About Us

We Believe That Every Animal Deserves A Future

Our Story

How We Began:
A Journey of Curiosity

Next Paws Innovations began with a simple question: why hasn’t animal healthcare kept pace with modern technology?

Driven by curiosity and a deep care for animals, we set out to explore how innovation, engineering, and hands-on problem-solving could improve veterinary tools, training, and outcomes. What started as an idea quickly became a mission, to reimagine animal care with solutions that are practical, accessible, and built for the future.

Today, Next Paws Innovations exists to support vets, students, and pet owners by developing smarter tools and systems that help animals live healthier, fuller lives.

About Our Biobank

We're building something that should have existed long ago!
At Next Paws Innovations, we’re building something that should have existed long ago, a reliable, ethical, and forward-thinking biological support system for companion animals.
Every day, across Australia, dogs and cats arrive at veterinary clinics in urgent need of care. In critical moments, access to the right biological resources, like blood, can mean the difference between life and loss. Yet today, that access is inconsistent, fragmented, and often dependent on chance.
We exist to change that.

For You and Your Pet

For you and your pet

Next Paws Innovations is establishing Victoria's first independent companion animal blood supply infrastructure, starting with a focused and ethical supply of canine and feline whole blood for veterinary use.

We work closely with veterinary clinics, donor programs, and animal welfare partners to ensure that every unit collected is:

Responsibly sourced
Carefully tested and handled
Delivered when it’s needed most

Our goal is simple: give veterinarians reliable access to life-saving resources, so they can focus on what matters — saving animals.

What We Do

When a pet needs blood, minutes matter — but across Victoria there's no shared supply a clinic can simply call on. Each hospital collects its own, from its own donors, or refers the patient elsewhere. We're changing that. Next Paws is building the infrastructure layer beneath veterinary care: a screened, traceable blood supply any clinic can draw on, and a growing archive of biological samples that will help the whole profession understand animal health better over time.
We do the part clinics can't and won't run themselves — so they can focus on the patient.

The Future Will Be Bright For Our Animals

The future will be bright for our animals

What we are building today is only the foundation.

Our long-term vision is to create a fully integrated biobank that supports:

Advanced therapies
Regenerative medicine
Veterinary and human health research through a One Health approach

By connecting clinical care, biological data, and research, we aim to unlock better outcomes not just for animals — but for medicine as a whole.

Meet The Founder

Hi, I'm Sydney,

I work nights at a veterinary emergency hospital in Melbourne. I've watched animals come in needing blood transfusions, and I've seen what happens when the right blood isn't there. I've watched owners wait while clinics tried to source supplies. Not because the vets weren't good enough, but because the infrastructure wasn't there.

I started asking why the infrastructure didn't exist. Then I started building it.

I'm completing a Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience at La Trobe University, graduating in November 2026. I have a background in biology and genetics, and a lifelong connection to animals that goes back further than I can remember. I've volunteered in animal welfare, competed in wrestling at state and national level, and personally established a girls' wrestling team at my high school — because if something doesn't exist and it should, you build it.

Next Paws Innovations exists because I couldn't stop thinking about the problem I kept seeing at work. It's not a passion project. It's infrastructure that Australian veterinary care genuinely needs — and I am building it.

NPI is currently in the active build phase. Here's where things stand:

Incorporated as Next Paws Innovations
AEC application submitted
Full SOP suite complete
First collection site confirmed
3 advisories confirmed
Pet Blood Type ID Cards launched — pre-orders live for dogs and cats
VetExpo Sydney confirmed — exhibiting September 2026

Our Vision

Australia is home to more than 29 million companion animals. Every one of them deserves the same standard of emergency care, genetic preservation, and health research investment that human medicine has built over decades.

NPI starts with companion animals. But the same infrastructure model, the same governance framework, the same data architecture, the same collection and banking methodology, extends to wildlife and endangered species. The genetic material of animals that cannot speak for themselves is preserved for science that doesn't yet exist.

That's the long game. And we're building it now.