What’s Next For Startmate in 2017

Nick Crocker

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Startmate

6 min readApr 12, 2017

Startmate’s 2017 Demo Days are now done and dusted.

We held incredible events in Sydney and Melbourne, sold-out and standing room only.

The teams represented Startmate proudly.

Here is what’s next for them:

Flaunter — Has raised $850k AUD. They are now hiring a Full-Stack Tech lead.

Black.ai — Raising $950k USD.

Honee — Raising $750k AUD.

Construction Cloud — Has raised $500k AUD. Now hiring engineers.

Mentorloop — Raising $1M AUD.

Morse Micro — Raising $3M USD.

If you want to be connected to any of the teams, email oscar at startmate dot com dot au.

Startmate Demo Day — The Basement, Sydney

Startmate Melbourne

Startmate is launching its inaugural program in Melbourne in July, 2017.

Applications are open now.

Applications close at midnight on June 1.

We are offering you $75,000 in exchange for 7.5% of your company.

If you have already raised more than $250,000 in funding, we will match your last round valuation as at June 1.

If you are successful in getting into the Startmate program, we will let you know on June 8.

Click Here To Apply

About Startmate

Startmate is Australia’s best technology accelerator.

We supercharge Australian founders with the ambition to be the best in the world.

Startmate is an intensive program for 3 months, and a community for life.

Startmate Companies & Investments

As of April 2017, Startmate has funded 52 companies, investing just over $2M across that portfolio.

Startmate’s most recent successes include:

Flirtey — $16MM Series A (January 2017)
Happy Inspector — $7.5MM Series A (October 2016)
Propeller Aerobotics — $3.1MM Series A (September 2016)
UpGuard — $17MM Series B (August 2016)
Bugcrowd — $15MM Series B (April 2016)
Edrolo — $2.6MM Series A (May 2015)

And we’re just as proud of the Startmate circle of life, where the founders whose companies don’t work out go on to do amazing things. For example:

Paul Veevers (Journalmate, SM16) is now CTO at Elevio.
Samantha Wong (Gravity, SM15) is now VP Operations at Blackbird Ventures, and a Startmate Partner.
Ricky Robinson (Composure, SM14) is now CEO of Shorthand.
Chris Raethke (GetStall, SM13) went on to join Casey at Bugcrowd as founding CTO.
Dan Friedman (Ninja Blocks, SM12) is now VP Product at identitii.
Dave Kuhn (Chorus, SM11) is the founding CTO at Spaceship, the technology focussed superannuation fund.

You can see all the Startmate companies here.

You can see what we look for in founders here.

Team, Partners & Mentors

Startmate’s General Manager is Oscar Mclennan.

I (Nick Crocker) am the Startmate Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

Samantha Wong and Rachael Neumann are the Startmate Partners.

Startmate’s mentors invest their own money into the program. That’s a huge part of what makes us different, and what makes the people involved in Startmate committed to deeply helping.

Our mentors are:

Warren Hogarth (SF) — CEO, Empower Finance
Thomas Rice (SYD) — Lead Tech Analyst, Perpetual
Susan Wu (MEL) — Founder, Angel Investor (Twitter, Square, reddit, Canva, LIFX)
Stuart Argue (SF) — CTO, Recovery Record (SM12)
Silvia Hope (MEL) — CEO, AmazingCo
Scott Farquhar (SYD/SF) — CEO, Atlassian
Samantha Wong (SYD) — VP Operations, Blackbird Ventures
Samantha Mostyn (SYD) — NED (Mirvac, Citibank, Transurban, Virgin)
Sandy Kory (SF) — Angel Investor (Canva, Palantir, Bugcrowd)
Sam Shoolman (SYD) — Head of A/NZ Sales, Hubspot
Sam Chandler (SF) — CEO, Nitro
Sally-Ann Williams (SYD) — Engineering Community & Outreach Program Manager, Google
Richard Horton (SYD/SF) — Partner, Squire Patton Boggs
Rory San Miguel (SYD) — Co-Founder, Propeller Aero (SM14, SM15)
Rick Baker (SYD) — Co-Founder, Blackbird Ventures
Reuben Bramanathan (SF) — Product Counsel, Coinbase
Rami Weiss (SYD) — CEO, Healthshare
Rachel Overell (SF) — HR Director TubeMogul, Inc. (acqd. Adobe)
Rachael Neumann (MEL) — Head of Strategy, Inventium & Board Member, LaunchVic
Phaedon Stough (TAS) — Founder and CEO, Mitchellake Group
Peter Huynh (SYD) — Co-Founder and Partner, Qualgro Venture Capital
Paul Naphtali (MEL) — Co-Founder and Managing Partner, rampersand
Nick Pelly (SYD) — Angel Investor
Niki Scevak (SYD) — Founder, Startmate & Co-Founder, Blackbird Ventures
Nick Crocker (MEL) — Partner, Blackbird Ventures & EiR, Startmate
Rayn Ong (SYD) — Angel Investor, passionate startup t-shirt collector
Mike Baukes (SF) — CEO, Upguard (SM12)
Mike Cannon-Brookes (SYD) — CEO, Atlassian
Mick Liubinskas (SF) — Venture Portfolio Manager, muru-D
Michael Overell (SF) — CEO, Recruitloop
Melissa Widner (SYD) — General Partner, NAB Ventures
Dean McEvoy (SYD) — CEO, Techsydney
Matt Dickinson (BYRON) — Angel Investor
Matt Allen (MEL) — Startup BD, AWS
John Henderson (SYD) — Partner, Airtree Ventures
Jodie Auster (MEL) — GM, UberEats
Jeremy Kwong-Law (SYD) — Partner, Grok Ventures
Jeremy Bornstein (MEL) — CTO, Totomic
Jeremy Cox (MEL) — Co-Founder, Edrolo (SM13)
James Windon (SYD) — Investment Committee, Tank Stream Ventures
Holly Cardew (SF) — CEO, Pixc
Hamish Hawthorn (SF) — COO, Upguard
Geoff McQueen (SF) — CEO, Accelo
Eloise Watson (MEL) — Partner, rampersand
Ned Dwyer (SF) — CEO, newco
Duncan Anderson (MEL) — Co-Founder, Edrolo
David Kowalski (SYD) — Angel Investor
David Kenney (SYD) — Partner, Hall Chadwick
David Jones (SF) — CEO, Streethawk
Chris Sharkey (SYD) — CTO, Autopilot
Casey Ellis (SF) — CEO, Bugcrowd
Carl Hartmann (SF) — CEO, Temando
Brendan O’Kane (SF) — MD, OtherLevels
Bill Bartee (SYD) — Co-Founder, Blackbird Ventures
Ben Hartney (SF) — Technical Program Manager, Under Armour Connected Fitness
Bardia Housman (SYD) — Angel Investor
Alfred Lo (SYD) — Angel Investor
Alex Aboitiz (SYD) — Angel Investor
Alan Sharp-Paul (SF) — CEO, Upguard (SM12)
Alan Downie (MEL) — CEO, newco
Alan Jones (SYD) — Startup Evangelist, BlueChilli
Andrea Kowalski (SYD) — Investment Director, Bailador