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An incredible evening and Salus Ventures is proud to be invovled with the Australian National Academy of Music. Just like building incredible businesses with resilient and dedicated founders, young musicians need support, guidance and kindness to fulfil their ambitious goals. Delighted to play a small part in that journey for these talented humans. A beautiful evening of music and friendship. #backingheroicfounders #joiningforces #backingheroes Marten Peck Dan Bennett

Salus Ventures was thrilled to have participated in Southern Space 2024 🚀 over the last few days. A key topic was how the Space Domain can enable a more secure world amid changing global landscapes. As one of Australia’s few funds dedicated to this sector, Nina Hooper represented Salus Ventures on the panel discussing investment in the space sector, where she shared key insights on navigating funding pathways and avoiding common pitfalls for early-stage companies. A special highlight was seeing our portfolio company HEO recognised by Australia’s first astronaut, Dr Paul Scully-Power as a leader in the Australian space ecosystem, already serving the global market with with unmatched space domain awareness capabilities. 🛰 Another standout was the war game exercise, which underscored the critical need for sovereign capabilities in space. It was a vivid reminder of how essential it is to ensure key technologies remain accessible and secure —can you imagine a day without GPS? Thank you to the Space Industry Association of Australia for the opportunity to contribute to this vital conversation. We look forward to continuing our engagement in this dynamic sector. 🤝 Dan Bennett, Marten Peck, Mike Ferrari, Nina Hooper, Will Scully-Power, William Crowe, Emily Hilder

From 1 September 2024, AUKUS nations will operate in a new export licence-free environment, boosting defence trade and innovation within the relationship albeit causing some potential challenges for trade outside AUKUS. The changes to Australian export controls enable: Licence-free trade for over 70 per cent of defence exports from the US to Australia that are subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations Licence-free trade for over 80 per cent of defence trade from the US to Australia that are subject to Export Administration Regulations. The elimination of around 900 export permits required under the previous export controls from Australia to the US and UK. If you have any questions or need some guidance please be in touch and we can help. #backingheroicfounders #joiningforces

Anduril Industries has just raised a USD $1.5bn round to scale defence manufacturing in the US. The funding will be directed towards constructing a new factory labelled 'Arsenal' which will significantly boost the output capacity to manufacture their autonomous weapons systems at scale. The fresh funding was co-led by Founders Fund and Sands Capital. This signifies a watershed moment for modern defence industry akin to the impact that Tesla's gigafactory has made to scale up of US automotive manufacturing. Congratulations to the team! #backingheroicfounders #joiningforces #backingheroes

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If you back brilliantly special humans and provide them with all the support they could ever need - amazing things happen! #backingheroicfounders #joiningforces #backingheroes

Salus Ventures is a proud investor in HEO and its incredibly dedicated team. Congratulations on your T-minus 3.0 annual event. #backingheroicfounders #joiningforces #backingheroes Dan Bennett Marten Peck William Crowe Hiranya "HJ" Jayakody Dane Brumm Nate Notargiacomo Chris Quirk Archie Judd Nina Hooper Stephane Janson

Talk about National Resilience - what an absolutely fierce superstar!! Coming back from almost not participating in the final at all, after (just!) squeezing through after an unexpected semi-final performance. Jessica Fox fought and fought, digging deep in the final from out of position to win the gold and take out the world! What... an.... Australian.... LEGEND! You make all of us proud! #backingheroicfounders #joiningforces #backingheroes

We are looking forward to participating in the Hunter Defence Conference 2024 - keep an eye out for Dan Bennett presenting on the critical need for private capital in the defence domain. #backingheroicfounders #joiningforces

We are thrilled to announce that Salus Ventures has led the investment in ExoFlare's Seed Round. Exoflare is building a unified threat management platform protecting farmers against biological threat, critical for the security of our food supply chain. We are delighted to be joining forces with ExoFlare’s founding team, Silicon Valley veteran Adrian Turner and strategic risk expert Chris Aitken. Between them, they bring extensive experience in building and leading business; cyber start-up Mocana, now part of DigiCert (acquired), CSIRO's Data61, SaltGrid and KPMG. Complimenting this is the valuable agri industry and people movement experience Andrea Koch and Richard Webby bring! A number of incredibly strategic investors have joined the round including W23 Australia (investing on behalf of Woolworths Group), IQT (In-Q-Tel), Robyn Denholm, Cultiv8 Funds Management, Ari Klinger via NoBrand and Shaun Bonétt (earlier rounds) and the Harris Family.  Why Salus Ventures led the round? Protecting Australia's $80 billion agriculture sector is critical! Dan Bennett stated “Our mission to build Australian national resilience is brought to life when we partner with visionary teams. The exceptional qualities, values and reputations of co-founders really drove us to lead the investment in Exoflare's Seed Round". Undesirable pest plants and animals have cost Australia over $390 billion in the last 50 years and the problem is growing. Key data, locked up in paper-based forms is making it difficult to automate detection and to preemptively manage biosecurity risk. Exoflare's solution is applying cybersecurity grade protection to this biosecurity threat. The company is already operating on almost 1000 locations and provides digital biosecurity protection and generates intelligent digital records of all movements to prevent and trace disease. If you want to hear more or protect your property using Exoflare - be in touch! #Backingheroicfounders #Joiningforces See article in the comments 💡