STARTUP ECOSYSTEM PRELIMINARY REPORT

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STAGE 2: GROUPS, HUBS & PROGRAMS ROBOGALS 6,813+ Number of attendees over two and half years Robogals is a global not-for-profit that aims to encourage more young women into studying engineering and maths based sciences at a tertiary level. Robogals was started by 2012 Young Australian of the Year Winner Marita Cheng in 2008 at the University of Melbourne. The organisation has grown into five regions (Asia Pacific, North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa) and 30 chapters across the world. Robogals main activity is running free robotics and engineering workshops for female primary and secondary students in order to educate them on what engineering is and what the possibilities are. Since 2008 Robogals has globally taught and inspired over 30,000 girls to pursue careers in engineering. CISCO GLOBAL IOE INNOVATION CENTRE $35M 2015 Investment in Cisco IoE Centre In July 2015, Cisco established the Cisco Internet of Everything (IoE) Innovation Centre, Australia, in Perth and Sydney – its 8th open innovation hub worldwide, citing Australia as an emerging hub for global start-ups, innovation, and the global knowledge economy. Based at Curtin University, the Centre aims to develop projects with technology partners, startups and industry experts using cloud, analytics, cyber security and IoT network platforms to build potentially disruptive solutions in the partners’ core areas of strength: resources, agriculture, astronomy and smart campus. The Centre links to Cisco’s global IoE Centre network, and will expand to include CSIRO and other industry partners and focus areas in the future. JUST START IT 2,000+ School students engaged in 2015 Recognising that entrepreneurial development can start young, the Just Start IT program was founded by Lainey Weiser in 2014 to teach high school students the skills to develop their own tech startups. Run as an 18 week mentorled program at high schools in Perth and now across Australia, it has engaged 2000+ students across 42 schools in 2015, has been endorsed by the WA Certificate of Education as a Personal Development Program, and counts 5 points towards the TEE score. It is currently being developed as a VET program for Cert I, II and III in Business and Cert I in IT. ARTIFACTORY 3 Mechanical Steam Ostriches built Established in 2009 as a not for profit community group, the Artifactory is the primary makerspace/ hackerspace in Perth. The Artifactory currently occupies a large warehouse in Osborne Park and shares resources such as 3D printers, laser cutters, robotic and non-robotic tools, welders, sewing machines, jigsaws, desks and workstations. It has 50+ paying members and there have been 18 build your own modular synth nights, 52 NoizeMaschin experimental music nights (highest musical voltage achieved 40,000Hz), 103 Arduino nights, 3 mechanical steam ostriches built and one giant robot installed. BLOOM 25+ Student startups in 2015 Founded in 2013 by UWA student Mark Shelton, Bloom is a student-led non-profit organisation that encourages and supports entrepreneurial young Western Australians, primarily university students and recent graduates. It opened its first co-working space, the BloomLab at St Catherine’s College (adjacent to The University of Western Australia) in March 2015. Since then, it has held more than 75 events with 2,500+ attendees, and has helped launch 25+ startups with the support of a 50+ strong mentor network. In 2016, Bloom plans to form new strategic alliances, including Asia-focused partnerships and funding to expand its programs. SPACECUBED 650 Number of Spacecubed members Founded in 2012 Spacecubed is a social enterprise with the primary purpose of supporting 20,000 Western Australian Entrepreneurs by 2025. Spacecubed runs an increasing number of inspiring and collaborative spaces including Spacecubed, FLUX and Sync Labs. It has also recently started supporting a series of startup programmes and accelerators including Founder Institute, Amcom Upstart, RAC SeedSpark and resource focussed accelerator Unearthed. It is a central location for over 230 startup, entrepreneurship and social enterprise related events in 2015 alone. Spacecubed has 700 members and estimates that over 30,000 people have attended events since 2012. Currently Spacecubed is working to launch FLUX, a collaboration with Hawaiian launch another collaboration and innovation space Perth CBD to further support the next wave of innovation in Western Australia. 22
TOP 30 <strong>STARTUP</strong> MEETUP GROUPS BY MEMBERSHIP TOP 30 <strong>STARTUP</strong> MEETUP GROUPS BY NO. EVENTS Morning Startup - Perth 1586 Silicon Beach Perth 217 Agile Perth 1328 Perth Project Crowd Fund 152 Perth Small Business meetup 910 Morning Startup - Perth 131 Perth Startup Founder 101 902 Perth Small Business meetup 102 Port80 Perth 879 Perth iOS Developers 95 Silicon Beach Perth 854 Joondalup Women in Business 92 Perth Solo & Small Business Owners’ Hangout 849 District32 Business Reboot 91 Perth Rapid Startups 788 Lean Startup Perth 87 Perth Agile Meetup 698 Agile Perth 86 Perth iOS Developers 670 Ruby on Rails Oceania 71 Entrepreneurs in Perth 660 Perth Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design 68 WordPress Perth 652 Perth Small Business Networking Group 67 DevOps Perth 595 Perth Business Club 66 District32 Business Reboot 555 Perth Networking Group 66 Front End Web Developers Perth 481 Enterprise Clubs of Australia 62 Perth Entrepreneurs 478 Perth Linux Users’ Group 57 Experience Design Perth 462 Experience Design Perth 56 Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group Joondalup Women in Business Inspired Entrepreneurial Women of Perth Big Data Perth Perth .Net Graphic Designers Perth Business Bootcamp & Networking Group Ruby on Rails Oceania 426 419 395 371 357 352 343 329 Port80 Perth Front End Web Developers Perth Perth Entrepreneurs Makers and Changemakers eGroup WA Drupal WA SAGE-AU WA Perth Appreneurs MasterMind Group 55 51 47 44 42 39 38 37 23
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