Startup · $2.2m raised · Education
Perth, WA
Every published round University of Western Australia 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.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Role | Alongside | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proteomics International Pty Ltd | Accelerator | 31 Oct 2024 | - | Lead | @AuManufacturing, Startup News (WA) | |
| Pretect Devices Pty Ltd | Accelerator | 29 Mar 2024 | - | Participant | @AuManufacturing, Startup News (WA) (Fri 29 Mar 2024), Startup News (WA) (Thu 21 Jul 2022) | |
| Alcolizer Technology | Accelerator | 30 Aug 2023 | - | Participant | @AuManufacturing, Startup News (WA) | |
| Metabolic Health Solutions | Accelerator | 28 Jun 2023 | - | Participant | @AuManufacturing |
Everyone University of Western Australia 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.
Companies University of Western Australia has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcolizer Technology | 30 Aug 2023, Accelerator | 1 | 0 | |
| Metabolic Health Solutions | 28 Jun 2023, Accelerator | 1 | 0 | |
| Pretect Devices Pty Ltd | 29 Mar 2024, Accelerator | 1 | 0 | |
| Proteomics International Pty Ltd | 31 Oct 2024, Accelerator | 1 | 1 |
Fund closes reported for University of Western Australia, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies University of Western Australia has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal University of Western Australia did.
| Company | Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio company of University of Western Australia is recorded as having been acquired. | ||||
Companies University of Western Australia acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round University of Western Australia raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator | Grant | $2,000,000 |
| Brandon BioCatalyst | Accelerator | - |
| Innovation Seed Fund | Grant | - |
| the federal government | Grant | - |
| WA Future Health Research and Innovation Fund | Grant · Accelerator | - |
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Emily Zhen | Clinical Lecturer | Startup News (WA) |
| Professor Kevin Pfleger | Director of Biomedical and Health Innovation | @AuManufacturing |
| A/Prof Tim Inglis | Innovation Team Lead | @AuManufacturing |
| Dr Matthew Payne | Innovation Team Lead | @AuManufacturing |
| Prof Minghao Zheng | Innovation Team Lead | @AuManufacturing (Mon 4 Jul 2022), @AuManufacturing (Tue 5 Apr 2022) |
| Prof Wendy Erber | Innovation Team Lead | @AuManufacturing |
| Dr Adrian Keating | Lecturer | Forbes Australia |
| Professor Jingbo Wang | Project Lead | @AuManufacturing |
| Dr Josephine Muir | Researcher (former) | Women's Agenda |
| Dr Mary Webberley | Researcher (former) | Women's Agenda |
Stories naming University of Western Australia. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
A Western Australian drone-detection project run by UXMachines with the University of Western Australia has won 190,000 dollars under the state's Defence and Research Teaming grant program.
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Ablano's boron nitride nanomaterial flew on a suborbital rocket and its coated panels were recovered for analysis in Australia; partners Research Sat and Implement Space helped run the test toward commercialising durable components for reusable launch vehicles.
Western Australia's government has awarded Round 8 Innovation Booster Grants totalling nearly $1.27 million across 26 startups, including Indigenous-founded, female-founded and regional founders, funding early-stage projects from health and agriculture to space.
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ANDHealth's blog interviews Earflo co-founder Dr Intan Oldakowska about its FDA-cleared device for childhood ear infections, her entrepreneurial path, and the company's aims in the ANDHealth+ medtech program.
Historical profile of the Fremantle craft brewery founded in 2000, covering its rise, its 2012 acquisition by Lion and 2023 sale to Asahi, and its lasting mark on Australian beer culture.
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Eight university- and company-led Australian quantum projects share $12.7 million in stage-two Critical Technologies Challenge Program grants, funding prototypes for data-centre cooling, medical imaging and rare-earth detection.
Australian tax-research AI startup SavvyWise has closed an oversubscribed seed round topping $600,000, valuing it at $10 million, seven months after incorporating, with funds going to marketing, specialist tax content and platform development.
Perth-based OncoRes Medical has secured $27 million from Brandon Capital's BB6 Fund, Morgans, Radar Ventures and others to advance its Elora breast-surgery imaging device through an Australian clinical trial toward FDA approval.
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A weekly roundup of funding deals by Australian and New Zealand startups, spanning baked goods, retail, health AI, beverages, edtech, solar, legal tech, and Western Australian medical research grants.
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WA's Innovation Seed Fund has awarded almost $5 million in grants to 12 researchers and startups for health projects, from liver cancer tests to endometriosis diagnosis, ranging from $90,000 to $500,000.
Perth medtech spin-out Cytophenix raised a pre-seed round above its target to advance trials and grow the team behind FloCAST, a rapid test identifying effective antibiotics, after earlier grants and accelerator programs.
Roundup of eight funding deals: Synchron's Series D, plus raises by Lumonus AI, Hullbot, Nbryo, Cytophenix, Giftbee, Understanding Zoe and Zeligate, spanning medtech, robotics, agtech and AI.
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Profile of OncoRes Medical CEO Katharine Giles, tracing her path from surgeon to venture investor and her leadership of the Western Australian medtech firm developing a handheld device for precise breast cancer surgery.
The National Reconstruction Fund has taken a $13 million stake in quantum maker Quantum Brilliance, while a defence accelerator funds University of Western Australia quantum research and Germany's Cyber Agency contracts the company.
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Defence grants totalling over $60 million went to 21 Australian organisations, with quantum software firm Q-CTRL among the recipients of contracts under a federal emerging technologies program.
Canberra is funding 21 quantum and counter-disinformation defence projects, awarding $60 million in grants through ASCA's Emerging and Disruptive Technologies programme to universities and companies nationwide.
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Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: OncoSil, K-TIG and Aurora Labs complete or commit raises, Amplia opens an offer, Siemens agrees to buy Altair, CSIRO unveils a printed-solar facility, and a WA medical alliance grows.
Women's Agenda interview with Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins on her SXSW Sydney conversation with investor Mary Meeker, covering Fusion Books, Silicon Valley rejections, and the early backers who funded the design platform.
Profile of Uluu, a Perth climate tech startup turning farmed seaweed into biodegradable PHA to replace plastics, recalling early backing from Alberts Impact Ventures and Main Sequence plus two grants.
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Western Australia's government has awarded $8.5 million in grants across three schemes, a health innovation seed fund, commercialisation bridge grants and innovation booster grants, naming dozens of local recipients.
Profile of Noisy Guts founders Josephine Muir and Mary Webberley, who credit CSIRO programs with helping them network and seek $2.5 million in seed funding for their IBS diagnostics startup, despite mostly male investors.
Eleven WA health organisations, including grant-backed Metabolic Health Solutions, head to the AusMedtech 2024 conference with ministerial support to present devices and pursue new partners.
Brandon BioCatalyst's CUREator biotech incubator has allocated $3 million across five antimicrobial resistance projects, with a UWA-linked nasal spray venture, Spritz-OM, receiving $500,000 toward Phase 1 clinical trials.
CSIRO has picked twelve deep-tech teams, mostly from Australian universities, for the eighth edition of its ON Accelerate commercialisation program starting in February 2024.
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.
Australian precision fermentation startup Nourish Ingredients secures government funding and grants, recalls its Series A, and outlines plans to launch its first animal-like fat in late 2024.
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OncoRes Medical has received a $3 million WA government grant to manufacture its surgical cancer-imaging device locally, its latest funding after a 2022 Series A2 and earlier state and federal grants.
Perth EV charging startup Wevolt has completed a $2 million pre-seed raise to grow its charger software and widen access to charging points across Australia.
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Therapeutic psychedelics biotech Emyria has banked $2.5 million via a share placement co-led by Sixty Two Capital and Taylor Collison, with follow-on from Andrew Forrest's Tenmile, funding MDMA- and psilocybin-assisted therapy and cannabinoid trials.
Hazer Group reached a milestone allowing it to draw down $2.97 million in grant funding from ARENA, under a varied agreement splitting a tranche payment for its hydrogen demonstration plant near Perth.
Weekly roundup of Australian raises: Bloom's seed round, Vedi's animal-health funding, Alii's pre-Series A, and Code Like A Girl's government grant, alongside other WiSE grant recipients.
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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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QuantumTX's 2022 space and technology incubator has awarded $750,000 across 30 Australian companies, half from Western Australia, working in remote operations fields including robotics, AI and satellite communications.
Climate tech firm Rumin8 has been awarded a government grant to advance animal trials of feed additives that cut livestock methane emissions, with research partners assisting.
Roundup covering Victorian zero-emission bus trials, Frew Foods' planned plant expansion, 5B's layoffs and completed capital raise, Wellnex Life's convertible note raising, SafetyCulture investing in Inauro, plus wind farm and university research news.
Perth medtech OncoRes Medical announced $12.5 million: a $9.5 million Series A2 co-led by Brandon Capital and Australian Unity, plus a $3 million government grant, and hired a new R&D vice president.
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Seven Kimberley projects share $773,000 in Western Australian government regional development grants, with Marine Biomedical receiving $200,000 toward a laboratory making its pearl-derived bone substitute PearlBone.
Blackbird presents its seven new investment associates, profiling their varied backgrounds across elite sport, science, banking, consulting and startups, plus prior roles at firms including Sprint Ventures, NZ Growth Capital Partners and AustralianSuper.
Five WA medtech companies receive voucher grants from MTPConnect's WA Life Sciences Innovation Hub, sharing $450,000 matched by $600,000 in co-contributions to advance medical manufacturing projects.