Melbourne Startup Companies Pitching for Interns
This Summer’s Tin Alley Beta program is kicking off soon. Tin Alley Beta was started last year by Miguel Wood focusing on University of Melbourne students in 2013 and has expanded to Monash University, Swinburne University of Technology and The University of Tasmania for 2014. As thePremier tech startup internship program, its aim is to promote tech entrepreneurship as a career for Australian IT university students and to partner with the IT startup community to provide paid internships for startups.
What I really like about this is that it selects startup companies who then bid for the opportunity to pitch to students from the partner universities for paid internships. I’m part of the industry panel and this year we selected 10 companies to pitch to the students. At pitch night we had over 200 students vying for the chance to work with these revenue positive, successful startup or early stage companies.
Last year’s interns worked with 99Designs and others and the feedback was positive overall.
What I really like about this program is that
- it provides PAID internships,
- the students get real world work experience at great early stage companies,
- a taste of startup life at the important stage of it’s lifecycle,
- its a feeder to the very successful Melbourne University Accelerator Program,
- The City of Melbourne Innovation Lab is one of the companies,
- job creation — over $100,000 income is generated for the students across all the companies.
Thanks to the following brave startups who are participating. All the pitches were good and there was lots of engagement after the pitches over a few drinks and snacks.
Startup Victoria, Lars Lindstrom Melbourne Accelerator Program, Wen Xi Chair, Catherine Curry 121cast (1), Ed Hooper YourGrocer (2), Morgan Ranieri/Francisco Trindade MetaCDN (3), Cameron Lowe Xcheque (4), Jon Hauser Whispir (5), Jordan Walsh Edrolo (6), Nathan McGinness JDLF International (7), Travis Gandy City of Melbourne (8), Matthew Willcox Rundl (9), Graeme Perkins Gyde (10), Darcy Laycock Sense-Co (11), Simon Milton (on behalf of John McGee)
