{"id":616467,"date":"2026-05-01T03:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/616467\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:16:18","slug":"national-reconstruction-fund-invests-in-anu-deep-tech-start-up-liquid-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/616467\/","title":{"rendered":"National Reconstruction Fund invests in ANU deep tech start-up Liquid Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid Instruments, a gadget manufacturing start-up founded by Australian National University scientists, is worth more than $400 million, after raising $70 million in a funding round led by a larger US-based rival and the federal government\u2019s National Reconstruction Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The little-known company\u2019s measurement product is used by a number of major global firms, including Nvidia, Lockheed Martin, space technology company Blue Origin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/psiquantum-s-plant-in-brisbane-will-reach-269c-it-s-running-behind-20260211-p5o1dw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">PsiQuantum<\/a>, electric carmaker BYD, and Intel to build their products. US rival Keysight Technologies has acquired an equity stake as the lead investor.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liquid Instruments, a gadget manufacturing start-up founded by Australian National University scientists, is worth more than $400 million,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,158],"class_list":["post-616467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}