Startmate Demo Day - W26
ANZ's largest pitch night. What unites the Winter ’26 cohort is a willingness to build where others have assumed it’s too hard, too regulated or too boring to touch. They’re building rockets to make space more accessible, taking paperwork out of dental clinics, turning days of construction estimating into minutes, and helping product teams launch globally without months of localisation work. And as AI agents move from writing code to running businesses, they’re building the infrastructure to make that shift safe and trusted: guardrails, runtime access and compliance layers for industries where getting it wrong isn’t an option. Now, after the biggest 12 weeks of their lives, it's time to show the world what they've been building. 👉 Details When: Tuesday, 20 October @ 6:00 PM Where: The Timber Yard (Port Melbourne) What: Pitch night (16 companies) 🎫 Ticket pricing Early bird price: $25 First release: $30 Final release: $35 🚨 Demo Day sells out in advance. Get your ticket asap. *This is an 18+ event 🦄 Overview of the night 5:30 pm - Check-in opens 6:20 pm - Registration cut off 6:30 pm - Pitches Start 7:45 pm - After-party, food and mingling at the venue 🚨 We have a strict start and finish time. This means you MUST arrive and check in before 6:20 pm. If you do not check in by 6:20 pm, you will forfeit your ticket. Now, watch this. 🪩 What is Demo Day? Whether you're a founder (or founder-curious), a student weighing a startup career, an investor, or just someone who loves to know what's happening in Australian tech - this event is for you! Every 6 months, we unearth ANZ’s grittiest, hungriest founders; the ones with cosmic dreams and colossal drive. These companies join our Accelerator and spend 12 weeks laser-focused on their customer, building the best product imaginable and setting the foundations they need for exponential growth. Demo Day is the grand finale - an event where our Accelerator founders unveil radical progress, boundless ambition, and their world-changi