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| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Farzaneh Ahmadi | Researcher (former) | @AuManufacturing (Mon 30 Aug 2021), @AuManufacturing (Wed 25 Aug 2021) |
| Gabrielle Trainor AO | Pro-Chancellor | Alberts Impact Ventures |
Stories naming Western Sydney. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Alberts' year-in-review post recounts its 140th anniversary, board and staff appointments, follow-on venture investments in three portfolio companies, music education advocacy, a philanthropy strategy review, and reconciliation and gender-lens finance commitments.
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Uniseed chief executive Peter Devine departs after two decades; Monash's Alistair Hick takes over in 2026. The piece recounts Uniseed's fund history and recent stakes in ENA Respiratory and Morse Micro rounds.
UniSuper adds a further $25 million to its backing of Uniseed, reaching $100 million in total support for the university research commercialisation fund; past cheques to quantum and biotech startups are recapped.
Aura Group announces Mina Rafla joining as Associate Director in its private credit arm, recounting his earlier roles at Macquarie, Commonwealth Bank and Greensill Capital and his lending focus.
Headsafe's Nurochek concussion-screening headset has won US FDA approval, with development earlier backed by a $447,500 AMGC grant; the company is now pursuing certifications in several more regions.
Roundup of January 2024 funding: Futurerent, Prota Therapeutics, National Renewable Network and Getmee together secured $94.5 million across debt, equity and a government grant, with investor details for each deal.
University-backed investor Uniseed has brought in Monash and four NSW universities as partners and is recruiting technology and biotechnology investment managers in Melbourne and Sydney.
Uniseed adds Monash and a four-university NSW collaboration, lifting its third fund by $6.75 million to $56.75 million; the article recalls past portfolio sales to Novartis, Shire and Schneider Electric.
Round 14 of the CRC-Projects program awarded 24 projects a combined $50 million in grants, with named recipients including Gilmour Space, Diraq and Advanced Circular Polymers alongside university and industry partners.
Profile of four agtech founders tackling food security: Invertigro's modular vertical farms, Regrow Ag's satellite soil-carbon measurement, Lleaf's light-altering greenhouse film, and Sea Forest's methane-reducing seaweed cattle supplement.
Profile of Australian startup ARC Ento Tech, whose black soldier fly process turns municipal waste into animal feed, fertilizer and an industrial reductant. Founders Ramon and Ricky Atayde explain the decentralised model; the company is fundraising, with no round stated.
An Australian founder now leading a US artificial voice company recounts four lessons from building startups abroad, recalling his company's Series A, an earlier venture raise at a marketplace he co-founded, and a past acquisition.
Eight companies including voice prosthesis developer Laronix have won federal Accelerating Commercialisation grants worth $3.9 million combined, with Laronix receiving $551,100 for its Bionic Voice device for larynx amputees.
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Canberra's cybersecurity grant program has named 14 recipients sharing $6.9 million, with individual awards listed for each organisation to run small-business security projects nationwide.
DiviPay has raised another $1.7 million in its Series A, led by ANZi, lifting its total funding to $4 million after a 2019 first instalment and earlier H2 Ventures accelerator backing.
Five Australia–UK teams share $1.6 million in grants for defence advanced-materials research from the Next Generation Technologies Fund; one consortium of five organisations receives $348,204 for nanotechnology work.
Medtech startup Peak Medical has won the NSW-backed Innovation Districts C19 R&D Challenges, gaining support from Macquarie University, Western Sydney University and CSIRO to speed its post-operative home care product toward market.
Silentium Defence wins a $3.2m Defence contract for its passive space radar, plus a $1.46m Space Agency award for an observatory; Prism Systems receives a $925,000 grant for Navy-related work.
Profile of OpenLearning after its December ASX float, which brought in $8 million, covering surging revenue and cashflow and recalling its 2018 Series A.
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