StartMate: Seed Tech Startup Investment Program
It’s been great today to finally go public with the news about the StartMate program. A few of us have been simmering on this a while and here it is, ready to go.
And what a team? Pollenizer is in some amazing company here. A fantastic group which really highlights the real strength, and not just potential of the Australian startup community.
- Simon Baker (Founder, Classified Adventures)
- Bill Bartee (General Partner, Southern Cross Ventures)
- Mike Cannon-Brookes (Co-Founder, Atlassian)
- Matt Dickinson (Co-Founder, iMega)
- Scott Farquhar (Co-Founder, Atlassian)
- Adrian Giles (Executive Chairman WebFirm, Founder Hitwise)
- Chris Hitchen (Co-Founder, GetPrice.com.au)
- Bart Jellema (Co-Founder, Tjoos)
- David Jones (Co-Founder, ThreatMetrix)
- Alan Jones (Founder, DoingWords)
- Ryan Junee (Co-Founder, Ominisio)
- Phil Morle and Mick Liubinskas (Co-Founders, Pollenizer)
- Paul McCarney (Co-Founder, Quotify)
- Dean McEvoy (Co-Founder, Spreets)
- Geoff McQueen (Founder, Hiive Systems)
- Luke Metcalfe (Founder, Rapid Intelligence)
- Jared Oken (Co-Founder, GetPrice.com.au)
- Niki Scevak (Founder, Homethinking)
- Phaedon Stough (Managing Partner, MitchelLake)
- Adrian Vanzyl (ex CTO Looksmart, ex CTO Sausage Software)
- Rami Weiss (Founder, Boomerater)
Nice coverage by Renai on Delimeter and picked up by Hacker News
To clarify, Pollenizer will still be running startup bootcamps and investing in startups directly. StartMate is a different program, aimed fairly and squarely and developer based founders.
A big, big round of applause must go to Niki who picked this up and ran with it. Chris Hitchen, Mike Cannon-Brookes, Niki and I were all talking about it for a while, but Niki got off his arse and just got it done. Which suits the name well.
“I’ve got an idea, what should I do?”
“Just start mate.”
If you’d like to be a part of it, apply here.
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