Ahead of the TechStars Sydney ‘Demo the Future’ evening on December 8, Startup Daily is profiling the 12 startups and their founders in the 2025 cohort.
Next cab off the rank is Slice – a startup guiding people through every step of the home-buying journey with free software designed to give them clarity and confidence.
Slice
Founder: Amy Stevens
One-liner: Automating the financial and legal services behind property transactions.
What’s the problem they’re solving and why does it matter?
People struggle to understand the property-buying process.
“We assume that the biggest issue is getting finance,” says Slice founder Amy Stevens.
“But working side-by-side with real buyers – at open homes, at auctions, showed me something else: it’s not just finance, it’s a lack of guidance and a lack of confidence that reduces access to home ownership.
“The average buyer is drowning in jargon, emails and pdfs, while brokers and lawyers are buried delivering low-value admin instead of providing advice. Everyone’s exhausted, and the process hasn’t changed in decades.”
Amy founded Slice to automate the workflows that slow the property industry down.
With Slice, professionals can focus on what matters most – building relationships and giving great advice – while buyers gain a clear understanding of every step, empowering them to purchase property with confidence.
“Buying a home should feel as simple as booking a flight – for both sides.” she said.
Explain the product to a potential user
For home buyers: Slice makes buying a home simple.
“We walk you through every step – from getting pre-approval and finance to reviewing your legal documents and understanding how much to pay,” says Amy.
For brokers and lawyers: Slice automates document collection, task management, and due diligence.
“So you can spend less time chasing paperwork and more time serving clients,” says Amy.
What’s the long-term ambition of Slice?
Today, Slice helps first-home buyers, brokers, and lawyers simplify the home-buying process.
Next, Amy is looking to international markets. Originally founded in New Zealand, she already has global clients thanks to her podcast, which ranks in the top 10% of all video podcasts worldwide.
“That’s the plan for the next few years,” says Amy.
“We have more demand than we can serve right now so we’re racing to expand the product for international markets.”
As a Kiwi, it’s fitting that she points to New Zealand’s most valuable company, Xero, as an analogy for the long term.
“Xero became the infrastructure layer for accounting. Millions of businesses run on the product, and thousands of products are built on top of their infrastructure platform. Slice is doing the same for property transactions – becoming the infrastructure layer for everything from how property search to settlement is done worldwide.”
Why did Techstars invest?
“One of the most impressive things about Amy is that she has figured out growth. Slice has a repeatable acquisition funnel they can scale up and down. And it’s even more impressive because her background is in product!!” says Christie Jenkins, Managing Director of Techstars Sydney.
Already, more than 4000 home buyers and 50 brokers and lawyers have used the product.
“We look for founders who are world-class in a single skill set. Amy has built the expertise in two.”
What’s the most important lesson Techstars Sydney taught you?
“Focus wins,” says Amy.
“You can’t solve every business or product problem at once. Narrow focus and dedicate resources to the activity that will most move the needle. From a product perspective, it’s great to have a big vision but you need to narrow focus and dominate one wedge at a time.”
- See Slice and the Techstars startups in action at Demo the Future, Monday December 8, 5-8pm. Details here.
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