Student Founder Bootcamp
You don’t need to sound like a startup veteran to get into the Student Founder Bootcamp. In fact, you’ll stand out more if you don’t. Spoiler: we ain't looking for your CV.
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Junior Content Creator
Bell Allen
Making Startmate a magnet for the ambitious and growing our top of funnel through creative content.
Favourite part of working at Startmate?
The freedom to create.
Favourite Quote?
"Learn lots, play fair" - My Dad
Favourite book?
Pride and Prejudice
What was the first job you ever had, and what did you learn from it?
Lifeguard at our local pool. Learnt how to make the best hot chips and how to be super patient on the job.
What would be your alternative career?
A chef - would love to spend all day cookin'!
Articles by
Bell Allen
Student Founder Bootcamp
The Student Founder Bootcamp isn’t a program for people who’ve already started companies - it’s for students who want to try what founding feels like (without the dropping out of uni part)
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Student Founder Bootcamp
Most students hear “startup” and think of unicorns, pitch decks and billion-dollar ideas. But founders rarely start there. They start by noticing things that could be better and do something about it.
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Student Founder Bootcamp
You don’t have to call yourself a founder to join the Student Founder Bootcamp. In fact, mooooost students who join aren’t founders yet (they’re just curious). Here's the tea....
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Accelerator
Executive dysfunction is one of the biggest daily challenges for people living with ADHD. STU is a standalone companion that sits on your desk and is activated by a simple “Hey, STU”.
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Accelerator
In the world of physical machinery from elevators and vending machines to complex mining equipment a critical resource is quietly disappearing: tacit knowledge. Enter Integuide.
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Accelerator
“I was a Med Student, I lived in a major city and I only got screened because I was in surgery. What happens to women who don't have that access?" That question became the seed of June.
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Accelerator
Community
Startups 101
Every founder has heard the stories of solo founders building in their garage. But the truth? No founder does it alone. Meet the mentors transforming the way Startmate founders grow.
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Accelerator
Community
Startmate
Startups 101
Since 2010, Startmate has invested in over 350 startups. Often pre-revenue, pre-product, for all our founders, we are their very first believers. Let's meet some of them...
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Accelerator
Startups 101
Tldr: you don’t need to fly to SF or wait until you’re “ready”, you need a crew that pulls the future closer, faster. Got what it takes to join the Startmate Accelerator?
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Accelerator
Community
Startmate
Startups 101
Accelerator? Shmuccelerator? If you’re building a startup, chances are you’ve heard the term accelerator. It gets thrown around a lot, but wtf is it?
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Accelerator
Luck AI: a new kind of workspace where AI does more than answer questions. It rewrites, refines, and suggests improvements right inside your real documents.
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Accelerator
Startmate Collective
Women
Remy Tucker, founder of On the House, shares her journey from midwife to solo founder and how she’s building an ad-funded period product empire. Here are all the tips, tricks and tools Remy uses daily
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First Believers
Investments
Australia has long clung to its badge: the lucky country. Blessed with abundant natural resources, political stability, excellent universities and enviable lifestyle, we’ve coasted on luck for decades
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Startmate Collective
Women
Founding a startups like speed running a game with the difficulty set to “unwinnable” and half the instructions in invisible ink. Here's why founders are joining Startmate Collective.
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Startmate Collective
Women
It’s a highly-vetted community for ambitious women and non-binary people building serious momentum in their careers. Peek into a week-in-the-life of a Startmate Collective member.
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Startmate Collective
Kate Andrews, former CTO at CipherStash, gave us a rare behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to lead at the highest level in tech.
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First Believers
What does it take to stand out among 736 startups? For the first time we're pulling back the curtain on ANZ’s sharpest startup filter: the Winter25 Accelerator selection process.
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First Believers
This article shares a cheat sheet for making your first startup investment: how to build confidence, why community matters, and why getting started is more important than being perfect.
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First Believers
Is angel investing only for the ultra-wealthy? Not quite. This piece explores what it really takes to get started in Australia and New Zealand and why cheque size isn’t the most important factor.
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First Believers
In this guide, we break down the first steps to angel investing in Australia and New Zealand: from understanding sophisticated investor requirements to building conviction and community.
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Launch Club
When Holly Sanders landed a role at a fast-growing startup, she didn’t just join a high-velocity team - she found the spark for her own.
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Accelerator
Security teams are drowning in noise. With every new vulnerability scanner and compliance update, it gets harder to know what actually matters - and what’s just clutter.
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Accelerator
Underground infrastructure rarely gets the attention it deserves - until it fails. For utilities and industries reliant on complex, often inaccessible pipe networks.
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Accelerator
Pentacue is shifting that by using AI to simplify how electronics companies identify potential customers based on public government filings.
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Accelerator
Gen Z is the most connected - and loneliest - generation in history. Social media has become performance. Physical third places have disappeared. Online or offline, there’s nowhere left to simply be.
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Accelerator
NOD is setting the pace for the future of childcare by providing a platform that connects parents with trusted childcare professionals in real-time.
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Launch Club
When Vish Varma and Roupen Minassian first started building Vern, it wasn’t the product they’re known for today.
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Startmate Collective
In this spotlight series we are introducing the courageous, clever and powerful women in our Ladymates community. Let us introduce Cinthya Zurita, Senior Operations Manager at Remarkable!
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Startmate Collective
In this spotlight series we are introducing the courageous, clever and powerful women in our Ladymates community. So why don't we introduce Jess Hope! Jess is the founder of Create Racket!
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Launch Club
Steph Brook didn’t set out to build a new social media platform. She just wanted a better way to find great recommendations from people who actually get her.
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Startmate Collective
In this spotlight series we are introducing the courageous, clever and powerful women in our Ladymates community. So, let us introduce Brinley Meagher, Corporate Transactions & Startup Lawyer at LUNA!
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Student Founder Bootcamp
When Ned Murdoch talks about EarthBrew, it’s less a business pitch and more a reflection of the mission driving him.
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Student Founder Bootcamp
Khiem Nguyen's journey is proof that with the right mindset, you can turn big ideas into impactful realities.
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Launch Club
When Jaden Kostogiannis first hacked together an inventory app with a co-worker, he didn’t expect it to outshine a $100k ERP system.
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Student Founder Bootcamp
Globally, brands spend over a trillion dollars each year on supermarket trade promotions yet over 50% of them fail to break even.
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Student Founder Bootcamp
We sat down with Ethan Green, Summer’25 Student Fellow who is passionate about entrepreneurship and startups.
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Launch Club
“It’s been a really enjoyable journey,” she says, reflecting on the whirlwind that is ELEN MedTech.
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Launch Club
When Dan Borthwick reflects on his career, there’s a clear thread: a love of building, collaborating, and empowering others to create.
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Launch Club
In 2024, Carmen was scheduled for a critical surgery, but a month after the consultation, she’d forgotten much of what she was told.
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Startmate Collective
Every day, women across the ANZ startup and tech ecosystem are driving change, leading teams, and breaking new ground. But being at the top can often be isolating, and sometimes, finding the right guidance and support feels impossible. Here are (just) 5 reasons why women leaders are choosing to join the community!
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