
The Early Stage Pitch Session

Impact start-up pitch session
Hosted by
Amy Carter-James —Co-founder, Raaise
Day 1
Lunchtime 12:20pm - 1:30pm
📍The Loft Stage
In this session you'll get to hear from 10 amazing startup founders as they pitch in just three minutes to a group of impact investors, VCs, mentors and peers.





Who is pitching?
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Transforming food waste, people and the planet.
At Subpod, we believe composting, growing food and connecting with nature should be a part of everyday life, for everyone, everywhere.
Our user-centric products help people all over the world turn their sustainability aspirations into tangible action.
In 2019, we launched our 3 in 1 compost system, worm farm & garden bed, sparking a global movement. With $15.7 M in accumulated revenue, 49k Subpods sold and a global community of 19k members on our online platform, we've built a profitable business.
Now with the launch of our balcony composter, IOT sensors and app-integrated gardening platform, Subpod is uniquely positioned at the intersection of the multibillion dollar markets of sustainability, waste management, gardening and education.
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Hoopsy was started by founder Lara Solomon on her own journey to fall pregnant.
With Hoopsy Lara’s goal is to provide sustainable healthcare products that help women, their partners, and the planet. She wants to reduce the amount of plastic going into landfill from pregnancy tests and know that every test sold means one less plastic test thrown in the bin – that is what makes them JUMP out of bed each morning!
Their Eco Pregnancy Test is just the start of their story.
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Scriibed is made for HR. Automatically capture, summarise and action all of your important workplace meetings so you can keep moving on the things that matter most.
Scriibed combines the best in AI automation technology with a highly trained and skilled human workforce to drive value for their customers — ensuring customer success whilst providing flexible and safe work opportunities to women survivors of domestic and family violence.
Through our their for profit arm, Banksia Academy, they provide training, development, real-world work experience and wrap-around supports to set vulnerable women up for success in the digital economy.
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The Harmonic source quality once-loved garments that transcend fast fashion; beautiful styles to last a lifetime that don’t become obsolete with the changing of the seasons. Each piece is handpicked from ethical Australian and New Zealand-owned labels, as well as a small selection of international brands, all with a commitment to sustainable practices.
Their ethos is simple and considered; to consume consciously, to repurpose with purpose, to revisit and re-love.
They believe the traditional business model of making, selling, using, and disposing of fashion, with little awareness of the negative impact on the environment is no longer tenable.
Their aim is to consciously disrupt the linear fashion process and encourage and nurture a slower, more sustainable model.
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Replated help Australians reduce the amount of waste they create. They’re on a mission to eliminate single-use containers for takeaway food. They make reusable Mealboxes that your local takeout will accept instead of disposables.
Their recycled containers help you reduce, reuse and recycle.
Each Mealbox is made from Certified Ocean Bound single-use plastic.
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Xylo Systems exist to preserve biodiversity.
Through technology, they have the power to preserve biodiversity.
Their vision is to create a world where wildlife is flourishing with a helping hand. They will achieve this by building technology to turbocharge wildlife conservation.
Read our interview with founder Camille Goldstone-Henry
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Uncharted Waters is a research cooperative and consultancy, specialised in climate resilience & adaptation, water resources management and assessing the value of water.
They are a not-for-profit, data-driven climate startup. Founded and led by a team of leading experts in climate, water and food security modelling.
With the mission to identify the impact of climate volatility on our water and food security.
They will do this by building a ‘Digital Twin’ of the global food system with real time data.
This discovery will provide policy makers and society with timely information about the climate risks to water and food security.
With the purpose of increasing support for climate action and build a resilient society capable of responding to our water and food security needs.
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Phantm’s mission is simple: they are designing a plastic-free planet.
They design products made from natural materials such as PHA, that are compostable and marine biodegradable.
PHA is a wonder material that can be a drop-in replacement for the fossil plastics that continue to have destructive impacts on both people and planet. It's a material that comes from nature and goes back to nature... without a trace.
Phantm’s deep expertise is gained from over 3 years of PHA development has led to their first product, the Coffee Coffee Cup, which is made from spent coffee grounds and PHA. The concept demonstrated market demand by winning a Starbucks (Asia Pacific) sustainable innovation grant.
With the development of this product well underway, Phantm is now exploring the development of other reusable products and partnerships.
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Re the mission. to prevent 100,000,000 single-use plastic bottles from ending up in our oceans or landfill by 2030.
Australia alone produces over 350M+ single-use plastic bottles every year. When not recycled these can take over 400 years to breakdown, causing further issues as micro-plastics end up in our oceans and food chain.
Lucky for you and the planet the Refilled team has developed a sustainable solution! Let's get rid of the plastic bottle completely. Refillers are a new type of drinks dispenser giving people a sustainable alternative to grab a still or sparkling, flavoured drink on the go. The best thing is there's no waste and they taste great too. By deciding to reduce, reuse, REFILL and recycle you are helping save the planet one plastic bottle at a time.
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Re-Source is a Coal Ash Dams Project run by Lilli Pilli consulting.
Lilli Pilli Consulting undertake research that focuses on trans-disciplinary economic analyses of complex social situations and on further developing the necessary economic methods and methodologies. In line with their tagline 'formulate a vision — make change happen — measure the difference' they assist organisations and social enterprises throughout the whole project cycle.