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VentureSim is The Ryan Academy's startup simulation platform for university entrepreneurship teaching. In the current prototype, students run companies over twelve playable weeks, with up to twenty companies competing in one simulated market. Features include a guided first run, a curriculum-paced inbox, decision scoring with explanations, a Week 12 shareholder pack, staff grading with university moderation and a configurable gradebook. The student experience is designed to work on a phone. VentureSim is a working name and the platform is in development [launch status to confirm]. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
DER Fund I is a fund being set up to finance distributed energy infrastructure, focusing on councils, farms, food producers and regional businesses that are too large for household rebates and too small for traditional infrastructure capital. It is intended to provide long-term capital to projects such as solar, batteries and microgrids that Surge Energy originates, engineers and operates under Energy-as-a-Service agreements. Surge Energy is a related party. DER Fund I is in formation; this description is not an offer of a financial product [fund wording to confirm with adviser]. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
Activ Group is [description to confirm]. [Industry, location, founding date and current status to confirm.] No public information about the company could be confirmed from its own website or other sources. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
Parakeet began as Zelo Pay, founded in Melbourne in 2018 to reduce unpaid invoices and late business-to-business payments, before rebranding as Parakeet. Co-founded by Charles Wong and Rob Owens, Parakeet integrates with Xero so businesses, accountants and bookkeepers can automatically pay and reconcile BPAY and supplier bills, batch BPAY payments, and add BPAY to Xero invoices with automated reconciliation. Operated by Parakeet Trading Pty Ltd, it holds an Australian Financial Services Licence and is listed on the Xero App Store. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
Founded in 2018 in Solana Beach, California, by Jimmy Anklesaria, Salutec developed an emergency notification system combining a smart device and a phone application, with a focus on campus safety. Users could send an alert that was relayed to pre-registered emergency contacts, and emergency dispatchers stayed in contact through the app until first responders arrived. Features included rapid messaging, 3D location and integration with existing security systems, using both public cellular and private wireless signals to remove blind spots. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
Founders Friend is a founder-guidance platform built around a single company model rather than a stack of separate tools. It follows founders through five stages of the startup journey, and its assistant, Ask Founders Friend, answers questions using the company's own numbers. The platform is offered on four subscription plans [pricing and launch to confirm]. Its Palo Alto arm handles syndication of investment deals; any material about deals or syndication is reviewed before publication [fund wording to confirm with adviser]. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
Distil is a market analysis app that collects what listed companies publish, including announcements, reports, results and news, and reads each document page by page. It scores each document's tone from -100 to +100 and produces a short Brief in which every point links back to the page it came from. The prototype covers announcements across 18 exchanges, including the ASX and NYSE. Distil provides general information only and does not make buy or sell calls [launch status to confirm]. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
CodeSafe (CodeSafe Solutions Pty Ltd) developed a digital platform that uses QR codes on equipment, locations and procedures to deliver safety, environment and quality information to workers' smartphones as documents, images, text and video. Its visual approach is designed to help workers with language or literacy barriers. The system was first developed with Melbourne Water and the Water Resources Alliance, which won the Australian Water Association's 2013 Water Industry Safety Excellence award after adopting it. It runs on QIN (Quality Information Now) [current status to confirm]. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Brighton, Victoria, think Procurement was an Australian provider of business procurement software as a service. It combined technology, market knowledge and procurement expertise to help organisations increase profitability by buying better, under the line "Buy better, faster & cheaper". Its specialties spanned procure-to-pay, cloud procurement, accounts payable, corporate travel, expense management, e-tendering and supplier relationship management tools. The business has since closed. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
Redei Renewable Energy Solutions describes itself as Australia's specialist engineering design studio, taking complex products from research and engineering through experimentation, validation and production with one integrated team. Its products include Australian-made commercial and industrial (C&I) microgrid hardware, with the Redei Gateway as its primary product, and the TITAN 2000 vehicle power product, alongside engineering design services. Redei works with organisations in sectors including telecommunications, utilities, water infrastructure, mining and advanced manufacturing. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
Surge Energy Pty Ltd is a regional embedded energy provider serving councils, businesses, farms and food producers in regional Australia. It offers Energy-as-a-Service and microgrid solutions that combine solar generation, battery storage and smart controls, with customers paying for energy under service agreements rather than funding the equipment upfront. Surge originates, engineers and operates these distributed energy projects, and is the origination and operating partner for DER Fund I, a related party [details to confirm]. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
Oncore (Oncore Global Holdings Pty Ltd) provides contractor management and workforce payment services. It uses contractor management software to deliver payroll and administration for contingent workers, including online timesheets, expense processing and reporting, and offers engagement structures for recruitment agencies. Its software integrates with the JobAdder recruitment platform. The business has operated in Australia and New Zealand [markets, headquarters and current status to confirm]. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
Founded in 2021 by Nicole Clarke and Rick Maré, Shazamme builds recruitment websites using a no-code website builder with ATS-integrated job boards and career sites. Its wider product suite includes Shoutlab for marketing automation, KaboomIQ for analytics, RefME for reference checking, the AI chatbot Zammenow, and StackSync. The platform offers more than 40 integrations, including Bullhorn, JobAdder and Vincere, holds ISO 27001 certification and, according to the company, is used by more than 800 recruitment agencies. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
Established in 2006 on Sydney's northern beaches, bassike designs seasonal women's and men's collections spanning tailoring, outerwear, knitwear and fleece, with a focus on natural fabrics. Its signature organic cotton jersey is made in Australia from 100% organic cotton. bassike is a certified B Corporation and sells through nine stores across New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, as well as through a global online store. [Watkins Bay involvement: to be added]
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