Global tech

Sydney startups Diraq and Emergence Quantum collaborate on key quantum computing breakthrough

- June 26, 2025 2 MIN READ

Two Sydney quantum startups have combined forces to developed technology that effectively reduces the size of the circuits required to run a silicon-based quantum computer. Diraq and Emergence Quantum published details in Nature today. Quantum bits (or ‘qubits’) must be held at cryogenic temperatures, near absolute zero (–273.15 °C), to preserve their information. But they… Read more »

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Funding

Uniseed adds another $25m from UniSuper to commercialise academic research

- May 20, 2025 2 MIN READ

Veteran venture fund Uniseed has raised another $25 million from its exclusive institutional investment partner UniSuper to try and draw more startups from Aussie universities. Uniseed has been around 2000 and provides seed funding for early-stage research and technology startups to help commercialise technologies developed in Australia’s world-class research institutions. “We’re proud to have UniSuper’s… Read more »

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Business

New research looking into mental health in startups and how founders and investors interact needs your views

- December 4, 2024 2 MIN READ

A new Australian research initiative aiming to shed light on the often-overlooked mental health challenges facing founders and their relationship with investors, to address a critical knowledge gap in the startup community wants to know what you think. Recent international studies have revealed a significant disconnect between founders’ mental health struggles and their willingness to… Read more »

Funding

Colossal, the US biotech that wants to use DNA to bring the dodo and Tassie tiger back from extinction, donated $2.3 million to the University of Melbourne

- November 25, 2024 2 MIN READ

US genetic engineering and biosciences startup Colossal has donated US$1.5 million (A$2.3m) to the University of Melbourne to support Australian avian conservation genomics. The funding has come from the Colossal Foundation. Colossal was founded software entrepreneur Ben Lamm and geneticist George Church in 2021 and went on to raise more than US$225m in venture funding.… Read more »

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People

Serial entreprenuer Dr Michelle Perugini heads to University of SA to commercialise research

- November 19, 2024 2 MIN READ

Health and technology entrepreneur Dr Michelle Perugini has joined the University of South Australia as its new Head of Commercialisation. The cancer researcher turned artificial intelligence (AI) expert cofounded two successful AI startups with her husband Dr Don Perguni, who was a research scientist for the Department of Defence, developing AI technology ISD Analytics, founded in 2008,… Read more »

Global tech

When researchers tried to analyse if Facebook was causing harm, the data was manipulated in a move straight from the tobacco playbook

- October 7, 2024 3 MIN READ

For almost a decade, researchers have been gathering evidence that the social media platform Facebook disproportionately amplifies low-quality content and misinformation. So it was something of a surprise when in 2023 the journal Science published a study that found Facebook’s algorithms were not major drivers of misinformation during the 2020 United States election. This study… Read more »

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Leadership

A Kiwi academic is trying to figure out what it means to have an ‘entrepreneurial mindset’

- June 19, 2023 2 MIN READ

The skills needed to thrive in an uncertain future are often thought to fall under the term “entrepreneurial mindset” but New Zealand researcher Darsel Keane has found that there’s little clarity about what an entrepreneurial mindset actually is. While the phrase is cited with increasing popularity in recent years, Keane, director of the Centre for… Read more »

Funding

The government wants feedback on the R&D Tax Incentive – and you have just 10 days left to give it

- October 2, 2020 < 1 MIN READ

The Research and Development Tax Incentive (R&DTI) program is one of the most crucial yet fraught programs supporting the growth of Australian startups. The R&DTI helps offset some of the costs that businesses invest into eligible R&D and the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources is looking at reforms to improve how companies engage… Read more »

Topic

Innovation Bay and KPMG are looking for startup founders to help track covid-19’s impact on the sector

- May 5, 2020 < 1 MIN READ

KPMG Australia and Innovation Bay are seeking startup founders and investors to take part in Startup Navigate, a research initiative aimed at identifying and tracking the issues Australia’s startup ecosystem through the coronavirus era.  The two organisations plan to conduct fortnightly surveys with startup founders and VCs from May to July 2020. To join the… Read more »