Accelerate 2020: Full Speed Ahead
Following the successful completion of our 2020 Pre-Accelerator, we are pleased to announce our Accelerate Program has kicked off with an amazing cohort of startups & team of EiR’s.
During our short, 4-week recruitment campaign we were overwhelmed with applications from early stage, migrant-led startups across Australia. After a difficult selection process we finalised a cohort of 23 startups with 41 founders (54/46 female to male ratio) from 24 countries.
Over the following 12 weeks, the teams will work on a weekly sprint to reach key business milestones culminating in a virtual Demo Day event. In addition to weekly one-on-one’s with the Entrepreneurs in Residence, the teams will attend various practical workshops including Digital Marketing 101, Mindfulness & Wellbeing and Pitching & Storytelling. In the last month of the program, the cohort will go into preparation mode for our virtual Demo Day event (watch this space for details).
Over the years we’ve been privileged to have talented and accomplished EiR’s mentor our cohorts through the hectic journey that is entrepreneurship. While 2020 has turned everyone’s world upside down, we’ve managed to lock down some brilliant Entrepreneurs in Residence to help the cohort navigate through this unknown territory.
Co-Founder and CEO of Hacker Exchange, an organisation connecting startups to innovation hubs (in person — and virtually!) helping leaders grow as global citizens and develop innovation skills. Hawaiian-born with a Chinese-Malaysian background, Jeanette’s experience is a blend of startup mentorship, community building, and 14 years corporate innovation, product and marketing.
A veteran of the Australian start-up scene, since the days when you could count the number of Australian startups using just your fingers (that actually wasn’t long ago but it dates her as an ‘oldie’). She’s worked on more than 15 startups at various growth stages, mentored at least thrice as many, and has worked with Catalysr for 4+ years.
Founder of Amina of Zaria, #ColourFULL conference and Australia’s leading Thought Leader in the advancement of women of colour and the future of work. She has a passion for entrepreneurship having started several businesses since she was 16yo. She has a strong background in social impact, entrepreneurship and commercialisation.
Founder of Changemakers Lab and world cycle-tourer. Roberto is passionate about working with purpose driven people and organisations to design and build social enterprise ecosystems for social change and environmental regeneration. Roberto has developed national award-winning accelerator programs in the UK and developed and ran one of the largest social enterprise accelerator programs in Iran.
Our 2020 Accelerate program is possible with the support of our amazing partners Scanlon Foundation, Westpac Foundation, Vasudhara Foundation, IAG & Seventh Street Ventures.
