What started off as an experiment has quickly become a leading force in Higher Education entrepreneurship. INCUBATE fosters a proactive community of entrepreneurs to meaningfully support student entrepreneurs to launch successful startup ventures on campus.
The dedicated team have now helped hundreds of student entrepreneurs from all disciplines; supported the creation of over 80 startups and built a community of 100+ enthusiastic mentors.
Ashlea is the Director of the University of Sydney Union’s Innovations Department. With a wealth of experience in building leading partnerships, Ashlea has recently joined the team to help INCUBATE grow and expand.
James founded INCUBATE in 2012 after graduating from Computer Science at The University of Sydney. James supports the startup founders, designs the programs and help shapes the future of INCUBATE. James also teaches and is a regular guest speaker on youth entrepreneurship at events around the world.
Lucas leads Proto, INCUBATE’s pre-accelerator program. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and helping students navigate the beginning of their startup journey. Prior to INCUBATE, Lucas worked in software and consultancy roles and founded an internal startup within one of Australia’s largest financial institutions.
Nina is our operations, marketing and events extraordinaire. Having recently joined the team after managing marketing with one of Australia’s largest performing arts organisations she brings a wealth of experience to helping INCUBATE manage and foster our startup community.
Lizette is the University of Sydney Union’s Innovations Project Manager. She has been instrumental in helping create and foster the vibrant community that is INCUBATE today and now manages internal innovation projects across the organisation.
Martin brings a huge range of startup experience to the INCUBATE startups having founded and sold multiple startups in Australia and Silicon Valley – most recently he was CTO on MinoMonsters, a mobile game achieving more than 15 million downloads and #1 ranking in 22 countries.
Shane is the co-founder of 2 startups including a research spinout and more recently Instrument Works, which created measurement devices for labs. Shane brings a wealth of hardware experience to the startup teams and program.
Ben is the founder of Solushin, a new medical device startup. Prior to this Ben led the sales team for Shine, one of Australia’s fastest growing food startups and drink brand. Ben is also an alumnus of INCUBATE accelerator program.
A huge thank you and acknowledgement to our previous Resident Entrepreneurs that include Liz Kaelin (2018), Mike Nicholls (2017), Natasha Rawlings (2017), Shane Herft (2016).
