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Rave is a platform for sharing recommendations with people who share your taste. It's part social feed, part bookmarking tool, part internet rabbit hole.
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Senior Marketing Manager
Holly Brooks
Growing Startmate Nation.
Favourite part of working at Startmate?
Sharing the stories of our most ambitious community members and inspiring the next generation to join the troop.
Favourite Quote?
"Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life” – Confucius.
Favourite book?
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
What was the first job you ever had, and what did you learn from it?
I worked at a bakery. I learnt to love early mornings and how to bake delicious sourdough bread.
What would be your alternative career?
A painter (the abstract kind)
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Holly Brooks
Accelerator
Promosync is bringing operational infrastructure to the heart of FMCG retail, and it might just change the way products move through the global supply chain.
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Accelerator
Starting a company is exhilarating, but it’s also lonely, messy and full of blind corners. An Accelerator exists to speed up that journey.
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Investments
Startmate
At Startmate, we’re industry agnostic. We invest in people first. This is our Request for Startups, a non-exhaustive list of areas we’re particularly interested in, co-authored by our mentors.
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Investments
Since 2010, Startmate has invested in over 300 startups. Today, these companies are worth over $4.5b and employ over 3.5k people.
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First Believers
"You don’t need to be smarter than the world. You just need to be in the right market at the right moment."
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Accelerator
The Winter ’25 cohort is full of founders chasing the edge of what’s possible and dragging the future closer.
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Startmate Collective
When Kate Barany became a mum to two high-energy boys, she quickly realised parenting required more planning than a wedding and more group chats than a high school reunion.
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Startmate Collective
As a clinical psychologist, Rachel Harker spent years sitting with young people 1:1, listening, supporting, and witnessing the quiet epidemic rising beneath the surface.
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Startmate Collective
This membership has grown into one of the most powerful and fast-growing offerings at Startmate, a community for ambitious women across tech and startups to connect, grow, and lead.
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First Believers
Bill Tai, early backer of Canva, Zoom, and SafetyCulture, shares how he evaluates founders and investment opportunities.
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First Believers
Anna Barber, Partner at M13 and former Managing Director of Techstars LA, argues that the greatest determinant of venture outcomes comes down to people.
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Startmate Collective
At Startmate, we believe in the power of visible role models. The saying “You can’t be what you can’t see” rings true, especially in leadership.
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Startups 101
Ok. So we all hear the words “Product” and “Manager” thrown around. But WTF actually is Product Management and what does a Product Manager do?
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Accelerator
Every 6 months, we get 700+ applications for our Accelerator. There are three stages to the application process.
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Startups 101
When most people hear the word “code” in a sentence, they think of a complex arrangement of GREEN letters, numbers, and figures trickling down like raindrops against a black backdrop.
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Community
There’s no doubt, startups are hard work. The high-risk, high-reward environment characteristic of startups is a beautiful and chaotic way to test yourself.
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Accelerator
The future of self-driving transport is here and knocking at our door. Founders Tim Snell, Joe Bullock and Pat Ivory have been answering some of these knocks, launching Pitcrew AI in 2020.
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Zipline is transforming passive online stores into interactive, insight-rich experiences where creation and IP begins with you.
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Luniate offers a lively platform that bridges the gap between financial firms and the investors of tomorrow.
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Quoting in the building industry is slow, manual, costly, and overlooked. Landid is changing that by helping tradies spend less time on quotes and more time doing what they do best.
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Gloss Guide is building the infrastructure to turn beauty inspiration into reality, saving artists thousands in marketing costs and helping clients find the beauty professional for them.
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While sales, support, and engineering teams all have real-time visibility tools, ops teams are left without a system to understand what's happening, when, or how.
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Evidentful is an AI-driven platform designed for police forces to help them automate witness interviews and capture them in 60 different languages.
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Community
Hear from Shu Das, an experienced Chartered Accountant and recent Climate Tech Fellowship graduate.
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Community
Madeleine is a lawyer, writer, tech policy researcher, former federal election campaign manager, and Chief Problem Solver at circular economy powerhouse, Alchemy Global Solutions.
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Community
Heidi Dumesich is a dedicated and skilled professional in the field of sustainability. Heidi is currently the Sustainability Manager at Ventia.
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Community
Hear from John Keith, a banker and early stage growth investor that recently graduated from the Climate Tech Fellowship.
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Accelerator
We want to debunk the myths, clear up the grey areas and communicate unequivocally to our community what the Accelerator IS and ISN’T.
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SplootCode founders Katie Bell and Mattia Fregola are on a mission to make coding simple, widespread and accessible to everyone.
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Revolutionary climate-tech startup Kelpy is on a mission to eliminate plastic packaging, replacing it with sustainably sourced, marine degradable seaweed bioplastics.
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Startmate Collective
The real magic of Startmate Collective lies in the connections you build with talented, like-minded people who become not just colleagues but lifelong friends.
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Student Founder Bootcamp
We sat down with Lutjen Lee Winter’23 Student Fellow and founder of Farmbite an online marketplace enabling people to buy, swap, and sell locally grown produce.
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Student Founder Bootcamp
Archer and Davin share their experience of the Student Fellowship, the evolution of their startup and why they have chosen to pursue the founder pathway.
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Launch Club
Since 2021, 13% (5/39) of Accelerator companies have come through Launch Club. Keep reading to learn more about the companies and what made them stand out.
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Launch Club
Launch Club is a golden ticket into the Starmate village – a buzzing, vibrant, ever-innovative and inspiring village.
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Accelerator
If you haven’t personally experienced the horrors of renting, chances are you know someone who has.
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Community
When Connor Finlayson founded the Unicorn Factory in 2018, his intentions were simple: Find more clients to freelance for.
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Launch Club
Accelerator
Interested in one of Startmate's founder programs, but not sure where to start? We've broken it down for you here.
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Accelerator
If you asked Raj Bagri six years ago what her life’s purpose was, she would have told you it was to build an impactful company that will change the world.
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Women
We get a lot of questions about what actually happens in the Women Fellowship, so we’ve put together a bit of a BTS to give you some tangible ideas.
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It’s not every day you meet a founder who has spent the last 20+ years solving some of the world’s greatest humanitarian issues.
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Student Founder Bootcamp
Students are to startups what pineapple is to pizza. Don't believe us? Read on...
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Startmate Collective
Included in memberships are "peer advisory groups" that meet once a month and form an incredibly valuable and popular part of the membership experience.
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Startmate Collective
Here are some hot tips for persuading your employer to invest in your education – even if there’s no set L&D budget or tuition reimbursement policy.
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