Startups in action

Queensland-based Valiant Space has successfully test-fired the first commercially developed liquid-fuelled rocket engine in Australian history from a launch site north of Goondiwindi, Queensland.

Notorious for their poor diets, university students sometimes eat two-minute noodle meals as they seek to save time and money.

Thermal infrared counting technology developed by a University of Queensland entrepreneur is now being used in the University’s makerspace facility to monitor foot traffic.

The University of Queensland’s 2020 ilab Accelerator program has awarded $20,000 each to aspiring startups to help them launch.

Australia peer-to-peer mentoring startup, Vygo, has announced it will commit AUD$100,000 towards a new platform to train student mentors in a bid to help Australian universities ensure their international and domestic students succeed.

Travellers can now get easy access to surf, bike and snow gear with the launch of the global adventure gear rental marketplace, Quipmo.

Breakthrough artificial intelligence developed in Queensland could improve insulin dosing for diabetics and transform the way aeroplane engine wear-and-tear is monitored.

Queensland-based social entrepreneurs Bradley Clair and Nicholas Kamols founded PowerWells in 2017. The social enterprise provides electric light and mobile phone charging to people in remote communities.

Congratulations to UQ alumnus and molecular bioscientist, Alan Robertson won an all-expenses paid trip to Boston to attend North America’s foremost gathering of medical technology professionals at The MedTech Conference.