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
Other

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 »

Kids on bike with rockets
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 »

Fleet Space Technologies
Space

Adelaide’s $66 million Space Manufacturing Hub lands $20m federal grant

- March 3, 2022 2 MIN READ

The Australian Government has backed plans to build a $66 million Adelaide-based manufacturing hub for the space industry with a $20 million grant towards the project. The Space Manufacturing Hub, first revealed last December, is a collaboration between the South Australian government and four local startups: nano-satellite maker Fleet Space Technologies, quantum technologies developer Q-CTRL and… Read more »

Fleet space
Space

Adelaide will be home to a new manufacturing hub for spacetech companies

- December 8, 2021 4 MIN READ

A new manufacturing hub for space technology companies is being established in Adelaide. The South Australian government is partnering with four local startups, on the purpose-built facility, the Australian Space Park, to develop the project with a focus on collaboration and production of small satellites and their payloads, rockets, electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles… Read more »

Southern Launch, rocket launch pad
Space

South Australia is getting a 2nd rocket launch site, this time on the Eyre Peninsula

- July 14, 2021 2 MIN READ

South Australia’s reputation as the centre for the nation’s space startups has been boosted by federal government approval for a second rocket launch facility licence on the state’s Eyre Peninsula. The licence has gone to four-year-old space startup Southern Launch to establish a sub-orbital rocket testing facility at Whalers Way, near Port Lincoln, 680km west… Read more »

Fleet Space Technologies
Space

Three Australian space startups are shooting for the moon and beyond

- July 4, 2021 2 MIN READ

Three South Australian startups have furthered their plans to support the international space industry. All based in Adelaide,  the companies include Fleet Space Technologies, Inovor Technologies and Southern Launch. Southern Launch has been approved to conduct three rocket test launches from its site at Whalers Way reserve on the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula… Read more »

OT100 South Australia, beer, distillers
ASX

ASX-listed drinks distributor Mighty Craft fills its glass with South Australian distillers and brewers for $47 million

- June 11, 2021 3 MIN READ

Melbourne-based drinks business Mighty Craft has announced plans to buy South Australian producers Adelaide Hills Distillery, Mismatch Brewing and Hills Cider in a deal worth $47 million. The agreement also includes 75 % ownership of the popular LOT.100 venue, which is a destination distillery, cellar door, restaurant and function centre on an 84-hectare property near… Read more »

Topics

Prodigal Sums: Tech venture LVX Global moves HQ to Adelaide roots

- May 26, 2021 2 MIN READ

The international tech company has been lured back to Adelaide by the establishment of the Lot Fourteen innovation neighbourhood in the CBD of the South Australian capital. LVX Global will move its global headquarters from Perth to Adelaide’s Lot Fourteen technology and innovation hub in August. The technology solutions company manages public and private sector… Read more »