Uniseed CEO Peter Devine and University of Newcastle's Warwick Dawson
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 »

The NextGen Ventures Melbourne team: Donald La, Ikya Thearam, Mitchell Hughes, Varad Chaudhari. Photo: Valent Media.
Funding

Gen Z VC fund NextGen Ventures scores Blackbird cofounders as investors in $2.5 million fund build

- April 9, 2025 2 MIN READ

Student-founded and focused NextGen Ventures has secured $1.5 million in commitments as it looks to raise $2.5 million VC fund, with Blackbird founding partners Niki Scevak and Rick Baker among those chipping in. The fund is the brainchild of Monash University alumni Mitchell Hughes, 23, and former University of Melbourne biomedicine student Jerry X’Lingson, 22,… Read more »

Accelerator

Antler Investor Memo Series: Enrola makes it easier for students to find the courses they want to study

- July 2, 2024 4 MIN READ

Early stage investment company Antler Australia recently backed a new cohort of startups as part of its ongoing program to build great local tech companies. Startup Daily is sharing the details of each venture in the “Antler Investor Memos” series, which is designed to give you a quick, sharp understanding of the startups and people… Read more »

Antler Australia

Antler Investor Memo Series: Huddled is helping lonely students connect and build a community while at university

- May 29, 2024 3 MIN READ

Early stage investment company Antler Australia recently backed a new cohort of startups as part of its ongoing program to build great local tech companies. Startup Daily is sharing the details of each venture in the “Antler Investor Memos” series, which is designed to give you a quick, sharp understanding of the startups and people… Read more »

Monash Prof Ann Nicholson, ASA Head Enrico Palermo, NISA boss Prof Chris Lawrence, US Consul General Kathleen Lively and the NISA students
People

To Dark Emu & beyond: 5 Indigenous uni students land NASA internships

- August 14, 2023 2 MIN READ

Five Indigenous Australian university students will head to the United States next week for internships with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The students are part of the inaugural cohort of Monash University’s National Indigenous Space Academy (NISA), selected from universities across Australia and supported by the Australian Space Agency. The students will be partnered with a… Read more »

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Other tech

How Australian university graduates are excelling through entrepreneurship

- June 2, 2021 6 MIN READ

Australia needs to continue to expand its innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem to strengthen our economy, grow our industries and to produce new jobs. Government has focussed on research endeavours and need to commercialise academic IP. This presents one path to delivering innovation, but not the only way that universities are supporting Australia’s entrepreneurial eco-system and… Read more »

Vygo
Advice

Brisbane startup Vygo connects uni students to tutors who have aced the subject they need help with

- April 4, 2018 3 MIN READ

The life of a stereotypical university student as presented in popular culture seems pretty sweet: sleeping through lectures, drinks at the uni bar between classes, and house parties on the weekend. Reality is often harder, with many students managing work and their coursework as the amount of quality facetime they get with academics shrinks. In… Read more »