Founder Institute ANZ, the local chapter of the world’s largest startup accelerator, has selected eight new startups to back from its Spring accelerator.
The Founder Institute’s pre-seed accelerator helps early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise more than $1.9 billion globally.
The local chapter is led by Right Click Capital partner Benjamin Chong and Paul Krajewski and the four-month program is run online.
And the 8 new portfolio companies now have access to the Founder Institute’s global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building.
The startups are:
- Chattrly – An AI Patient Intelligence Platform that generates real-time, cited insights from electronic health records — including lab trends, focused summaries, and complete patient history overviews — helping clinicians act faster and safer.
- Net Advantage Business Solutions – Building Delivery Foundry an online tool that helps companies measure and deal with waste so teams get to spend more time doing the valuable work.
- Dolanto – Developing a software that helps executives and boards in infrastructure sectors—such as road, rail, airports, universities, and correctional facilities—instantly assess compliance with contracts, regulations, and standards, and understand their exposure with a single click.
- Eden & Esther – Creating a network of inspiring, underutilized spaces for family-friendly (co-work and co-care), solving parental burnout by giving parents a way to work productively while their children thrive nearby in a supportive community.
- Economics for Kids – Creating engaging books, games, and workshops that teach children essential economic and financial knowledge, empowering the next generation to make informed, ethical, and confident decisions about money and resources.
- EngageNow – Providing a business-to-business marketplace for companies to get matched with the right professional service using AI.
- Spacium Limited – Developing a conversational, agentic AI based mobile app that provides an ecosystem of specialized AI agents that help manage your household or small-business.
- AreaSpec – A platform that matches HR rosters to childcare spaces, partnering with family day care providers that can deploy home-based educators in 4 to 8 weeks to deliver 24/7 flexible care.
Watch the the recent Founder Institute ANZ Demo Day showcase below.
The next Australia Founder Institute program will run from February to May 2026. If you are interested in applying, check out the details at FI.co/apply/australia.
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