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 180 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.
March 2024
V2Food: V2Food, insect protein in APAC, Nestle’s take on plant-based development and more
February 2024
Emesent: Emesent lands $32m to drive autonomous drone tech
QIC: QIC partners with Main Sequence in local VC push
Quasar: Quasar selected for Catalyst Accelerator
PolyActiva: PolyActiva is changing how we look at eye biotech.
January 2024
Saluda: Saluda announces plans to present new EVOKE study data at NANS 2024
V2Food: V2Food Boosts Plant-Based Range with Soulara Acquisition (bnnbreaking.com)
Oxitec: Stopping the world’s most invasive mosquito – CSIRO