According to the government, the round saw 697 expressions of interest applications that were assessed by an Independent Assessment Committee made up of successful women entrepreneurs.

Launched by the Morrison government in 2020 and headed by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR), the initiative offers grants to help women-led businesses scale into domestic and global markets. 

In order to be eligible, the startup has to be at least 51 per cent women owned and led.

The total grant funding available is $11.6 million for this round. Here’s a rundown of the startups who’ll be receiving a slice of the pie. 

Successful grant recipients, Round 3 of Boosting Female Founders Initiative

Accessi Group Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project Title: Achieving global expansion of Credit Risk Management Software Platforms

Access Intell’s project is developing a credit risk software to protect businesses from bad debts. Businesses struggle to manage debtors ledgers across disjointed systems with limited access to cost effective credit intelligence. Access Intell aggregates data from multiple sources and integrates with business systems to deliver a continuous risk assessment on every customer.

The grant funding will allow the business to scale-up, expand into global markets, become self-sufficient and create jobs and wealth for Australia.

Bestie Kitchen Pty Ltd, $249,600

Project Title: Scale Pet Supplement & Sustainable Food Range

Bestie Kitchen has commercialised intellectual property developed with CSIRO, to make a unique form of nutraceutical gummy chews for pets. This tapped into a growing market for pet supplements.

The key project activities will grow awareness and customer acquisition in Australia, secure distribution with key distributors and retail chains and penetrate key export markets in Asia.

Black Box Trading Company Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project Title: Farming tools driven by data

Black Box Trading is providing analytics to the agricultural supply chain. The project funding from this grant is key to the product vertical, as Black Box have ambitions to build livestock dashboards to help farmers, feed-lots and processors with decisions derived from their database of 3.5 million animals.

Black Box’s service is aimed at working across the beef supply chain, from the paddock to grocery shelves to aggregate data, apply machine learning, and give each stakeholder insights into their livestock.

Butter Insurance Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project Title: Scaling Butter Insurance – Revolutionising Contents Insurance

Butter Insurance is revolutionising the way young Australians access, purchase and manage insurance. The project will focus on commercialising technology enabling data-lead instant quote and bind processes, flexible single-item policies and cost-effective pricing without lock-in contracts across key distribution channels. Butter’s goal is to bridge the insurance gap for the critically underinsured Australian renters’ market and under 35’s.

Compassion Creamery Pty Ltd, $270,000

Project Title: Retail Ready Launch of Compassion Creamery’s Award-Winning Oat Creme Cheese

Compassion Creamery is looking to scale their Oat Creme Cheese operations by increasing in-house manufacturing capability in Australia, as well as build commercial capacity including increasing shelf life through formulation alterations. Compassion Creamery will allow hundreds of foodservice outlets to contribute to the expansion and acceptance of plant-based alternatives in the market; ultimately driven by the urgent need of creating a more sustainable and ethical food system.

Driveschool Enterprises Pty Ltd, $300,000

Project Title: myDRIVESCHOOL® – social & global

myDRIVESCHOOL® is an award winning road safety program to teach people how to drive online, using simulation, gaming and artificial intelligence (AI). With BFF funding we will develop additional learning modules to address behavioural change and combine all for global markets.

Education Ontrack Pty Ltd, $462,833

Project Title: Flohh Assessment Platform Scaling and Integration

The project for Education Ontrack will focus on integrating Flohh’s online essay marking platform into School Management Systems (SMS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS) to facilitate student data transfer and eliminate double-handling for teachers. This will also enable the business to scale internationally and enhance product performance.

Evolve Communities Pty Ltd, $443,100

Project Title: Accelerating Allyship & Reconciliation supporting Statement of the Heart

Evolve Communities is a majority Indigenous owned, female-founded organisation that teaches Practical Reconciliation and Allyship. The project will expand their unique frameworks, educational resources, multi modal delivery, accreditation and licensing programs to make their training and accreditation the gold standard for professionals and organisations in Australia.

Fonz Moto Pty Limited, $393,847

Project Title: Fonz Moto – Australian designed & made EV motorcycles market expansion

Fonz Moto designs, builds, sells and rides electrifying two-wheel motorcycles & road-scooters for the future of mobility. The project boasts a highly innovative Australian designed and manufactured product that has disrupted the Sydney market, and will continue its rapid growth both locally and overseas.

Future Anything Pty Ltd, $294,150

Project Title: Future Anything Enterprising Education Applied Learning Platform

Future Anything’s project will transform teacher-led enterprise education programs into a new student facing applied learning EdTech experience.

The project will create an innovative new standalone product that will enable Future Anything to scale rapidly and sustainably into the domestic and international market.

Gaykamangu, Liandra; $437,500

Project Title: Liandra Swim International Expansion

Liandra Swim is a premium fashion brand that focuses on sustainability whilst celebrating Indigenous Australian culture. Liandra Swim presents contemporary fashion collections showcasing hand-drawn signature prints.

The theme of each collection links the audience to a carefully considered narrative through the ancient Indigenous art of storytelling. The project will support the expansion and diversity of available swimwear inventory into the domestic and international market.

Givvable Pty Ltd, $397,600

Project Title: Givvable – helping businesses reach their sustainability targets, faster

Givvable has developed an artificial intelligence-powered software as a service (SaaS) platform for businesses to discover and track the sustainability attributes of suppliers mapped to widely-used reporting frameworks. The project will leverage existing local distribution partnerships to expand further into the domestic and international market.

Grant’d Pty Ltd, $382,122

Project Title: Grant’d 2.0 Automating and Scaling The Personalised Grant’d Experience

This project will create a subscriber based platform that automates our unique grants service, transforming Grant’d into a scalable tech based business. This investment will boost the scalability of Grant’d by eliminating our current manual processes and removing cost barriers for users through: A purpose-built Software as a Service (SaaS) platform using generative AI to deliver and maintain Grant’ds vision to become the go-to digital solution for grant seekers in Australia and globally.

Lactamo Holdings Pty Ltd, $365,000

Project Title: Scaling-up Lactamo to respond to demand nationally and internationally.

Lactamo is a world first in MedTech innovation for breastfeeding. Lactamo uniquely combines temperature, movement and compression to address the common breastfeeding problems. Independently clinically validated and IP protected, Lactamo is both proactive and reactive for breastfeeding.

The project will focus on 3 key activities consisting of marketing (domestically and internationally), the expansion of the team, and operational expansion support to facilitate growth, creating a secure foundation for the core business areas.

Leap4ward.ai Pty Ltd, $399,600

Project Title: Tech development of artificial intelligence-enabled virtual health coach

LeapForward.ai’s project is an artificial intelligence-enabled application that supports injured individuals to recover from a compensable injury or illness. The minimum viable product’s core function will implement a chatbot (“Virtual Health Coach”), which delivers virtual support and responds to users with scripted responses deployed via basic algorithms.

The project will utilise advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to understand the user’s expression, tone and sentiment.

Life Skills Group Pty Ltd, $300,000

Project Title: Develop an SDK to integrate wellbeing data and tools into web-based systems

Life Skills’ project is a Software Development Kit that allows the integration of existing wellbeing data collection, measurement and analysis tools into third party applications. It is a platform to measure the emotional wellbeing of students.

Lush Organic Hair & Spa Forest Glen Pty Ltd, $150,000

Project Title: Penny Black Organic hair products – domestic and global expansion

Lush Organic Hair trades as Penny Black Organic (PBO) and is the only Certified Green Salon in the Southern Hemisphere. Lush Organic has developed 16 certified organic hair products.

The project will focus on scale manufacturing and organic packaging, product range expansion for direct customer sales both domestically and early international sales, recruitment of skilled management team to implement brand awareness and marketing.

Maxme Pty Ltd, $380,599

Project Title: Hodie+: Powering the Great Reconnection in the Digital Age

Maxme’s project is an immersive and digitally-enhanced human skill development learning experience underpinned by a digital learning application, empowering individuals to take control of their skills, careers, and futures, driving retention and engagement in the small to medium sized enterprises market. The gamified solution bridges the gap between employees and their jobs, integrated into daily work life through the application.

Meditati Pty Ltd, $330,000

Project Title: Commercialisation of tampon innovation to disrupt the FemCare market

The project will undertake Multi-Cultural Research for the commercialisation of a revolutionary applicator to disrupt the FemCare market. Key activities for the project are to create Go-To-Market brand, web-based education for schools and health practitioners. The project is developing a revolutionary soft applicator insertion solution. The New Zealand market pilot study will refine the go-to-market strategy for the Australian release.

Mettleaje Pty Ltd, $225,995

Project Title: Scaling Thirsty Turtl skincare boosts global Indigenous extracts market

Thirsty Turtl is an Australian skincare startup that launched in December 2022 with three products. The project will focus on growing the global market for Indigenous-sourced Australian native plant extracts.

This will be achieved through product expansion, sales growth via domestic and export-focused distributors, more efficient manufacturing and employment of specialised staff to build brand awareness.

MIIROKO Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project Title: MIIROKO’s establishment and expansion into Japan

MIIROKO’s innovative vegan hair colour formula is free from ammonia, resorcinol, and paraphenylenediamine, empowering women with affordable access to salon-quality hair colour that is both gentle on their hair and environmentally friendly.

The project will focus on enhancing its digital capabilities, establishing a robust back-end team, and securing investment to leverage existing organic growth within the domestic market to scale into the lucrative Asian market, beginning with Japan.

Mineral Fox Pty Ltd, $262,500

Project Title: Mineral Fox National Expansion

Mineral Fox exists to help people return to nature and is a supplier of innovative, Australian-made natural plasters and renders that provide a sustainable, healthy a beautiful alternative to conventional wall coatings.

This project will support accelerated national expansion through additional headcount, systems, marketing and training.

More Good Days Pty Ltd, $396,318

Project Title: Digital Evidence-Based Pain Management Program for Fibromyalgia

This project will accelerate the build of MoreGoodDays pain management digital platform, and help accelerate growth across Australia and internationally.

Neomorph Pty Ltd, $300,000

Project Title: NeoMorph – An innovative mouldable alternate to the dental-made mouthguard

NeoMorph Prodigy is an innovative over-the-counter, re-mouldable alternative to the dental-made mouthguard. The patent pending design, interlocks a dual polymer combination to provide a mouthguard that is securely custom fitting, protective and comfortable, to address the current concerns of end-users and the Australian Dental Association.

Our Trace Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project Title: Automate carbon footprinting for SMEs to scale in Australia and overseas

This project will focus on automating the process of collecting data from businesses and enhancing the accuracy and useability of the carbon inventory to power decarbonisation and enable Trace to scale. By integrating with technology that companies use every day, such as spreadsheets, accounting and travel management software, Trace can gather data required to measure, reduce and track emissions and establish channel partnerships with third parties already servicing our target customer.

Parking Spotz Pty Ltd, $388,917

Project Title: Parking Spotz – Electric Vehicle (EV) charging market expansion and execution of growth plan

Parking Spotz is developing an integrated hardware and software solution that automates parking bay security and optimises usage, turnover, and a return on investment through data-driven insights for electric vehicle (EV) charging bays.

The project will focus on product integration with new EV Charging partners, optimise and automate manufacturing processes for scaled production, execute sales growth plan with the recruitment of specialised management team and launch new data analytic modules to deliver valuable insights and position us as leaders in parking and EV data analytics.

 Pixii Pty Ltd, $133,740

Project Title: Changing women’s experience everywhere by bringing equality to bathrooms.

The project will result in a second generation dispenser for Pixii organic period products being brought to market, including new tech-enabled capabilities for stock monitoring and automated re-ordering. This will enable more building and facility managers to offer period products as part of their fundamental hygiene suppliers to staff and guests, just like soap and toilet paper.

The Paw Grocer Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project Title: Scaling for Expansion in the Domestic and Export Premium Pet Food Markets

The multi-faceted project will scale The Paw Grocer in both domestic and export markets. The grant funding will be used to improve our manufacturing capability & production efficiency, implement an inventory management system, and bring new products to market.

The One Two Pty Ltd, $362, 521

Project Title: The OneTwo domestic and global expansion

The OneTwo creates an easy bra shopping experience with hyper-personalised e-commerce, including a proprietary world-leading fit algorithm and innovative products.

The project aims to accelerate revenue growth in two years through commercialisation into the domestic and international market, as well as investments into intellectual property and technology.

Theratrak Pty Ltd, $150,000

Project Title: Theratrak, scale-up and market expansion to support the disability sector

Theratrak is developing an innovative online and mobile application based tool for therapists working with children with disabilities. Theratrak will support a wider cohort of people living with a disability, such as adults living with autism, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy and other physical and mental health challenges.

Theratrak will support a wider cohort of people living with a disability, such as adults living with autism, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy and other physical and mental health challenges.

Vapar Innovation Pty Ltd, $300,000

Project Title: Innovative AI sewer technology expansion to the USA

Vapar Innovation is developing artificial intelligence for sewer technology expansion into the United States of America. Vapar will implement a channel strategy to reach early adopter customers and set up sales operations internationally.

VETNexus Pty Ltd, $200,000

Project Title: Bridging the National Digital Skills Gap: Leave no-one behind

VETNexus has developed a Digital Literacy Licence (DLL) which is a suite of online courses with digital badges. These badges can be displayed on a participant’s social media profile and resume to verify their skills when applying for employment.

The DLL takes participants on a journey of discovery and decision making, actively engaging with the concepts covered to ensure they have developed the full range of foundational digital skills by the time they complete their full DLL.

The project will include digital skills roadshows, marketing materials, learning content to promote and raise awareness of digital literacy.

X-Hemp Pty Ltd, $480,000

Project Title: Scaling X-Hemp, Building Homes, Elevating Women, Capturing Carbon

X-Hemp uses waste agricultural materials and purpose planted crops to make environmentally-friendly hemp building products.

The project aims to deliver synergistic investments in people and processes, equipment and business enabling infrastructure, new product development, branding, marketing and new market activation.

Zondii Pty Ltd, $427,000

Project Title: Zondii Wool Scanning Device + Female Leaders Project

Zondii’s technology goes beyond human senses to measure the true value of food and fibre. The prototype is currently in on-farm beta trials and its application in wool measurement has attracted a growing waitlist.

The Zondii Wool Scanning Device + Female Leaders Project will fund an industrial design and refinement process; product launch in Australia and New Zealand; and professional development for Zondii’s female leaders.

This project will establish Zondii as a financially sustainable female founded startup, with a commercial product in domestic and global markets, and will provide economic growth for wool growers, improved earning potential for women, and job creation internally and within the industry broadly.

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The businesses will receive a share of $11.6 million in funding, with the grants designed to help female entrepreneurs expand their businesses into domestic and global markets.

Applicants for the second round of the initiative were assessed by an Independent Assessment Committee made up of successful female entrepreneurs. According to the government, over 2,500 expressions of interest were received in the second round.

The announcement of these successful grant recipients comes about six months after hundreds of female founders mistakenly received an email notifying them they were successful in making it to the next round of the Boosting Female Founders program. Hours later, they received a follow-up email informing them that a mistake had been made and they were actually unsuccessful.

$12 million has been previously been awarded to female founders in the first round of the government’s initiative.

Successful grant recipients, Round 2 of Boosting Female Founders Initiative

Air Robe Pty Ltd, $396,050

Project: AirRobe’s Circular Wardrobe – Powering the circular economy for fashion

AirRobe’s Circular Wardrobe is solving the problem of textile waste by allowing fashion brands to offer their customers a simple way to repurpose their items. The project is building a unique application which captures product data (images, sizing and descriptions) at the time that consumers make a brand new purchase. This enables consumers to return to the application at any time and re-sell, recycle or upcycle their used-fashion in one-click.

Amelio Health Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project: Digital Behavioural Medicine Pain Management Programme

This project involves accelerating the evolution of Amelio Health’s basic service to deliver a more advanced evidence-based behavioural digital pain management programme and rehabilitation consultants practice support / professional development pain education, domestically and expanding into international markets.

Arete Labs & Technical Solutions Pty Ltd, $229,000

Project: Arete Labs- Formulation, scalability, and new testing innovations

Arete Labs is a contract formulation lab, which specialises in helping their clients bring new products onto the market in the personal care, and cosmeceutical areas. Arete is expanding its services to include an essential small trial-size formulation vessel, designed to reduce wastage and costs. This vessel will allow for manufacturing of new products at 30-50kg scale as opposed to the current standard scale up volumes of 1-3 tons.

Atech Services Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project: Project Rocketlaunch – ATech International Growth Project

The key aim of Project Rocketlaunch is to build ATech’s people and leadership capability to enable them to scale their market reach in domestic and international markets and to fuel global expansion. New capabilities will be recruited and trained to support international market expansion plans driven by ATech’s flagship XaaS (X as a Service) product.

Bianca Tarrant, $449,542

Project: The Exclusive Eaters Club

Our Cow PTY LTD will build capacity to support the scaling of its subscriber based Exclusive Eaters Club (EEC) by establishing the human resourcing and marketing needed to successfully scale towards reaching families nationwide with online ordering and delivery of sustainable, organic and grass-fed meat products.

Bubble Tea Club Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project: DIY Bubble Tea Kits North American and UK Expansion

This project will focus on the launch, commercialisation and extending the reach of the Bubble Tea Club’s DIY bubble tea kits into the North American and UK markets through setting up the company to meet the increase in demand. The project also includes establishing a series of targeted marketing campaigns and collaborations to build audience and credibility, helping to grow the community of ‘Bubblers’ across the globe.

Butterfly Systems Pty. Ltd, $365,000

Project: Scaling MyRecovery- Digitsing Fluid Balance Monitoring

This project is seeking to commercialise MyRecovery, an intelligent integrated system for managing patient fluid balance monitoring via machine learning. Scaling MyRecovery will further generate hospital operational intelligence and deliver benefits through improved efficiency of surgery procedure and patient recovery, documentation and logistics.

CPD Central Pty Ltd, $42,200

Project: Global and Domestic CPD Content Subscription Expansion

Eduvidd is an online Continued Professional Development (CPD) training library and reporting platform. The mission is to make CPD learning in healthcare more engaging and effective, to bring about better staff and patient outcomes across the world. This project will create new and improved online CPD content for different nursing specialties in Australia and the United Kingdom to undertake the first leg of domestic and international expansion.

Darzin Software Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project: Simply Stakeholders – North America Launch

Simply Stakeholders is a SAAS Stakeholder Relationship Management platform that helps teams keep track of their stakeholders and know who they should be talking to in order to manage sentiment, issues and social risk.

East Forged Pty Ltd, $119,020

Project: Reaching new Domestic and International Markets – East Forged Nitro Tea

The project will bring a novel product of nitrogen-infused sparkling tea brews to market. This will include scaling up, expanding into domestic and global markets, and becoming self-sufficient.

Everty Pty. Ltd, $214,899

Project: Launch the Electric Vehicle charging interoperability software platform

Everty is developing a software platform for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations providing interoperability for EV drivers and an Infrastructure Management System for EV charging station owners. With dual user interfaces, the platform provides EV drivers with a single sign-on to access partnering charging locations, while seamlessly providing data and financial reconciliation to the charging network.

GeoNadir Pty Ltd, $480,000

Project: Drone pilots build the best map of the world to save global ecosystems

The best map of the world requires lots of data, and even more intelligence. GeoNadir is developing this map as the most comprehensive earth monitoring system that alerts decision makers to take action. To achieve this they will, collaborate with drone pilots to vastly increase the data inputs, integrate the data with artificial intelligence and advanced geospatial analytics to automate environmental insights, and enable other businesses to innovate and create their own products with the platform.

Grow Your Mind Pty. Ltd., $325,000

Project: Scaling Grow Your Mind to aid student & teacher mental health & wellbeing

This project is focussed on scaling Grow Your Mind’s online wellbeing program for primary school students & educators. The priority is on the domestic market and building a strong foundation for growth that can then expand internationally. This will be achieved via improving the technology platform, developing a business to business sales pipeline in partnership with Maths Pathways and a BDM role and creating further innovative content to support customer retention.

Hormosira Pty Ltd, $115,500

Project: Establishing Kelp farming aquaculture for the South Coast region.

This project will pioneer the development of kelp farming aquaculture on the NSW South Coast, a region reeling from the economic impacts of bushfires and COVID. Kelp is a versatile, sustainable resource with many applications including food and nutraceuticals. Building on early success in breeding Golden kelp seed stock, Sea Health Products will continue to scale the development of seeded kelp lines to be out-planted in the ocean to increase kelp biomass.

Kinephonics Trading Pty Limited, $400,000

Project: Kinephonics® neuro-rehabilitation pilot

The Kinephonics® neuro-rehabilitation pilot will teach non-verbal adults to speak and generate vital data about the role of working memory and cognitive decline in humans. This new data-driven technology provides next generation health infrastructure for accelerating and evidencing speech development across all patient demographics and treatment modalities.

Kova Australia Pty Ltd, $387,550

Project: Syla – tax reporting and portfolio management software for cryptocurrency

Kova Tax has developed Syla – a cloud-based tax reporting and portfolio management software for cryptocurrency. Syla uses its proprietary AI-driven Syla Engine to create certainty for crypto investors by obtaining the correct tax outcomes and tracking their portfolios.

Luxe.It.Fwd Pty Ltd, $196,000

Project: Scaling pre-owned luxury e-commerce platform, Luxe.It.Fwd

The project will focus on scaling and fast-tracking Luxe.It.Fwd’s expansion into domestic and global markets, by investing in improving the digital capabilities of its platform to improve the customer experience and increase conversions, together with raising market awareness through a large-scale targeted public relations and digital marketing campaign.

Mahonia Holdings Pty Ltd, $480,000

Project: IntotheWild Escapes

The project will focus on scaling IntotheWild’s sustainable, off-grid, and transportable tiny homes across the Australian agri-tourism market. The project will focus on strengthening operating systems and internal processes, leveraging technology systems, expanding the brand and marketing, team development, improving manufacturing and exploring projects such as temporary housing.

Oral Tech AI Pty Ltd, $231,835

Project: Launch and scale of smilo.ai

The project will see the launch and initial scaling of the flagship product smilo.ai. The project is designed to achieve market traction through leveraging significant industry partnerships.

Origo Pty Ltd, $399,000

Project: Expansion of Origo.farm Products and Services into the domestic market

Origo aims to be the leading Australian Industrial Internet of Things Company. The scope of the project is to build a sales and marketing organisation with its related support functions.

Persollo Pty Ltd, $380,000

Project: Social media monetisation SaaS platform powered by AI

Persollo Group is a social media monetisation SaaS platform that offers social e-commerce, analytics and link management solutions. The project aims to scale up commercial expansion into Asia-Pacific and US, and to further develop AdRevenue distribution engine and payment integrations to support the fast growth of current state of 250k users in 195 countries, with 6m monthly visits.

Pioneera Group Pty Ltd, $275,000

Project: International expansion for Pioneera’s innovative Indie platform.

Pioneera is a digital platform that analyses written communication (linguistic analysis) via digital communication in workplace settings to measure behaviour and mental state to power personalised interventions that reduce stress. The platform employs an AI bot called “Indie” that is integrated into an organisation’s systems. Indie detects early warning signs of stress in real time from written communication data and then sends tips and alerts to improve behaviour and engagement and decrease workplace stress.

Porzia Iacobellis, $70,000

Project: Australian Made Vandal Resistant Washroom Hardware

The project is seeking to manufacture and distribute Stainless Steel Vandal Proof Washroom Hardware to all 79 council municipalities within Victoria (and eventually Australia-wide). The project includes a developed design, to be patented, that ensures common items in public restrooms cannot be vandalised, destroyed or stolen.

Quirky Kid Pty Ltd, $200,000

Project: Britechild: Smart Digital Mental Health Platform for Children and Parents

Quirky Kid’s (QK’s) BriteChild is a digital child psychology clinic providing professional, personalised child-centred mental health and wellbeing intervention to child-caregivers. Focusing early intervention and bypassing barriers to care such as wait times and location.

Rachael King, $246,900

Project: Commercialisation of native Australian superfood fruit based chocolate.

The project will propel commercialisation of an innovative fruit-based chocolate and allow diversification of an already successful luxury chocolate business, driving productivity via equipment investment, marketing and professional advisor support. The project will raise the profile of the emerging native Australian food industry promoting the often-unrecognised nutritional advantages of native Australian ingredients throughout the world benefitting communities and First National people.

Roster Right Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project: Industrial Instrument Builder – Software Development

Roster Right Pty Ltd has built the MVP of the world’s first mathematical roster optimisation and Australian Saas Payroll Audit/Compliance systems, factoring in a range of awards/EBAs. The new Industrial Instrument Builder (IIB) software allows for exponential growth of two existing products Roster Right and Pay Review and consequently their client industries.

Stocked Foods Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project: Establish a Mill for Australian Grown Certified Organic Gluten Free Flours

The project seeks to build the first Australian fully certified gluten free mill for Australian grown organic grain, free of contamination by having a closed supply and processing chain reducing reliance on International Products. Stocked Foods, trading as The Natural Food Emporium, will connect with Australian farmers, starting with organic rice and support localised cropping certainty through market diversification.

Story Box Library Pty Ltd, $469,000

Project: Story Tools

Story Box Library (SBL) will develop and produce Story Tools, an online instructional masterclass video series for school-age students exploring the mechanics of writing and storytelling. The series will commission Australian writers, illustrators and industry experts to deliver tutorials on the processes of storytelling, in a unique and engaging educational experience for the classroom.

Swag Australia Pty Ltd, $294,000

Project: Launch a world-first, patented produce bag designed for global retail

This project focuses on the development and expansion of Veggie Saver into global wholesale chains. Expansion requires the scaling of manufacturing capabilities, spreading the manufacturing risk; establishing supply chain logistics and IT systems; developing direct retail channels; executing marketing initiatives; and expanding customer service and sales team.

TalkiWear Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project: Enhancing language development in early education – the TalkiPlay system

TalkiWear’s multi-award winning and validated TalkiPlay’ system promotes learning with play. TalkiPlay incorporates an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device (TalkiPal), sensors (Talkies), and app (TalkiApp) to create a novel learning process that brings objects in a classroom to life. The project will support the launch of the product in market and will improve language access for children with language delay and revolutionise the learning landscape.

The Hacker Exchange Pty Ltd, $250,000

Project: HEX Academy: Rethinking Higher Education Pathways

HEX Academy will be a highly-engaging digital service; an alternative to current tertiary education, opening up non-traditional STEM, innovation & entrepreneurship career pathways for high school students.
It combines:

• learning experience/LMS modules to develop entrepreneurial skill sets & mindsets
• leading workplace technology (e.g. Slack, Notion, Figma and Miro) to develop work-ready digital skills
• a ‘Community as a Service’ digital platform, with online and real-life events and global expert mentors.

The Remarkable Woman Pty Ltd, $310,000

Project: My Success Path: An AI focused women’s mentoring portal

Project ‘My Success Path’ will fully automate The Remarkable Woman’s (TRW) three tier online platform by adapting AI to combine their life, career and money coaching for women, personalising each woman’s platform to her specific requirements. The learning delivery will be intuitive through an AI tracking process, making the experience ‘the Netflix of ed-tech’ for women. The AI system will be developed, trialled, refined and released by TRW and supported by media awareness activities.

Tummy Gummies Pty Limited, $110,000

Project: Accelerate growth of new category of healthy gelatin snacks in Australia

Tummy Gummies is bringing to market a new category of functional snacks: gelatin gummies. The project initiatives include scaling production, building social media marketing, engaging industry experts to help accelerate and drive sustainable growth and building wholesale and retail sales capabilities.

Vanguard Wireless Pty. Ltd., $348,514

Project: Vanguard BLE Wearable Safety & Sensory Product Launch

Vanguard Wireless Pty Ltd is developing a smart emergency alert system for high-risk workplaces. The systems solve primary problems for customers including device connectivity range, the flexibility of installation, operational visibility, and are supported by a robust smartphone app and a plug-and-play operating system.

View Health Pty Ltd, $145,107

Project: Home Healthcare Management Platform

This Project involves the development and implementation of technical platform improvements that meet the surging demand for specialised home healthcare service delivery. This project will position View Health-chemo@home at the forefront of nationally and internationally scalable specialised home healthcare services by enabling consumers and medical specialists to engage using an intuitive enquiry, referral and management process.

Whola Pty Ltd, $225,000

Project: WHOLA – Scaling fashion wholesale digitally

Whola is Australia’s only dedicated business to business fashion wholesale platform that connects Australian fashion brands with independent retailers here and overseas, helping them compete in a hyper-competitive market. This project will build a scalable tech stack, using the latest technologies in machine learning and AI to optimise business performance.

Woolpack Australia Pty Ltd, $400,000

Project: Good-bye EPS, Woolpack Sustainable Packaging for South Australia

Planet Protector Packaging (PPP), manufactures Woolpack, sustainable insulated packaging used in the shipment of temperature sensitive foods, seafood and wine. PPP seeks to expand into SA, the “wine capital of Australia”. This project will promote the market development necessary to establish PPP as premium packaging for high-value Australian wine shipments.

Y Vote Pty Ltd, $269,000

Project: Platform Scale Up for Youth Employment – Ripple

Ripple accelerates young people’s transition from full-time education to secure, meaningful employment. This project will improve their digital platform, expedite their community growth and scale the customer and partnership acquisition in ANZ, laying the foundations for global expansion.

Further information about grants winners can be found here.

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