A DroneShield gun.
ASX

ASX-listed DroneShield is spending $13 million on R&D in Adelaide

- October 7, 2025 2 MIN READ

ASX-listed defence technology company DroneShield will spend $13 million developing a new R&D facility in Adelaide, South Australia. The investment covers three years of operational and capital expenditure. DroneShield sells protection against threats such as drones and autonomous systems as well as electronic warfare solutions and off-the-shelf counter-measures for terrestrial, maritime or airborne drone attacks,… Read more »

Business

South Australian startup WorkSafe Guardian acquired by UK risk management software firm Ideagen

- October 6, 2025 2 MIN READ

British risk management firm Ideagen has acquired WorkSafe Guardian, a smartphone safety app for lone workers. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition delivers an exit for South Australian VC Eastend Ventures just three years after investing in the decade-old Adelaide startup. WorkSafe Guardian was founded by Greg Lindner and Adam… Read more »

Funding

South Australia has two $150k grants up for grabs for space startups

- September 16, 2025 < 1 MIN READ

Round three of the South Australia Space Collaboration and Innovation Fund will open next Tuesday, September 23, with two projects awarded up to $150,000 each This round is focused on real-world applications of space-derived data to solve pressing challenges on Earth. Funding will support innovative projects that demonstrate clear commercial potential  in areas such as: … Read more »

Events

_SOUTHSTART gives a first peek at its 2025 program lineup

- January 21, 2025 2 MIN READ

South Australia’s annual startup and innovation festival, SOUTHSTART, has announced the first round of inspirational thinkers and techsperts taking part in the three-day event. This year’s conversations will span everything from regenerative technology and ethical AI, to the future of funding and how technology can be a bastion for good in industries like climate, education… 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 »

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Funding

Two space startups score $100,000 each from a new South Australian government fund

- September 2, 2024 2 MIN READ

Two South Australian startups, one building a system to help locate and rescue astronauts stranded in remote areas on the Moon, the other, a lightweight spacecraft with AI capabilities, will be backed by state government with $100,000 each.  Safety from Space scored the cash from the inaugural South Australian Space Collaboration and Innovation Fund for its… Read more »

Adelaide
Accelerator

_SOUTHSTART teamed up with the Adelaide Economic Development Agency to launch an accelerator for the SA capital’s startups

- April 18, 2024 < 1 MIN READ

One of Australia’s most-loved startup festivals _SOUTHSTART has forged a strategic partnership with the Adelaide Economic Development Agency to launch a new accelerator program. MASTERM!ND is a 5-month accelerator for up to 10 startups based in the South Australian capital. _SOUTHSTART co-director Danielle Seymour said the accelerator builds on the organisation’s commitment to catalysing innovation and… Read more »

Susan Close
Women in tech

South Australian government backs women with female-founded business grants

- March 6, 2024 2 MIN READ

Women launching startups in South Australia will have access to government funding in a new grants program launched at _SOUTHSTART in Adelaide today. The Fearless Innovator Grants Program will offer funding to women-run early stage startups. The Malinauskas government has committed $110,000 from the Research and  Innovation Fund to support Women in Innovation (WINN) to… Read more »

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Other

University of South Australia is offering a scaleup pathway for space startups that includes $10,000 equity-free

- January 29, 2024 2 MIN READ

The University of South Australia’s Innovation & Collaboration Centre (ICC) and Australian Centre for Business Growth (AuCBG) are collaborating to offer space startups a fully funded scaleup program that includes $10,000 in equity-free funding The six-month Growth Ramp scaleup program is being backed by the South Australian government and will support later-stage startups that have… Read more »

Ed Husic
Politics

Flinders Uni ‘factory of the future’ scores $10 million to help defence manufacturing startups

- October 19, 2022 2 MIN READ

Flinders University’s Factory of the Future facility at the Tonsley Innovation District in Adelaide will receive $10.1 million in next week’s federal budget to ramp up its advanced manufacturing support for small business and defence startups. The announcement follows through on an election pledge made by Labor in May during the campaign. Industry and science… Read more »

Quantum Computing

ASX-listed Archer Materials scores new patents for its quantum computing tech

- July 1, 2022 2 MIN READ

ASX-listed Archer Materials (ASX:AXE) has been granted a key Australian patent for its 12CQ quantum computing technology. The patenting approval signals a step forward for the Adelaide-based company in the race towards the world-first technology being used in everyday products, such as smart phones. The tech company, which has an office in Adelaide’s Lot Fourteen… Read more »

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