Deadline: 5 April 2024
Apply now for UNSW Founders Pre X, an experience that transforms your vision into a market-ready venture, equipping you with the knowledge and skills necessary for the entrepreneurial journey ahead.
UNSW Founders Pre X helps early-stage startups to level up their ideas, products and build the habits to be a successful founding team.
The 4-week course is designed to fast-track your journey as a founder. Focusing on founder readiness, product-market fit, and business acumen, this crash course prepares you for the rigours of startup life and sets the stage for your success in an accelerator program.
Program Benefits
- You’re busy developing your technology into a viable business. How can you justify time spent on an accelerator? Pre X gives you a taste of an Accelerator in four short weeks:
- UNSW networks: 300,000 alumni. 152 countries. Tap into UNSW’s global alumni network at all stages of their career. They have an experienced team of program managers, coaches and experts with knowledge and networks from decades in the startup space that they integrate into all of the programs.
- Strategic Partners: They run most of the programs with partners in the relevant industries bringing the benefit of their networks and domain knowledge to their programs and some of them get involved a little earlier on. In Health, they partner with The George Institute for Global Health, in sustainability the James N Kirby Foundation and deeptech VCs Main Sequence Ventures. That is just the beginning.
- R&D Infrastructure: UNSW is a globally recognised university growing in reputation year-on-year. Currently ranked 19th in the QS World University Rankings 2024, UNSW excels as leaders in areas like solar power and quantum computing. The programs are tailored to connect entrepreneurs with technical expertise and state-of-the-art facilities, benefiting any deeptech and hardware founders.
- UNSW startup community: Join the thriving ecosystem of 100+ startups, including trailblazers like Forage, Lleaf and Cauldron by participating in one of the programs. Incubate in the co-working space, where you can engage with the dynamic community within Founders and the broader 60,000 plus community of UNSW.
- Knowledge and experience: They’ve helped a lot of startups grow (no, really, they do this all the time) or in some cases, even done it themselves. One of the most valuable things they can offer is helping you with the knowledge and experience that they’ve gained through both success and failure in the business world.
- The program is completely free for startups, but valued at more than $5,000.
UNSW Founders Pre X is for you if you
- Are hungry to move fast and get customer feedback
- Have a proof of concept, prototype or minimum viable product
- Have growth goals to achieve
- Need to stress-test your business model
- Want to try a lite version of the 10x Accelerator program (coming August 2024)
- The pre-accelerator is a hybrid program – so no matter where you are in Australia, you can take part via zoom.
For more information, visit UNSW Founders.
