One of Australia’s largest innovation festivals has secured four more years of state funding and a new home in the port city, with a “Port Pitch” event putting startups in front of the State’s five port authorities.
The state wants a buying mechanism that gives government departments direct access to leading AI businesses and $10 million to back the pilots. It’s almost like the CivTech model StartupWA has been suggesting for years.
Six Western Australian start-ups have been named finalists in the Start-Up category of the 35th INCITE Awards, with winners announced at a Perth gala on July 17th.
Applications are now open for a global, fully remote AI buildathon backed by IDB Invest, the NYSE, and Bill Tai’s ACTAI Global.
Spacecubed’s AI Fellowship — a three-month, in-person residency for 10 to 12 AI startups across Perth and Western Sydney — closes applications on Tuesday.
Eight WA startups land Startup Alley pods at Crown Perth this week as the national medtech conference touches down in Perth for the first time — here’s what’s in it for the local ecosystem.
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital’s robotic bronchoscope, acquired with support from WA’s Future Health Research and Innovation Fund, has reached its 100-case milestone, and is now enabling an Australian-first model where patients can be diagnosed and treated for lung cancer under a single anaesthetic.
The Cook Government’s State Budget has allocated $348 million over four years to the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund, expanding support for medical research, innovation, and commercialisation in WA. The injection follows $292 million already awarded to more than 810 recipients since the fund launched in 2020.
DevelopmentWA has put nine vacant lots at Bentley Technology Park on the market, opening up space at the State’s flagship government-established innovation hub for new research, laboratory, and data centre tenants.
Eight early-stage WA medtech companies have been selected to showcase their technologies at AusMedtech 2026 in Perth this month.
