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 here. To continue inspiring curiosity, bright ideas and the next generation consider supporting UNSW Founders.
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- 3D Animation
- Agriculture
- Artificial Intelligence
- Audit
- Augmented Reality
- Automation
- B2C
- Branding
- C10x
- Carers
- Chemistry
- Climate
- climate
- Construction
- D10x
- Data
- Deep Tech
- Defence
- Disinfection
- Drones
- Edtech
- Edutech
- Engineering
- ESG
- Experiences
- Fintech
- Forecasting
- Genomics
- H10x
- Hardware and Robotics
- Health
- HR Tech
- Law
- Marketplace
- Material Imaging
- Medtech
- Mental Health
- Nanomaterials
- Packaging
- Parking
- Productivity
- Research
- Retail
- Reviews
- Robotics
- S10x
- SaaS
- Social Enterprise
- Space
- Space & Intelligence
- Synthetic Biology
- Video
- Virtual Reality
- Vision
- Wearables
- Wellness
- Women-Founded
- Y Combinator
Contactile
Giving robots a human sense of touch and enabling dexterous robotic gripping.
Developed and spun out new tactile sensor technology from UNSW research | Raised $2.5M seed round led by Silicon Valley’s True Ventures
LLEAF
LLEAF engineers sunlight to help the world’s crops grow bigger, faster. LLEAF films shift sunlight towards the red side of the spectrum which plants can photosynthesise more efficiently.
Launched pilot solar lab | Raised $3.5m seed investment
Sun-shifting startup LLEAF opens vast new Sydney laboratory
Agtech startup Lleaf raises $3.5 million to grow better plants
HEO
Helping satellite operators and governments monitor their spacecraft.
Raised $12M+ | Conducting in-orbit inspections from 38 satellites | Launched world-first camera on SpaceX rocket
AFR: Aussie start-up raises $12m to eyeball mystery satellites
World-first non-Earth imaging camera “manufactured entirely in Australia” gets launched