Recipients of the Innovation Booster Grant

This program has supported these WA businesses to diversify the economy and create jobs by commercialising their products.
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Applications for the Innovation Booster Grant are currently closed. The next round is planned for Aug/Sep 2026.

 

The Innovation Booster Grant (IBG) is administered by the Department of Energy and Economic Diversification and backs early-stage founders, innovation-driven SMEs, and startups in 91¶ÌÊÓƵ to strengthen capability and commercialise innovative projects. 

The objective of the IBG is to enable startups and innovative SMEs to progress their innovations through access to support services and expertise that improve the capability of the business to validate or commercialise a product. 

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2024 recipients

View the 2023 recipients here:

2023 recipients

2022 recipients

  •  - Helitope: A Precision Diagnostic Test for Stomach Cancer Risk ($18,000)
  • - Camp Connect App commercialisation plan for expansion ($14,800)
  • - Recycled waste amendment improves agricultural crops, soil carbon sequestration ($19,200)
  • - CleanSubSea Envirocart System - in-water hull cleaning, capture and containment system ($20,000)
  • - Innovation that converts recycled plastic into bricks ($20,000)
  • - Colleagues Matrixx Develops Novel Innovative Resources Sector Technology - MatrixXchange ($14,800)
  • COTU Collective Pty Ltd - 'Web3' talent platform, where users can exchange creative talent and ideas more efficiently ($20,000)
  • - An immersive augmented reality prototype of 'Dark Stry'- a self-guided adventure app for urban explorers ($12,000)
  • - Individualised curriculum reporting and program extension ($20,000)
  • - Commercialisation of Digital Process Serving ($20,000)
  • - Project Electro-Retro (ER) - a revolutionary technology in clean garden mowing machines ($20,000)
  • - Artificial Intelligence Enabled Strength Monitoring Solution for Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation ($19,000)
  • - GeneS-Youth-MIND kit– making personalised prescription possible ($20,000)
  • Helme Pty Ltd - Helme’s Damper Clampâ„¢ - the shock absorber for service lines ($20,000)
  • - Hemp block certification for use in social housing ($19,353)
  • - Simplify the complexity of NDIS for WA’s Disability Community ($19,840)
  • - Digital traceability tool that stores data in a data warehouse, preserving original sample data and cleaning data for analysis, classification and geo-location ($19,700)
  • Leva Build Pty Ltd - Leva Build: Project Development & Prototyping of Wireless House Lifting Jacks ($20,000)
  • - Self-contained Hydrogen Storage and Power Module for industrial mobile equipment ($20,000)
  • - Virtual signage app and content management system that uses augmented reality (AR) ($19,793)
  • - Field research trials to expand the impact of its innovative 'Mineral Magic' product to the agricultural sector ($20,000)
  • - Numero App will make use of Numero (a mental maths card game used in most schools across the state) easier and cheaper for schools, particularly for smaller and remote ones ($18,000)
  • . - 'Smart City Monitor' - an innovative IoT-based platform that enables cities to monitor and manage a broad range of IoT-enabled applications and services ($20,000)
  • Pretect Devices Pty Ltd - Innovative continuous monitoring device that detects Intravenous Therapy(IV) leakage in preterm babies ($19,952)
  • Respiradigm Pty Ltd - Asthma Umbilical Cord Blood Screening Test for Babies ($16,800)
  • - Cyber resilience for WA small businesses ($15,862)
  • - An analytics dashboard for its content sharing platform that will help local businesses obtain content and technology needed to compete in local and global markets ($20,000)
  • - Seafasten GRID- a faster and more efficient sea-fastening solution to secure cargo to the deck of a vessel ($20,000)
  • - Minimum viable product development for SeedCulture platform- a sustainability education and engagement tool for teams ($20,000)
  • - Bolted joints tightness and pre-tension monitoring with smart washers ($18,732)
  • - Eco Tourist Pod Development ($20,000)
  • Verve InfoTec Pty Ltd - Innovative technology platform that provides an efficient and convenient rehabilitation service for patients undergoing joint replacement surgery ($20,000)
  • - An Electronic Animal Health Record Database to Store VetChip Data ($20,000)
  • Whole Green Foods Pty Ltd - Applying enzymatic processing technology to create hemp seed milk ($18,040

2021 recipients

  • -  Scale-Up of production of Alcolizer's COVID-19 rapid antigen test
  • Avicena Systems - Ultra-high throughput, accurate, rapid screening system for COVID
  •  - Premium Australian organic spirits distilled with novel proprietary koji strain
  •  - Clean Chute
  • - Visible Machines
  • EarBuddy Pty Ltd - EarBuddy Device
  •  - Developing bio-synthetic natural plants compounds for human and animal health products
  •  - Carbon capture use and storage development
  • Medivitals Pty Ltd - Artificial Intelligence based remote monitoring platform with medical grade wearables
  • - WA Metabolic Health Database for Artificial Intelligence
  •  - BMR-40 instrument development
  •  - Shaking it Up! 
  •  - Automated system for refurbishment
  • - SpeedReelTM Universal Spool Fuel Hose Stand: Land Deployment
  •  - Portable PPB (detectORE) machine design and manufacture
  • - Robotic weed rouging tool
  •  - Development of Pressurised Habitat Control System to AS/NZS 60079-13 standard
  •  - TADWA Voice Control Module
  • - Diagnostic scanner to predict and prevent fractures in thoroughbred racehorses
  • - UX/UI analysis and enhancement: REACH Boarding System
  • - Dewatering Tailings: An environmental improvement in mining

2020 recipients

  • Active Aquila PTY LTD - SUTEC - STAND UP (OR SIT UP) TO EMPTY
  •  - Novel calibration chamber for efficient gas sensor calibration
  • Backyard Industries Pty Ltd - Backyard Bash, the worlds most advanced Cricket Wicket.
  •  - PRC778, a novel, natural and safe headache relief product
  • - National Asset Telemetry
  • Diag-Nose Medical Pty Ltd - Diag-Nose medical - SinuSight product
  • - BeatStepper
  • Dynamic Mining Innovations Pty Ltd - Controlled Force Crusher (CFC)
  •  - ClearDrum®: an acoustically-optimised silk implant to treat chronic middle-ear disease
  •  - WaveFlyer S1 Electric Hydrofoil Watercraft Rotomolded Hull
  •  - Remote telepresence and life support system development
  •  - Foodcube Urban Farm
  •  - Portable athlete testing system
  •  - The Cat-Foil Stand-Up Paddle-board / Kayak.
  •  - Geoscience data collection, interpretation, management and visualisation
  •  - Real-time Wear Monitoring for GET
  •  - Commercialisation Feasibility Studies of Diabetes Complementary Medicine Products
  • : A novel kit for draining skin abscesses
  • Iron Matrix - Iron Matrix
  • Inspiring Pty Ltd - Development of a novel universal spacer system for inhaled therapies
  •  - Alive airway trainer - for Nasendoscopy and intubation
  •  - SafeGuard Safety Statistics Data Sharing Capacity and App Functionality
  •  - Digital health - Remote patient monitoring to diagnose dizziness
  •  - Smart Industrial Robotic Arm
  •  - Enhanced refractory mineral oxidation process
  •  - Rubix Health - Digital Workflow App
  •  - Rhinohide vehicle body armour for on and off-road application
  • Safe T Tag - SafeTTagâ„¢- A safer electrical plug, safety device
  •  - Virtual Anatomy Academy - Immersive VR Medical Education
  •  - Remote & Mobile Photovoltaic Thermal (RAM PVT) System
  •  - 1TASK - An Innovative Task Collaboration App for the Resource Industry
  • (for Couple Therapists) - Counselling training tool to reduce relationship distress/divorce in urban/regional/remote WA
  • VeinTech Pty Ltd - VeinWave: Improving first pass cannulation success
  •  - What the Doctor Said
  • Wise Realities - Mental Health improvement through Virtual Reality Storytelling
  •  - Project Pump

2019 recipients

  •  - Machine vision for fully automated ship-to-shore container cranes
  • Ceratonia Pty Ltd - Carob - new food products from drought-tolerant tree crop
  •  - Green Screen - Redesign of traditional screen panels
  • Fledge Technology Pty Ltd - OriOn Sunshade Trial
  •  - MILL Trakka: Real-time comminution data delivering production & cost efficiencies
  •  - High-Performance Low Abrasion Tray (HP LAT) for mining trucks
  • JKP Marine Pty Ltd - Aboriginal Heritage sacred site monitoring
  •  - Online, independent financial independence calculation and tracking tool for adults
  •  - High voltage battery
  •  - Go To Market (commercialisation) strategy for electrical safety technology
  •  - REX Screw Technology
  •  - Self-vaccine immunotherapy for cancer
  •  - Shadrach Burnover Protection
  • Virtual Guest - Virtual Guest Platform
  •  - Louvre shade concep

2018 recipients

  • Apetics - Battery-powered peristaltic micro doser for winemaking
  •  - Precious metal recovery; Detoxification of contaminated mine sites
  •  - Dental detectives check: digital preventive oral healthcare platform
  •  - Hydraulic drive shaft handler
  • Custom Carbon Pty Ltd  - Advanced manufacture of customised composite cycling shoes
  • Dr CHill  - Bougie and endotracheal tube connector device
  • EcoDrive AeroEngines Ltd - EcoDrive AeroEngine
  •  - Prototype ElectrDuct 115 propulsion systems for sustainable aviation
  • Energon Pty Ltd - Solar farm combined with crypto mining operation
  •  - Safe-connect shower
  •  - Geniux Go (Ggo)
  •  - Game-changing therapies for pandemic diabetes
  • M3B Labs Pty Ltd - Disrupt the labour market for WA mums
  •  â€“ independent website intelligence platform for small businesses
  •  - ISOL8
  • Laconik - Spatial data to improve on-farm fertiliser decisions; Play’N to Win
  • LIVEstock Pricing Pty Ltd - Livestock pricing
  • Poach Pear - Artisan plant-based pate utilising secondary produce and fortified with B12
  • ProofDB Pty Ltd - Global permanent vaccination record for companion and eventing animals
  •  - Barbed wire fence strainers
  • Salutem Analytics - Scan2Detect
  •  - Green Infrastructure Assessment Matrix (GIAM) Web Application
  •  - A novel cardiac pump for physiological perfusion.

2017 recipients

  •  - Granular air delivery system sectional control module
  •  - Balconi Smart Torch
  •  - KodeKLIX educational hardware
  • Iris Biomedical - Childbirth monitor
  •  - Bulk explosive reduction device
  •  - The Mechatron VR System
  •  â€“ BankVault
  •  â€“ EDGE
  • IMR Technologies Pty Ltd - SensaLink vehicle crash alert device
  •  - Legume root nodule bacteria identification
  •  - Continuous process for natural liquid soap
  •  - Nimble Storage System
  •  - End of life pet products
  •  - Flourishing at School - mental health measurements
  •  - JetGuard submersible pump
  •  - Sunovate – solar energy innovation
  •  - Sage Repellent: natural & organic insect repellent
  •  - Segnut - fast removal nut
  •  - BinSpring commercialisation strategy
  •  - Wearable technology for industrial safety
  • Taste Black Gold -Commercial black truffle processing
  • Terra15 Pty Ltd - Distributed vibration sensing on optical fibre cables.

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