Entries for a pitch competition offering a prize package worth more than $200,000, as well as $20,000 in perks for every artificial intelligence (AI) startup that enters close this week. Pitchapalooza, by the team behind Cut Through Venture and One Pitch, is searching for Australia’s best AI pitch. Entries close on Friday, February 28. The… Read more »
Brisbane biotech Gelomics will represent Australia in KPMG’s Global Tech Innovator challenge after winning the local pitch competition. The startup, which grows human tissue in a petri dish for drug testing as an alternative to animal testing in pharmaceutical drug development, was selected from among five high-powered finalists chosen from 155 entries. The annual KPMG… Read more »
Fancy winning US$1 million in the startup version of the Olympics? Well, get your skates on because applications for Australian entries to the Startup World Cup close on Wednesday, July 31. Apply to pitch here (it costs $11). Startup/Angels is hosting the Australian selection in partnership with US VC Pegasus Tech Ventures as part of Investor… Read more »
Nine female entrepreneurs participated in the first We Are Emersyn Female Founders Pitch Competition in Perth last week. Emersyn is an accelerator platform that helps women entrepreneurs launch, build, and grow businesses. It offers educational programs, mentors, advisors, and a supportive community to help female founders succeed. Megan Del Borrello founded We Are Emersyn in… Read more »
Industry dinosaurs like me can still remember when there was no such thing as a startup pitch competition. But times have changed: the glaciers have retreated, bipedal mammals have become the dominant life form, and there are now more startup pitch competitions each year than coffee shops near Wynyard Station. Good for startups, right? Yes… Read more »
The finalists for the MPowered Pitch competition have been announced and the stage is set for an epic battle. Four women entrepreneurs will vie for the chance to take home a prize pool valued at $35,000.
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