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When I spoke with Jessica Bakker, one thing stood out instantly: her clarity of purpose. After years working in health tech across the US, she’s now channelling that experience into something new.

After completing the eight-week pre-accelerator sprint that is Launch Club, Claire Goldsworthy took out a top spot at Spring25 Pitch Night hosted at Tank Stream Labs in Haymarket. Introducing Dotti.

The first time I met Marika Conomos, she took to the stage at the Spring25 Pitch Night in Sydney. Unlike the twenty founders before her, she didn’t stand beside the stage; she stepped up onto it.

After nearly two decades inside B2B SaaS companies, Carlos Mora noticed the same problem everywhere he went. Sales reps could pitch but when the conversation turned to value, things fell apart.

In our conversation, Sai reflected on his time in our eight-week pre-accelerator, Launch Club, bringing on co-founders Randy and James and the path to building CrossCourt AI.

Avalon McWha describes Pebbl as a small companion for a smoother life. Small and nifty, Pebbl captures reminders with your voice, then gives gentle nudges across the day (with no screen).

When I first met Mariam Succar, she was knee-deep in allergy research at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne. Her days were spent analysing data and chasing down molecular patterns.

When I caught up with Akiko Orui, she was in motion. Fresh into a master’s in fintech in Singapore, working remotely with an Australian startup and spending weekends in an entrepreneurship bootcamp.

When Lisa Thomson joined the Female Founder Bootcamp, she already had something brewing. An idea that started (as most good ones do) from a problem close to home, literally.

GreenPay: a payments platform built on a deceptively simple idea: what if every transaction, every coffee, every invoice, every energy bill, every online checkout, could help protect nature?