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5:18PM | Friday, 2 May 2014 | The executive chairman of biotech startup Clarity Pharmaceuticals, Dr Alan Taylor, says the company would have struggled to grow without support from Commercialisation Australia.
5:22PM | Friday, 2 May 2014 | StartupSmart spoke to a number of investors about their reaction to the recommendation by the Commission of Audit that government funding of startups should be abolished.
11:18PM | Thursday, 28 November 2013 | Workplace health and safety start-up SafetyCulture has closed a $3 million fundraising round, made up of $1.79 million from Commercialisation Australia, $1 million from Blackbird Ventures and $210,000 from angel investors.
10:09PM | Monday, 7 October 2013 | Omny, an app allowing users to combine news clips, emails, social media updates and articles via voice-to-text software, launches today after over 20 months in development.
9:57PM | Monday, 23 September 2013 | A new report confirms the Perth start-up ecosystem is gaining traction, and includes over 100 tech start-ups and more than 2,500 people involved in the start-up ecosystem.
9:03PM | Friday, 13 September 2013 | Security start-up CriticalArc has raised $1 million from Commercialisation Australia and two NSW-based angel investor groups to expand internationally.
8:00AM | Tuesday, 27 August 2013 | Canva, a well-backed start-up promising to revolutionise the design field of marketing collateral, has launched worldwide.
8:09PM | Tuesday, 13 August 2013 | Liquid State, a cloud-based online publishing platform for digital publishing, has received $785,000 of government funding from Commercialisation Australia and the Brisbane Angel Investors network.
7:42PM | Friday, 12 July 2013 | The latest edition of Commercialisation Australia’s Value Proposition publication has revealed where government funds are going to support start-ups at the commercialisation stage.
5:43PM | Thursday, 30 May 2013 | Start-ups that complain about a lack of venture capital in Australia should ask what else they can do with their business idea, the head of a government business development body says.