Startmate Demo Day - W25
The Winter’25 Accelerator cohort is full of founders chasing the edge of what’s possible and dragging the future closer.
Join us at Demo Day to meet the W25 founders, connect with ANZ's most vibrant startup community, and walk away buzzing with ideas (and maybe your next investment).
From AI-native workplaces to at-home cervical screening kits, super-intelligent healthcare agents to haptic gloves that make VR touchable, this cohort is solving problems you didn’t know could be fixed and tackling challenges most shy away from.
They’ve trained as surgeons. Taught university at 15. Demoed their hardware at Open Sauce. Sold companies. And started over. They’re reinventing how we hire, how we heal, how we feel, and how we play. They’ve launched products in weeks, signed customers in days, and raised capital to power their missions before most of us have had our morning coffee.
These companies will be joining the ranks of Upguard, Morse Micro, Heaps Normal, Mindset, Propeller, Great Wrap, 5B, Swoop Aero, Aquila, Happy Co & Bugcrowd as Startmate Alumni.
When: Thursday, 23rd October @ 6:00 PM
Where: The Timber Yard
What: Pitch night (13 companies)
PSA: DEMO DAY ALWAYS SELLS OUT IN ADVANCE. DON’T MISS OUT.
🎫 Ticket pricing
Early bird price: $20 (available till 3 October)
First release: $30 (available till 23 October)
Final release: $35 (tickets on the door)
🤤 Food and drinks will be served on the night!
🦄 Overview of the night
6:00 pm - Check-in & Mingling
6:45 pm - Pitches Start
8:30 pm - After-party at the venue
➡️ For investors
Want to invest in the next gen of early-stage startups?
First Believers - Learn the craft of investing while simultaneously being exposed to 700+ early-stage startups
Startmate Funds - Invest in our Accelerator companies
🚀 For founders
We've got 4 initiatives for founders depending on where you're at:
Launch Club - start a new company
Accelerator - raise your pre-seed or seed round
Startmate Leaders Collective - for female founders at any stage
Founder Bootcamp - for students testing out founding
🪩 What is Demo Day?*
Every 6 months, we unearth ANZ’s grittiest, hungriest founders; the ones with cosmic dreams and colossal drive. These companies join our Accelerator. We invest 120k and they spend 12 weeks laser-focused on their customer, building the best product fathomable and setting the foundations they need for exponential growth.
Demo Day is the grand finale - an event where our Accelerator founders unveil radical progress, boundless ambition, and their world-changing startup ideas to the world.
Tldr; Demo Day is a pitch night, networking event, and most importantly a BIG FAT PARTY. You wouldn't want to miss it.
This is an 18+ event*
🧡 THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS 🧡
✨ Launch Vic ✨ Fuelling the growth of Victoria’s startup ecosystem.
✨ Taurus Legal Management ✨ is a premier full-service commercial law firm trusted by ambitious businesses and the people behind them. They work with founders, startups, and investors to make the most of opportunities while minimising risk. Known for being responsive, strategic, and commercially minded, Taurus helps you get the most out of your business at every stage of growth.
✨ Scendar ✨ Scendar is an accounting and advisory practice, perhaps better described as Finance as a Service (FaaS). They focus on founders and startups. Clients that are ever-changing and adapting. They like fast movers.