Monash Ventures
monash.edu Direct investor
Monash Ventures is the venture and investment arm of Monash University, supporting spinout companies based on university research and intellectual property. It manages three funds: a Core Fund for proof-of-concept and validation, a Pre-Seed Fund for early-stage spinouts, and a Follow-on Fund for companies with early traction and scale-up potential.
Monash Ventures is an investor headquartered in Australia. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to growth. Its stated cheque size is Up to $200,000 in early stage funding; up to $1 million in early-stage Monash spinouts.
“Monash Ventures supports and provides funding for the development of high-impact spinout companies that are innovating with Monash University research and intellectual property.”
— Monash Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Other
- Headquarters
- Australia
- Cheque size
- Up to $200,000 in early stage funding; up to $1 million in early-stage Monash spinouts
Team, as Monash Ventures publishes it
- Dr Andrea Huggins Vice-President (Innovation & Commercialisation)
- Dr Ingmar Wahlqvist Senior Director, Monash Ventures
- Dr Ruth Park-Jones Senior Director, Commercialisation
- Maria Harrison-Smith Head of Intellectual Property, Commercialisation
- Nav Jaggi Head of Commercialisation - Life Sciences, Commercialisation
- Dr Callum Benson Investment Director, Monash Ventures
- Victoria Boag Director, Strategy and Operations, Monash Innovation
- Samantha Solomons Director, Transformation and Engagement, Monash Innovation
- Celine Latouche Associate Director, Commercialisation Transformation, Commercialisation
- Dr Munisha Sharma Intellectual Property Manager, Commercialisation
- Lynette Hogan Commercialisation Operations Manager, Commercialisation
- Drishti Ghelani Senior Patent Administrator, Commercialisation
Names and roles exactly as listed on monash.edu. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Monash Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.monash.edu/monash-innovation/about/monash-venturesname, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.monash.edu/monash-innovation/about/our-peoplepeople
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