Every founder I meet these days, looking for PR, begins with the same line: “We’ve built something great.” Yet the question that matters most is often overlooked: will that “something” become a story worth telling? This is especially true in tech, where AI is reshaping the landscape so quickly that nearly every startup is launching… Read more »
It’s not every day you get to pitch for US$1 million in investment. But then again, the Startup World Cup in San Francisco is not your everyday startup pitch comp. Three Australian startups – Adiona, Deeligence and GravityFit – were among 98 finalists from 100 regional competitions across 60+ countries to fly to San Francisco… Read more »
The Founder Institute and Ben Chong, partner at Right Click Capital, take you through how to nail your startup pitch. tl;dr Pitch Deck Templates Don’t have time to read the guide? You can access our Pitch Templates quickly below. One‑Sentence Pitch Template | Elevator Pitch Template | One‑Minute Pitch Template | Long Angel/VC Template Introduction… Read more »
The following section is an excerpt from The Fundraising Blueprint by Abhishek Maran, focused on crafting your narrative and structuring your pitch deck. Fundraising is an emotional process, especially at the early stage. You need investors to feel a certain level of affinity towards you and your startup to stand a chance. Some people are natural… Read more »
Imagine presenting in a pitch meeting and your audience is stifling yawns, checking their devices as you talk, and finally they walk out of the meeting with deafening silence. It is in these meetings that the power of storytelling has often been overlooked. I speak from experience having been in the audience of these presentations.… Read more »
One of Australia’s best tech and innovation festivals, South Australia’s _SOUTHSTART, is offering 10 startup founders to take the stage for its pitch showcase in 2025 The annual 3-day event brings together founders, investors, and industry visionaries to connect, and shape the future, next year from March 4-6, in Adelaide’s Garden of Unearthly Delights, as well… Read more »
Imagine walking into a room of investors feeling confident, calm and certain that you’ll put your best pitch forward. When the stakes are high – and one meeting could make or break what happens to your business next – it can be challenging to feel this way. The key to feeling confident is preparation, and… Read more »
Proptech Build Buddy, a platform that allows users to design, approve and build their new home, will head to Silicon Valley next month as the Australian flag bearer in the Global Startup World Cup. Build Buddy is revolutionising the home building industry with easy-to-use platform that explain what you need to do, when and how, without… Read more »
Generative AI and ChatGTP have their fans, but if you really want to excite someone, enlist technology to make their daily lives easier. And that’s just what The Laundry Lady, an online marketplace that deals with the drudgery of a washing, has done, bringing tech and innovation to a market we’re going to call household… Read more »
There’s plenty of startup action happening in the Sunshine State at the moment, and that’s on show this week at Something Tech. The two-day festival, August 29-30, once again brings together Queensland’s tech and innovation community in their own unique way for “a saturation of expertise, community sharing, and networking”. Festival cofounder Pauline Fetaui, from… Read more »
It’s easy to get these basic things wrong and easy to get them right, so let’s get them right! First up: videos are sometimes an investor deterrent. Unless you’re a video startup or there’s something visual about your customer experience that is essential to understand, don’t send investors videos instead of decks — they are… Read more »
For better or for worse, some small things can make you look like a beginner when pitching to VCs. During my time at Square Peg as a senior associate, I’ve seen plenty of things founders and startups do well, but also don’t, during their pitches. So here are my top five things to avoid –… Read more »
Three Australian startups have been chosen from more than 3000 applications globally to take part in the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield event at Disrupt in San Francisco this week. AI-based marketing B2B Rammp, fashion tech venture Theodore, and fintech Cape will follow in the footsteps of unicorn alumni such as DropBox, Cloudflare and FitBit in taking… Read more »
The annual ARENA Renewables Startup Showcase is heading to Melbourne this year, with applications now open for startups interested in taking part. Pioneering startup network Innovation Bay and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) have teamed up again for the fourth showcase, which takes place on Wednesday, November 1, at Cargo Hall in Melbourne. They’re looking for early… Read more »
In this essay, we are imagining a pitch from an early stage deep tech company, probably still working inside a university. An investor red flag might not be obvious to a founder. Why would it? They build up over years as signals of weakness and they are best avoided. Knowing what they are makes it possible to… Read more »
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