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Devices built by young Queensland space tech company Valiant Space bound for orbit on Elon Musk's SpaceX.

UQ graduate Ashley Hanger wanted to lighten the load for her partner and ended up founding a diabetes supply enterprise, Stripped Supply.

The LeadHers Awards showcases and celebrates outstanding leadership capabilities demonstrated by women in entrepreneurship. Find out who is shortlisted for each category.

A Brisbane company aiming to produce edible coffee cups from flour byproducts is the first winner of Nespresso’s StartCup competition, earning $50,000 to fund its circular economy vision.

During Semester 2, 66 UQ students from diverse disciplines used their entrepreneurship skills to create solutions to help halve Australia’s national food waste by 2030.

UQ Ventures is currently seeking enthusiastic student innovators to join our vibrant team. Two different types of paid position are available to apply for, Chief Student Entrepreneur and Ventures Ambassadors.

A University of Queensland course is preparing business students for future technologies and jobs that haven’t been invented yet by encouraging them to turn theory into innovation action.

A team of four cross-disciplinary students have taken out first place and $10,000 at the #TransformLaw KWM Prize for their AI tool to help businesses monitor comments on social media.

A captivating founder story – and how you tell it – is crucial to attracting early stage funding. Here, two venture capitalists reveal how to nail your pitch and make it stand out from the crowd.

A solution to help secure energy supplies has won PhD student Jakob (Jake) Pallot first place and $4,000 at the Ventures Validate pitch event.

Developing lactoferrin in the lab could place Australia at the forefront in transforming the global food industry for infants.

Throughout the past six-weeks, UQ students from various disciplines have come together to find solutions to Australia's national food waste problem, as part of the inaugural Ventures Industry Challenge.

Joining The University of Queensland as Entrepreneur in Residence is a homecoming for Marc Orchard.

UQ chemical engineering student Rachel Huang has taken out the Up-and-Comer Technology Award in the 2022 Women in Technology (WiT) Awards.

At 23, Hailey Brown founded assistive tech company Vacayit, which aims to help blind and low-vision tourists make informed decisions about their holiday.

While many industries are reducing their carbon emissions, pollution from Australia’s transport sector is only getting worse.

Indigenous businesses are one of the fastest growing sectors in Australia, with estimates that up to 16,000 businesses are Indigenous owned – up from just over 6,000 in 2006. And with around 2,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students expected to graduate from UQ this year, there’s a good chance many of them will consider starting their own businesses.

Some people get to university and, during their degree, they discover what it means to be an entrepreneur.
For others, like UQ Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) student Lara Berge, the entrepreneurial spirit emerges much earlier.

Every day, more people are making sustainable changes to their lives. Consumers are increasingly making conscious decisions with sustainability and the environment in mind.