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How to pull off the impossible, according to Linus Lee
Student Founder Bootcamp
How to pull off the impossible, according to Linus Lee

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Geena Grant

August 15, 2025

Out of all our Student Fellowship sessions, Geena Grant was most excited about Linus Lee’s ‘Crash Course in Pulling Off the Impossible’.
How Venu is bringing sophisticated marketing tech to independent hospitality businesses
Accelerator
How Venu is bringing sophisticated marketing tech to independent hospitality businesses

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Stephanie Palmer-Derrien

August 15, 2025

Venu founders Kieran Gardiner and James McArthur are on a mission to level the playing field for independent hospitality businesses.
How Graphics et al. are fixing the healthcare communication’s “IKEA problem”
Accelerator
How Graphics et al. are fixing the healthcare communication’s “IKEA problem”

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Royina Bakshi Lock

August 15, 2025

Graphics et al., the startup solving the IKEA problem for healthcare communication.
How to break into product management
Student Founder Bootcamp
How to break into product management

By

Vihan Ramanayake

August 15, 2025

Calling all aspiring product manager. Here is Student Fellow Vihan Ramanayake's step-by-step guide to breaking into the space.
How Keeyu helps get online shoppers what they ordered on time, drama-free
Accelerator
How Keeyu helps get online shoppers what they ordered on time, drama-free

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Royina Bakshi Lock

August 15, 2025

By offering proactive delivery prediction and efficiency, Keeyu is the holy grail for success that e-commerce businesses have been looking for.
How I overcame procrastination and started publishing
Startmate Collective
Career
How I overcame procrastination and started publishing

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Kristy Bertenshaw

August 15, 2025

This story is dedicated to all the other storytellers out there with words that deserve to see the light of day.
Holy shiitake! Meet the company that grows mushrooms (and crops) with lightning
Accelerator
Holy shiitake! Meet the company that grows mushrooms (and crops) with lightning

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August 15, 2025

Take a third-generation farmer with three startups under his belt and a serial innovator who’s turned algae into medicine and developed an AI mental health app for an A-league football team, and what you get is a recipe for magic.
How Everbility is using AI to change the working lives of allied health professionals
Accelerator
How Everbility is using AI to change the working lives of allied health professionals

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Harshdeep Kaur

August 15, 2025

Angela and Mani are the co-founders of Everbility, a documentation AI co-pilot for allied health professionals, to assist them with their administrative load, and ultimately help them “provide better health services and outcomes for their patients.”
Here we are, giving it a go: Why I decided to do the Climate Tech Fellowship
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Here we are, giving it a go: Why I decided to do the Climate Tech Fellowship

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Annelieke De-Wit

August 15, 2025

Climate change, climate action, climatetech, greentech, cleantech, deeptech… the list of names and buzzwords goes on. No matter your definition, the future of business is green. Net zero. Carbon negative. Regenerative. Because it has to be. Coming from a non-climate and not-really-tech background, it felt daunting to even start wrapping my head around this world. ‍
Gen-Z startup Zello is transforming the 140-year-old fitting room experience
Accelerator
Gen-Z startup Zello is transforming the 140-year-old fitting room experience

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Holly Clark

August 15, 2025

In 1883, French writer Émile Zola documented the first in-store fitting room, but according to Zello co-founder Olyvia Munro, not much has really changed since then. ‍“Bricks-and-mortar fashion retail has remained largely untouched by technology,” says Olyvia, 23.
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