Australia’s Leading University based Startup Program

INCUBATE is the award-winning startup program at the University of Sydney. We fund students, alumni and researchers to launch high-potential startups through our accelerator and support student entrepreneurs through our community activities.

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  • 14000+ Community of Entrepreneurs
  • 135 Startups Accelerated
  • $35m+ Total Investment
  • $67m+ Value Created
  • 400+ Jobs Created

Our Startups

Bioscout

An integrated hardware and software platform that uses data and AI to track and analyse the spread of airborne diseases.

Now deployed on Australia's largest farms
Green Atlas

Green Atlas is dedicated to assisting tree-crop growers in managing the life-cycle of each and every fruit on every tree in their orchards.

World's largest database of machine-vision scanned orchards
ShopGrok

ShopGrok helps retail decision makers get to insights faster so that they can make informed decisions about product range and strategic pricing.

 

Won a 3 year tender with a Super Retail Group, beating out several funded US startups
Companion Couch

Working to redesign the humble sofa into a new product that delights their owners and makes their friends envious.

$0 to $1 million in revenue in less than 10 months
Abyss Solutions

The Abyss team are changing how we do underwater inspections with state of the art robotics and data analytics. They are creating underwater robots that provide safer, easier and more comprehensive inspections for cities and ports.

$1 million raised
Earth AI

Earth AI is a machine learning powered mineral exploration platform that helps small companies make big discoveries.

Disrupting mining with AI
Persollo

Persollo is the world’s first instant checkout platform that helps small merchants and brands and sell their goods across social networks without the need to build sophisticated shopping sites.

Forbes 30 Under 30

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There is an enormous amount of satisfaction in contributing to a legacy of developing the next generation of leading entrepreneurs and businesses.

Michelle Deaker
FOUNDING PARTNER, ONEVENTURES

Coming from  Silicon Valley, INCUBATE is an extremely well thought-out program. You can’t put a price on the benefits of going through it.

Austin Nichols
DIRECTOR, CISCO MERAKI

INCUBATE is an amazing startup program for students serious about entrepreneurship who are open to learning by doing.

Petra Andrén
CEO, CICADA INNOVATIONS

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Featured News

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INCUBATE Alum Reshapes the Future of Cancer Diagnosis 03/06/2019

DetectED-X’s sets are now commercially available to 200,000 radiologists globally, with an updated version being trialled in over a dozen US hospitals.

Meet the Class 14 Startup Champs 20/08/2019

The 14th cohort of the award-winning INCUBATE accelerator program are a diverse group offering products and services ranging from autonomous apple-picking robots to a program getting kids to start their own charitable businesses.
Introducing Our Latest Startup Lineup 26/03/2020

This cohort are innovating for the future!
Take Your Research Further with INCUBATE 26/03/2020

Have you ever landed on an idea and wondered how to turn it into a business?
Introducing the new INCUBATE Hub 08/05/2019

10 weeks into semester one and the INCUBATE Hub and has already seen over 1,000 students through the doors. The new INCUBATE Hub is a cumulation of two years of hard work, planning, design and construction to present the first purpose-built space for startups at USyd.
Using high-tech cartography to count fruit trees 6,000 times faster than we can 08/05/2019

INCUABTE's Class 12 alum, Green Atlas, started as a project to answer the blue-sky question of 'Can robots be used to map fruit trees?' and has blossomed into something big.
The Rising Stars of INCUBATE’s Latest Class of Startups 08/05/2019

From an impressive pool of applicants, USyd’s best and brightest startups have joined our Class 13 accelerator program. With seed grant, mentorship, exclusive workshops, and a tight community of founders, our latest cohort of founders are developing their startups into successful companies.
INCUBATE Wins Prestigious University Award 10/05/2019

In a ceremony last week, INCUBATE received the 2019 Most Successful Student Outcomes Program prize from CampusLink, Australia’s leading awards for non-academic university and TAFE programs.

Crustacean solution takes waste problem in its claws 14/06/2019

Carapac, founded by Michelle Demers, Jared Wood and Kimberly Bolton, creates plastic packaging from materials found in crustacean waste from the food processing industry.
Class 16
Entrepreneurship excellence in INCUBATE intake 2021 21/06/2021

Meet the 2021 INCUBATE Startups!
ProtoX 2021 Has Kicked Off! 21/06/2021

ProtoX is the pre-accelerator program at INCUBATE that empowers validation through customer discovery.
Leading Gender Equality in Bathroom Basics 23/01/2023

Pixii, a Sydney based certified social enterprise, is dedicated to solving gender equality in hygiene supplies.

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