Brownee team
Accelerator

EnergyLab reveals the 10 startups in its latest climate solutions accelerator

- August 9, 2024 4 MIN READ

Ten startups tackling emissions challenges ranging from industrial heat to passive cooling solutions, energy storage and electric aviation, having been selected for EnergyLab’s 2024 climate solutions accelerator. EnergyLab is ANZ’s largest climate tech startup accelerator and innovation network dedicated to reaching net zero emissions and has supported more than 180 startups and 125 aspiring founders… Read more »

Chris Kessaris,
Accelerator

Remarkable picks 10 disability tech startups for its latest accelerator – here they are

- August 5, 2024 3 MIN READ

Disability tech accelerator and investor Remarkable has chosen 10 startups, including five from the US, for its latest 16-week program, spanning AI-driven health solutions to mobility aids to help people live better lives. This year, startups from Australia, the US, the UK and Canada are part of the accelerator, with the global cohort, managed by… Read more »

Accelerator

Startmate reveals the 11 startups for the new Winter cohort

- August 2, 2024 4 MIN READ

Accelerator and early-stage investor Startmate has revealed the 11 startups joining the program for its Winter cohort. They’re an eclectic bunch, spanning problems ranging from ending online abuse to rethinking firefighting, and supporting mothers post-childbirth. They’re also hoping to revolutionise tender processes, fitting rooms, oil extraction, physio-patient journeys, thermal systems, bug-catching software, and global digital… Read more »

Accelerator

13 Startmate mentors and investors reveal what they’re looking for in startup ideas

- July 31, 2024 12 MIN READ

At Startmate we’re industry agnostic. We invest in people first. People with deep expertise and unique visions, working to solve some of the thorniest problems frustrating industries worldwide. The role we play is simple. Accelerate their progress – avoid pitfalls, leverage opportunities, prompt customer conversations, advise sales, and marketing – do everything in our power… Read more »

Ben Arya and Taha Ansar
Accelerator

Melbourne edtech Sindy pockets $300,000 as it joins the UC Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator

- July 29, 2024 3 MIN READ

A startup that checks in on how well university students are learning has been accepted into the University of California, Berkley’s SkyDeck accelerator program, banking US$200,000 (A$305k) as part of the deal. Sindy Labs is the brainchild of former University of Melbourne medical student Benjamin Arya, Taha Ansari and Oliver Cucanic. They founded their startup… Read more »

Kids on bike with rockets
Accelerator

What Australian startup accelerators can do to prove their worth

- June 28, 2024 3 MIN READ

When Australian startup fever took hold in the mid-2010s, state governments used taxpayer money to support high-growth technology businesses with the intent to leverage the benefits these businesses could deliver to future-proof their economies. As a result, sophisticated industry scaffolding began to emerge in support of the fearless few willing to dive in and try… Read more »

Accelerator

BeanstalkAgTech is building a $10 million venture studio to back nearly 100 startups focused on drought resilience

- June 27, 2024 2 MIN READ

Food and agriculture advisory and venture firm Beanstalk AgTech has launched a venture program to support researchers and entrepreneurs build new agtech products and services for farmers. The $10 million project is working towards building the world’s first venture studio for drought resilience, supported by the federal government’s Future Drought Fund. Expressions of interest for … Read more »

R&D, science, man looking in microscope
Accelerator

ARM Hub and MTPConnect collaborate on a new AI accelerator for biomed startups

- June 17, 2024 2 MIN READ

The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub and MTPConnect have teamed up to launch the Biomedical AI Sprints Accelerator (BASA) so biomedical startup can harness the power of data and artificial intelligence (AI).  BASA will offer $25,000-50,000 in matched funding and upskill high-growth startup teams in using AI and data analytics, giving them access to… Read more »

sprint race finish
Accelerator

Queensland brings sportstech accelerator ASTN north to back 40 startups

- June 11, 2024 2 MIN READ

As the Brisbane Olympics loom in 2032, the Queensland government is keen to get local sportstech startups on the podium with new accelerator programs. The state government-backed Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) is bringing Melbourne-based Australian Sports Technologies Network (ASTN) north with funding from the QIC-managed Queensland Venture Capital Development Fund (QVCDF). The accelerator and entrepreneurship programs… Read more »

Jonathon Quigley
Accelerator

SparkLabs Cultiv8 reveals 9 startups for its latest accelerator

- May 21, 2024 2 MIN READ

Cleantech agri-food accelerator SparkLabs Cultiv8 has announced the nine startups taking part in its annual accelerator program. Founder Jonathon Quigley said the nine were chosen for their contributions towards creating a more sustainable and efficient global food production system. “The interest in this sector has grown enormously over the past eight years, as well as… Read more »

Adelaide
Accelerator

_SOUTHSTART teamed up with the Adelaide Economic Development Agency to launch an accelerator for the SA capital’s startups

- April 18, 2024 < 1 MIN READ

One of Australia’s most-loved startup festivals _SOUTHSTART has forged a strategic partnership with the Adelaide Economic Development Agency to launch a new accelerator program. MASTERM!ND is a 5-month accelerator for up to 10 startups based in the South Australian capital. _SOUTHSTART co-director Danielle Seymour said the accelerator builds on the organisation’s commitment to catalysing innovation and… Read more »

Ben Scales and William Murrell
Accelerator

Startmate Demo Day: KiwiFibre has turned a native New Zealand plant into something better than carbon fibre

- April 17, 2024 5 MIN READ

Ahead of Startmate Demo Day on May 2 in Sydney at Blackbird’s Sunrise, Startup Daily is profiling the 10 startups involved. Today it’s New Zealand startup Kiwifibre, which is hoping to build race cars from plants. KiwiFibre creates natural fibre composite materials from ‍Harakeke – a natively grown New Zealand wonder plant, and one of the… Read more »

Black Swan, Perth
Accelerator

Western Australia is getting a government-back nature and biodiversity accelerator thanks to Founders Factory

- April 11, 2024 2 MIN READ

Startups in Western Australia looking to address biodiversity and the environment will get a helping hand thanks to a $7.2 million grant from the state government. The global tech investor and accelerator Founders Factory is setting up shop in Perth, as its first Australian base, with the funding. The WA government’s investment of $2.4 million… Read more »

Aurie smart catheter system i
Funding

Disability tech accelerator and investor Remarkable goes global, backing US catheter startup’s $9.1 million Seed round

- April 4, 2024 2 MIN READ

Australian disability tech accelerator Remarkable has backed a US med tech startup reducing urinary tract infection (UTI) risks in a US$6 million (A$9.1m) Seed raise. The round for New York medtech startup Aurie, was led by existing investor Lakehouse Ventures. Founded in 2018, Aurie has developed a reusable, no-touch, intermittent catheter system used by people… Read more »