An AI-powered 3D printing startup creating custom healthcare products has raised $5.8 million in a Series A. H3D emerged from Swinburne University in 2018, its initial investor alongside Starfish Ventures. Cofounder and CTO Dr Philip Kinsella developed fully-automated design technology at Swinburne. It’s made the startup a global leader in the hearing sector, producing hearing… Read more »
A high-tech spinout from Swinburne University of Technology has raised $1 million to produce aerospace materials made from recycled industrial feedstocks. The raise for EntroMat, was backed by the state government’s VC fund, Breakthrough Victoria, and Swinburne University of Technology, which kicked in $500,000 each as part of Breakthrough Victoria’s University Innovation Program (UIP),. The… Read more »
Four space research projects at the University of South Australia (UniSA) have received $18 million in funding as part of the $230m iLAuNCH program. The funding coincides with the opening of a new Advanced Manufacturing Metal 3D printing facility at VPG Innovation, in Adelaide’s Camden Park. The 3D printing machines can produce titanium and nickel… Read more »
Canberra-based manufacturing startup Syenta has raised $3.7 million in seed funding to drive production of its exceptionally fast, multi-material 3D printers. The round was led by Blackbird, alongside Brindabella Capital and Jelix Ventures. The ANU-based startup spent two years in “stealth mode” as cofounders Jekaterina Viktorova and Professor Luke Connal developed a multi-material 3D printer using… Read more »
A Melbourne startup tackling the tricky task of ensuring the quality of 3D printing for aerospace, defence and cutting edge manufacturing, has raised $4.1 million in VC funding. Additive Assurance, which spun out of Monash University in 2019, provides quality assurance for additive manufacturing, and is now looking to expand offshore The round was led… Read more »
BOP Industries creates holographic content specially tailored to a client for use at an event or space, also supplying them with projection devices.
The CSIRO has this week launched M2, a new facility that will help emerging medical technology companies and researchers commercialise their ideas.
Applications have opened for the Australia Post Regional Pitchfest, which will give startups across Australia a chance to pitch for a share in $100,000.
Adelaide startup Makers Empire has developed an app and teaching kit that allows kids to create 3D designs which can later be printed.
Startup incubator Pollenizer has partnered with CRDC and FRDC to host Rural.XO microhacks, a series of regional workshops.
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