David Burt
Director of Entrepreneurship
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Turo partners with Uber, AirTrunk's $23B sale & agtech spotlightAbout UNSW Founders
UNSW Founders is the University of New South Wales' entrepreneurship program, run from the university's Michael Crouch Innovation Centre in Sydney, which opened in 2015. It offers UNSW students, staff and alumni events, pre-accelerator and accelerator programs including the 10x Accelerator, the Peter Farrell Cup, a makerspace, mentoring and scale-up support. UNSW Founders says it supports more than 12,000 people a year, and that startups from its accelerators since 2018 have raised more than $175 million.
- Sector
- Startup incubator/accelerator (university)
- Business model
- University accelerator/incubator program
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- Sydney
Sources: unswfounders.com, unswfounders.com
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“UNSW is recognized as Australia's leading university for entrepreneurship. Particularly through their UNSW Founders Program.”
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Why Notion Is Betting on AI Building Blocks – with Andrew McCarthy, GM ANZ at Notion · 1:29“that's where the UNSW Founders team really helped us. So they helped us with everything from What do you ask customers? You know, how do you know what they want?”
“you look at what's happening with UNSW Founders nowadays and the programs that they're developing, the focus on deep tech they've just announced, uh, this year, that we're seeing all these opportunities being created with investment”
“the program name changed from Student Entrepreneur Development to the UNSW Founders Program in 2015, 2016, I think. And now it's gone great guns and they've got a whole raft of programs and it's a very, very well-resourced program.”
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