Meet our startups
Every year, the Founders Program supports many startups and projects to get their ventures off the ground.
Discover some of their groundbreaking ideas below. And to continue inspiring curiosity, bright ideas and the next generation consider supporting UNSW Founders.
- 10x
- 10x #1
- 10x #10
- 10x #9
- 2023
- 2024
- Aeronautics
- Aged Care
- Agentic Internet
- Agriculture
- AI
- AI Infrastructure
- AI ocean forecasting
- AI Risk
- Artificial Intelligence
- Audit
- Automation
- B10x
- B2B
- B2C
- Biomanufacturing
- Biomarkers
- Branding
- C10x
- Carbon Accounting
- Chronic Pain
- Circular Economy
- Circular Packaging
- Climate
- Climate risk
- Construction
- Cybersecurity
- D10x
- Data
- Deep Tech
- Defence
- Developer Tools
- Disinfection
- Drones
- Edtech
- Education
- Edutech
- Emergency Response
- Energy
- Energy Storage
- ESG
- Experiences
- Fashion
- Fintech
- Forecasting
- Garments
- Genomics
- Gifting
- H10x
- Hardware
- Hardware and Robotics
- Health
- HR Tech
- Law
- Marine data intelligence
- Marketplace
- Material Imaging
- Medtech
- Mental Health
- Nanomaterials
- Packaging
- Parking
- Parkinsons
- Physical Therapy
- Plastics
- Precision Fermentation
- Productivity
- Proptech
- Racing
- Research
- Resilence
- Retail
- RNA
- Robotics
- S10x
- SaaS
- Security
- Software
- Solar operations
- Space
- Space & Intelligence
- Sustainability
- Synthetic Biology
- Talent Marketplace
- Utilities
- Virtual Reality
- Vision
- Waste Reduction
- Wastewater
- wealth management
- Wearables
- Wellness
- Women-Founded
- Workflow Automation
- Y Combinator
Turns open-source software into one-click managed SaaS products.
Screen-free landline-style phone letting kids call approved contacts only.
Connects fragmented enterprise data so AI agents can act reliably in regulated industries.
Usage-based boat insurance powered by IoT sensors and AI risk analytics.
Developing an affordable, scalable blood-based biomarker test for early detection and staging of Alzheimer’s.
Diagnostics company developing multi-biomarker blood tests for women’s health, starting with early ovarian cancer detection.
Vision AI that analyzes industrial video for productivity and safety insights.
Makes a chemically defined, animal-free replacement for fetal bovine serum.
Developing next-gen transdermal drug delivery patches to improve treatment continuity, starting with hormone therapy.
Recycling process that reclaims carbon fibre waste with high performance retention
Makers of the “Kidney PJs,” a single-use insulating jacket that protects organs from thermal injury during transplant surgery
Developing dissolvable microneedle patches for controlled transdermal delivery of drugs
Building scalable, GMP-ready manufacturing tech to cut the cost and complexity of cell and gene therapy production.
Coordinates flight arrivals across airlines to cut fuel burn and emissions
Redesigned construction waste skip enabling on-site source-separation of materials.
Turning idle stock into valuable assets, while enabling product circularity
Wastewater treatment that pays for itself
AI-powered supplier sustainability and ESG intelligence that simplifies due diligence and responsible procurement
Giving robots a human sense of touch and enabling dexterous robotic gripping
Free virtual work simulations designed to help learners gain practical skills and confidence for careers across industries
Pioneering EEG‑based wearable tech to speed up and personalise depression recovery
Psychedelic medicine to treat mental illness
AI-driven platform that simplifies carbon tracking and climate reporting for businesses.
An on-demand mental wellbeing platform offering tools and psychological support to help people think and feel better.
A simple, online IDE for writing and running code instantly in your browser
AI-powered mapping that turns street imagery into precise, actionable pedestrian data
Scaling precision fermentation to create sustainable alternatives for food, fuel, and materials