Pitch Night 2026 Chapter 1

Founders: Michael Pascale, Andrew Murray Bond, and Matthew David Holman

BIDLOGIQ is transforming the way businesses tender for work.

Founder: Edward Boorer

Whistl turns everyday spending decisions into home deposits.

Founder: Dr Nadeesha Chandrasena

Smart Drain is a retrofit flood-prevention technology designed like a stent for city drains, keeping water flowing during heavy rain while capturing waste at the source. It combines clog-resistant engineering with smart monitoring to help cities reduce flash flooding, plastic pollution, and reactive maintenance costs.

Founder: Naomi Ferstera

reMYnd is a 12-month program that helps adults in midlife act on the lifestyle factors most strongly linked to brain health as they age.

Founders: Ethan Laskowski and Reuben Richardson

Rethink the way you connect with loved ones. Rava solves the isolation and loneliness problem in aged care with a completely accessible and immersive physical device.

Founder: Flynn Edwards

Qubit Forge is a quantum talent platform that develops and verifies the engineering capability the quantum industry needs to grow.

Founder: Padma Benkat

Planor is a white label tool that helps furniture retailers turn browsers into buyers - by giving every online shopper a personalised design experience, complete with visualisation, that they can actually trust.

Founders: Agajan Babayev and Rahil Mehta

Krepko turns missed calls at pharmacies into captured revenue, automatically

Founder: Sophie Curio

CellScope automates immune cell analysis, enabling faster, more reproducible scientific discoveries while freeing researchers from manual workflows and reducing variability across studies and laboratories.