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Meet Canberra’s Up & Coming Innovators!
- 8 December 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Feature, Innovation Connect Grant, Media Releases
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Amazing innovations are emerging from Canberra, aiming to help everyone from teachers, and bakers, to construction workers and music makers.
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Sharing is caring with the launch of Aurabox for doctors
- 14 September 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Innovation Connect Grant, Media Releases, Women in Innovation
Aurabox are thrilled to be opening their platform to the broader medical profession! Read more about how Aurabox are improving medical imaging.
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Innovation grants here to help launch Canberra’s next round of big ideas
- 30 August 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Innovation Connect Grant, Startup Stories & Profiles, Women in Innovation
Bakesale Founder, Andrea Butler, has already taken part in the Idea to Impact workshops, and now hopes to gain an ICON grant.
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Meet the Innovation Connect grant recipients: The Easy Read Toolbox
- 21 July 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: General News, Innovation Connect Grant, Startup Stories & Profiles
Karen Hedley, Founder of The Easy Read Toolbox, is one of the most recent ICON grant recipients. We spoke with her to find out what makes her so passionate!
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Meet the Innovation Connect grant recipients: Disaster Science
- 18 July 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Innovation Connect Grant, Startup Stories & Profiles
Meet Tristan Morris, Founder of Disaster Science, and recent ICON Grant recipient. “Innovation to me is about doing it, being bold and challenging the status quo.”
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Canberra public servant designs app to make sure no-one’s stranded by bushfire again
- 12 July 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Feature, Innovation Connect Grant
Like many others, Tristan was holidaying with friends on the south coast when he found himself surrounded by a raging bushfire.
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$180,000 for Canberra startups to grow and innovate
- 5 July 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Feature, Innovation Connect Grant
In partnership with the ACT Government, we are pleased to announce 7 new innovative businesses that have received combined funding of $180,000 and are now well on their way to seeing their vision become a reality.
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Author and entrepreneur Serina Bird on why now is the time to launch your start up
- 26 April 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Coworking, Innovation Connect Grant, Women in Innovation
Serina Bird is one of those impressive Canberra multi-hyphenates—author, business owner, former public servant, entrepreneur and Frugalista. And now, her latest book, The Joyful Startup Guide is encouraging others to think of themselves as multi-hyphenates too, by launching their own startups. As she puts it, there’s never a better time than now to do just that.
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Canberra’s Female Inventors: Claire Chesterton of MIIROKO
- 20 April 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Coworking, GRIFFIN Accelerator, Innovation Connect Grant, Women in Innovation
HerCanberra interviewed Claire Chesterton of Miiroko for their Female Inventor Series. Find out what makes her so passionate and determined to make a difference in the beauty industry.
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Canberra’s female inventors: Holly Williamson of STMNA Bioactives
- 12 April 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Innovation Connect Grant, Women in Innovation
When Holly Williamson decided to go to ANU to study biochemistry and medical biology, she knew one thing: no matter what she wanted to help people improve their health. But it wasn’t until she decided to launch STMNA Bioactives at the age of 25 that she realised she achieved what she set out to do right from the beginning.
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Canberra company Miiroko launches salon-quality at-home hair dye
- 29 March 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Coworking, GRIFFIN Accelerator, Innovation Connect Grant, Women in Innovation
Canberra company Miiroko launches salon-quality at-home hair dye, and there’s so many reasons to love it! Check out this article originally written by the Canberra Times to find out why.
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Funding for Canberra’s clever, connected, creative innovation startups
- 16 February 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Feature, Innovation Connect Grant, Media Releases
Local innovation startups have once again shown just how clever ideas can become a reality through the latest funding round of the Innovation Connect (ICON) grant program. $195,000 has been awarded to 8 local companies looking to change the way we do things for the better.
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Coworking catchup with Leo Fan, ICON-recipient
- 15 November 2021
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Coworking, General News, Innovation Connect Grant
Leo Fan is a member of CBRIN’s Coworking team, an ICON grant recipient and the founder of SafeSynergy.
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ICON alums gone global: Kord Defence
- 4 November 2021
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: General News, Innovation Connect Grant
Peter Moran, Managing Director of Kord Defence, talks about getting a leg up by way of the ICON grant, and why Canberra rules.
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Weekly Innovation Challenge: Funding your prototype
- 19 October 2021
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: General News, Innovation Connect Grant, Weekly Innovation Challenge
What’s the absolute guts of your idea, and how do you translate those guts into cash you can use to grow your business?