A wearable “lab-on-a-chip” solution for hormone monitoring, a gum disease vaccine and technology for creating 3D models of human brain tissue are among the ideas that have piqued the...
Government-backed investment funds have emerged as a key component of increasingly interventionist industrial policy strategies across the developed world. The is certainly the case in Australia, with the $15...
Victoria’s (and Australia’s) future prosperity is dependent on knowledge-intensive companies that collaborate, innovate, and commercialise successful products globally. But to survive and reach commercial success, these companies must be...
The head of Breakthrough Victoria has rejected claims of excessively high operating costs at the state’s $2 billion investment fund, saying the expenses are almost identical to that of...
Breakthrough Victoria has invested $2 million in Cyban, a Melbourne-based medtech startup pioneering a way to monitor brain oxygen levels without invasive surgery. The investment through the state’s $2...
A company that produces dairy free milk has landed backing from the Victorian government and Main Sequence Ventures in a $25 million Series A round announced on Tuesday. Eden...
Breakthrough Victoria has launched $87 million worth of research commercialisation partnerships with Deakin University, La Trobe University, Monash University, RMIT, and Swinburne. Startups spun out of the five universities...
Breakthrough Victoria has invested $8 million in local startup Quantum Brilliance, marking the state government-backed venture capital fund’s second investment in the quantum sector. Led by existing investors, the...
The Victorian government’s $29 million investment in a foreign quantum company has surprised the local sector and was made without consulting the federal agencies in charge of the national...
More than 400km above Earth is a lab on the International Space Station that uses quantum technology to study the building blocks of nature. Scientists use lasers to cool...