Rage Biotech, a therapeutics startup tackling chronic inflammatory disease, has raised $29 million in a Series A. The round was led by IP Group Australia and super fund Hostplus, with support from existing investors including Monash Ventures. The funds will go towards first-in-human clinical trials for Rage’s nasal therapy to treat inflammatory lung diseases The… Read more »
Breakthrough Victoria and Monash University have co-invested $2.25 million in three health tech startups, Myostellar, Fyton Bio, and Remagine Labs. The trio of Monash spinouts have potential to improve wellbeing for millions as well as reducing pressure on Victoria’s health system. Myostellar is pioneering a first-in-class biologic therapy to treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by stimulating… Read more »
Law firm, Lander & Rogers has partnered with Monash University to launch the first artificial intelligence (AI) clinical placement program. We were a team of five law students embedded in the firm as “AI investigative agents” in a program overseen by Courtney Blackman from the firm’s iHub innovation function, Stan Chua from the technology team;… Read more »
A team of researchers from the Monash Energy Institute has created a longer-lasting, lighter, more sustainable rival to commonly used lithium-ion batteries by adding sugar to lithium sulfur batteries. The increase in performance is so dramatic it has the potential to give an electric vehicle to 1000km range – enough to travel from Melbourne to… Read more »
TALI Health provides engaging software platforms and game-based apps to assess and treat core childhood difficulties, such as inattention, and improve cognitive and academic performance.
“We designed Mindset because we hate the idea that people everywhere, ourselves included, have a distinct gap between how we are, and how we wish we were.”
Applications are open for Rocket Seeder, a new incubator program aiming to help Victorian-based startups in the food and agtech space further develop.
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