{"id":3773,"date":"2015-04-02T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2015-04-02T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:30:40","slug":"tech-startups-go-head-to-head-before-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/tech-startups-go-head-to-head-before-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech startups go head to head before investors"},"content":{"rendered":"

CeBIT Australia\u2019s StartUp PitchFest offers startups a\u00a0once in a lifetime opportunity\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/a><\/span> Naomi Simson, RedBalloon Founding Director<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Business technology startups from across the globe will compete for exposure, investor attention and cash when they take part in the CeBIT StartUp PitchFest, a program where entrepreneurs give a creative pitch to a panel of successful business owners and technology experts including technology evangelist Guy Kawasaki and RedBalloon Founding Director Naomi Simson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The StartUp PitchFest held on day three of the highly charged program of CeBIT Australia, the region\u2019s largest business technology conference and exhibition (5 \u2013 7 May 2015<\/span><\/span>), is designed to offer practical real-world experience and opportunities to the hundreds of startup companies involved. It offers entrepreneurs the rare opportunity to meet the key influencers that can catapult startups to global success.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harvey Stockbridge, Managing Director, Hannover Fairs Australia \u2013 organiser of CeBIT Australia, said that the pitchfest is a crucial part of the impact CeBIT makes on the capacity of NSW to produce and promote successful technology businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis program creates an environment conducive to startups flourishing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNot only does it attract international startups but it also showcases NSW\u2019s ability to drive successful startups born from NSW\u2019s hub of knowledge, passion and innovation \u2013 three critical ingredients in a startups\u2019 success that are also the three pillars of this program. We will see some stars born this year,\u201d said Mr Stockbridge.<\/span><\/p>\n

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CeBIT Australia StartUp PitchFest 2014 in action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The winner of the CeBIT StartUp PitchFest 2014 was Mohamad Jebara with his company, Mathspace, an adaptive maths program that provides students with guided feedback. Mr Jebara said that since his involvement in the program his business has gone on to achieve global success.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSince winning the pitchfest in 2014, Mathspace has achieved over 300% growth in less than 12 months. As an Australian startup, we\u2019ve now broken into the US market and are fully operational over there. In addition we now have distributors in the US, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe show certainly built hype around our product and gave us the opportunity to have meetings with investors. For startups, such as ours, support like this is invaluable in the early stages of business development,\u201d said Mr Jebara.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naomi Simson, RedBalloon Founding Director, is focused on ensuring NSW continues to encourage startups and spur innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cInnovation for me always comes back to people choosing to make the world a slightly better place;\u00a0 it\u2019s our job to keep encouraging ideas; whether it\u2019s kids, colleagues or the tech industry – innovation needs to be encouraged, and CeBIT provides this forum,\u201d said Ms Simson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CeBIT Australia\u2019s StartUp PitchFest offers startups a\u00a0once in a lifetime opportunity\u00a0 Business technology startups from across the globe will compete for exposure, investor attention and cash when they take part in the CeBIT StartUp PitchFest, a program where entrepreneurs give a creative pitch to a panel of successful business owners and technology experts including technology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techbiz"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",400,601,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed-199x300.jpg",199,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",400,601,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",400,601,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",400,601,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",400,601,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",400,601,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",379,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",400,601,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",399,600,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",326,490,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",240,360,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",43,65,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",400,601,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",64,96,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed.jpg",150,225,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}