Startmate is a group of startup executives offering mentorship and seed financing to founders of Internet and Software businesses based in Australia. We want to help create world class companies that solve customer problems.
Startmate has invested in eight local startups as part of its 2012 program. Startmate is a mentor-driven seed fund that invests in Australian hackers who have worldwide ambitions to create great Internet startups. The eight companies of the current program are, in alphabetical order, Clique (@CliqueAppInc), Flightfox (@flightfox), Happy Inspector (@happyinspector), Invc.me (@semblancesys), Ninja Blocks [...]
The applications for our second season of Startmate close next Wednesday, 30th November at midnight. Make sure you get your application in on time. You can apply at http://startmate.producteev.com. Here are a few comments from founders from the first season of Startmate: “Startmate was an awesome experience. We received great advice from all the mentors, especially on [...]
Startmate Q&A and Bugherd Applications for Startmate 2012 are currently open but you may have questions.Come along to our Q&A night in Melbourne next Wednesday, 9th November at 6pm and speak with Startmate co-founder Niki Scevak and Alan Downie and Matt Milosavljevic, the founders of Bugherd, a Startmate season 1 company. Get a better understanding [...]
Finding the right co-founder for startups is one of the most difficult and challenging tasks. We wanted to give a quick shout out to Oliver Bremer, who has launched Founder2be. Here’s a short description from Oliver: Founder2be. Find a co-founder. Start a startup. Or join one. Do you know how to write code, but not [...]
Big thanks to Julia French, a prominent and dynamic member of the Bay Area ‘Aussie startup mafia’, who landed us a write-up of our Silicon Valley tour, which appeared in Techcrunch today. You never quite know which way a Techcrunch writers is going to go with a story angle and it’s great to see them [...]