Australia’s Startmate accelerator announces its most recent class
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Re: Australia’s Startmate accelerator announces its most recent class
#2The Australian startup scene is very small. So much so I get approached frequently about searchcode which appears on top of Australia startup lists somehow. Nice to see that startmate is starting to get some coverage though as it should encourage more growth.
Re: Australia’s Startmate accelerator announces its most recent class
#3The Australian startup scene is very small. So much so I get approached frequently about searchcode which appears on top of Australia startup lists somehow. Nice to see that startmate is starting to get some coverage though as it should encourage more growth.
If think the Australian startup scene is small you should see the size of the investor pool! Every event is like going to a wedding.
I was at the Sydney final presentation and some interesting starts in this cohort. I am already an investor in SmartrMail (great team and product), but I thought Nightingale and EverProof were very interesting too.
Re: Australia’s Startmate accelerator announces its most recent class
#4I know startup founders who graduated through startmate and can vouch for it. Our start-up was passed on by black bird ventures but I still keep in touch with them and attended their pitch training session
There is really good raw talent in Melbourne but I agree with the comment below that startup scene sucks due to lack of Angel investors
Re: Australia’s Startmate accelerator announces its most recent class
#5The Australian startup scene is very small. So much so I get approached frequently about searchcode which appears on top of Australia startup lists somehow. Nice to see that startmate is starting to get some coverage though as it should encourage more growth.
If think the Australian startup scene is small you should see the size of the investor pool! Every event is like going to a wedding. I was at the Sydney final presentation and some interesting starts in this cohort. I am already an investor in SmartrMail (great team and product), but I thought Nightingale and EverProof were very interesting too.
Maybe I should start attending some of the meet-ups. I will e attending a BBQ at the Dutch Consul General's house next week which I was invited to for some reason due to a visiting Dutch ICT/start up delegation.
Flixsense AI looked the most interesting to me, but I was only observing though twitter and that is purely from a nerd point of view.
SmartrMail would be where I would invest of the list as well if I were ever in a position to invest. Email seems to be getting a major focus these days as it allows you to cut out the middlemen and have a real audience.
Re: Australia’s Startmate accelerator announces its most recent class
#6The Australian startup scene is very small. So much so I get approached frequently about searchcode which appears on top of Australia startup lists somehow. Nice to see that startmate is starting to get some coverage though as it should encourage more growth.
If think the Australian startup scene is small you should see the size of the investor pool! Every event is like going to a wedding. I was at the Sydney final presentation and some interesting starts in this cohort. I am already an investor in SmartrMail (great team and product), but I thought Nightingale and EverProof were very interesting too.
>Every event is like going to a wedding.
If you think Sydney investors are a tiny minority then try Melbourne. I stopped going to any startup events because I have become all too familiar with all the investors.
We got selected for "unpitch" in Victoria and cursory glance at investors revealed that I already met all the investors multiple times before
Re: Australia’s Startmate accelerator announces its most recent class
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
If think the Australian startup scene is small you should see the size of the investor pool! Every event is like going to a wedding. I was at the Sydney final presentation and some interesting starts in this cohort. I am already an investor in SmartrMail (great team and product), but I thought Nightingale and EverProof were very interesting too.
>Every event is like going to a wedding. If you think Sydney investors are a tiny minority then try Melbourne. I stopped going to any startup events because I have become all too familiar with all the investors. We got selected for "unpitch" in Victoria and cursory glance at investors revealed that I already met all the investors multiple times before
Come up to Sydney and experience a whole new pool :P
I do have to say that the investor base is vastly better than it was 15 years ago when I was starting out. It was basically a wasteland. Now there are few of us around who have been through the grinder to help.
Re: Australia’s Startmate accelerator announces its most recent class
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
If think the Australian startup scene is small you should see the size of the investor pool! Every event is like going to a wedding. I was at the Sydney final presentation and some interesting starts in this cohort. I am already an investor in SmartrMail (great team and product), but I thought Nightingale and EverProof were very interesting too.
Maybe I should start attending some of the meet-ups. I will e attending a BBQ at the Dutch Consul General's house next week which I was invited to for some reason due to a visiting Dutch ICT/start up delegation. Flixsense AI looked the most interesting to me, but I was only observing though twitter and that is purely from a nerd point of view. SmartrMail would be where I would invest of the list as well if I were eve…
Email done well is still hugely powerful and it is great way to acquire customers at a relatively low cost in the B2C market. It just needs to be done well which isn’t easy.
Re: Australia’s Startmate accelerator announces its most recent class
#9I know startup founders who graduated through startmate and can vouch for it. Our start-up was passed on by black bird ventures but I still keep in touch with them and attended their pitch training session There is really good raw talent in Melbourne but I agree with the comment below that startup scene sucks due to lack of Angel investors
The problem is we don’t have many "second generation” angel investors here in Australia that understand startups from first hand experience (this is where SV has a massive advantage over us and most of the rest of the world).
On the positive there are more and more of us second gen investors out there. I am part of the Sydney Angels group and over the last 18 months the number of entrepreneur that have joined has been really encouraging. We have a long way to go, but at least we are heading in the right direction.
Re: Australia’s Startmate accelerator announces its most recent class
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Every event is like going to a wedding. If you think Sydney investors are a tiny minority then try Melbourne. I stopped going to any startup events because I have become all too familiar with all the investors. We got selected for "unpitch" in Victoria and cursory glance at investors revealed that I already met all the investors multiple times before
Come up to Sydney and experience a whole new pool :P I do have to say that the investor base is vastly better than it was 15 years ago when I was starting out. It was basically a wasteland. Now there are few of us around who have been through the grinder to help.
How do I tap into this sparkling brand new gene pool from Melbourne?
fwiw, I run aihello.com