Scott Farquhar

Representing a cross section of Australia’s technology ecosystem, Tech Council of Australia brings together the country’s most successful and innovative technology companies with a mission to shape Australia’s digital future. The Tech Council collaborates with governments and the community to advise, educate and create the foundations for a successful, truly digital economy.

SafetyCulture is a mobile-first operations platform that gives you the knowledge, tools, and processes you need to work safely, meet higher standards, and improve every day. What started as a digital checklist app has today evolved into a platform for conducting inspections, raising and resolving issues, managing assets, and training teams on the go.  
SafetyCulture also helps teams do more than just tick the boxes for governance, risk, and compliance – it can help set environment, health and safety standards, and raise the bar when it comes to operational excellence.  With real-time data capture and actionable insights at your fingertips, you’ll always know whats working and whats not so you can focus on what truly matters – getting better every day. Unlock the potential of your working teams to propel your business forward with SafetyCulture. 

Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions. We have more than 7 billion dollars under management and a portfolio of over 100 companies including some of the most successful Australian and New Zealand startups such as Canva, SafetyCulture and Culture Amp.

Ninja Blocks - Making Things Magic. At Ninja Blocks, we are creating the future of human device interaction. With an established platform, thriving community and thousands of shipped devices, we understand what needs to happen to make ubiquitous computing a reality. Hint: its not an iPhone app! Founded in 2011, Ninja Blocks has been helping to drive the so called Internet of Things from an abstract idea to a burgeoning industry. Our latest offering, the Ninja Sphere is a beautiful, high-powered device that pushes the frontiers of micro-location, gesture and soon [redacted]. Running Ubuntu and our open source stack, it is the easiest platform for software developers to integrate devices and create complex interactions. In the very near future, almost everything you buy will come connected by default - from your car, to your heating, fridge, TV, music collection and bathroom scales. This impending reality is both terrifying (security anyone?) and thrilling. We want everyone to get the most from this new, bigger, more pervasive, and scarier internet. We want regular people to easily take control of their things so that their things (and their manufacturers) dont take control of them. The Borg is coming, but resistance isnt futile. Weve got Ninjas!

Accelerator: https://www.startmate.com/accelerator/program First Believers: https://www.startmate.com/first-believers/program We back the most ambitious founders in ANZ 🚀 From founders who are pre-revenue to scaling globally, Startmate is the epicentre of startup ambition. We run programs for founders, operators and investors, fuelled by a community that believes big. You bring the ambition. We’ll bring the jet fuel ✈️

Skip Foundation - Audacious philanthropy solving root-cause problems in our lifetime

Representing a cross section of Australia’s technology ecosystem, Tech Council of Australia brings together the country’s most successful and innovative technology companies with a mission to shape Australia’s digital future. The Tech Council collaborates with governments and the community to advise, educate and create the foundations for a successful, truly digital economy.

Skip Capital is passionate about backing technology enabled businesses. Skip invests in phenomenal founders and world class teams with deep experience, who are solving global problems. Our current portfolio includes some of the following amazing businesses: Canva (https://www.canva.com/) Brighte (https://brighte.com.au/) Be Applied (https://www.beapplied.com/) Work180 (https://www.work180.com.au/) Making things (https://www.makingthingsapp.com/) Neara (https://neara.com/) Inventia (https://inventia.life/) Movus (https://www.movus.com.au/) Culture Amp (https://www.cultureamp.com/) Safety Culture (https://safetyculture.com/) MetaOptima (https://www.metaoptima.com/) Morse Micro (https://www.morsemicro.com/) Qwilr (https://qwilr.com/) August Robotics (https://www.augustrobotics.com) Figma (https://www.figma.com) Harrison AI (https://www.harrison.ai/) Pyn (https://www.pynhq.com/) Inquisitive (https://www.inquisitive.com) 1Password (https://1password.com/) Pando Health (https://hellopando.com/) Talkdesk (https://www.talkdesk.com/) Airwallex (https://www.airwallex.com/) Archistar (https://archistar.ai/) Tonal (https://www.tonal.com/) Fl0 (https://fl0.com/) Tonkean (https://tonkean.com/) Gong (https://www.gong.io/) Delegate Connect (https://www.delegateconnect.co/) Reejig (https://reejig.com/) ZeroCo (https://www.zeroco.com.au/) Zoomo (https://www.ridezoomo.com/) Snyk (https://snyk.io/) Milkrun (https://www.milk.run/) Mr Yum (https://www.mryum.com/) Human (https://www.human.health/) Strong Compute (https://strongcompute.com/)

SafetyCulture is a mobile-first operations platform that gives you the knowledge, tools, and processes you need to work safely, meet higher standards, and improve every day. What started as a digital checklist app has today evolved into a platform for conducting inspections, raising and resolving issues, managing assets, and training teams on the go.  
SafetyCulture also helps teams do more than just tick the boxes for governance, risk, and compliance – it can help set environment, health and safety standards, and raise the bar when it comes to operational excellence.  With real-time data capture and actionable insights at your fingertips, you’ll always know whats working and whats not so you can focus on what truly matters – getting better every day. Unlock the potential of your working teams to propel your business forward with SafetyCulture.