Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
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.
| Website-crawling and aggregation software integrated with search functionality | |
| Elastic-Apps, a web-based software as a service solution for development of business applications software | |
| A sophisticated and user-centric web 2.0 service | |
| The ScrollMiz software provides easy reading of text and viewing of images on mobile phones or portable pocket PCs | |
| Software for management of the rehabilitation value chain | |
| Database management technology covering nutritional ingredient and allergy information for supermarket products | |
| Print on demand software for publishing books | |
| Online fundraising management system for not-for-profit companies | |
| Open source software applications for medical research | |
| Duxtel Internet Commander solution | |
| Image-intensive online course-ware for medical and health science disciplines | |
| Visual media technology for advertising on escalator handrails | |
| Video ad-serving platform | |
| Broadband wireless transmission system | |
| E-learning software for student digital portfolios | |
| Consumer product search engine based on economic utility optimisation | |
| Multi-view camera scanning system for reconstruction of 3D animation | |
| Novel communication platform for aged care | |
| Online interactive training and education system | |
| Hardware for plastic optical fibre Ethernet-based data networking | |
| Hardware/software coupling application for high computing performance, minimising power consumption | |
| System of algorithms to organise documents by relevance for any profession | |
| Improved provisioning and subscription platform for SaaS delivery | |
| Outsourced back-office system for small to medium enterprise employment agencies | |
| Web-based solution for occupational health and safety, injury and claims management | |
| A web-based tool for conducting, analysing and managing employee interviews | |
| QuestML XML-based mark-up language as a formal definition system for market research surveys |
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