Partners

To support our community and portfolio companies, we work together with some of the best organisations in the world!

 

Since the start of Seed Accelerator in 2009 we have developed strategic and valuable partnerships with many leading international organisations and power houses of the high-tech world such as Microsoft, Google, HP, Cisco, EDS, Oracle, Dell, Citrix, Sun Microsystems, IBM, EMC and many more. They are represented in our mentoring pool and monthly visits from these partners will offer our program participants and the wider startup community with compelling opportunities for partnerships, strategic investments and acquisitions. Technology support, discounted or free hard- & software, education, strategic consulting, global sales channels and co-sponsored events are also products and services of these valuable and strategic relationships. Some of these partnerships also help our startups to find a permanent mentor, fill board seats and/or build their management teams.

Technology Partners

  • Amazon - Provides our program participants with free and discounted goods and services.

  • Amazon Web Services - Provides our program participants with all kind of cloud and hosting services.

  • Atlassian - Leading Australian software developer, which provides a great applications to effciciently develop new software: Jira and they provide a great enterprise collaboration & wiki tool: Confluence.

  • Apple - We are part of the Apple iPhone & iPad Developer Program.

  • Creative Commons - Non-profit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.

  • Dell - One one of our preferred partners for the supply of computer hardware & software.

  • EMC2 - Our partner for storage, backup and virtualisation solutions.

  • GitHub - Fast, efficient, distributed version control system for the collaborative development of new software.

  • Google App Engine - Google's App Engine provides a cloud based infrastructure and application development platform.

  • HP - One one of our preferred partners for the supply of computer hardware & software.

  • Microsoft BizSpark - Seed Accelerator has been selected and enrolled as BizSpark Network Partner: providing emerging technology startups with access to Microsoft’s software, services, and ecosystem, paired with our regional support teams and global alliance partners: a strong basis to help you succeed!

  • Skype - Our preferred VOIP solution provider for online calls and video conferences.

  • Sun Microsystems - Sun Jumpstart Program provides open source software, consulting and discounted hardware for our start-ups.

  • VMware - Delivers solutions for business infrastructure virtualization that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. 

  • Xero - Provides the best - SaaS based - application to efficiently manage your finance and administration.

  • Yammer - Provides a simple and efficient collaboration tool to help manage all our virtual team efforts.

Business Partners

  • Advance - Advance is a dynamic and diverse global community of Australian professionals overseas committed to advancing Australia and Australians.

  • ANZA Technology Network (ANZATechNet) - Non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California. Focused on developing a strong network of Australian, New Zealand and US technology companies, service providers and executives whose joint purpose is to develop business between the US, New Zealand and Australia.

  • ASEANpreneurs Youth Leaders Network - ASEANpreneurs is a movement of students committed to promoting entrepreneurship in the ASEAN region.

  • AusIndustry - The Australian Government's agency for delivering products, services and information that support industry, research and innovation.

  • Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) - Leading industry association in Australia, which members businesses employ around 750,000 staff in an expanding range of industry sectors including: information technology and telecommunications. The organisation provides practical information, advice and assistance to help members run their businesses more effectively. It ensures through policy leadership that members have a voice at all levels of government, by representing and promoting their interests on current and emerging issues.

  • Australian Institute for Commercialisation (AIC) - Government sponsored not-for-profit organisation that provides innovation and collaboration services that help organisations grow.

  • Australia-Taiwan Business Council - National organisation of Australian companies interested in promoting commercial and other relations with Taiwan. Focused on enhancing the infrastructure supporting commercial and other relations between Australia and Taiwan.

  • Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN) – The ATN brings together five of the most innovative and enterprising universities in the nation,  which combines expertise in people and technology and the interface between them to help underpin the social and economic development of the communities in which we work. Part of ATN are: The University of Technology (Sydney), RMIT University (Melbourne), Curtin University of Technology (Perth), Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane), The University of South Australia (Adelaide).

  • Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) - Austrade is the Australian Government's trade and investment development agency, operating as a statutory agency within the Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio. They can assist our startups with free advice, grants and support to exports technology products and services.

  • Main Street Capital - Main Street Capital specialises in assisting business owners, company directors and investors with corporate advisory and M&A services.

  • BootUp Camp - Sydney based intensive entrepreneurship workshop where participants will go from nothing to a fully operational web business in two weeks. Inspiring, educational and often the start of great new ideas and new start-up ventures. 

  • Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE) - The CIE is an academy for early career innovators and entrepreneurs, integrating extra-curricular & experiential learning activities with academics and research. We are hosted by UNSW & the Australian School of Business, and engage with all UNSW schools, UNSW students and alumni, international universities, Australian industry and all levels of government.

  • City of Sydney - Our prime partner to help us promote Sydney. 

  • Cleantech Business Accelerator - Leading business accelerator specialised in coaching, supporting and professionalising cleantech companies seeking to expand through global opportunities.

  • Commercialisation Australia - Australian government initiative that assists researchers, entrepreneurs and innovative companies with a range of grants and tailored assistance programs.

  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) - Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world with more than 50 sites throughout Australia and overseas.

  • E-Factor - E-Factor was founded in 2005 by a group of entrepreneurs and investors and since then has become the leading community and platform for entrepreneurs and angels investors in Europe and US.

  • Fortune Group - Professional development training programs to help sales and management teams develop people, support change and grow their businesses.

  • Lava People - Global community of emerging entrepreneurs, established entrepreneurs and angel investors; inspiring each other and coming together to do and grow business.

  • MEGA - Mobile Entertainment Growth Alliance (MEGA) is an Entrepreneurship Masterclass series which takes participants from the mobile, digital content and ICT industries through an industry-driven development program to build their creative, technical and business skills for the development of new products and services for global markets.

  • Mind Resources - Leading global provider of learning content, solutions and training that transforms the performance of organisations by improving and developing your most important asset - their people. 

  • National ICT Australia (NICTA) - Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence. Largest national organisation in Australia dedicated to ICT research with five laboratories in four cities: Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane. Making fundamental advances in ICT that can underpin the development of globally competitive products, processes and services.

  • NUS BINGO - BINGO is the acronym of Business Incubation of Global Organisations: an international society promoting entrepreneurship, business networking, business and social culture understanding amongst all members of different geographical districts, helping the less privilege to improve their lives and their families’ lives through entrepreneurship and to champion social responsibility for all entrepreneurs.

  • National University of Singapore (NUS) - A research-intensive university with an entrepreneurial dimension, NUS is ranked consistently as one of the world's top universities.

  • Quickstart Global - Quickstart Global’s In-House Anywhere™ offering enables our portfolio companies to establish direct offices and employees around the world. In each country Quickstart is located in, they provide organizations with access to their recruitment engine, office space, infrastructure, and HR services.

  • SPRING Singapore - The enterprise development agency for growing innovative companies and fostering a competitive SME sector. As the national standards and accreditation body, SPRING also develops and promotes internationally-recognised standards and quality assurance to enhance competitiveness and facilitate trade.

  • Sydney Development Agency - SDA works to get Sydney Synergising! Founded as a not-for-profit, inclusive community of innovators in the creative and knowledge economy. We want everyone who works in, lives in, visits or does business in Sydney to get involved.  To think, debate and interact so that we can develop a dynamic, innovative and economically sustainable city for everyone.  And to celebrate the phenomenal achievements, creativity and enterprise in Sydney that often goes unrecognised!

  • Synsation - Sydney based award winning graphic design agency for visual communication, advertising, copy writing and brand design. Synsation is specialising in corporate and brand identity design, and offers a wide-ranging expertise including print design, web development, environmental graphic design systems and packaging.  

  • Startup Australia - Provides many resources and organises events useful for IT/web/technology entrepreneurs in Australia.

  • Taiwan Trade Centre, Sydney - TAITRA assists Taiwan businesses and manufacturers with reinforcing their international competitiveness and in coping with the challenges they face in foreign markets.

  • Total Health - Sydney based health & well-being centre, which provides individual health services to our program participants.

  • UCSI Blue Ocean Strategy Regional Centre (UCSI BOSRC) - Official Representative of Blue Ocean Strategy with Exclusive Business Rights to the Blue Ocean Strategy Concepts & Brand in Malaysia, Australia, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. 

  • University of Technology Sydney (UTS) - One of the leading ICT universities in Australia with the enviable reputation for a successful fusion of innovation, creativity and technology. In 2009, over 29,800 students enrolled in their onshore and offshore courses.

Memberships

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