Startmate is Australia’s most ambitious accelerator.
We are not a course in entrepreneurship.
We don’t tell you what to do.
We give you the right ingredients at the right time.
What is it?
The Startmate Accelerator is a 12-week program for startups who are changing the way we work, live and play, and we’re powered by the most successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Australia.
The program runs in both
Sydney (Jan-Apr), from Grok Ventures
Melbourne (Jul-Oct), from The Goods Shed
Alongside the regular program we run the Climate Cohort, for startups addressing the climate crisis.
How does it work?
It begins on a local immersion trip to bond with your cohort, raise your ambition levels, and set your 12 week goals.
We invest $75k in you (at your latest valuation or for 7.5%) and throughout the three month program surround you with the mentors and tools to meet your goals and free office space.
Through weekly alumni lunches, mentor dinners and investor roulettes, mentors support founders to supercharge their businesses. But most of your time is spent on your business.
The official part of the program ends with 2 Demo Days (Sydney & Melbourne) and a week-long immersion trip in San Francisco to expose you to investors, customers, and the best practices in the world.
And then you become alumni, which is a community for life.
Who is it for?
Startmate is industry agnostic — we take the most ambitious founders, whichever industry they work in, and supercharge them.
Our 100+ alumni are in all different industries. Software as well as hardware. From beauty to spacetech, autonomous drones, foodtech, agtech, medtech, martech, sports-tech to hypnosis.
It doesn’t matter if you have $1M in ARR or haven’t even got a product, as long as you are wildly ambitious, pre Series A, and tech-enabled — we can help you.
“What I love about Startmate is the power of the community, the success mindset and the unstructured learning which gives founders the space to grow.”