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Matchbox: The hiring platform founders didn't know they needed
Accelerator
Matchbox: The hiring platform founders didn't know they needed

By

Nora Schertwitis

October 1, 2025

Matchbox is building an AI-powered hiring platform designed to help founders hire like the top 1% from day one.
Being a Solo-Founder and Changing Period Product Access with Remy Tucker
Accelerator
Startmate Collective
Women
Being a Solo-Founder and Changing Period Product Access with Remy Tucker

By

Bell Allen

September 24, 2025

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
Accelerators Explained: How They Fuel Early-Stage Startups
Accelerator
Accelerators Explained: How They Fuel Early-Stage Startups

By

Holly Brooks

September 23, 2025

Starting a company is exhilarating, but it’s also lonely, messy and full of blind corners. An Accelerator exists to speed up that journey.
Inside the Startmate Family Office Tech Summit: Why Backing Innovation at Home Matters Now
First Believers
Investments
Inside the Startmate Family Office Tech Summit: Why Backing Innovation at Home Matters Now

By

Bell Allen

September 17, 2025

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
Why founders are sneaking into Startmate Collective?
Startmate Collective
Women
Why founders are sneaking into Startmate Collective?

By

Bell Allen

September 17, 2025

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.
What is the Startmate Collective?
Startmate Collective
Women
What is the Startmate Collective?

By

Bell Allen

September 17, 2025

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.
Startmate Spike Framework
Accelerator
First Believers
Investments
Startmate Spike Framework

By

Nora Schertwitis

September 16, 2025

Startmate looks for spikiness not smoothness. One extraordinary strength in team progress invention vision or ten times better is enough for us to back you.
Requests for Startups
Accelerator
Investments
Startmate
Requests for Startups

By

Holly Brooks

September 6, 2025

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.
Top 20 Startmate companies
Accelerator
Investments
Top 20 Startmate companies

By

Holly Brooks

September 6, 2025

Since 2010, Startmate has invested in over 300 startups. Today, these companies are worth over $4.5b and employ over 3.5k people.
The next investable wave: where Bill Tai sees billions being built in AI, energy, and creator economies
First Believers
The next investable wave: where Bill Tai sees billions being built in AI, energy, and creator economies

By

Holly Brooks

September 4, 2025

"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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