Techstars Tech Central Sydney Accelerator

Week 6 🌯 - that's a wrap!! Half way through the program 😱 This week was another juicy one - our focus was Customers 🔥 Obvs we couldn't wait to share - but what a founder fireside with Dominic Pym from Euphemia 🏛️ 6 Pillars of Success with Jess Dahlberg sharing how our founders can unlock the "unfair" advantages high performers use. 🗺️ Mapped out customer experiences with our very own Brittany Fox from NEVAM CX ❤️🔥 Our second episode of Family Founder Fireside featuring Laetitia Andrac co-founder of Understanding Zoe and 2/3 of the Earthletica Activewear team Chris Raleigh & Bronte Campbell (safe to say there was not a dry eye in the house 🥺) Let's go week 7 #startups #accelerator #techstars #founderfirst

🔦 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 📣 Introducing the Earthletica Activewear - future-fit activewear created for those who refuse to compromise on style, performance, or sustainability - founding team Bronte Campbell, Chris Raleigh and Libby Babet 🏃♀️The activewear industry is filled with brands that still rely on virgin plastics and unsustainable practices. 🌟 Earthletica stands out because:  •⁠ Their activewear merges cutting-edge garment technology with sustainable materials, delivering quality and functionality that lasts •⁠ They brought two world first sustainable technologies to market in our Bronte Jacket with: 𝟭. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗙𝗔𝗦 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘇𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿 •⁠ They're not just keeping up with the industry; we’re raising the bar for what it means to be a truly sustainable brand 🏋️♀️ 💪 Techstars Tech Central Sydney Accelerator is all in on Earthletica because while on face value they look like they simply make the most amazing workout gear; it's when you look under the hood you see their competitive foundations, you understand just how disruptive their product is AND how uniquely positioned they are to scale into a household name over the coming years. 🤝 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Know someone who’s ready to raise their standards for activewear? Tag them below and explore our latest collection, designed to help you do it better. #sustainablefashion #futurefit #activewear #earthletica #innovation #styleandsustainability #techstars #accelerator 

🔥 We could not wait until the end of week wrap to share the founder fireside we just had 🔥 Dominic Pym - what stories - 🤯 Obviously Chattham house rules apply but here's some zero context snippets: "Trust your gut - then get the data to back it up" "Co-opitition over competition" "Don't raise capital, raise a project" #techstars #founderfireside #accelerator

🔦 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 📣 Introducing Visuo - a customer activation platform that uses personalised videos to help capture attention & drive customer acquisition at scale to maximise revenue & growth for those businesses 📈 🏦 Organisations like banks & SaaS companies spend millions of dollars a year to attract new customers that they often fail to convert - because who hasn't received another boring generic email that you just pressed delete on? 🎁 Visuo is about giving businesses a brand new way to engage & activate the customers that they want by delivering the results they are after. 💪 Techstars Tech Central Sydney Accelerator is all in on Visuo because: • The team has built the product they needed when advising enterprise clients • The product is mature and ready to scale • Lap-Tin understands opportunities within underserved niches and can position the product to be a no-brainer for leaders to jump on board • Lap-Tin is the type of founder who will not rest until he's built the most successful company he can. 🤝 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆: Visuo is exploring channel partnerships with marketing agencies who do you know that would love to help their clients drive more activation of their customers? Pop their name in the comments below or connect with Lap-Tin Tsun 🗣️ #techstars #accelerator #founder

Funding for female founders rose from 11% of deals in Q2 to 13% in Q3. But it's still down significantly from 2023. Techstars Tech Central Sydney Accelerator managing director 🍇 Kirstin Hunter and Flying Fox Ventures Rachael Neumann say companies founded by women are not getting the resources they need to be successful. Forbes Australia https://lnkd.in/gpcxRjTa

Blink and you'll miss it - total vibes in the Sydney team right now - how have we just wrapped week 5???? 🎬 🧐 Focus for this week: Sales + Marketing 🔦 Highlights of this week: - Marketing 101 with Bridget Cull @ Stella Startups - Running experiments to find out what really matters to customers with our resident legends Heatseeker - Founder led sales with Nimmity Zappert @ Authentic Selling - Tim Fung's Founder fireside sharing truths on what's actually a feature and what's a bug 🐛 💪 Today we finished strong with an epic 🔥 Family Founder Fireside with Jenny Rudd and Kate O'Keeffe sharing their epic stories 💚 Bring on week 6 🛫

Aaaaaaand that's a wrap 🌯! Yesterday was day 5 of 5 of our Techstars Mentor Magic! We finished on a day of virtual meetings with another phenomenal bunch of super generous mentors: Alberto Chierici, Ph.D., Ben Preston, Darian Sarellano, Hannah Moreno, Jai Singh, Jason Atkins, Jenny Ringland, Kirsty Dare, Lucinda Hartley, Mike Gardiner, Nhat Nguyen, Reika Phung Dzupinka and Stephanie J. R. Thank you, thank you, thank you - for your time, help and feedback it's been super valuable! Now our awesome founders are off to camp at the Hunter Valley Retreat 🏕️ 🪫➡️🔋 #techstars #givefirst

Today was our last in-person Mentor Magic day and once again feedback from Mentors + Founders was overwhelmingly positive 🤩 Office vibes were high 🥳 our lunch was delish and there were SO MANY fab chats!! Thank you so much to our generous mentors from today: Anchal Goel, Chadd SJ Ciccarelli, Chris Simon, Claire Bull, Adam Caines, Darren Wu, Hendrik Remigereau, Kath P., Luke Rix, Meagan Walsh, Mitchell Weiss and Yin Shum 🙌 our founders loved you all!! Bring on Thursday - last day, fully virtual - let's go!!!

Thursday was day 3/5 of Techstars Mentor Magic 🪄 And our team was stoked to have the women mentors outnumber the men 💃 Again SO MANY high calibre humans in one space - it's just a whole vibe!!! Thank you so much to our Day 3 mentors for generously giving their time and knowledge 🧠 the program team and the founders are so grateful 🙏 Veronica Mason, Theresa Lim 林玉洁 MSc(CPsych), MBA (AGSM), Olivia Burmester, Simon Webb, Angela Langmann, Juri Han, Chio Verastegui, Alan Jones, Brinley Meagher, Jess Dahlberg, Kate Freeman & Ben King

We didn't think it was possible to beat Day 1 of Techstars Mentor Magic - but woweee Day 2 was sensational as well 🤩 - another group of incredible smart and generous mentors joined us for 12 x 15min speed dates with our founders and both sides of the table raved about the day! 🥇 This was our first time running a hybrid mentor magic day and it was FUN!! Thank you so much to our Day 2 mentors: Ben Mills, Dan Swan, PhD, Erika Enberg, Jason Bulger, Michelle Cheng, Nicholas Vardakis, Nick Hughes, Preethi Mohan, Shanie Atkinson, Vijay Solanki🦄🚀🏔️, 💼🧚♂️ Vinisha Rathod, Yoash Dvir 🎗️ #techstars #givefirst #accelerator #techcentral