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The Pitch is back in Melbourne soon! Enter now to win big in November

SmartCompany is excited to announce the dates and details for part four of the Pitch, our early-stage startup competition. 
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Raaj Rayat, Airtree ventures, judging at the Pitch

SmartCompany is excited to announce the dates and details for part four of the Pitch, our early-stage startup competition.

It’s free to enter and open now. Applications close on Friday, October 27. Check your startup’s eligibility and start yours here.

After taking the grand prize at the third instalment in Sydney last month, nVest founder Sivan Atad said “I’m in a dream right now”.

With $100,000 in AWS active credits and a half-day strategy workshop, complimentary grants review, and monthly mentoring meetings for a year with BlueRock, you’ll be in a dream too if your startup takes out the grand prize in Melbourne.

Not in Melbourne? That’s fine, startups from all over the country are welcome. There’s more information on the Pitch eligibility, dates and prizes here.

We’ve already awarded $315,000 worth of prizes to winning startups including Amber Linz’s Zipr and Amy Benson’s Diolog.

How the Pitch works

Enter your short pitch deck here, it’s fast and free. Once our entries close, an internal judging panel will choose a shortlist of five frontrunners, who’ll pitch their startup on the night. An esteemed guest judging panel made up of VC, startup and business leaders will deliver insightful feedback to all contestants, and finally pick a winner.

We’ve already had guest judges from Blackbird VC, Airtree, Main Sequence, Flying Fox, After Work and more.

Get more information here, and if you’re looking for some inspiration, check out the shortlisted candidates for the Pitch’s first, second and third instalments.

Explore the series

The Pitch
  1. How to make a winning business pitch
  2. The Pitch 2023: SmartCompany is looking for Australia’s best early stage startups
  3. “Start on some chewing gum and sticky tape”: Tractor Ventures co-founder Jodie Imam says now’s the best time to launch your startup
  4. Web3 and renewables: Four investment trends you can expect in 2023
  5. Blackbird’s Christie Jenkins on the commitment, resilience and addiction to feedback shared by athletes and founders
  6. Be self-aware and honest: Main Sequence’s Jun Qu on why it’s important for startups to know where they need help
  7. the Pitch shortlist: Meet the six shortlisted startups competing for $100,000 in prizes in Melbourne
  8. Diolog wins the Melbourne Pitch, taking home prize of up to $100K
  9. Judges called her pitch “explosive”. Here’s how startup founder Amy Benson won the Melbourne Pitch
  10. The Pitch is back for part three! Don’t miss the chance to give your startup the boost it needs
  11. “You’re likely to get it wrong on the first try”: the Pitch winner Amber Linz on Zipr’s change of direction
  12. No more drinking from the VC tap: Jill Berry on the importance of profitability at new startups
  13. Network, believe and forget the aesthetics: Amy Benson’s four tips for early-stage startup founders
  14. What are your value inflection milestones? x15’s Laura Faulconer shares pitching advice for startups
  15. Investors, employees and mum: Raaj Rayat on how startup founders must be able to adjust their pitch
  16. “A big milestone”: the Pitch winner Amy Benson on Diolog’s hard launch
  17. Meet the Pitch shortlist: The six startups about to pitch for $115,000 in prizes
  18. nVest wins the Sydney Pitch, takes home prize of $115,000
  19. The story of nVest, Sivan Atad’s startup that won the Pitch
  20. The Pitch is back in Melbourne soon! Enter now to win big in November
  21. What’s your startup genesis story? Rachel Yang wants founders to get better at telling it
  22. Start small and play the long game: Lessons for Gen Z founders
  23. Six successful Shark Tank Australia entrepreneurs share their top pitching tips
  24. Don’t overcomplicate: Skalata VC says there’s too much in your pitch
  25. Your chances of winning at the Pitch just doubled with the People’s Choice Award
  26. Meet the Pitch shortlist: Five early-stage startups ready to win big this month
  27. Inneurva co-founder shares how a friend’s back pain inspired the medtech startup
  28. Too many glaucoma cases go undetected. Medtech Eyeonic wants to change that
  29. Meet Spool AI, the startup curing ‘corporate amnesia’
  30. Why Yoochooz founder Maggie Ciobanu left corporate finance to take on cyberbullying
  31. How Farm Automation’s drones and AI are saving dairy farmers’ precious time
  32. Eyeonic wins grand prize at the Pitch, with La Foundary named People’s Choice
  33. La Foundary co-founder explains the mushroomy future of packaging
  34. Four lessons Diolog founder Amy Benson learned since winning the Pitch
  35. Pitch like a pro: Top tips from Diolog’s Amy Benson and SeenCulture’s Nikki Tugano
  36. The Pitch is back: Meet the superb startups shortlisted for September
  37. Oltre wins the Pitch with pledge to make architecture easier for homebuyers
  38. Peak Medical targets 1.4 billion market with AI-powered post-op care
  39. Less is more: Why new dating app Humpday says fewer matches equals more dates
  40. How Restify plans to end the stigma around death by future-proofing families
  41. Why startup Oltre wants to renovate the relationship between homebuyers and architects
  42. How Grapevine aims to close the inaction gap to help consumers shop sustainably
  43. How Oltre is growing after founder Kirby Roper’s win at the Pitch
  44. The Pitch is back: Meet the star startups shortlisted for November

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Ben Ice

Ben Ice is special features editor of SmartCompany.

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