Alex Knight

Founder and CEO - Advanced

Alex is the founder of Advanced, helping startups access non-dilutive capital via R&D tax incentives, with a background in VC, alternative finance and multiple founder exits.

Taj Pabari

Co-Founder - The ASE Group

Taj is a nationally awarded social entrepreneur & speaker, leading ASE Group to deliver entrepreneurship and employment programs to over 247,000 Australians.

Julien Taylor

VC Investor - QIC

Julien is a VC investor at QIC Ventures with 15+ years of global experience in venture, strategy and scaling startups like Go1 and Sonder.

Sophie Yao

Managing Director - Pegasus Tech Ventures

Sophie brings deep international experience in venture investment, innovation partnerships and scaling companies onto the global stage.

Securely Group

Founder: Rob Neely

Founded in 2020 on Australia’s idyllic Sunshine Coast, Securely Group is fintech’s hottest disruptor, winning awards across the planet for its visionary identity tech. Bold and powerfully protective, Securely is now licensing social-media banking solutions to 44,000 banks globally, securing up to 17bn transactions annually with irresistible online safety.

Cadent

Founder: James Gauci

Cadent provides vertical AI for effective AI governance at scale. We empower companies in high-risk sectors like healthcare and government to build and deploy AI that's safe, compliant, and worthy of trust. Our specialised agents orchestrate and align complex AI systems, ensuring the benefits of AI vastly outweigh the risks.

Blue Biometric

Founder: Kenneth King

Blue is one of the global leaders in software that enables smartphone cameras as contactless fingerprint scanners. Their reusable digital identity platform, identiblue, is private, ultra-secure and convenient. Blue is developing ‘Sally Blue’, a specialist biometric AI agent to secure human identity and authorize agents in the growing agent economy.

AcudocX

Founder: Dylan J. Hartmann

AcudocX is a certified translation platform transforming how official documents are translated for immigration, licensing, legal, and education purposes. By combining AI-assisted self-service with real-time translator validation, AcudocX delivers secure, scalable, and affordable translations, empowering individuals, translators, and agencies with faster turnaround, compliance-ready outputs, and a seamless digital experience.

GravityFit

Co-Founder: Kirsty Richardson

From athletes to astronauts and everyone in between, GravityFit builds science-backed tools and apparel that strengthen deep muscles, improve posture, and enhance movement. Trusted by elite athletes, coaches and clinicians worldwide, GravityFit’s products are grounded in decades of research. With sensor and AI development underway, GravityFit are at the intersection of sport, health and wearable tech.

Hailo Solutions

Founder: Santiago Velasquez

Hailo is rethinking public transport through lived experience. Our cofounder Santi, who’s blind, was sick of being skipped by buses or dropped at the wrong stop. We're building tech that makes transit smarter, safer, and actually usable for everyone. Because public transport should work for people, not against them.

Pactify

Founder: Rahul Moudgil

Pactify is democratising IP licensing for the AI era. We help creators, brands, and rights holders license their digital assets like images, videos, and audio for use in LLM training. With automated contracts and instant payouts, Pactify makes it easy to monetise IP without lawyers, middlemen, or complexity.

ESGagent.ai

Founder: Shan Vahora

ESGAgent.ai is building AI Agents for ESG Compliance. Our first AI agent Susan eliminates tedious ESG paperwork so sustainability teams can focus on what matters most - driving real environmental impact. Susan automates reporting and compliance, empowering organizations to accelerate their decarbonization journey with confidence.

Carbon Asset Solution

Co-Founders: Hamish Macdonald and Andrew Swain

CAS is revolutionising agriculture and carbon markets with cutting-edge tech that measures 90m³ of soil per hectare in real time. Delivering detailed, high-precision reports on soil health and carbon, CAS enables faster, more accurate insights than traditional methods; driving impact across sustainability, farming, and climate solutions.

Cool Beans Underwear

Founder: Saara Jamieson

The world’s first registered medical underwear, scientifically engineered to reduce testicular heat, boost fertility, and support hormone health. Designed to address a silent global crisis: the rapid decline in male health and reproductive health - causing generational impact on families and population wellbeing.