| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.12.2023 | Two more start-up incubators for Melbourne and Sydney | article-article-body
BlueChilli, a new incubator brand, is to launch two hubs for tech start-ups in Australia – one in Melbourne next month, followed by a Sydney roll out in January.
BlueChilli has already chosen the 10 ventures for its inc... |
| 18.03.2021 | Startup News maps the WA ecosystem | Overview of the WA startups ecosystem database. Image - Startup News.
It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a flourishing ecosystem to raise startups.
Various attempts have been made over the years to map out the ecosystem. I rememb... |
| 07.05.2019 | BlueChilli enters Singapore with a new healthtech accelerator and regional headquarters | BlueChilli, an Australian tech startup accelerator, is launching a Singapore-based healthtech accelerator in partnership with Enterprise Singapore, according to an official statement issued by the company.
The BlueChilli HealthTech Accelera... |
| 12.04.2019 | Coca-Cola Amatil launches accelerator in Indonesia to ride on tech innovation boom | Coca-Cola Amatil, a major bottler in the Asia-Pacific region, is launching its capital venture capital (CVC) platform Amatil X in Indonesia in a bid to ride a wave of the local startup ecosystem boom that has given rise to a wide range of i... |
| 28.11.2018 | How to recruit a technical co-founder, according to Alan Jones | Alan Jones. Source: Supplied.
When I speak with a group of non-technical startup founders, the most commonly-asked question is: ‘How do I recruit a technical co-founder?’
My usual answer is: ‘How do you know that now is the right time to re... |
| 04.10.2016 | BlueChilli launches $1 million fund and accelerator program to back the most promising female startup founders in Australia | Sydney accelerator BlueChilli has unveiled a $1 million early-stage startup fund to back the most promising female founders in Australia.
The fund will support participants in the SheStarts accelerator, which has just opened its application... |
| 03.10.2016 | The difference between startup incubators and accelerators | Recently, the NSW government announced its new offer for $190 million Jobs for NSW. As part of that, I noticed a growing trend to use the terms ‘incubator’ and ‘accelerator’ interchangeably.
Although I can understand why people do get them ... |
| 29.09.2016 | Why all startups should have a Post-it note roadmap | Walk into any leading corporate or tech company and you’ll immediately be accosted by bright Post-its on all walls.
For the uninformed, these aren’t a cheap way of decorating – these capture features or action items for the teams’ product r... |
| 15.08.2016 | Taking a 100% pay cut to pursue your dream: A Melbourne founder’s four year journey to quit his job and launch a startup | The biggest change in my career started with a presentation.
A decade spent in digital media had me convinced that all big ideas are sold on slides.
This story is about a few slides that carried an idea from my living room to Australia’s le... |
| 10.08.2016 | The importance of gender diversity in tech: Why the “merit” argument doesn’t stack up | Last month, our team at BlueChilli won a “Merit Award” for innovation, recognising our work supporting startups across Australia.
As we stood smiling for the cameras, certificate in hand, it dawned on me – “I thought merit was only for men!... |
| 27.07.2016 | How BlueChilli wants to build $1 billion portfolio by 2020 | It’s been a massive start to the new financial year at BlueChilli.
For me, July kicked off with a whirlwind trip to the US, where I had the huge honour of sharing a stage with Barack Obama in Washington DC for the Select USA Conference on I... |
| 15.07.2016 | By learning how to drive a robot, Button.ai won the popular vote of international botathon | By learning how to pitch his bot idea while driving a robot, Button.ai founder Hugh Cameron of Melbourne, Australia won the popular vote at the first international botathon this week. Button.ai helps teams make quick responses to emails. Or... |
| 27.05.2016 | The five things the startup community recommended to Malcolm Turnbull three years ago and whether they’ve been achieved | About three years ago a group of people from the startup ecosystem met with then shadow minister Malcolm Turnbull.
After the meeting, I blogged about the five things government could do to help Australian startups which were presented and d... |
| 18.05.2016 | Is the Turnbull government’s $1.1 billion innovation statement just a cash-splash for votes? An in-depth look at the support for incubators and accelerators | This is the second article in a series where CapitalPitch co-founder Jeremy Liddle will explore different aspects of the government’s innovation statement and the potential impact they will have. You can read the first article here.
The inn... |
| 13.04.2016 | Six takeaways from a discussion on the future of fintech | When I was young I didn’t think I would be an entrepreneur or that I would have this amazing opportunity to help Australia’s entrepreneurs and companies innovate.
What I wanted more than anything, even more than toys and candy, was to fly. ... |
| 09.03.2016 | New women-focused accelerator set to document the startup journey | Australia’s biggest startup accelerator BlueChilli has launched a new program aimed at female entrepreneurs, with the finalists’ journey to be showcased in a documentary.
SheStarts will show what the startup journey is like for female entre... |
| 02.03.2016 | What happens when a global charity and a startup incubator collide | One of the world’s leading charities has teamed up with an innovation incubator to see what happens when startup thinking collides with social activism in a first of its kind hackathon.
To coincide with the 2016 National Practitioners’ Foru... |
| 29.02.2016 | This Hackathon developed new ways to reduce world hunger and helped inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs in the process | A hackathon has given university students the opportunity to come up with innovative ways to reduce world hunger and introduced the next generation of entrepreneurs to the world of startups.
The faculty of Science at Monash University held ... |
| 29.02.2016 | The next sector that will be disrupted just like the music industry | By Richard Owens
The wine industry today is like the music industry was – and that means massive disruptive change is coming.
“Sally, bring me a copy of the new JLo album please?”
Back in the days of Y2K and the dotcom bubble, record labe... |
| 17.02.2016 | Your startup is probably a marketplace whether you like it or not | Most founders are surprised or think I’m confused when I describe their startup as a marketplace.
They are used to thinking of marketplaces as online retail, auctions and deals sites only, not their app which connects plumbers with customer... |
| 20.01.2016 | How this hackathon for students is helping to inspire and educate the next generation of Australian entrepreneurs and founders | Generation Entrepreneur founders Victor Zhang and Alex Luo are planning to expand their Initiate 48 hackathons so more students can be empowered with the possibilities of entrepreneurship.
The pair put on a hackathon over the weekend which ... |
| 19.01.2016 | There’s one thing startups should crave more than capital | Too often we seem to focus on capital intensive startups with multiple rounds of VC and celebrate their high paper valuations.
The “lack of VC” is a common gripe in the Australian startup landscape, but do you know what there’s more of a la... |
| 11.12.2015 | Seven tips for using me or your other Australian contacts to get a meeting in Silicon Valley | Introductions that go badly are a great way to burn the friendships I have with hard-working, brilliant people who don’t get any closer to building a billion dollar company by meeting you for a coffee. So if I don’t already know you well, e... |
| 10.11.2015 | Why the end of the year is a bad time to launch | Around this time of year, almost all of the startup founders who pitch me or ask for my help will start saying, “we’re planning to launch by the end of the year”.
I understand the impulse to finish this before the end of the year. We all ne... |
| 22.10.2015 | Sydney harbours vision of tech hub around site of former power plant | A huge coal-fired power station that’s been inactive for more than 30 years will become the centrepiece of a new “world-class” tech hub in Sydney under the state government’s plans to revitalise the Bay Precinct.
NSW Premier Mike Baird anno... |
| 13.10.2015 | Wyatt Roy and BlueChilli’s Policy Hack is a great concept poorly executed | Next weekend Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy and startup accelerator Blue Chilli host a Policy Hack designed to ‘disrupt the public service’ by using startup approaches to rapidly design and iterate new policy for Australia.
I u... |
| 24.09.2015 | Shorten takes on Turnbull to stake out startup “path to the future” | Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has announced a “second wave” of policies that Labor will be taking to the election with the aim of making Australia a “startup nation”.
The $17.8 million policy package includes efforts to encourage young Aus... |
| 23.09.2015 | Wyatt Roy says the line to Canberra is open for startups | Wyatt Roy made two important phone calls on the day he found out he was to be the youngest federal frontbencher ever.
The first was to Labor MPs Ed Husic and Terri Butler, in an effort to clearly signal an immediate intent to collaborate wi... |
| 22.09.2015 | Significant Investor Visas: Hope remains three months after reforms | Despite some initial fears, Australian investors say it’s far too early to be worried that changes to the Significant Investor Visa program have driven international investors away rather than refocused funds on innovation and startups.
The... |
| 03.09.2015 | Israeli pitch night delivers lessons for the local scene | In an Australian first, ten Israeli startups have pitched to a room of invite-only Australian investors more than 12,000km away and provided some useful lessons for local entrepreneurs.
The event on Wednesday night in Sydney was put on by t... |
| 19.08.2015 | Lunar eclipse: Moonshots almost impossible to fund in Australia | Australian investors and startup founders say it’s “almost impossible” for moonshot ideas to raise money in Australia, as the venture capital market is too small to bear the risk.
A small venture capital pool, along with a small market size... |
| 18.08.2015 | Aussie startups can be the world’s best and it’s time for investors to believe it | A young Aussie founder of a startup pitches to a room full of Aussie angel investors. He’s a few weeks back from a very successful first trip to Silicon Valley, where his unique, world-first technology, intelligence and soft-spoken competen... |
| 17.08.2015 | Swift action attracts investors ahead of deal announcement | Australian logistics platform startup Swift has closed a $US675,000 angel round to accelerate product development in the Asia-Pacific region and continue its expansion in the US.
The startup offers delivery management software for businesse... |
| 17.08.2015 | Rail maps keep track of startups | BlueChilli chief growth hacker Alan Jones says one of the hardest parts of running a startup is trying to work out where you stand, and the isolation that goes along with that.
“The startup industry is everywhere and nowhere,” Jones says.
T... |
| 04.08.2015 | Cities make plans to be startup friendly | The City of Sydney Council wants to make the city a “vibrant startup destination”.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore introduced a new action plan this week that outlines what the city needs to do in order to be a “leader in the tech startup field”.
T... |
| 03.08.2015 | Business incubators and start-up accelerators: Valuable assets or a waste of time and money? | Business incubators are organisations that provide support to start-up and early stage businesses through the provision of facilities, mentoring and coaching, training, networking and seed capital financing. The first business incubator is ... |
| 29.07.2015 | Preparation, practice and persistence – the perfect pitch recipe | Edrolo co-founder Duncan Anderson says he’s doesn’t think the startup’s team would have been able to raise money from investors without the help of mentors.
Edrolo is a graduate of the Startmate accelerator program, but differs from many St... |
| 17.07.2015 | BlueChilli embarks on big Melbourne expansion plans | Startup accelerator and incubator BlueChilli is expanding its Melbourne presence and plans to increase the number of Melbourne-based startups in its portfolio by 25 to 30 in a year’s time.
The first 10 startups BlueChilli added to its portf... |
| 15.07.2015 | Hey SydStart, looking for female conference speakers? Here are almost 50 women you could call for starters | All-male panels have become an all too common sight.
Recently we’ve seen one of Australia’s biggest startup conferences, SydStart, announce its first round of speakers without any women featured, although they’re promising there are female ... |
| 24.06.2015 | Budding entrepreneurs are being urged to create the next big thing in agtech | Applications are now open for BlueChilli’s second Westpac Innovation Challenge.
Last year’s competition focused on disrupting the real estate sector, however, this year participants will tackle agriculture.
Eckersley-Maslin says the initiat... |
| 20.05.2015 | 11 excellent Australian made tools to power your startup’s app or website #PoweredbyOZ | UPDATE: Since posting, Alan Jones from BlueChilli has made a number of excellent suggestions. We’ve added them below!
Since launching Product Hoist we’ve discovered almost 200 innovative Australian products! We realised pretty early on that... |
| 07.05.2015 | Agtech will be the focus of the second Westpac Innovation Challenge | Sydney accelerator BlueChilli is partnering with one of Australia’s big four banks to encourage local entrepreneurs to develop new ideas and solutions for the agricultural sector.
The Westpac Innovation Challenge will award $40,000 to the e... |
| 16.04.2015 | Australians dissatisfied at work, but startups are getting workplace culture right | The average Aussie is unmotivated while at work and would not recommend their company to friends or family, according to a survey examining the workplace attitudes of more than 3000 Australians.
The State of Employee Engagement in Australia... |
| 03.03.2015 | How to build a sustainable venture capital industry in Australia | There are a ton of opinion pieces written every day about what is lacking from Australia’s startup ecosystem. So much so that it’s easy to be confused about what we really need.
Who do we listen to? Who does government listen to? Is it brok... |
| 12.02.2015 | Latest BlueChilli [email protected] intake highlights systemic gender diversity problem in tech | A lack of female startup founders in BlueChilli’s latest startup program is a reflection of problems in the broader industry, rather than the recruiting process, according to the program’s organiser Colette Grgic.
BlueChilli announced the 1... |
| 05.02.2015 | Three tips from BlueChilli’s growth hacker Alan Jones on how to hack your seed round | Getting a critical seed-round investment all comes down to proper preparation, according to BlueChilli’s chief growth hacker.
Speaking at the SouthStart conference in Adelaide this morning, Alan Jones emphasised the importance of not using ... |
| 27.01.2015 | How much equity should an accelerator take? BlueChilli defends its [email protected] program | BlueChilli is looking to invest in early-stage startups as part of its [email protected] program. However, some Australian entrepreneurs have raised concerns over the amount of equity the Sydney-based accelerator is asking for.
As part of t... |
| 20.01.2015 | Lack of diversity and ambition still big problems: Startup Muster survey | The results from the latest Startup Muster survey indicate Australia still needs work when it comes to diversity in tech, as well the ambition of founders, according to a number of investors.
BlueChilli chief growth hacker Alan Jones says i... |
| 08.12.2014 | How to deal with conflicting startup advice | Entrepreneurs are faced with a wealth of advice these days from websites, videos, conferences, hackathons and even their own peers.
So what should you do when you are not sure someone’s advice is the right fit for your particular situation?... |
| 04.12.2014 | Sydney startup aims to create global shopping family | Sydney startup CUZIN is working to create a global shopping family where users help each other buy products that are too expensive or unavailable where they live.
CUZIN co-founder and CEO Shaun Greenblo told StartupSmart it is a social comm... |
| 20.11.2014 | Understanding the new Accelerating Commercialisation government grant scheme for startups | The federal government has just announced details of the Accelerating Commercialisation component of the Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Programme, a funding program that replaces the Commercialisation Australia program.
The Accelerating Comm... |
| 18.11.2014 | Startups are the new corporates, corporates are the new startups | Everybody wants to be startup. Recently, The Guardian claimed they were one, along with Westpac and a number of other large and well-established companies. And if they’re not claiming to be one, they certainly want to get in on the startup ... |
| 11.11.2014 | Angel investor Alan Jones throws his support behind That Startup Show | For the last decade the startup industry has been “envied, pilloried and lots of other things but it hasn’t been understood”.
It’s a lament that led to angel investor Alan Jones, also chief growth hacker at BlueChilli and investor at Startm... |
| 17.09.2014 | Westpac and BlueChilli offer $40,000 for real estate disruption | Westpac Group, in conjunction with accelerator BlueChilli, is offering $40,000 to the Australian startup that can create the most useful and disruptive business solution for its SME and commercial real estate customers.
“The Westpac Innovat... |
| 03.09.2014 | BlueChilli Closes AUD$5M Funding | BlueChilli, a Sydney, Australia-based provider of advances solutions for startups, closed an AUD$5m funding round.
The round was led by the Myer Family Investments with participation from Internode founder Simon Hackett. Original investor, ... |
| 02.09.2014 | BlueChilli backed by Myer Family Investments and Simon Hackett in $5m raise | Sydney-based venture technology company BlueChilli Group has closed a $5 million investment to fuel its growth in a round led by the Myer Family Investments and including Internode founder Simon Hackett. The investment is seperate to the Bl... |
| 01.09.2014 | BlueChilli secures $5 million from prominent investors and acquires Future Capital’s equity | Sydney-based venture technology investor and startup incubator, BlueChilli has today announced it has closed AUD$5 million in investment, which will help the firm continue in its path to grow and strengthen Australia’s startup sector. The l... |
| 01.09.2014 | BlueChilli backed by Myer Family Investments and Simon Hackett in $5m raise | Sydney-based venture technology company BlueChilli Group has closed a $5 million investment to fuel its growth in a round led by the Myer Family Investments and including Internode founder Simon Hackett. The investment is seperate to the Bl... |
| 29.08.2014 | Six of the best startup tips these entrepreneurs ever received | There is no shortage of people out there willing to give advice to aspiring entrepreneurs.
Unfortunately, more often than not, business advice comes from people who have no real-life experience of launching a successful startup. At best, su... |
| 25.08.2014 | With wine! Because no great story ever started with salad | For a long time, withwine founder Richard Owens didn’t like wine.
At least he thought he didn’t. It was the moment he discovered he loved wine that he first thought of the concept for his startup withwine, an app that helps its users recomm... |
| 11.08.2014 | It’s time politicians “got smart” about startups | It shouldn’t be up to Australian startups to get politicians interested in the startup industry, according to Nitro founder and chief executive officer Sam Chandler.
With Alex Greenwich MP, an independent in the NSW state parliament, announ... |
| 08.08.2014 | Step one to being a startup founder: Don’t build a product | So you want to be a startup founder: step one, start building a product, or figure out how to pay someone to build it for you. Right?
Wrong. What you should be doing is trying to sell something to people.
“So,” I said. “How much are merchan... |
| 30.07.2014 | Three years is an eternity for startups, but we need one more year | Most days, it feels like I’ve been working in the lean startup movement for 20 years. The tech startup industry has been through so many massive changes since we first got started, we’ve packed many years of experimental cycles into such a ... |
| 22.07.2014 | Two of Australia’s leading incubators launch online courses on the same day | Startup incubators Pollenizer and BlueChilli have, unbeknown to each other, both launched new online courses which they hope make their advice more accessible to time-poor and cash-strapped entrepreneurs.
BlueChilli chief growth hacker Alan... |
| 14.05.2014 | Budget makes US look even more appealing, startups say | We asked some Australian startups what they thought of the budget and how it might affect them. Here’s what they had to say.
Michael Fox, CEO, Shoes of Prey:
It’s a challenge for tech startups raising capital in Australia and the temptation... |
| 29.04.2014 | Incubator partnerships boost quality of Carnegie’s Den applicants | The quality of applicants involved in the first Carnegie’s Den event of the year is a significant improvement on those in the past, thanks to partnerships with startup incubators, according to event organisers.
Venture capitalist Mark Carne... |
| 26.03.2014 | Meet the finalist for the Startup Hero award at the 2014 StartupSmart awards | If you dig deep enough, most startups have an inspiring story. For the startup hero award, we selected five founders whose stories stood out from the crowd.
Story Mama
After serving as a weapons electronics engineering officer in the Navy f... |
| 11.09.2013 | BlueChilli Launches $10m Fund | Sydney, Australia-based venture technology firm BlueChilli has launched a new $10m fund.
The vehicle, which has been approved as an Early Stage Venture Capital Limited Partnership by AusIndustry, offers angel investors capital gains tax and... |
| 09.09.2013 | Blue Chilli Group launches new $10 million investment fund | Venture technology investor and accelerator Blue Chilli has announced a $10 million fund to invest in the early stage tech start-ups moving through their program.
The fund will match any angel investment of over $100,000 made by three or mo... |
| 26.07.2013 | Sydney start-up map released to show sector’s snowballing growth | An updated map of Sydney’s start-up sector has been released today by technology investor and accelerator group Blue Chilli.
The map details over 30 different organisations and companies, and more than 100 start-ups, conferences and meet-up... |
| 24.07.2013 | BlueChilli raises $650,000 in pre-revenue startups TokenOne and Geepers | Venture Technology firm BlueChilli announced today that two of it’s investments Token One and Geepers have secured over $650,000 in angel funding. The round of funding was secured from Australian and international investors sought from the ... |
| 14.02.2012 | Protecting your IP in a co-working space | Entrepreneurs have always jealously guarded their ideas. Self-righteous rage is usually the response whenever they feel someone has encroached upon their intellectual property.
Legal action isn’t uncommon over “stolen” business ideas, as ev... |
| 20.11.2011 | BlueChilli to add two new incubators to the start-up mix | BlueChilli, a new incubator brand, is to launch two hubs for tech start-ups in Australia – one in Melbourne next month, followed by a Sydney roll out in January.
BlueChilli has already chosen the 10 ventures for its incubator in the Melbour... |
