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ANU Connect Ventures

ANU Connect Ventures is a Canberra-based private equity firm that focuses on seed-stage investments in sectors such as life sciences, energy, healthcare, industrial, and technology. The firm manages two primary funds: the Discovery Translation Fund, designed to assist emerging businesses with essential proof-of-concept work, and a Seed Investment fund established in partnership with ANU-MTAA Super, totaling $27 million. Both funds are supported by the ACT Government and aim to capitalize on promising commercial opportunities that arise from research conducted at the Australian National University, other research institutions in the ACT, and local research and development companies.
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Michael (Mick) Cardew-Hall

CEO

Matt Doolan

Investment Manager

Robin Fieldhouse

Investment Manager

Nicholas Alan McNaughton

Chief Executive Officer

Victor Pantano

Investment Manager

Ian Young

Director

11 past transactions

Liquid Instruments

Private Placement in 2019
Liquid Instruments Pty Ltd designs and develops software platform and hardware equipment that supports professional grade test, and measurement instruments. The company provides the hardware equipment under the brand name Moku:Lab. The hardware equipment provides instruments such as, lock in amplifier, arbitrary waveform generator, pid controller, bode analyzer, phase meter, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, digital filter box, waveform generator, data logger, and fir filter builder. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Acton, Australia.

Beta Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2014
Beta Therapeutics develops therapeutics that modulate progression of diabetes and inflammatory diseases.

Liquid Instruments

Series A in 2019
Liquid Instruments Pty Ltd designs and develops software platform and hardware equipment that supports professional grade test, and measurement instruments. The company provides the hardware equipment under the brand name Moku:Lab. The hardware equipment provides instruments such as, lock in amplifier, arbitrary waveform generator, pid controller, bode analyzer, phase meter, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, digital filter box, waveform generator, data logger, and fir filter builder. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Acton, Australia.

StageBitz

Angel Round in 2012
Stagebitz is an online portal that enables creative teams to collaborate on their projects, share resources, and manage their theater products more efficiently. It offers project management tools to assist with planning and budgeting, inventory management, online communications, and more. StageBitz is based in Canberra, Australia.

Instaclustr

Venture Round in 2016
Instaclustr provides a managed Apache Cassandra solution in the cloud. Instaclustr lets you deploy the best highly available, scalable, high performance NoSQL database in minutes. Instaclustr provides a fully managed service and takes care of all tuning, backups and monitoring.

Instaclustr

Private Placement in 2018
Instaclustr provides a managed Apache Cassandra solution in the cloud. Instaclustr lets you deploy the best highly available, scalable, high performance NoSQL database in minutes. Instaclustr provides a fully managed service and takes care of all tuning, backups and monitoring.

Liquid Instruments

Venture Round in 2014
Liquid Instruments Pty Ltd designs and develops software platform and hardware equipment that supports professional grade test, and measurement instruments. The company provides the hardware equipment under the brand name Moku:Lab. The hardware equipment provides instruments such as, lock in amplifier, arbitrary waveform generator, pid controller, bode analyzer, phase meter, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, digital filter box, waveform generator, data logger, and fir filter builder. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Acton, Australia.

Liquid Instruments

Series B in 2022
Liquid Instruments Pty Ltd designs and develops software platform and hardware equipment that supports professional grade test, and measurement instruments. The company provides the hardware equipment under the brand name Moku:Lab. The hardware equipment provides instruments such as, lock in amplifier, arbitrary waveform generator, pid controller, bode analyzer, phase meter, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, digital filter box, waveform generator, data logger, and fir filter builder. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Acton, Australia.

InterfereX Communications

Venture Round in 2014
InterfereX was acquired by a multi-national technology company with Headquarters in San Francisco.

Liquid Instruments

Series B in 2021
Liquid Instruments Pty Ltd designs and develops software platform and hardware equipment that supports professional grade test, and measurement instruments. The company provides the hardware equipment under the brand name Moku:Lab. The hardware equipment provides instruments such as, lock in amplifier, arbitrary waveform generator, pid controller, bode analyzer, phase meter, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, digital filter box, waveform generator, data logger, and fir filter builder. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Acton, Australia.

Nexus eWater

Series A in 2015
Nexus eWater unlocks the greywater to provide unprecedented benefits to developers, public utilities, and homeowners. The platform has developed groundbreaking technology and is commercializing the world's first integrated water and heat reCycler. Using patent-pending processes, reCycler offers, for the first time, an affordable, reliable solution to onsite domestic water recycling and wastewater heat recovery. It was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.