Congratulations to all who participated in the Ventures Validate program.
We recognise the outstanding contributions, innovative work and exemplary ideas demonstrated by our participants. Ventures Validate helps students validate the fit between their ideas and market needs while developing a business model for their product or service.
Semester 2, 2023
| Startup | Description | Participants | |
1st | Coast Clean Drones | Land and aerial drones in combination to collect plastic waste on beach coastlines. | Arishneel Narayan |
2nd | Creatlytics | A platform empowering recruiters to create effective, engaging job ads on social media. | Andres Hald |
3rd | Australian Access Academy | Providing free tutoring for rural students through a self-sustaining business model. | Yeshwant Segu and Siddesh Karekal |
4th | Up-to-Date GPT | Automating the patient history summarisation process to alleviate burden on junior doctors. | Tse-Wei Lee and Jason You |
The intensive program has participants conducting 100+ interviews with their potential customers, guided by leading entrepreneurs, innovators and industry mentors.
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Semester 1, 2023
| Startup | Description | Participants | |
1st | Wildsearch | AI image recognition for researchers to identify birds, with 10,000 photos able to be process in 90 minutes with 93% accuracy. | Duke Wang, Yueqing Xiao and Lin Tseng |
2nd | Grade Guru | Accelerated learning for the modern student. | Matthew Haigh and Hawkins Smith |
3rd | Stonker | Accessible and personalised wealth management utilising AI Bots. | Benjamin Gonzalez |
4th | Farm Hero | Connecting farmers in Cambodia to no-till planters. | Sorkunthika Srour and Vikram Fidolin Anandharaja |
The intensive program has participants conducting 100+ interviews with their potential customers, guided by leading entrepreneurs, innovators and industry mentors.
Semester 2, 2022
| Startup | Description | Participants | |
1st | Florescent Monitoring | Transformer monitoring platform, preventing 60% of blackouts | Jakob Pallot |
2nd | Halal Bee | Marketplace designed to help you find Halal food options | Naajihah Syed Mahmood |
3rd | Immersely | VR trainer for Crane operations, minimising the need for practical training on cranes | Connor Vilaysack, David Elchuk, Jatin Pawar, Tahmina Tabassum and Chuike Lee |
4th | Gravity Garden | Aeroponics solutions for high density communities | Leon Wiesner, Sangay Dorji and Steve Sianmuan |
The intensive program has participants conducting 100+ interviews with their potential customers, guided by leading entrepreneurs, innovators and industry mentors.
Semester 1, 2022
| Startup | Description | Participants | |
1st | Verichain | Blockchain ticketing verification platform | Aryan Rustagi |
2nd | Peam | AI sentiment analysis to help prepare separating parents for mediation by transitioning them from an emotional state to a problem-solving state. | Felix Hall, Grace Beattie, Nelson Prichard and Leidi Peng |
3rd | Swime | Individuals and families the ability to have the private pool experience without having to own one on their own. | Marco Kuenzler |
4th | Joydrobe | We make fashion easy for men and provide confidence and convenience to men who find it difficult to dress well. | E-Young Lee |
The intensive program has participants conducting 100+ interviews with their potential customers, guided by leading entrepreneurs, innovators and industry mentors.
Semester 2, 2021
| Startup | Description | Participants | |
1st | Lewi Software | Application development for water and waste companies. | Geraldine Terada-Bellis and Vishnu Avudainayagam |
2nd | Paw Favor | An online platform that allows pet owners to search, connect, book and review local pet sitters. | Jojo Lu |
3rd | Angela | A mobile safety app that facilitates a more secure night out for women, LGBTQIA+ and other at-risk groups. | Matthew Kairl |
4th | Oz-EV | Aftermarket support for electric vehicles. | Jacques Hickey and Tom McKay |
The intensive program has participants conducting 100+ interviews with their potential customers, guided by leading entrepreneurs, innovators and industry mentors.
Semester 1, 2021
| Startup | Description | Participants | |
1st | NutraHealth | Nourishing babies with a novel infant formula by replicating the same human milk component. | Guillermo Tokman |
2nd | Taktime | A tool created for manufacturing companies to help them collect production data and improve their processes. | Derek Scolnick |
3rd | Paw Favor | An online platform that allows pet owners to search, connect, book and review local pet sitters. | Jojo Lu |
4th | Vacayit | An app to support visually impaired tourists to make informed decisions through audio clips, sounds and stories about destinations. | Hailey Brown |
The intensive program has participants conducting 100+ interviews with their potential customers, guided by leading entrepreneurs, innovators and industry mentors.
Semester 2, 2020
| Startup | Description | Participants | |
1st | Hirely | Everyday dress rental to reduce fashion consumption and make fashionable garments available to everyone. | Lara Berge |
| 2nd | Safe Send | Reducing the risk of fraud or scams when buying second-hand products online. | Nathaniel Dracakis |
3rd | Flowers for Bugs | Creating sustainable ecosystems for bugs in farms to be used as pest control mechanisms. | Jessa Thurman, Jessica Bugeja, O. Adiamo, Jessica Vonpein, Roger Tang, Annaleise Wilson |
4th | One for You | Increasing awareness and resources for First-Aid education. | Merryn Strange |
The intensive program has participants conducting 100+ interviews with their potential customers, guided by leading entrepreneurs, innovators and industry mentors.
Semester 1, 2020
| Startup | Description | Participants | |
1st | Stripped | A monthly subscription box for Type One Diabetics automating the resupply of basic products. | Ashley Hanger |
| 2nd | Resistance Bands | Adjustable resistance bands that offer greater sustainability and reliability for competitive athletes. | Simaima Gordon |
3rd | Ikari Dojo | An independent game development studio releasing ‘Brightstar’, a roguelike game featuring space fleet simulation. | Richard Roth |
4th | Stitchables | Helps kids to design and build customisable toys by turning their virtual designs into DIY stitched toy kits. | Anastasia Laczko and Aaron Coox |
The intensive program has participants conducting 100+ interviews with their potential customers, guided by leading entrepreneurs, innovators and industry mentors.
Semester 2, 2019
| Startup | Description | Participants | |
1st | Koi Pay | Improving card payment options for Chinese students with Chinese banks. | Isabelle Fleming |
| 2nd | Microbe | A product and integrated phone application solution for non-adherence. | Roxane Mutschler |
3rd | PhysiSqueeze | Creating personalised exercises to help people with incontinence improve their pelvic floor muscles and their quality of life. | Lissy Changuion |
4th | Coffee Cups | Creating disposable coffee cups out of waste to create circular economies. | Nasia Chirstodolou |
Semester 1, 2019
| Startup | Description | Participants | |
1st | Mookie | By providing high nutritious foods for young children in the form of bar/biscuit/puree, Mookie hopes to solve the problem of hunger and malnutrition during post-disaster emergency periods. | Adityo Wicaksono Widya Nata Dewi Runali Maniya |
2nd | PIL | A product and integrated phone application solution for non-adherence. | Kasun Liyanarachchi Don |
3rd | Re:life | Probiotic ginger beer. Delicious beverage minus the guilt of drinking soft drink or alcohol. | Andy Nguyen |
4th | Electric turbo duct engine | Using electric engines to reduce fuel consumption for air crafts. | Rizal Evans |