#3 Meet Kickstart Your Marketing
Are you looking for the perfect startup job through COVID-19? Or would you like to boost your digital marketing strategies?
What's up, Adelaide? Welcome back South Australian founders! Meet a startup from Barossa Valley and browse the newly created jobs session in this third of a series of short stories aimed at spreading the word about innovation and entrepreneurship happening right here in our wonderful Adelaide, South Australia. Find more below.
First of, though, I want to express repudiation to all forms of racism and pay tribute to all those who took action this week after the cruel murder of George Floyd. #BlackLivesMatter #IndigenousLivesMatter #MinorityLivesMatter
In addition, here is a call for all entrepreneurs and innovators:
Opportunities:
GATE AgTech Incubator — Due: June
GATE Incubation is a unique program which supports early-stage agtech projects and ideas to develop and grow. The 2020 program varies between 3 to 6 months part time and takes researchers and entrepreneurs through intensive business coaching, developing prototypes and refining their value proposition. The program does not require relocation to Orange (NSW), but includes intensive workshops based in Orange during the program. Find more
Spark Lab Cultiv 8 Accelerator — Due: undefined
SparkLabs Cultiv8 identifies leading startups working on innovative food and agricultural technology. Their mission is to cultivate growth stage Ag and Food Tech companies with researchers, farmers, investors and global corporate partners, to help digitise agriculture and contribute to a more sustainable future. Find more.
H2O Hack by CEAT and Bridge Hub — Due: Jun 10th
H2O Hack: technology to drought-proof the agrifood sector. This online hackathon will be held over a five-day period, with online workshops and facilitated sessions taking place on three of those five days (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and an Induction Night on the 11th of June. Find more.
Arc Post Accelerator 2020 — Due: Jul 13th
This 12-week program is designed to guide more advanced hardware startups through the critical stages following the completion of an Accelerator program. After startups have developed their prototypes, refined their business strategy and have started to gain interest from potential clients and industry partners, they will need to focus on manufacturing their product and expanding within compatible international markets. Find more.
Neurohack by Biogen and the Australian eChallenge — Due: Jul 20th:
The Neurohack is a fast-paced program that poses a number of problems, pain points, and hindrances around improving the mental and physical outcomes of those suffering from neurological disorders. Find more
Rocket Seeder Accelerator — Due: Aug 14th:
Rocket Seeder is an accelerator for startups in the Food and Agriculture sector in Australia. We help innovators and founders take their startups to the next level by providing them with the tools and guidance they need to scale. Find more.
Startup Pitch Fest at Australian Healthcare Week 2020 — Due: Sep 3rd
Electing the Australian Healthcare Startup of the Year, the Pitch Fest is your chance to educate both the healthcare industry, and leading technology players, about your organisation and the problems you help to solve. It will feature 8 of the leading health startups in Australia and New Zealand, battling it out to be crowned this year’s champion. Find more.
ICC Venture Catalyst for Regional Startups — Due: rolling basis until October 2020
The General category is open to any industry sector and supports startups with the potential for high growth, who are developing new services, markets or business models that compete in global markets. Accepted applicants will receive a tailored program based on their current needs as well as a $10,000 stipend and other benefits. Find more
Melt Accelerator — Due: Dec 30th
The MELT’s accelerator and incubator programs will revolutionize the way hardware Startups prove, prototype, pilot and produce globally scalable products and companies. Find more.
Smart Regional Incubator — Due: 4th Tue of month on a rolling basis
The UNE SMART Region Incubator accepts applications from new startups that are scaling up and ready to build the regional economy. Our focus is on startups bringing to market solutions for agriculture, health, environmental services and creative industries. Find more.
Featured Startup
Meet Amber and Kickstart Your Marketing
Kickstart your marketing app is to social media what Canva is to graphic design — a way to turn a skill that was difficult and usually outsourced to experts into one that is very affordable, and easy enough for every business owner to do themselves!
Business description: Kickstart Your Marketing is a social media app that gives daily prompts and done-for-you captions to take the stress out of content creation.
Stage: MVP
Founded: 2019
Founder: Amber Rushton
Total fundraising: $20k (angel)
Location: Barossa Valley
Amber Rushton is a rare breed: a digital nerd and marketing expert who feels equally at home in the offline world as she does online. A firm believer in the adage that failing to plan is planning to fail, Amber specialises in multi-channel marketing strategies that are actionable, achievable, and aligned with your business goals.
Before kickstarting her own entrepreneurial dreams, Amber amassed a wealth of knowledge by working with some of Australia’s best-known brands; think Lorna Jane, Amart Furniture, Inglot Cosmetics, JAG, Diana Ferrari, and Barbeques Galore. Now, as the creator and founder of Kickstart Your Marketing, she loves nothing better than applying her extensive knowledge and know-how to the marketing plans of businesses like yours. She knows you need the same help those larger brands needed and making that happen — effectively and easily — is her thing!
After winning the regional award for Flinders Uni NVI Venture Dorm in 2019, Amber developed and released a social media app. This app, called Kickstart Your Marketing, helps business owners feel less overwhelmed about posting on social media by giving them daily social media prompts and customisable captions that they can cut and paste straight into their socials channels.
Webinars and meetups:
Giants by Blackbird: The Dos and Don’ts of Pitching with Michael Batko. Tue, Jun 9th | 7:30am ACST
Michael Batko is the CEO of seed-fund and accelerator Startmate. Through mentoring hundreds of founders through Startmate, Michael has seen the best and worst of pitching to investors. Join him in this session to hear what to do (and what not to do) when pitching. Register
MAP 2020 Launch by Melbourne Accelerator Program. Wed, Jun 10th | 5pm ACST
From unmanned underwater robots to recycled bottles made into raincoats, meet MAP’s 2020 cohort and see these teams present their successful pitches at this year’s Melbourne Accelerator Program Launch. Register
AMA With Airtree: Raising Your First Round of Funding During a Crisis. Thu, Jun 11th | 11:30am ACST
AirTree meets with 1,000+ companies a year who are looking to raise capital and the team is actively investing through this current crisis. Join this session to get to know Elicia and Emily from their investment team, learn more about how the team at AirTree VC invests, and hear their insights about what to consider when capital raising during this unprecedented time. Register
Jobs:
Junior Software Developer
Platfarm is one of Australia’s leading precision agriculture startups
Do you have a passion for building tools to help farmers, community building and regional development?
The ideal candidate would have strong Javascript and communication skills
Women, indigenous and culturally diverse individuals are highly encouraged to apply
Startup Jobs List
Airtree has created an open-source spreadsheet listing startups currently hiring. It is open for anyone to edit and they are asking all founders who are hiring to add the roles they’re recruiting for. You can access the spreadsheet here.
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Keep building,
Rob Blum
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