The ten superb girls within the She Loves Tech Oceania regional pitch closing

The She Loves Tech Oceania Regional Pitch Finals is on in Melbourne this Monday and is about to be a landmark occasion, showcasing a number of the most modern women-led and women-impact tech startups from throughout the Oceania area.

Because the world’s largest neighborhood and acceleration platform devoted to closing the funding hole for ladies in expertise, She Loves Tech has been a driving pressure in elevating feminine entrepreneurs. This 12 months, the competitors is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and the Oceania Regional Finals promise to be an exhilarating showcase of ingenuity, resilience, and transformative affect.

Diana Teoh, Head of International Competitors, Accelerator, and Development of She Loves Tech mentioned the founders of 10 startups from Australia and New Zealand will take the stage, every vying for the chance to advance to the She Loves Tech International Finals in Singapore, on 11 November 2024.

“This occasion is not only a contest; it’s a gathering of visionaries and change-makers who’re driving the way forward for gender-lens expertise,” she mentioned.

“These 10 startups characterize the very best of Oceania’s women-led and women-impact ventures, every bringing modern options that handle crucial challenges in our society. We anticipate to be impressed by their ingenuity and dedication to creating a greater world by expertise. The Oceania area has a lot potential, and these startups are main the way in which in unlocking it.”

The issues these girls and their startups are fixing span local weather tech, well being tech, ecommerce, relationship, communication and employees rostering.

She Loves Tech is the world’s largest startup competitors for ladies and expertise, devoted to closing the funding hole for ladies entrepreneurs. Its mission is to hunt out and speed up the very best feminine founders and expertise for transformative affect and shut the funding hole for women-led and girls affect tech entrepreneurs globally.

She Loves Tech Co-Founder and CEO Rhea See mentioned inspiring is an understatement for the fervour and dedication of the ladies founders concerned.

“Their dedication to fixing real-world issues, mixed with their modern use of expertise, is a strong reminder of the potential that lies inside women-led ventures,” she mentioned.

“As we look ahead to the Oceania regional finals, we’re not simply excited in regards to the competitors, however in regards to the future these startups are constructing—a future the place expertise serves humanity in probably the most impactful methods.”

This 12 months, She Loves Tech is internet hosting competitions in over 70 nations.

The Australian pitch evening is Monday, September 2, 5.30-9.30pm, at The Discussion board @ Melbourne Join, as a part of the Melbourne Innovation Week Occasions.

There’s extra about it right here and to be a part of the evening, e book a seat right here. It’s free.

The judges embrace Mike Abbott from Antler, Alicia Darvall from RMIT Activator, Nicole Kleid Small of Ecotone Companions, Alexandra Gifford from Blackbird VC, and Saskia van Lier from VL Consulting.

The evening additionally includes a fireplace chat on “Unlocking Market Potential in Oceania: Methods, Challenges, and Alternatives for Tech Startups,” joined by business consultants similar to Lauren Morrey from Breakthrough Victoria, Justine Carzino from OneVentures, and Kshitija Deshmukh from FOBOH, winner of She Loves Tech Australia 2023.

Within the meantime, listed here are the founders concerned and a bit about their startups

 

Carla Penn-Kahn is cofounder & CEO, Revenue Peak Options, an ERP lite SaaS powering promoting, stock, buyer and finance for worthwhile eCommerce progress.

Claire Waring is cofounder of Gether Australia, an AI-assistant app that frees mother and father from household psychological load, to allow them to concentrate on what issues most to them.

Betty Karikis is Head of Product at Elli Cares, a cellular utility that helps unbiased residing for individuals with dementia and offers peace of thoughts to households.

Kara Zervides is cofounder and CEO of Humpday Relationship, a someday every week relationship app on a mission to finish loneliness, utilizing expertise to empower genuine neighborhood and connection.

Courtney Holm is founding father of Round Sourcing, a local weather expertise platform with a mission to revalue and recirculate the $210 billion in surplus textiles which might be underutilised every year.

Millie Marconi is cofounder of Rent Yesterday, which reimagines hiring as a strategic, relationship-first course of, leveraging AI to construct adaptive groups and problem outdated practices, constructing companies for tomorrow’s future of labor.

Priyanka Ashraf is founding father of Maya Cares, which developed Digital Massive Sis supporting various girls to reply to and heal from racism. She is a chatbot and useful resource library co-created with 300+ various girls, accessible to help anytime, anyhow and from wherever you want to.

Lingzhi Kang is cofounder and CMO of Sunflower AI, an AI-powered real-time captioning and multilingual help, making occasions extra inclusive and fascinating for everybody.

Sunny Feng is cofounder of RosterLab, which leverages superior AI and operations analysis to allow organisations, particularly healthcare with complicated wants, to generate and optimise employees rosters inside minutes.

Nikki Tugano is founder and CEO SeenCulture, which she describes as ‘the moneyball for HR’ – a call intelligence platform for individuals leaders