Melbourne Accelerator Program 2015 Info Night

AGENDA

• MAP15 Events

• MAP15 Startup Accelerator

• MAP15 Other Stuff We Do

• Q&A Session

To enhance the culture of entrepreneurship

VISION

TEAM

Thas Nirmalathas Charlie Day Rohan Workman

Wen Xi Maxine Lee Kostan Ioannou

ADVISORY BOARD

Tony Glenning Leni Mayo Paul Holyoake

Sarah Morgan Darrell Wade Martin Adams

STRUCTURE

• MAP15 Events

• MAP15 Startup Accelerator

• Public Forums

• Master Classes

• Velocity Series

MAP15 EVENTS

• Upcoming:

MAP Public Forum 1:

The Hon Ed Husic -

“Innovation, Technology

and the Digital Economy”

• Tuesday 19 May

(6.00-8.30pm)

• Woodward

Conference Centre,

Law Building

PUBLIC FORUMS

• Every second Wednesday (5.30-6.30pm)

• Lab-14 Event Space (700 Swanston St)

• Upcoming (Weds 15 April) :

MAP Master Class 1 - “Running a Kickass Kickstarter Campaign”

MASTER CLASSES

• Startup Velocity

20-22 April

• Escape Velocity

28-30 August

• Terminal Velocity

• Feb 2016

VELOCITY SERIES

• $320,000 invested

• 16 startups

• Generated $3.4 million revenue;

• Raised $7.8 million funding

• Created 80 jobs

• UBI Index Ranking: 13th in the world

MAP STARTUP ACCELERATOR

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• 8 startups

• $20,000 funding

• Office space

• Mentoring

• Sydney

• Silicon Valley

MAP15 STARTUP ACCELERATOR

One founder must be a student, staff or alumni within 5 years of:

• Melbourne School of Engineering;

• Faculty of Business and Economics;

• Faculty of Arts;

• Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences;

• Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning; or

• Melbourne Law School

ELIGIBILITY

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Team, Technology, Traction

Application Workshop:

Thursday 26 March (6.00-7.30pm) at Lab-14 (700, Swanston St)

Online Application

(19 March-19 April)

Pitch Night

(29 April)

Interview with MAP

Team(7 May)

Interview with Selection

Panel(13 May)

SELECTION PROCESS

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• What happens during the 6 months of the MAP Startup Accelerator?

• Does each founder go full-time?

• Team member skills?

• Does MAP have an investment mandate?

• Does MAP take equity in the startup?

• Do I need to prepare a business plan?

FAQ

• Meet the top 8 teams of the MAP15 Startup Accelerator

• Tuesday 26 May - MAP Launch Party

• Demo Days: Melbourne, Sydney, Silicon Valley

MAP15 LAUNCH PARTY AND DEMO DAYS

• Tin Alley Beta

• MAP15 Meetups

MAP15 Other Stuff We Do

Tin Alley BetaObjectives

• Promote tech entrepreneurship

as career pathway

• Local IT startup community

feeder

• Increase number of quality

applicants to MAP

• IT startup company paid,

winter (Jul’ 14 – Oct’14) &

summer internship program

(Dec’14 – Feb’15)

Report Card

• 4 University partners

• 8 companies

• 200+ tech students pitch night

• 10 interns selected from 90+

applicants

• 50% interns hired for ongoing

roles either part-time or full-

time

Tin Alley Beta Summer Highlights

Report Card

• 5 MAP teams

• 10 interns selected from 60+

applicants

• Interns hired for ongoing roles

• Lets hear directly about intern

experiences:

Tural Farhadov, MIT program

– 2014 Intern @Pathobin

Stewart Webb, CS14 Intern

@SCANN3D

Tin Alley Beta Winter Highlights

• 10 week paid internship program

• All 2015 MAP Fellows automatically

qualify

• Eligible for 2 devs, UX, or data

interns (or more!)

• 1-2 day p/w

• Competitive selection - technical

screening and interview

• Graduating MAP teams qualify for

year-round CIS advanced software

engineering project New!

Tin Alley Beta MAP Tech Internships

• MAP Fellow Student Pitch

Online applications open

July 1

• Application deadline

July 6

• Shortlisted Interviews

July 10

• Interns announced

July 20

• Internships commence July 27

Key DatesTin Alley Beta

• MedTech, FinTech, Big Data, Bitcoin, Female Founders.

• Find out more on our website!

MAP15 MEETUPS

Y O U T U B E : M A P U N I M E L B

MAP14 TV SERIES

“You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might

as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

– Jim Carrey

Questions?

map.eng.unimelb.edu.au

@MAPUnimelb