel Cement's licence approval.
News roundup covering Bega's sale of its Vitasoy stake, a university venture fund's first close, an Australia-Netherlands hydrogen agreement, a research body's budget push, and a new Tasmanian space antenna.
Eight projects share 28.9 million dollars in Australian government grants under the National Soil Carbon Innovation Challenge, funding cheaper technologies for measuring soil organic carbon, with ministers Bowen and Watt announcing the recipients.
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Six research projects share four million dollars in federal MERiL grants to test seaweed, legume and synthetic feed additives that could cut methane from cattle and sheep.
Student teams from Monash, Sydney and Tasmania universities won prize money in the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Student Competition backed by Elon Musk, with Monash's MC3 team receiving US$250,000.
Carnegie Clean Energy wins funding for a MoorPower wave energy demonstrator serving aquaculture vessels, backed by the Blue Economy CRC and industry partners including Huon Aquaculture and Tassal.
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.
Sydney quick-delivery grocery startup Send has raised $3.1 million from Cherry Ventures and FJ Lab, while Woolworths teams with Uber Eats on hourly grocery delivery amid pandemic-driven growth in online grocery shopping.
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Grey Innovation is seeking investors for a new ESVCLP venture fund backing startups from its portfolio, citing tax advantages; the piece also recaps the group's history and Covid ventilator program.
Profile of GreyScan, which is re-engineering its explosives trace scanner to detect SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces, backed by a $260,000 CSIRO grant and collaboration with University of Tasmania specialists.
Canberra will buy ventilators built by a Grey Innovation-led consortium, while Victoria has granted the group half a million dollars toward local manufacturing during the pandemic.
Also @AuManufacturing
Blackbird introduces seven new team members for 2020 across legal, operations and investment roles, while recalling a $100 million GP-led secondary, a raised New Zealand fund, and its earlier Startmate investment in Perx.
ARENA is funding twelve distributed energy projects with $9.6 million: five grid-capacity pilots led by five companies, plus seven studies led by utilities, universities and CSIRO.
Also @AuManufacturing