Investments
28Portfolio Exits
1Funds
2About ANU Connect
ANU Connect Ventures manages a $30 million pre-seed investment fund of the ANU-MTAA Super Venture Capital Partnership, established with the support of the ACT Government to invest in early-stage commercial opportunities arising out of research at the ANU and other ACT-based research institutions and R&D companies. The fund will invest in any industry sector, including but not limited to the life sciences, biotech and health care, ICT, advanced materials, space, defense and energy sectors.
Latest ANU Connect News
Jan 23, 2019
Liquid Instruments , the San Diego, CA-based developer of Moku:Lab, a software-configurable hardware platform for precision test and measurement and advanced digital signal processing, raised $8.16m in Series A funding. The round was led by US-based Anzu Partners and includes follow-on investor ANU Connect Ventures in Australia. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product development as it continues its growth in the education, research and industrial measurement markets in the US, Europe and Asia. Founded in 2014 by a team of experimental physicists and engineers, including former researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with expertise in precision measurement and gravitational wave detector instrumentation, and led by Prof Daniel Shaddock, CEO, Liquid Instruments has developed Moku:Lab, which integrates 12 precision test and measurement instruments into a single, compact hardware device using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based software-reconfigurable platform. Moku:Lab is controlled through the company’s iPad App, or its LabVIEW, Python and MATLAB APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). FinSMEs
ANU Connect Investments
28 Investments
ANU Connect has made 28 investments. Their latest investment was in Liquid Instruments as part of their Series B - II on September 9, 2022.
ANU Connect Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9/13/2022 | Series B - II | Liquid Instruments | $28.5M | No | 5 | |
5/19/2021 | Series B | Liquid Instruments | $13.7M | No | 6 | |
1/23/2019 | Series A | Liquid Instruments | $8.16M | Yes | 3 | |
11/23/2016 | Series A | |||||
3/5/2015 | Series A |
Date | 9/13/2022 | 5/19/2021 | 1/23/2019 | 11/23/2016 | 3/5/2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Series B - II | Series B | Series A | Series A | Series A |
Company | Liquid Instruments | Liquid Instruments | Liquid Instruments | ||
Amount | $28.5M | $13.7M | $8.16M | ||
New? | No | No | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 5 | 6 | 3 |
ANU Connect Portfolio Exits
1 Portfolio Exit
ANU Connect has 1 portfolio exit. Their latest portfolio exit was Instaclustr on April 07, 2022.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4/7/2022 | Acquired | 2 |
Date | 4/7/2022 |
|---|---|
Exit | Acquired |
Companies | |
Valuation | |
Acquirer | |
Sources | 2 |
ANU Connect Fund History
2 Fund Histories
ANU Connect has 2 funds, including Seed Investment Fund.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
12/27/2012 | Seed Investment Fund | Early-Stage Venture Capital | Closed | $27M | 1 |
Discovery Translation Fund |
Closing Date | 12/27/2012 | |
|---|---|---|
Fund | Seed Investment Fund | Discovery Translation Fund |
Fund Type | Early-Stage Venture Capital | |
Status | Closed | |
Amount | $27M | |
Sources | 1 |
ANU Connect Team
3 Team Members
ANU Connect has 3 team members, including former Chief Executive Officer, Michael Cardew-hall.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Michael Cardew-hall | Chief Executive Officer | Former | |
Name | Michael Cardew-hall | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Work History | |||
Title | Chief Executive Officer | ||
Status | Former |
Loading...