
FOR AUSTRALIAN FOUNDERS
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View all opportunitiesThe Social Shifter Global Innovation Challenge
This is for young founders already building something with measurable social or environmental impact. Your work also needs to contribute to at least one UN Sustainable Development Goal. That opens the door to businesses and projects working in areas like: 🌱 Climate 🏥 Health 💧 Water 🌾 Agriculture 📚 Education ♿ Accessibility 💼 Economic mobility 🏘️ Community development 🤖 Impact technology ♻️ Sustainability And this isn't grant money by itself. Founders also gain access to: 🧠 Application support 🎤 Pitch coaching 🌐 Global founder community 🤝 Networking 💼 Additional fellowships and paid opportunities
R[3]sidency × Construct
Selective frontier-tech accelerator offering $300K investment and direct access to major crypto operators and investors.
R[3]sidency × Construct is a 12-week, fully in-person accelerator run by Wintermute and Fabric Ventures for teams building infrastructure for the Machine Economy, particularly across crypto, fintech, AI, robotics and quantum. Eight teams are selected, with each receiving a US$300,000 investment, plus over US$100,000 in partner credits and perks. The program includes weekly 1:1 sessions with builders and VCs, product, go-to-market and fundraising support, and concludes with an investor roadshow and Demo Day in New York. Teams work primarily from London during the program.
Good fit: Early-stage crypto founders seeking substantial capital and hands-on operator support.
Llama Beta Fellowship
Early-stage AI fellowship helping founders explore and build agent-native startups before traditional fundraising.
The Beta Fellowship is an 8-week in-person fellowship from Beta Fund for founders building agent-native AI startups. The program supports founders who are often at the earliest stages—even before there is a company, revenue or finished idea. Fellows receive mentorship from founders, engineers and investors, work alongside a small cohort, and build within the Beta Fund ecosystem. The fellowship also serves as a pathway to Beta Fund investment, with the fund writing US$200K first checks and investing up to US$2M across pre-seed and seed stages
Good fit: Idea-stage founders exploring agent-native AI startup ideas.
Founder Offers
Useful software and services for Australian founders.
Posthog
Software & Infrastructure
SponsoredPosthog for startup
Product analytics, feature flags, session replay and experiments.
Founder benefit: 1 year free (up to $50K value)
Sponsored placement

Ciphrix
Software & Infrastructure
SOC2 ready in weeks
Get from zero to SOC2 ready in weeks. Ciphrix uses AI agents to do the compliance work, helping founders build their SOC2 controls, policies, registers, prepare evidence and get audit-ready in weeks.
Founder benefit: - Ciphrix compliance platform - AI agents that do the compliance work - Policies, Risks, Vendors, Assets, Evidence - Automated evidence collection - Cybersecurity training - SOC2 readiness review - 1:1 Slack support - Regular 1:1 office hours until certification - Audit coordination and support - Access to Partner Network Auditors
LaunchWell benefit: Ciphrix Platform Subscription - AU$4,999 annually

Ciphrix
Software & Infrastructure
ISO27001 in weeks
Get from zero to ISO 27001 ready in days. Ciphrix uses AI agents to do the compliance work, helping founders build their ISMS, prepare and collect evidence and get audit-ready.
Founder benefit: - Ciphrix compliance platform, all platform modules - AI agents that do the compliance work - Policies, Risks, Vendors, Evidence and more - Automated evidence collection - Continuous control monitoring - Cybersecurity Training - Internal Audit - 1:1 Slack Support - Regular 1:1 Office hours until certification - Audit co-ordination and support - Access to Partner Network Auditors
LaunchWell benefit: Ciphrix Subscription - US$4,999 annually
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