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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups

By Renai LeMay, ZDNet.com.au
October 10, 2008
URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/blogs/bootstrappr/soa/Australian-Govt-funds-IT-start-ups/0,2001092438,339292565,00.htm

This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.

The Commercialising Emerging Technology (COMET) grants were doled out by Senator Kim Carr in his role as minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. Each of the companies received $64,000 towards their efforts.

bootstrappr trawled through the list and pulled the most obviously web 2.0 or IT-related companies out; we've listed them here, although we haven't investigated their products or services.

Myspider:	Website-crawling and aggregation software integrated with search functionality
Faulkner Technologies:	Elastic-Apps, a web-based software as a service solution for development of business applications software
Travellr:	A sophisticated and user-centric web 2.0 service
Ozmiz:	The ScrollMiz software provides easy reading of text and viewing of images on mobile phones or portable pocket PCs
Bizexpress:	Software for management of the rehabilitation value chain
EatingSafe:	Database management technology covering nutritional ingredient and allergy information for supermarket products
Lucia Publishing Systems:	Print on demand software for publishing books
Everyday Hero:	Online fundraising management system for not-for-profit companies
Research it Online/The Sadkowsky Family Trust:	Open source software applications for medical research
Duxtel:	Duxtel Internet Commander solution
Histology Online:	Image-intensive online course-ware for medical and health science disciplines
Escalated Advertising:	Visual media technology for advertising on escalator handrails
Creative Ad Technology:	Video ad-serving platform
Longreach Group:	Broadband wireless transmission system
Edcube:	E-learning software for student digital portfolios
Choiceengine:	Consumer product search engine based on economic utility optimisation
Depth Analysis:	Multi-view camera scanning system for reconstruction of 3D animation
Keep in Touch Australia:	Novel communication platform for aged care
G Learning:	Online interactive training and education system
Dimoto:	Hardware for plastic optical fibre Ethernet-based data networking
Clear Falls:	Hardware/software coupling application for high computing performance, minimising power consumption
Know Ballyhoo:	System of algorithms to organise documents by relevance for any profession
Toast Technology:	Improved provisioning and subscription platform for SaaS delivery
Employment Agencysystem Intelligence:	Outsourced back-office system for small to medium enterprise employment agencies
Ayrb:	Web-based solution for occupational health and safety, injury and claims management
Exit Info:	A web-based tool for conducting, analysing and managing employee interviews
Questmetrics:	QuestML XML-based mark-up language as a formal definition system for market research surveys

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