There’s plenty of startup action happening in the Sunshine State at the moment, and that’s on show this week at Something Tech.
The two-day festival, August 29-30, once again brings together Queensland’s tech and innovation community in their own unique way for “a saturation of expertise, community sharing, and networking”.
Festival cofounder Pauline Fetaui, from ACS Labs, said this year’s lineup looks like their best one yet.
And the grand finale is River Rival, where nine emerging tech companies will take the stage to pitch in front of a jam-packed crowd at Rivershed at Howard Smith Wharves.
As the beer starts flowing to kick off the festival’s after party, the audience will be treated to 5-minute pitches about the business and product our contestants are bringing to the world. They’ll be battling out the three award categories of Best in Product, People’s Choice, and Best of the Best.
A (mostly) incredible panel of judges will be on hand to grill the founders after their pitches.
So let’s meet the founders and their startups gracing the stage.
Antiquely founder Danielle Shield-Lawrence
Antiquely’s Danielle Shield-Lawrence
Antiquely is Australia’s trailblazing online curated platform connecting buyers and sellers of vintage and antique homewares.
Antiquely emphasises a circular economy approach. This philosophy ensures that pre-loved items are not only preserved but also cherished for generations.
Since starting the business in September 2022, Antiquely has saved over 1,400 items from landfill, collaborated with a selection of Australia’s leading interior designers and experienced significant financial growth.
Little Phil founder Matias Salinas
Little Phil’s Matias Salinas
Short for Little Philanthropist, Little Phil is a rapidly growing fundraising ecosystem made up of over 8,000 companies, employees and registered Australian charities.
With the goal of helping to double philanthropic giving in Australia by 2030, Little Phil’s innovative fundraising technology has already helped raise over $185k in donations for the charities on its platform.
The Laundry Lady founder Susan Toft
The Laundry Lady’s Susan Toft
The Laundry Lady saves people time all over Australia and New Zealand by connecting busy people and businesses with a door to door laundry service at the click of a button.
Solving the never-ending laundry cycle, we deliver washing and ironing pickup and delivery services to residential and business customers, NDIS and Aged Care, through our international team of 300 contractors who work flexibly in their own homes.
Their business model is powered by TimeBoss, their innovative connection platform that manages every stage of your laundry service and supports our growing team of Laundry Ladies and Lads.
Recovery Metrics founder Kiera Buchanan
Recovery Metrics’s Kieara Buchanan
Recovery Metrics is a SaaS healthtech startup devoted to enhancing outcomes in mental healthcare.
By combining the latest technology with clinical expertise Recovery Metrics provides practitioners with powerful, real-time insights into their patients’ progress – increasing data-driven decision making and improving outcomes in a way that hasn’t previously been possible.
Heatseeker founder Fiona Triaca
Heatseeker’s Fiona Triaca
Heatseeker is experimentation and market research software allowing product leaders to test their biggest growth questions.
Users can choose from a series of predefined experiments including testing new features, value propositions, business models and competitive benefits.
The experiments run live in market providing ‘skin in the game’ evidence of customer demand.
Neo Ex founder Dylan Gray
Neo Ex’s Dylan Gray
Neo Ex is the leading authority in wearables.
Their B2B SAAS platform delivers a common interface for consumer wearables providing tools for gamification, engagement and analytics.
Founder Dylan Gray, a former athlete, is an impact driven founder leveraging wearables data through a B2B SAAS platform to get people moving more.
AcudocX founder Dylan Hartmann
AcudocX’s Dylan Hartmann
AcudocX is a pioneering technology-driven company specialising in certified translation services for immigration, visas, licensing, legal, education, and medical purposes.
Established in late 2019, AcudocX bridges the gap between official services and immigrants, making critical services more inclusive and efficient for diverse global communities.
AcudocX empowers certified freelance translators by providing them with the tools and support they need to deliver seamless and fast services.
STAT founder Chris Risby
STAT’s Chris Risby
STAT is a new platform driving practitioner-to-industry engagement to fund better global healthcare.
STAT’s Platform helps practitioners create new revenue streams and funding for their patients through their time spent learning and consulting with healthcare organisations.
It also helps industry partners like pharma, medtech, government and healthtech startups maximise their marketing and engagement spending through increased practitioner access and performance data, while also giving back to the healthcare community.
Finally, it helps everyone afford the most advanced healthcare through a new patient funding source called STAT CoPay.
Brancher founder Holly Brailsford
Brancher’s Holly Brailsford
Brancher is a B2B science-based mentoring platform that helps organisations to connect, develop and retain their staff.
Business leaders know that mentoring is a powerful strategy to engage their staff, however, running a mentoring program is hard.
Brancher’s digital mentoring software makes it easy for organisations to streamline, engage and measure mentoring impact. Large businesses and government agencies are achieving over 90% matching satisfaction, 80% reduction in administration and over $300,000 in cost savings.
Brancher is the only mentoring software worldwide to match based on personality and values – the biggest predictors of matching success
River Rival will be held from 5:30pm, August 30, at Rivershed, Howard Smith Wharves. This year it’s included in your Something Tech ticket.
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