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The Optus-Innov8 Seed Season 2 Shortlist
The Australian tech startup ecosystem keeps powering on. Well that’s what we see from the number of applications we’ve received for our second season of the Optus-Innov8 Seed Program. Last July, the Seed Program evaluated just over 70 applications and…
We’re excited to be supporting Innovation Bay
You may have heard recently about Innovation Bay announcing Optus coming onboard as a sponsor. Since launching the Optus-Innov8 Seed Program last July, we’ve been invited to a number of Innovation Bay events and had the opportunity to work closely…
Season 2 Info Session slides
Over the past week, we’ve held Info Sessions for Season 2 applications in Sydney and Melbourne, and via Skype in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Thanks to all those who came along to find out more – nice to see some…
Season Return
We were privileged to see some of Australia’s best startups apply to our inaugural Seed Program in July last year. Last round we received some 70 plus applications from all over the country whereby we saw 10 present at our…
End of Year Drinks at the Woollahra Hotel
WIth the year fast coming to a close, we thought we’d take the opportunity to invite the Seed Program’s partners and friends along to the Terrace Bar at the Woollahra Hotel for some casual drinks last Wednesday evening. Around 70…
Startup Weekend Sydney: it’s mobile baby!
This November marked another milestone in the aspiring Australian startup ecosystem with not one, two, but three Australian cities holding Startup Weekends in the same month, two of which (Adelaide and Brisbane) coinciding the same weekend. The Startup Weekend movement…
First investments across the line…
It’s an exciting day for the Optus-Innov8 Seed Program as we’ve just announced our first round of investments in 121cast and Venuemob. We’re very excited to be working with both teams and keen to help them progress to their next stage development.…
Coming soon…
So it’s been a over a month since our Pitch Day and we know what you’re thinking – who ended up getting investment from Optus-Innov8? Well that’s a great question so let’s get that off our chest – we’re currently…