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Meet our Winter23 Demo Day cohort
Accelerator

Meet our Winter23 Demo Day cohort

By

Holly Brooks

July 4, 2025

The Winter23 Demo Day cohort is here, and they are going to make our lives 100x better. They are running through brick walls to tackle the thorniest problems frustrating industries world-wide. From AI-powered recruitment and misdiagnosed prenatal ultrasounds to inflatable space solar panels and vaccine nebulisers, the Winter23 cohort is one of our most innovative yet.
Meet our Winter ’24 Accelerator cohort
Accelerator

Meet our Winter ’24 Accelerator cohort

By

Holly Brooks

July 4, 2025

This cohort is ending online abuse, rethinking firefighting to make it safer and more effective, and building novel ways to support mothers post-childbirth. They are revolutionising the tender process, transforming the fitting room experience, finding new ways to extract oil, and re-creating the physio-patient journey. They’re creating a new thermal heating and cooling system to halve energy costs and emissions, catching bugs before your users do, enabling digital health companies to expand globally, and using human avatars for live interviews to power recruitment.
Meet our Summer'25 Accelerator cohort
Accelerator

Meet our Summer'25 Accelerator cohort

By

Holly Brooks

July 4, 2025

It’s rare that you meet a founder whose ambition and drive take your breath away; meeting 28 of them at once is all but guaranteed to leave you breathless.
Meet our Summer24 Accelerator cohort
Accelerator

Meet our Summer24 Accelerator cohort

By

Holly Brooks

July 4, 2025

The Summer24 Cohort is ready for lift-off. ‍If we had to use one word to describe this group, it would be hungry: hungry to solve problems, hungry to prove themselves, hungry to leave their mark on the world. Already they have demonstrated an intensity and focus that has us incredibly excited to watch them unleash over the next 3 months.
Meet Slice: The Startup Reimagining How We Buy Property
Accelerator

Meet Slice: The Startup Reimagining How We Buy Property

By

Phoebe Pincus

July 4, 2025

Slice is redefining the property buying experience. Founded by Amy Stevens, a former lawyer and financial adviser, Slice is a platform that automates the home buying process, helping buyers, brokers, and lawyers work together.
Meet Edsemble: The Startup on a Quest to Help Parents Raise a Curious Generation
Accelerator

Meet Edsemble: The Startup on a Quest to Help Parents Raise a Curious Generation

By

Phoebe Pincus

July 4, 2025

Most parents want to give their kids the best start in life. But between endless parenting advice and millions of book options, it’s hard to know where to begin. That’s where Edsemble steps in.
Duohub: The AI That Builds AI
Accelerator

Duohub: The AI That Builds AI

By

Phoebe Pincus

July 4, 2025

DuoHub is changing the game for small and medium business owners by making a conversation all they need to create complex AI agents to support their business.
Chirp: Meet the team Building the AI Agent Salespeople Actually Need
Accelerator

Chirp: Meet the team Building the AI Agent Salespeople Actually Need

By

Phoebe Pincus

July 4, 2025

For most sales teams, the hardest part of closing a deal isn’t the pitch- it’s the admin. Data is spread across seven tools. CRM hygiene is an afterthought. Chirp is ready to flip that script.
Exploring Negotiation and Communication with Aussie-based Engineers
Community

Exploring Negotiation and Communication with Aussie-based Engineers

By

Bell Allen

July 4, 2025

Over two dynamic evenings in Sydney and Melbourne, we dove deep into the art of negotiation and communication for engineers. Here's a recap of the events and a couple of highlights from our awesome speakers - Osman Mah and Braden Moore.
Engineers Collective: Our “why”
Community

Engineers Collective: Our “why”

By

Kaya Moore

July 4, 2025

"In the world of software, technical mastery is essential—but it’s the engineers who master communication, leadership, and collaboration that rise to the top."‍The tech landscape is shifting. ‍With more engineers working remotely, AI taking over technical roles, and new waves of redundancies being announced each week, how do you stand out from the crowd? How do you get that next promotion, or work on that epic project?
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