A new group of ambitious founders have officially begun their journey with the Western Sydney Plus Eight Pre-Accelerator, kicking off earlier in May.
Run by Spacecubed out of the Western Sydney Startup Hub, and with the support of the NSW Government, the program brings together early-stage entrepreneurs for six weeks of structured learning, mentorship and peer connection, all designed to help founders sharpen their business models, validate their ideas and prepare for investment and growth.
The program features weekly facilitated sessions covering topics such as customer discovery, building enduring businesses, go-to-market strategy and financial fundamentals. It will culminate in a live Pitch Night and Graduation event on Tuesday, June 30, where founders will take the stage to showcase how far they've come.
We're excited to welcome the following startups into this year's Western Sydney cohort:
Remunera (Raf Jabra)
An AI-powered compensation platform helping Australian organisations make fair, data-driven pay decisions, benchmarking salaries in real time and identifying pay gaps.
ControlShift AI (Krishna Kishore Durgasi)
An agentic AI platform helping SMBs automate customer interactions via voice, chat and AI agents, capturing leads, booking appointments and running workflows autonomously.
Cherilda (San Lin Latt)
A digital platform for aged care providers that improves daily operations, compliance and care quality through Lean-inspired workflows and real-time tracking.
NovoAnalytics (Sangeeta Aditya)
A connected ecosystem spanning data insights, partnerships and branding to solve fragmented business growth for SMEs locally and cross-border.
BookWell (Shawn Yang)
An AI Finance Workforce replacing costly SaaS tools and human labour with AI that delivers direct financial outcomes, targeting a $33 billion labour market with early traction at a global Top-20 firm.
Stratamate AI (Chad Overton)
AI that turns complex strata PDFs into clear risk, financial and red-flag summaries, with dashboards for owners and managers that shift buildings from reactive to proactive management.
OccMedOps (Grace Lee)
AI clinical decision-making software assisting occupational medicine clinicians with the accuracy of fitness-for-work determinations and workflow optimisation.
MemoryAid (Celia Harris)
An assistive technology device for people with dementia, replacing complex touchscreen interfaces with an intuitive, familiar interaction model to support independent communication and daily routines.
Jyoti (ALD Labs) (Chirag Jyoti)
A dementia and elderly care companion platform helping families coordinate care, track daily health and behaviour, and generate meaningful insights for better decisions.
MedCare Solutions (Ash Kumar)
A healthcare consulting company helping pharmaceutical startups navigate manufacturing setup through to TGA licensing, now developing NSW's first mobile six-chair dialysis unit for Western Sydney.
PatientFlow (Arian Kalantari)
A local AI agent for Australian GP practices that reads existing patient records and produces a cited briefing before every consult, running on hardware inside the practice with no cloud access and patient data that never leaves the building.
InspiredCo (Missy Kay)
A founder coaching business helping stuck founders turn ideas into structured, revenue-generating businesses through clear systems and conversion strategies.
CTG Human Consulting (Praneet Gill)
HR and people consulting for SMBs, providing on-demand support across compliance, people engagement, motivation frameworks and operational processes.
Cyber Rangers Academy (Bhumika Mhatre)
Online safety and cyber awareness education for children, parents, teenagers, senior citizens and students, focused on building digital resilience in the domestic domain.
AI10xTech/Dev (Emmanuel Nsanga)
Scalable AI-powered business coaching helping entrepreneurs and managers unlock potential and accelerate growth through a product-driven service model.
InterviewPrep (Rodrigo Monteiro)
An AI interview preparation app built for Australia, offering hyper-personalised strategy, speaking delivery practice and realistic mock interviews adapted to the user's English level.
Over the coming weeks, these founders will sharpen their ideas and prepare to take the stage at the program's final Pitch Night on Tuesday, 30 July at the Western Sydney Startup Hub.