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Get to Know OurRemarkable Startups

The startups we support harness technology to benefit people with disability, directly or indirectly, which include disability, health, and aging innovations.

Speckles Startup Logo: A stylized lowercase letter 'e' with a segment resembling an eye with lashes on the upper part, creating a playful character.

Speckles

Australia
2021
Early Intervention and Adult Disability Support
Square icon with rounded edges featuring the text "Accelerator 2021" in white on a purple background.
Accelerator 2021

Supporting kids to see a brighter future

A stylized logo featuring a blue geometric shape with a pink outline that forms a triangular design in the center.

SpendAble

Australia
2024
App icon with a purple background displaying the text "Accelerator 2024" in white.
Accelerator 2024

SpendAble are making payments and financial independence accessible to everyone regardless of age, ability or background 

SpineX Startup Logo: A stylized graphic with the word "Spine" where the 'i' is represented by a vertical column of spine vertebrae illustrations, and a red slash through the letter 'e' at the end.

SpineX Inc.

United States
2023
Self-Directed and Affordable Mobility
Purple icon with rounded corners featuring the text "Accelerator 2023" in white.
Accelerator 2023

SpineX Inc. is a clinical-stage bioelectric MedTech company, committed to delivering spinal cord neuromodulation technologies to improve the lives of people with neurological conditions.

Springrose Startup Logo: The word "Springrose" written in elegant, black script font on a white background.

Springrose

United States
2023
Early Intervention and Adult Disability Support
Purple icon with rounded corners featuring the text "Accelerator 2023" in white.
Accelerator 2023

Springrose designs adaptive intimate apparel that improves quality of life for women with limited mobility.

A stylized graphic of a multi-story building enclosed within a circular border, featuring dotted lines and a solid base. The building is depicted in a dark color against a light background.

Sunrise

Australia
2025
A pink square logo with the word "Launcher" above the number "2025" in white text.
Launcher 2025

Helps people with social anxiety to improve their communication skills by giving them live feedback on eye contact and voice tone and volume.

A stylized illustration of a three-wheeled bicycle, featuring abstract geometric shapes in green, yellow, blue, and dark gray colors. The design emphasizes the wheels and handlebars, creating a dynamic and modern look.

Tangible Workshop

Australia
2024
Square icon with rounded corners featuring the word "Launcher" above the number "2024" in white text on a bright pink background.
Launcher 2024

Designing Getabout Buggy, affordable, customisable beach wheelchairs to enhance mobility for individuals with special medical needs.

Logo featuring a user icon next to the text "TEAMY" on a mint green background.

Teamy

Australia
2024
Square icon with rounded corners featuring the word "Launcher" above the number "2024" in white text on a bright pink background.
Launcher 2024

Developing an app that will enable people with disability and their supports to remain connected and seamlessly share information.

Logo of "testa-seat" featuring a stylized letter "T" above the text "testa-seat" and the phrase "adaptive seating systems" below in a modern, clean font. The color scheme consists of various shades of green.

Testa-Seat

United States
2024
Square icon with rounded corners featuring the word "Launcher" above the number "2024" in white text on a bright pink background.
Launcher 2024

Pioneering custom seating solutions using 3D printing to make them more affordable, supportive, and user-friendly.

The Care Co Startup Logo: Logo featuring a cheerful anthropomorphic blueberry with a smiling face, arms, and legs, against a black background.

The Care Co

Australia
2023
Enabling Education and Employment
Purple icon with rounded corners featuring the text "Accelerator 2023" in white.
Accelerator 2023
Pink square icon with rounded corners featuring the text "Launcher 2022" in white font centered on a black background.
Launcher 2022

The Care Co teaches kids aged 5-12 mental health habits in the classroom and beyond.

A 3D wireframe model of a human head, showcasing a triangular mesh structure, with a highlighted circular area around one eye. The head is depicted in a slight profile view against a black background.

The KOBE Robot

Australia
2024
Square icon with rounded corners featuring the word "Launcher" above the number "2024" in white text on a bright pink background.
Launcher 2024

Empowering Paediatric Patients with a Novel Tethered Ventilator-Carrying Robot

The Shapes United Startup Logo: Logo consisting of the text "the shapes united." in black font on a white background, with a trademark symbol after "united".

The Shapes United

Australia
2021
Early Intervention and Adult Disability Support
Square icon with rounded edges featuring the text "Accelerator 2021" in white on a purple background.
Accelerator 2021

Wearable and Co- design for everybody

Logo for StomalSponge featuring the name in a stylized font and a graphic representation of a person and an ostomy pouch, with the tagline "Simplifying ostomy management."

The Stomal Sponge

Australia
2024
Square icon with rounded corners featuring the word "Launcher" above the number "2024" in white text on a bright pink background.
Launcher 2024

An innovative solution for managing stomas, reducing complications and simplifying care.

A colorful logo for "THOUGHTPATH" featuring a stylized brain design with abstract shapes in shades of green, purple, and blue, set against a dark background with three variations on lighter backgrounds below.

ThoughtPath

Australia
2025
A pink square logo with the word "Launcher" above the number "2025" in white text.
Launcher 2025

An intuitive app designed to empower individuals with high-functioning disabilities by seamlessly capturing, organizing, and managing their thoughts, tasks, and goals using offline-friendly knowledge management systems enhanced by AI-driven insights.

Logo of Thryv, featuring the word "THRYV" with a stylized wing design incorporated into the letter "C".

Thryv Mobility

India
2022
Pink square icon with rounded corners featuring the text "Launcher 2022" in white font centered on a black background.
Launcher 2022

To create a flatter world

Logo featuring the word "twende" in purple, centered on an abstract design made of overlapping yellow circles.

Twende

Australia
2022
Pink square icon with rounded corners featuring the text "Launcher 2022" in white font centered on a black background.
Launcher 2022

Twende combines the force of VR and social network to create opportunities for children with autism and their families to alleviate the stress of the unknown

A stylized graphic featuring a large blue question mark at the center, surrounded by abstract geometric shapes and lines in a modern design. The background is a soft gray, enhancing the visual elements of the composition.

URATech

Australia
2022
Pink square icon with rounded corners featuring the text "Launcher 2022" in white font centered on a black background.
Launcher 2022

URATech is an innovation centre for yoUR Assistive Technology needs. We provide customised solutions for end users and offer R&D services to partner organisations for hi-tech prototype and product development. 

A stylized logo featuring interlocking shapes in pink and orange against a dark purple background, resembling a medical or healthcare symbol.

Umps Health

Australia
2018
Smarter Homes and Communities
App icon with a dark purple background featuring the word "Accelerator" in white text above the number "2018".
Accelerator 2018
App icon with a dark blue background and the word "Scaler" above the numbers "2024" in white font.
Scaler 2024

Umps Health empowers people to live independently at home. Our non-intrusive technology identifies declines in health, and raises an alert before an incident occurs.

Virtetic Startuo Logo: Logo of VIRTECTIC in black text with a stylized blue "V" and a teal accent above the "I".

Virtetic

Australia
2023
Early Intervention and Adult Disability Support
Purple icon with rounded corners featuring the text "Accelerator 2023" in white.
Accelerator 2023
Pink square icon with rounded corners featuring the text "Launcher 2022" in white font centered on a black background.
Launcher 2022

Virtetic is empowering the prosthetics community through virtual reality.

A stylized illustration of a building encased in a circular design, featuring a dotted border and a solid base, on a light background.

Virtuleap

Portugal
2025
A pink square logo with the word "Launcher" above the number "2025" in white text.
Launcher 2025

Develops virtual reality solutions for cognitive assessment and training.

A stylized black icon of a multi-story building enclosed within a circular outline, featuring dotted accents.

Volitio

Australia
2025
A pink square logo with the word "Launcher" above the number "2025" in white text.
Launcher 2025

Helps people with disabilities and their support workers achieve seamless care coordination and improved outcomes by providing a centralized platform for communication, scheduling, and proactive care management.

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