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Meet Landid: The Startup Transforming the Way Tradies Quote Jobs
Accelerator
Meet Landid: The Startup Transforming the Way Tradies Quote Jobs

By

Holly Brooks

August 28, 2025

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.
Meet Gloss Guide: The Beauty Discovery Engine Behind Your Favourite Looks
Accelerator
Meet Gloss Guide: The Beauty Discovery Engine Behind Your Favourite Looks

By

Holly Brooks

August 28, 2025

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.
Meet Fluency: The Ops Engine That Turns Chaos into Clarity
Accelerator
Meet Fluency: The Ops Engine That Turns Chaos into Clarity

By

Holly Brooks

August 28, 2025

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.
Meet Evidentful: The AI Platform Automating Witness Interviews for Police
Accelerator
Meet Evidentful: The AI Platform Automating Witness Interviews for Police

By

Holly Brooks

August 28, 2025

Evidentful is an AI-driven platform designed for police forces to help them automate witness interviews and capture them in 60 different languages.
Meet our Summer23 cohort
Accelerator
Meet our Summer23 cohort

By

Bronte McHenry

August 28, 2025

The problems these 21 founders are solving are systemic, far-reaching and incredibly pressing.
Rewriting the Future of Fashion: Circular Sourcing’s Answer to Textile Waste
Accelerator
Rewriting the Future of Fashion: Circular Sourcing’s Answer to Textile Waste

By

Phoebe Pincus

August 28, 2025

Each year, millions of meters of fabric sit idle in warehouses. Some of it gets sold off, some stays put, gathering dust.
Startmate's Summer22 Accelerator cohort is one to watch
Accelerator
Startmate's Summer22 Accelerator cohort is one to watch

By

Bronte McHenry

August 28, 2025

From art licensing and plastic waste transformation to chemical procurement and social fitness for Gen Z, Startmate’s Summer22 Accelerator cohort is one of our most impressive yet.
Meet Climate Tech Fellow: Shu Das
Community
Meet Climate Tech Fellow: Shu Das

By

Holly Brooks

August 28, 2025

Hear from Shu Das, an experienced Chartered Accountant and recent Climate Tech Fellowship graduate.
How to find success with the right intern, according to Normal’s Lucy Wark
Student Founder Bootcamp
How to find success with the right intern, according to Normal’s Lucy Wark

By

Bronte McHenry

August 28, 2025

Time-poor founders and operators are often hesitant to take on interns. But the right intern can “be a dream”, says Normal Founder Lucy Wark.
Meet Climate Tech Fellow: Madeleine Maslin
Community
Meet Climate Tech Fellow: Madeleine Maslin

By

Holly Brooks

August 28, 2025

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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