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1 Last Thing

1 Last Thing creates living legacies through securely stored and distributed messages to allow anyone to continue to interact with their loved ones when they’re no longer able to.

Founding Team

Joel Czarnota

100 Lunches

100 Lunches is a social networking platform to connect like minded individuals via lunches in a simple and easy process, for a deep and meaningful relationship for limitless opportunities.

Founding Team

Kaley Chu
John Di Natale

3 Steps Away

Three Steps Away (3SA) is developing a new online platform that is part online course and part online community that provides a 3 step thought process to help students tackle solving the world’s most pressing problems.

Founding Team

Fadi Elbarbar
Luke Panaccio

AIBUILD

AIBUILD has developed an innovative machine-learning fall prevention system which can be used to effectively predict, detect and reduce patient falls in both aged-care facilities and hospitals. The invented fall prevention system allows the system to extract human body skeleton data and hence track human movements in the camera's field of vision. With the extracted real-time data, the developed machine learning method is able to successfully detect patient falls with an accuracy of at least 90%.

Founding Team

Yifei Wang
Huijun Lao
Taicheng Zhou

Aerospace Systems

Advanced spectral imaging satellites and cloud analytics for on-demand environmental insights.

Founding Team

Angus Muffatti
Matthew Rozek
George Coulloupas

Animus Project

Intuitive and transparent governance, risk and compliance software.

Founding Team

Paul Barker

Aquatic Physio Exercise

Supporting rehab patients to gain confidence in movement with aquatic exercise.

Founding Team

Sophie Heywood
Emily Ramage
Jenn Schembri-Portelli

Block Ledger

An advanced e-Invoicing platform and a single source of truth for every financial transaction.

Founding Team

Ivan Cheah
Ray Wang
Faisal Mehmood
Adam Wang
Kellson Ma

Brainwave AI

Automated image enhancements using AI

Founding Team

Jamie McInally
Richard Wang
Sarah Liu

Can-I-Park?

Advanced image recognition technology to decipher parking signs.

Founding Team

Sam Pinner

Capito Collective

Capito Collective is a range of children’s clothing designed to specifically promote improved body awareness, considering sensitivities that children may have and providing an opportunity for children to be engaged in active development of their dressing skills.

Founding Team

Heather Kelabora
Sally Wright

Cari Medical

Cari is a HealthTech startup focusing on improving patient’s experience with sleep apnea and long-term respiratory health management.

Founding Team

Di Miao
Lyra Li

ClassCom

ClassCom is an AI-based chatbot platform which provides personalised learning experiences to students.

Founding Team

Huy Tran
Khang Vo

Collabor8 Thinkspace

Collabor8 ThinkSpace is creating a facilitation app that uses structured design thinking frameworks to increase the productivity of virtual meetings.

Founding Team

Anna McDonald
Max Dumais

Diabeasy

Diabeasy is a medical software startup seeking to improve the lives of diabetes patients to improve engagement with clinicians and support better health outcomes for patients.

Founding Team

Thomas Sutherland

Disruptive Publications

Disruptive Publications enables rapid publishing of the latest research, reviews and opinions across a variety of academic areas by providing genuine peer-review through its online journal Research Reviews and Opinion.

Founding Team

Brendan Grabau
Stephen Robson
Alex Down

Edapt Education

Edapt provides an easy-to-use, end-to-end data platform for all educators that empowers school-wide improvement through predictive and actionable data-driven insights.

Founding Team

Christopher Hoang
Katherine Roan
Andrew Wong

Enkore Tribe

Enkore Tribe is a platform that disrupts live music industry by connecting independent musicians with micro audiences and democratising places where live entertainment can be experienced.

Founding Team

Divya Gupta

Fan Tipper

Fan Tipper is a digital gratuity service that allows people to leave a digital tip, a message of support, and share their positive experience via social media. It facilitates a return to the customer-led initiative of leaving a gratuity.

Founding Team

Ash Millott

Far More

Far More aims to modernise the outdated commodity supply chain of coffee through a data-driven platform that aims to connect 125 million farmers with consumers worldwide and create a digital hub for learning, connection, promotion and trade.

Founding Team

Sebastian Farias

Gappit

Gappit creates digital ecosystems for tour operators that increase overall sales and reduce overheads by ensuring a seamless experience for their customers.

Founding Team

Kathy Mackenzie

Generation Gyms

Generation Gyms is a climate positive concept gym that uses generators to convert calories burnt by gym goers to kilowatt-hours which are then distributed to communities in need.

Founding Team

Jackie Fish
Jake Robb

Girls Trade

Girls Trade is revolutionising the fashion industry by building a marketplace and community for women to trade clothing. This platform enables women to hire, buy or sell pre-loved fashion at a fraction of the retail price by tapping into the community's existing wardrobes. This sharing economy breaks down the barriers of access, cost and fast fashion whilst reducing the effects of fast fashion.

Founding Team

Dominic D'Andrea
Angus Cronin-Guss
Clara Momesso

InTouch

Keeping patients and families connected during hospital procedures through integrated, automated messaging solutions, freeing up doctors and nurses for improved patient care, improving CX and reducing operational cost for hospitals.

Founding Team

Taissa Maciburko
Stephen Santos

Infestation Tracking Systems

Infestation Tracking Systems - Giving you early warning of active termite activity near your home so you can proactively protect it.

Founding Team

Arron Vilinskis
Brad Wynter

Insight Infrastructure Solutions

Reinforcement and maintenance of marine foundation engineering.

Founding Team

Adam Shi Chen
Yue (Chloe) Teng
Jinling Teng

LERERO

A SaaS-based learning & development system enhancement solution centered on driving long term knowledge retention through learning behavioral change and assessment backed by extensive research on memory and brain science.

Founding Team

Aurel Brudan
Oana Calin
Amalia Rosdianingtyas

Lexvestor

Lexvestor sells shares of meritorious lawsuits to investors via their online marketplace in order to advance money to plaintiffs in exchange for a portion of any case winnings.

Founding Team

Patrick McGlynn

Linkmate

A social enterprise devoted to mental wellness by connecting people with peers and community services for empathetic and personalised support.

Founding Team

David Titeu

MINJUMS FOODS

Minjums Foods helps parents to improve their children's healthy eating habits, by offering a sweet spread made with wholesome ingredients such as lentils, fruits and vegetables, and education by giving parents the tools to make the right decisions when choosing food.

Founding Team

Minerva Jimenez

Maelstream

Tools for live streamers to entertain and interact with their audience.

Founding Team

Michel Ma

Medeia

Medeia presents property investors with access to reasonably priced and accurate information on potential deals.

Founding Team

Chantel Cousins

Memento Media

Memento Media is redefining the way families capture their history with multi-generational, living, family archives.

Founding Team

Jessica Ferrari

Meta

Meta is a digital tool that helps students and learners to improve the way they acquire knowledge helping the learner to plan their study, allocate their time better and encouraging them to leverage more effective techniques.

Founding Team

Ryan Perera

Mindful Milk

Mindful Milk, tap out of plastic waste and into the circular economy.

Founding Team

Tom Morrison
George McFarlane

Moon Mama

Bespoke maternity concierge founded to empower women to nurture themselves first in their pregnancy journey and transition to motherhood. We deliver evidence-based workshops, virtual assistant support to book appointments, recommend holistic health specialists, cleaners, babysitting service they require, deliver their baby shopping they require, plan their baby shopping, meal planning etc. We recognise that no two pregnancies and babies are alike, so our service will always be one-on-one.

Founding Team

Samantha Chua

Neonatal Education Solutions

Contemporary and relevant professional development for those caring for neonates.

Founding Team

Brett Pattie
Sharlene Pattie

Nextround

Nextround is the digital prepaid voucher platform that connects customer's corporate and personal budget to local hospitality businesses - you can now send a thank you with a coffee from a local cafe.

Founding Team

Adam Wood

OneTrack

Mitigating legal disputes with with a dynamic construction contract administration software.

Founding Team

Jack Greenham

Our Pantry

An online platform for selling homemade food products to the community.

Founding Team

Shriya Gupta

RENW

RENW is a sustainable startup that aims to minimise carbon footprints and shift consumer mindsets to slow fashion through the provision of a personal styling service with quality preloved clothes.

Founding Team

Belle To

ResilientML

Solving complex real world challenges in Finance, Infrastructure and Cyber Security with robust, resilient, interpretable Machine Learning and Blockchain analytics.

Founding Team

Gordon Gay

Rise

Access to the ‘gig economy for social care’ and pre-screening for the aged care and disability services industry.

Founding Team

Fiona Reay

Ruby

A browser extension that connects consumers with online stores and the best product prices across Australia.

Founding Team

Joshua Mapperson
Frank Mapperson
Daks Gunaratne

School Tucker

The first equity-focussed, social enterprise school food service delivering healthy lunchboxes to primary school children.

Founding Team

Natalie Molino
Roberta Nelson

She's A Crowd

Using the power of storytelling data to make cities safer for women.

Founding Team

Zoe Condliffe

Staybl

Staybl is a tool that makes lead qualification in real-estate less labour-intensive, saving agencies time and money.

Founding Team

Mick Tonini

Swivel

A scalable cloud based, personalised assessment tool for health and wellbeing.

Founding Team

Byron Kwong
Huu Nguyen
Will McKenzie

The Intime Collective

Transforming the lives and relationships of parents for the wellbeing of their children.

Founding Team

Louise Gilbert

The Waste Lab

Sustainable waste management through technology.

Founding Team

Nathan Smith
Sal Selamat-Sim

Ventora Medical

A medical device to support clinicians with their delivery of care to neonates with respiratory conditions.

Founding Team

Amy Yu
Edward Buijs
Alan Haszard
Seetal Erramilli

Vleet

Pioneering simple, no wait, self-service car rental.

Founding Team

Harold Kim
Wayne Nyamana
Takura Chindove

World Doctors United

Providing online/offline preventative healthcare services and education to Developing Countries via telehealth.

Founding Team

Kylie El-Sheikh

Yabi Medical

An innovative, accurate and automated mehtod for monitoring and escalating surgical drain output.

Founding Team

Dylan Andrews

Zero Impact

A clean energy company making fuel from coffee.

Founding Team

Max Middleweek

charityBay

charityBay is an online marketplace for people to sell unwanted useful belongings, and automatically direct the proceeds to their selected charity.

Founding Team

Haidar Al-fallouji
Mateo Palacio

talkingbirth

An accessible maternity tool supporting women to partner with primary care providers for shared decision making throughout pregnancy, birth and early parenting.

Founding Team

Karen McNeil
Marie Gentile-Andrit

toto

Toto aims to raise the standard of concussion management by providing amateur football clubs with a SaaS solution that is intuitive, affordable, and implements best-practice guidelines to support the wellbeing of players from match-day, to return-to-play, and beyond.

Founding Team

Jasun Li
Indiana Cooper
Christian Gashi

Ēthikos

Ēthikos is an affiliate marketing & rewards platform for the ethical generation, helping to incentivise customers and connect them to sustainable fashion retailers.

Founding Team

Abigail Tuscano
Ashwin Ramachandran

Aerospace Systems

Advanced spectral imaging satellites and cloud analytics for on-demand environmental insights.

Founding Team

Angus Muffatti
Matthew Rozek
George Coulloupas

Animus Project

Intuitive and transparent governance, risk and compliance software.

Founding Team

Paul Barker

Aquatic Physio Exercise

Supporting rehab patients to gain confidence in movement with aquatic exercise.

Founding Team

Sophie Heywood
Emily Ramage
Jenn Schembri-Portelli

Block Ledger

An advanced e-Invoicing platform and a single source of truth for every financial transaction.

Founding Team

Ivan Cheah
Ray Wang
Faisal Mehmood
Adam Wang
Kellson Ma

Brainwave AI

Automated image enhancements using AI

Founding Team

Jamie McInally
Richard Wang
Sarah Liu

Can-I-Park?

Advanced image recognition technology to decipher parking signs.

Founding Team

Sam Pinner

Insight Infrastructure Solutions

Reinforcement and maintenance of marine foundation engineering.

Founding Team

Adam Shi Chen
Yue (Chloe) Teng
Jinling Teng

Maelstream

Tools for live streamers to entertain and interact with their audience.

Founding Team

Michel Ma

Neonatal Education Solutions

Contemporary and relevant professional development for those caring for neonates.

Founding Team

Brett Pattie
Sharlene Pattie

OneTrack

Mitigating legal disputes with with a dynamic construction contract administration software.

Founding Team

Jack Greenham

Rise

Access to the ‘gig economy for social care’ and pre-screening for the aged care and disability services industry.

Founding Team

Fiona Reay

School Tucker

The first equity-focussed, social enterprise school food service delivering healthy lunchboxes to primary school children.

Founding Team

Natalie Molino
Roberta Nelson

She's A Crowd

Using the power of storytelling data to make cities safer for women.

Founding Team

Zoe Condliffe

Swivel

A scalable cloud based, personalised assessment tool for health and wellbeing.

Founding Team

Byron Kwong
Huu Nguyen
Will McKenzie

The Intime Collective

Transforming the lives and relationships of parents for the wellbeing of their children.

Founding Team

Louise Gilbert

The Waste Lab

Sustainable waste management through technology.

Founding Team

Nathan Smith
Sal Selamat-Sim

Ventora Medical

A medical device to support clinicians with their delivery of care to neonates with respiratory conditions.

Founding Team

Amy Yu
Edward Buijs
Alan Haszard
Seetal Erramilli

Zero Impact

A clean energy company making fuel from coffee.

Founding Team

Max Middleweek

1 Last Thing

1 Last Thing creates living legacies through securely stored and distributed messages to allow anyone to continue to interact with their loved ones when they’re no longer able to.

Founding Team

Joel Czarnota

100 Lunches

100 Lunches is a social networking platform to connect like minded individuals via lunches in a simple and easy process, for a deep and meaningful relationship for limitless opportunities.

Founding Team

Kaley Chu
John Di Natale

Capito Collective

Capito Collective is a range of children’s clothing designed to specifically promote improved body awareness, considering sensitivities that children may have and providing an opportunity for children to be engaged in active development of their dressing skills.

Founding Team

Heather Kelabora
Sally Wright

Cari Medical

Cari is a HealthTech startup focusing on improving patient’s experience with sleep apnea and long-term respiratory health management.

Founding Team

Di Miao
Lyra Li

ClassCom

ClassCom is an AI-based chatbot platform which provides personalised learning experiences to students.

Founding Team

Huy Tran
Khang Vo

Diabeasy

Diabeasy is a medical software startup seeking to improve the lives of diabetes patients to improve engagement with clinicians and support better health outcomes for patients.

Founding Team

Thomas Sutherland

Edapt Education

Edapt provides an easy-to-use, end-to-end data platform for all educators that empowers school-wide improvement through predictive and actionable data-driven insights.

Founding Team

Christopher Hoang
Katherine Roan
Andrew Wong

Far More

Far More aims to modernise the outdated commodity supply chain of coffee through a data-driven platform that aims to connect 125 million farmers with consumers worldwide and create a digital hub for learning, connection, promotion and trade.

Founding Team

Sebastian Farias

Gappit

Gappit creates digital ecosystems for tour operators that increase overall sales and reduce overheads by ensuring a seamless experience for their customers.

Founding Team

Kathy Mackenzie

Generation Gyms

Generation Gyms is a climate positive concept gym that uses generators to convert calories burnt by gym goers to kilowatt-hours which are then distributed to communities in need.

Founding Team

Jackie Fish
Jake Robb

Lexvestor

Lexvestor sells shares of meritorious lawsuits to investors via their online marketplace in order to advance money to plaintiffs in exchange for a portion of any case winnings.

Founding Team

Patrick McGlynn

MINJUMS FOODS

Minjums Foods helps parents to improve their children's healthy eating habits, by offering a sweet spread made with wholesome ingredients such as lentils, fruits and vegetables, and education by giving parents the tools to make the right decisions when choosing food.

Founding Team

Minerva Jimenez

Medeia

Medeia presents property investors with access to reasonably priced and accurate information on potential deals.

Founding Team

Chantel Cousins

Memento Media

Memento Media is redefining the way families capture their history with multi-generational, living, family archives.

Founding Team

Jessica Ferrari

Meta

Meta is a digital tool that helps students and learners to improve the way they acquire knowledge helping the learner to plan their study, allocate their time better and encouraging them to leverage more effective techniques.

Founding Team

Ryan Perera

RENW

RENW is a sustainable startup that aims to minimise carbon footprints and shift consumer mindsets to slow fashion through the provision of a personal styling service with quality preloved clothes.

Founding Team

Belle To

ResilientML

Solving complex real world challenges in Finance, Infrastructure and Cyber Security with robust, resilient, interpretable Machine Learning and Blockchain analytics.

Founding Team

Gordon Gay

Staybl

Staybl is a tool that makes lead qualification in real-estate less labour-intensive, saving agencies time and money.

Founding Team

Mick Tonini

charityBay

charityBay is an online marketplace for people to sell unwanted useful belongings, and automatically direct the proceeds to their selected charity.

Founding Team

Haidar Al-fallouji
Mateo Palacio

Ēthikos

Ēthikos is an affiliate marketing & rewards platform for the ethical generation, helping to incentivise customers and connect them to sustainable fashion retailers.

Founding Team

Abigail Tuscano
Ashwin Ramachandran

3 Steps Away

Three Steps Away (3SA) is developing a new online platform that is part online course and part online community that provides a 3 step thought process to help students tackle solving the world’s most pressing problems.

Founding Team

Fadi Elbarbar
Luke Panaccio

AIBUILD

AIBUILD has developed an innovative machine-learning fall prevention system which can be used to effectively predict, detect and reduce patient falls in both aged-care facilities and hospitals. The invented fall prevention system allows the system to extract human body skeleton data and hence track human movements in the camera's field of vision. With the extracted real-time data, the developed machine learning method is able to successfully detect patient falls with an accuracy of at least 90%.

Founding Team

Yifei Wang
Huijun Lao
Taicheng Zhou

Collabor8 Thinkspace

Collabor8 ThinkSpace is creating a facilitation app that uses structured design thinking frameworks to increase the productivity of virtual meetings.

Founding Team

Anna McDonald
Max Dumais

Disruptive Publications

Disruptive Publications enables rapid publishing of the latest research, reviews and opinions across a variety of academic areas by providing genuine peer-review through its online journal Research Reviews and Opinion.

Founding Team

Brendan Grabau
Stephen Robson
Alex Down

Enkore Tribe

Enkore Tribe is a platform that disrupts live music industry by connecting independent musicians with micro audiences and democratising places where live entertainment can be experienced.

Founding Team

Divya Gupta

Fan Tipper

Fan Tipper is a digital gratuity service that allows people to leave a digital tip, a message of support, and share their positive experience via social media. It facilitates a return to the customer-led initiative of leaving a gratuity.

Founding Team

Ash Millott

Girls Trade

Girls Trade is revolutionising the fashion industry by building a marketplace and community for women to trade clothing. This platform enables women to hire, buy or sell pre-loved fashion at a fraction of the retail price by tapping into the community's existing wardrobes. This sharing economy breaks down the barriers of access, cost and fast fashion whilst reducing the effects of fast fashion.

Founding Team

Dominic D'Andrea
Angus Cronin-Guss
Clara Momesso

InTouch

Keeping patients and families connected during hospital procedures through integrated, automated messaging solutions, freeing up doctors and nurses for improved patient care, improving CX and reducing operational cost for hospitals.

Founding Team

Taissa Maciburko
Stephen Santos

Infestation Tracking Systems

Infestation Tracking Systems - Giving you early warning of active termite activity near your home so you can proactively protect it.

Founding Team

Arron Vilinskis
Brad Wynter

LERERO

A SaaS-based learning & development system enhancement solution centered on driving long term knowledge retention through learning behavioral change and assessment backed by extensive research on memory and brain science.

Founding Team

Aurel Brudan
Oana Calin
Amalia Rosdianingtyas

Linkmate

A social enterprise devoted to mental wellness by connecting people with peers and community services for empathetic and personalised support.

Founding Team

David Titeu

Mindful Milk

Mindful Milk, tap out of plastic waste and into the circular economy.

Founding Team

Tom Morrison
George McFarlane

Moon Mama

Bespoke maternity concierge founded to empower women to nurture themselves first in their pregnancy journey and transition to motherhood. We deliver evidence-based workshops, virtual assistant support to book appointments, recommend holistic health specialists, cleaners, babysitting service they require, deliver their baby shopping they require, plan their baby shopping, meal planning etc. We recognise that no two pregnancies and babies are alike, so our service will always be one-on-one.

Founding Team

Samantha Chua

Nextround

Nextround is the digital prepaid voucher platform that connects customer's corporate and personal budget to local hospitality businesses - you can now send a thank you with a coffee from a local cafe.

Founding Team

Adam Wood

Our Pantry

An online platform for selling homemade food products to the community.

Founding Team

Shriya Gupta

Ruby

A browser extension that connects consumers with online stores and the best product prices across Australia.

Founding Team

Joshua Mapperson
Frank Mapperson
Daks Gunaratne

Vleet

Pioneering simple, no wait, self-service car rental.

Founding Team

Harold Kim
Wayne Nyamana
Takura Chindove

World Doctors United

Providing online/offline preventative healthcare services and education to Developing Countries via telehealth.

Founding Team

Kylie El-Sheikh

Yabi Medical

An innovative, accurate and automated mehtod for monitoring and escalating surgical drain output.

Founding Team

Dylan Andrews

talkingbirth

An accessible maternity tool supporting women to partner with primary care providers for shared decision making throughout pregnancy, birth and early parenting.

Founding Team

Karen McNeil
Marie Gentile-Andrit

toto

Toto aims to raise the standard of concussion management by providing amateur football clubs with a SaaS solution that is intuitive, affordable, and implements best-practice guidelines to support the wellbeing of players from match-day, to return-to-play, and beyond.

Founding Team

Jasun Li
Indiana Cooper
Christian Gashi