About Us

About Us

We are an innovation venture studio purpose-built to help corporates transform ideas into growth engines. We partner with ambitious organisations to unlock new revenue, spin out high-potential ventures, and de-risk R&D investments. Our model fuses strategic design, venture building and capital pathways enabling faster innovation with measurable outcomes.

What We Offer: Corporate Innovation Solutions

Innovation-as-a-Service


We act as your embedded innovation partner — from whiteboard to execution. Our studio integrates with your team to identify new venture opportunities, validate market demand, and rapidly test MVPs.

Venture Co-Creation


We build spinouts and internal ventures with corporates as co-founders. You bring the industry expertise; we bring the startup velocity. Shared upside. Shared ownership. Shared execution.

R&D Commercialisation & IP Spinouts


We help commercialise internal IP or research assets via startup pathways, licensing models, or joint ventures. We’ve done this with leading research agencies, universities, and deep tech portfolios.

Corporate Venturing Support


We offer end-to-end support to set up to CVCs and institutions. This year we set up a Corporate Venture Company, which invests Micro Venture to Seed, within AI, Communications, Robotics, Automation, Health related technology, and within broader, Machine Learning applications. 

Meet the Team

The team brings some great experience in venture, with broad exposure to start-up, growth, operations, finance, and successfully spinning out and spinning up companies. The venture building team and a deep panel of global technical advisors, and network, are sector specific. 

 

The team focuses on robotics, artificial intelligence and communications deep technology spin outs from institutions and corporations.

Director

Bipin Manuel

bipin@brisbaneventures.com

Director

Lisa Lombardi

lisa@llaw.com.au

Associate

Mihai Zamfir

ai-mz@brisbaneventures.com

Analyst

Elena Moran

elena@brisbaneventures.com

Member

Elliot Duff

Advisor

Gary Morgan

Advisor

James O'Brien

Advisor

John Tsoucalas

Advisor

Hong Tran