Startups in action

The University of Queensland’s 2021 Ventures ilab Accelerator program has awarded 12 startups with $10,000 equity-free funding to help launch their early-stage ventures.

With Australia just coming out of recession, it is unsurprising that there has been a strong focus from federal and state governments on addressing unemployment levels and ensuring that our university graduates are able to find jobs.

In August this year, Hamilton12 signed a partnership agreement with S&P Dow Jones Indices, a global leader in providing investable and benchmark indices to the financial markets. The signing means that S&P will validate and calculate investable indices created and marketed by Hamilton12. From November, this year, the Hamilton12 Australian Diversified Yield Index is live.

In Australia, more children die from injury than cancer, asthma and infectious diseases combined. UQ PhD candidate Merry Strange and husband Johnathon are acting to change this through the founding of One for you, to educate and promote awareness about the importance of first aid education.

Three UQ female founders share their successes and advice on how to break into the entrepreneurship space.

Two UQ alumni startups made the finals in the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year competition, which ran as a global virtual event 1-10 November 2020.

The science breakthroughs of the year 1-10 November 2020: Falling Walls and Berlin Science Week

Raising her voice to end poverty, inequality or tackle climate change, Runali Maniya’s startup, SDG Impactors, wants you to wear the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a t-shirt to Leave No One Behind.

UQ alumna Dr Ariel Marcy (Doctor of Philosophy ‘20) has secured a licensing deal for her board game Go Extinct!. The deal with Genius Games, a US publisher of STEM-based educational board games, came right after a successful Kickstarter campaign.