Alumni working in our Equity Portfolio companies

By linking world-class scientific developments with industry, we take research from the lab to the market, creating real-world economic, environmental and society-wide value.

Many of our alumni now work in companies that originated at CSIRO. Read through the links and stories below to find out more about their work.

And if you’re working within one of these companies – please feel free to get in touch and share your latest news.

Our portfolio companies

Read about over 200 companies that have been born from CSIRO technology. These companies have a combined market capitalisation in excess of AUD$3 billion.

Learn more about our Investment Portfolio team and structure.

Hear from alumni

Nancy Schellhorn : Nancy is one of our CSIRO Alumni members and the CEO and co-founder of RapidAIM

Paul Sims: Paul originally worked on the BARLEYmax® commercialisation when he was at CSIRO and left to join The Healthy Grain

Silvia Pfeiffer: Silvia is the CEO and Co-Founder of CSIRO spin-out and a successful ON alumni Coviu

Nick Cutmore: Nick is one of our CSIRO Alumni members and is the Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer of MRead. MRead is on a mission to eliminate the threat of landmines through building new detection capabilities for humanitarian demining.

Portfolio company news

We are keen to support and promote our equity portfolio companies, so please get in touch if you’d like to share your latest news.
You can also check out our news page and search for tagged companies or key words.

Aug 2025

VivaZome: VivaZome Scientists Publish Major Review on Customised Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) – VivaZome Therapeutics

V2Food: v2food acquires daring foods to scale plant-based protein innovation – Food & Drink International

Hadean Energy: Hadean Energy’s Tubular Electrolyser Could Cut Green Hydrogen Energy Use By 30% – Hydrogen Fuel News

PolyActiva: PolyActiva Announces First Patient Enrolled in US Phase 2b Clinical Trial of its Ocular Micro Implant for Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension | FinancialContent

July 2025

MagnaTerra Technologies: CSIRO spinouts merge amid $11 million raise – Startup Daily

MagnaTerra Technologies: Two Australian deeptech startups form $150m company

MRead: CSIRO start-ups merge to create $150m company

May 2025

PolyActiva: PolyActiva Secures $40M in Series C Financing to Advance PREZIA™ Platform Technology and Drive Innovation in Sustained Ocular Drug Delivery – Brandon Capital

Chrysos: Chrysos’ PhotonAssay: Revolutionizing Gold Testing Technology