The Innovation Booster Grant is a competitive funding grant. It provides WA-based startups and small businesses with the financial boost needed to access professional skills, services or knowledge, enabling you to advance your innovative idea, project or commercial activity in Western Australia.
This Western Australian Government grant program is designed to assist innovators to overcome barriers to commercialisation.
First launched in 2011, the IBG is part of the WA Government's $16.7 million New Industries Fund to attract investment and promote the economic diversification of WA. Since the grant began, 233 grants have been awarded, valued at about $3.7 million.
The Department of Jobs, Science, Tourism and Innovation administers the grant.
View the 2023 recipients here:
2022 recipients
Show more- Biotome Pty Ltd - Helitope: A Precision Diagnostic Test for Stomach Cancer Risk ($18,000)
- Camp Connect Pty Ltd - Camp Connect App commercialisation plan for expansion ($14,800)
- Carbon Ag Solutions Pty Ltd - Recycled waste amendment improves agricultural crops, soil carbon sequestration ($19,200)
- CleanSubSea Operations Pty Ltd - CleanSubSea Envirocart System - in-water hull cleaning, capture and containment system ($20,000)
- Click Brick Pty Ltd - Innovation that converts recycled plastic into bricks ($20,000)
- Colleagues Matrixx - 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)
- Dark Stry - An immersive augmented reality prototype of 'Dark Stry'- a self-guided adventure app for urban explorers ($12,000)
- DiGii Pty Ltd - Individualised curriculum reporting and program extension ($20,000)
- Digital Process Servers - Commercialisation of Digital Process Serving ($20,000)
- Farm and Turf Equipment (WA) Pty Ltd - Project Electro-Retro (ER) - a revolutionary technology in clean garden mowing machines ($20,000)
- Force Hooks Pty Ltd - Artificial Intelligence Enabled Strength Monitoring Solution for Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation ($19,000)
- Gene S Pty Ltd - GeneS-Youth-MIND kit– making personalised prescription possible ($20,000)
- Helme Pty Ltd - Helme’s Damper Clamp™ - the shock absorber for service lines ($20,000)
- Hemp Squared Pty Ltd - Hemp block certification for use in social housing ($19,353)
- Innovative Mentoring Pty Ltd - Simplify the complexity of NDIS for WA’s Disability Community ($19,840)
- Interpredata Pty Ltd - 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)
- Lycaon Group Pty Ltd - Self-contained Hydrogen Storage and Power Module for industrial mobile equipment ($20,000)
- Markr Systems - Virtual signage app and content management system that uses augmented reality (AR) ($19,793)
- Mineral Magic - Field research trials to expand the impact of its innovative 'Mineral Magic' product to the agricultural sector ($20,000)
- Numero Maths Pty Ltd - 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)
- Open Corridor Inc. - '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)
- SafenSecureCyber - Cyber resilience for WA small businesses ($15,862)
- Scoop Digital Pty Ltd - 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 Offshore Pty Ltd - Seafasten GRID- a faster and more efficient sea-fastening solution to secure cargo to the deck of a vessel ($20,000)
- SeedCulture - Minimum viable product development for SeedCulture platform- a sustainability education and engagement tool for teams ($20,000)
- S5 System Pty Ltd - Bolted joints tightness and pre-tension monitoring with smart washers ($18,732)
- Tjuart Architects Pty Ltd - 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)
- VetChip - 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
Show more- Alcolizer Pty Ltd - Scale-Up of production of Alcolizer's COVID-19 rapid antigen test
- Avicena Systems - Ultra-high throughput, accurate, rapid screening system for COVID
- Beelu Forest Distilling Company Pty Ltd - Premium Australian organic spirits distilled with novel proprietary koji strain
- Clean Plant - Clean Chute
- COREIOT Pty Ltd - Visible Machines
- EarBuddy Pty Ltd - EarBuddy Device
- Ex Planta Pty Ltd - Developing bio-synthetic natural plants compounds for human and animal health products
- Gas Capture Technologies Pty Ltd - Carbon capture use and storage development
- Medivitals Pty Ltd - Artificial Intelligence based remote monitoring platform with medical grade wearables
- Metabolic Health Solutions Pty Ltd - WA Metabolic Health Database for Artificial Intelligence
- NMR Services Australia Pty Ltd - BMR-40 instrument development
- Noisy Guts Pty Ltd - Shaking it Up!
- OLP Robotics Pty Ltd - Automated system for refurbishment
- Onetide Modular Systems Pty Ltd - SpeedReelTM Universal Spool Fuel Hose Stand: Land Deployment
- Portable PPB Pty Ltd - Portable PPB (detectORE) machine design and manufacture
- Primary Sales Australia Pty Ltd - Robotic weed rouging tool
- Safehouse Australia - Development of Pressurised Habitat Control System to AS/NZS 60079-13 standard
- Technology for Ageing and Disability WA - TADWA Voice Control Module
- TeleMedVET - Diagnostic scanner to predict and prevent fractures in thoroughbred racehorses
- Touchline Connect Pty Ltd - UX/UI analysis and enhancement: REACH Boarding System
- Unpollute Pty Ltd - Dewatering Tailings: An environmental improvement in mining
2020 recipients
Show more- Active Aquila PTY LTD - SUTEC - STAND UP (OR SIT UP) TO EMPTY
- ARCS Group - Novel calibration chamber for efficient gas sensor calibration
- Backyard Industries Pty Ltd - Backyard Bash, the worlds most advanced Cricket Wicket.
- Better Nature Australia - PRC778, a novel, natural and safe headache relief product
- CAPS Australia Pty Ltd - National Asset Telemetry
- Diag-Nose Medical Pty Ltd - Diag-Nose medical - SinuSight product
- Digital Therapeutics Labs Pty Ltd - BeatStepper
- Dynamic Mining Innovations Pty Ltd - Controlled Force Crusher (CFC)
- Ear Science Institute Australia - ClearDrum®: an acoustically-optimised silk implant to treat chronic middle-ear disease
- Electro Nautic - WaveFlyer S1 Electric Hydrofoil Watercraft Rotomolded Hull
- Emergency Triage Services (ETS) - Remote telepresence and life support system development
- Foodcubed Pty Ltd - Foodcube Urban Farm
- Force Hooks PTY LTD - Portable athlete testing system
- Fuselage Design Pty Ltd - The Cat-Foil Stand-Up Paddle-board / Kayak.
- Geoscience Data Management Systems Pty Ltd - Geoscience data collection, interpretation, management and visualisation
- GET Trakka Pty Ltd - Real-time Wear Monitoring for GET
- HealthRegen Pty Ltd - Commercialisation Feasibility Studies of Diabetes Complementary Medicine Products
- Inova Medical Pty Ltd - Abcease: A novel kit for draining skin abscesses
- Iron Matrix - Iron Matrix
- Inspiring Pty Ltd - Development of a novel universal spacer system for inhaled therapies
- Medimodels Pty Ltd - Alive airway trainer - for Nasendoscopy and intubation
- Mine Tech Australia Pty Ltd - SafeGuard Safety Statistics Data Sharing Capacity and App Functionality
- Neurotologix Pty Ltd - Digital health - Remote patient monitoring to diagnose dizziness
- NEXXIS - Smart Industrial Robotic Arm
- Oxidation Technologies Pty Ltd - Enhanced refractory mineral oxidation process
- Rubix Health - Rubix Health - Digital Workflow App
- Rhino Hide Pty Ltd - Rhinohide vehicle body armour for on and off-road application
- Safe T Tag - SafeTTag™- A safer electrical plug, safety device
- Singular Health Pty Ltd - Virtual Anatomy Academy - Immersive VR Medical Education
- Sunovate - Remote & Mobile Photovoltaic Thermal (RAM PVT) System
- Tan Ninety Pty Ltd - 1TASK - An Innovative Task Collaboration App for the Resource Industry
- The EFT Playbook (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 Pty Ltd - What the Doctor Said
- Wise Realities - Mental Health improvement through Virtual Reality Storytelling
- Zipform Packaging Pty Ltd - Project Pump
2019 recipients
Show more- AMLab Pty Ltd - Machine vision for fully automated ship-to-shore container cranes
- Ceratonia Pty Ltd - Carob - new food products from drought-tolerant tree crop
- Element8 - Green Screen - Redesign of traditional screen panels
- Fledge Technology Pty Ltd - OriOn Sunshade Trial
- GET Trakka Pty Ltd - MILL Trakka: Real-time comminution data delivering production & cost efficiencies
- HP LAT Pty Ltd - High-Performance Low Abrasion Tray (HP LAT) for mining trucks
- JKP Marine Pty Ltd - Aboriginal Heritage sacred site monitoring
- Money School Pty Ltd - Online, independent financial independence calculation and tracking tool for adults
- Power Research and Development Pty Ltd - High voltage battery
- Protective Innovations Pty Ltd - Go To Market (commercialisation) strategy for electrical safety technology
- Rex Ortho Pty Ltd - REX Screw Technology
- Selvax Pty Ltd - Self-vaccine immunotherapy for cancer
- Shadrach Burnover Protection Pty Ltd - Shadrach Burnover Protection
- Virtual Guest - Virtual Guest Platform
- Wild West Holdings Pty Ltd T/As Louvre Shade - Louvre shade concep
2018 recipients
Show more- Apetics - Battery-powered peristaltic micro doser for winemaking
- Atom Minerals Pty Ltd - Precious metal recovery; Detoxification of contaminated mine sites
- AutiSense Pty Ltd - Dental detectives check: digital preventive oral healthcare platform
- Cadds Group Pty Ltd - 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
- Electro.Aero Pty Ltd - Prototype ElectrDuct 115 propulsion systems for sustainable aviation
- Energon Pty Ltd - Solar farm combined with crypto mining operation
- Galvin Engineering - Safe-connect shower
- GENiUX - Geniux Go (Ggo)
- Healthregen Pty Ltd - Game-changing therapies for pandemic diabetes
- M3B Labs Pty Ltd - Disrupt the labour market for WA mums
- IQ Seven Actionable Intelligence Pty Ltd – independent website intelligence platform for small businesses
- iSOL8 Pty Ltd - 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
- Red Rust Contracting - Barbed wire fence strainers
- Salutem Analytics - Scan2Detect
- Syrinx Environmental Pty Ltd - Green Infrastructure Assessment Matrix (GIAM) Web Application
- Triphasic Cardiac Pump Pty Ltd - A novel cardiac pump for physiological perfusion.
2017 recipients
Show more- Ausplow Pty Ltd - Granular air delivery system sectional control module
- Balconi Telecommunications - Balconi Smart Torch
- Coplin Corp Pty Ltd - KodeKLIX educational hardware
- Iris Biomedical - Childbirth monitor
- Four Flags Pty Ltd - Bulk explosive reduction device
- FRAME VR - The Mechatron VR System
- GoPC Pty Ltd – BankVault
- HUMM Technologies – EDGE
- IMR Technologies Pty Ltd - SensaLink vehicle crash alert device
- MALDIID Pty Ltd - Legume root nodule bacteria identification
- Natuva Pty Ltd - Continuous process for natural liquid soap
- Nimble Equipment Pty Ltd - Nimble Storage System
- Orchid Valley Pet Caskets - End of life pet products
- People Diagnostix - Flourishing at School - mental health measurements
- PumpEng Pty Ltd - JetGuard submersible pump
- Rytech Australia Pty Ltd - Sunovate – solar energy innovation
- Sagacious - Sage Repellent: natural & organic insect repellent
- Segnut Pty Ltd - Segnut - fast removal nut
- Sherrard Pty Ltd - BinSpring commercialisation strategy
- Soter Analytics Pty Ltd - Wearable technology for industrial safety
- Taste Black Gold -Commercial black truffle processing
- Terra15 Pty Ltd - Distributed vibration sensing on optical fibre cables.