Support to deliver the Great Southern Hackathon.

Funding to support the Australian Screen Industry Entrepreneurial Skills Workshop.

This project will support 20 invited Kimberley First Nations women to come together for a 2 night camp at Goombaragin eco retreat on the Dampier peninsular north of Broome and host a sundowner for 40 First nations women/leaders from the region to yarn about innovation, ecosystem support.

A 1 day conference for high school entrepreneurship educators in WA. This conference is an attempt to create the first entreprenership focussed professional development opportunity for teachers, to learn more about entrepreneurship education and network.

Accelerating the K-12 entrepreneurial education ecosystem in WA by providing professional development for teachers, the opportunity for networking with others, support and mentoring services, teaching materials and resources. The long-term goal is to increase the number of young people who choose to pursue entrepreneurial career pathways. 

A one-day conference on Extended Reality (VR, AR and the Metaverse) exploring current trends, software/hardware, and applications across diverse industries. Part of WA Games Week showcasing WA games industry, experts from across Australia and provide a platform for emerging studios

To promote and organise the 2023 Annual Angel Investor Breakfast with an aim to grow the event capacity by 50%, bringing together 300 people approximately. This expansion allows us to connect a larger pool of potential investors with promising startups seeking funding, fueling innovation and growth.

StartupWA will sponsor 10 ecosystem-enabling organisations in Western Australia to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Conference in Melbourne, fostering collaboration, learning, and international networking for innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Blue Growth Salons are for new investors, advisers, mentors & talent to connect with SDG-related innovations. The Salons are a quick and easy way to become informed and educated about innovations and opportunities. Each session has two innovators engaging with in-person and online participants.

Three event Innovation series to educate attendees on Innovation topics and bring new WA businesses into the expanded Innovation Ecosystem. Each event has topic leaders from different innovation fields to an audience that is not currently on an existing innovation “mailing list”.

The Propel Fremantle Program will be the first initiative launched alongside the Propel Fremantle brand. Offering support for ventures in focus sectors identified by our sub-constellation. This may include co-working, legal support, coaching, mentoring or any other need discovered during diagnosis.

Blue Gravity is a program that fosters ocean innovation by providing diagnoses, recommendations, referrals, support, and subsidies. 10 to 20 ventures will receive support from $5,000 to a maximum of $15,000 per venture.

Over the course of 3 events, these F*ckup Nights will highlight three groups that are currently underrepresented in the innovation ecosystem: young people, social enterprises and regional communities.

Accelerator Enterprising Girls & Women x lady-brains to host their Perth Female Founder Festival for female founders looking to transform their business ideas into thriving ventures.

A local incubator program focusing on problem validation and development of ideas.

Designed as an incubator program that runs within the City of Joondalup region to support the growth of early-stage ideas and founders looking to take their business to the next level.

Designed as an incubator program that runs within the City of Canning region to support the growth of early-stage ideas and founders looking to take their business to the next level.

7 ideas supported for participants of Bloom’s (St Catherine’s College) Shine, Orbit and Launchpad programs.

$3,000 for each of the 10 startups participating in Curtin Accelerator 2023 + a pool of $15,000 additional funding for expanding on early stage idea validation.

This initiative will raise the entrepreneurial aspirations of 46,000 regional students in WA, and decrease the barriers facing regional educators in providing meaningful entrepreneurship education to their students, by developing a scalable Career Taster experience for Year 9 & 10 students.

This initiative aims to create capability in the WA innovation ecosystem by investigating how to implement circular economy practices and reduce greenhouse gases within existing industrial estates. Three organisations will work together to identify barriers, enablers and costs for SMEs to enact change.

Our aim is to make Environment Social Governance (ESG) and Impact education for start-ups across WA more accessible and relevant through creating content/resources for all WA incubators/accelerators to use in their programs.

Appointment of Innovation Unit to work with a user led Board and leadership team to develop scope of works in preparation for the development of a full business case application. Initiative end goal is to develop (through use of a trojan horse application, designing innovative solutions to customised employment options for people with cognitive and development disability) organisational innovative capacity through the development of internal processes that are embedded into work practices and used to design innovative solutions to overcome barriers to social inclusion for people with disability.

Scope and define a Pilot “innovation do tank” in a key chosen area, bringing together key players and defining a vision to be achieved. Throughout six months, numerous workshops and one on one sessions will be undertaken to further refine the action areas, where opportunities for new businesses and innovation will be identified. Support will be provided to scope those new business ideas as they emerge.

Creation of a diagnostic tool that measures entrepreneurial mindset and skill set as the priority areas, with the intention to share and scale these learnings across other WA Schools, once the testing has been validated. While diagnostic tools generally measure entrepreneurial mindset among university students and older entrepreneurs exist, there is no known instrument aimed at school students. Thus, this study aims to develop, pilot, test, and validate a new quantitative entrepreneurial mindset and skillset scale.

Collaboratively design a strategy and framework for (Angel) investment across regional WA, building on the SW Angels model, including a brand proposition for regional investment, educating key stakeholders on the advantages of regional investment, and a proposed actionable educational program supporting regional enterprises and startups to access that investment.

Scoping an Aboriginal Innovation Hub by developing a stronger understanding of the Aboriginal innovation ecosystem, consulting with Aboriginal innovation stakeholders and with innovation-interested young people to understand needs, and market validation for the Hub both as a workspace and a workshop space.

Towards the Fremantle Innovation Ecosystem initiative which will formalise the existing activities of the local innovation service providers which aim to establish Fremantle as a centre for innovation in the blue economy, sustainability, and immersive technology sectors and foster a collaborative environment. 

Enable co-design of an impact framework to demonstrate the social, economic and wellbeing impacts of EPWA’s existing Train-the-Trainer Enterprise Facilitation Program. The project will support local enterprise facilitators in Kalumburu and Balgo (Wirrimanu) to build capabilities in impact measurement and evaluation and ongoing implementation of the framework. It will support a better understanding of the indicators and pathways to wellbeing of First Nations entrepreneurship and foster innovation across the sector.

3 early-stage innovative ideas in the Innovate 2 Impact (I2I incubator program will be selected to receive $15,000 based on:

• Them having an identifiable and articulated social and/or environmental and/or cultural impact, with a preference towards breaking cycles of disadvantage.
• A demonstrated commitment to the process of developing their idea, and currently be in their ideation or validation stage.

9 early-stage innovative ideas will be funded across the second semester of three programs, “Launchpad”, “Shine” and “Orbit” programs at Bloom. $10,000 each to three ideas with existing momentum and $5,000 to six ‘early stage’ ideas.

3 early-stage innovative ideas are selected and allocated funding in July’s cohort of the “Concept To Creation” program ($34,500) with $15,000 to the top idea, $10,000 to the second, and $5,000 to the third. 20 early-stage innovative ideas will be funded in the September intake of the “Concept To Creation” program ($44,275) with a micro-grant of $500. Then, as above, the top 3 ideas will be further funded.

6 early-stage innovative ideas will be selected and funded on a tiered approach in the new CREATE program for First Nations ‘regenerative economy’ entrepreneurs and businesses. 2 ideas allocated $10,000, 2 allocated $5,000 and 2 allocated $2,000.

The Create Program is a flexible, free, blended learning program designed to connect and grow Indigenous businesses in new industries. We will build on our connection with Aboriginal organisations across regional Western Australia to deliver a program that assists Aboriginal Startups.