ilab announces its Germinate 8 cohort! | ilab UQ
Summary
Germinate 8 is set to goThe selection bootcamp is over, the judges have spoken, the agreements are finally signed and ilab are now able to announce the successful startups for ilabs 8th Germinate accelerator.As always, the process is at the same time extremely rewarding experiencing all of the passion, the ideas, the enthusiasm to make an impact and the variety so evident at bootcamp and difficult choosing startups from a group of founders all personally driven to forge a new path and make a difference.The 3 day Germinate 8 selection bootcamp was awesome with some fantastic growth and pitch progression that occurred across the weekend. 28 teams were shortlisted with close to 60 founders participating.In the end, the five selected teams who will all benefit from the ilabs eighth Germinate accelerator program are:Agalytics Agalytics provides a rapid and cost-effective solution for infield soil and crop nutrient testing, for smarter decisions in agriculture.AirSponge A service that will get your car washed wherever you are, at whatever time and price you want by people who want to wash it. The founders were winners of the recent Brisbane Startup Weekend for Women held earlier this year organised by Blue Sky and River City LabsReinventing Divorce Team A tablet-based app to guide couples through a cooperative process to reach an equitable court-sanctioned divorce settlement. To date, pet owners have often been badly served in terms of information flow for the and Pet Connect seeks to fix that problem.50DMC A social hub of musicians, video / music producers and their supporters merging production fundraising, commissioning and management.From a demographic point of view, this founding cohort is a wonderful mix of gender, of age, of backgrounds cultures and of ideas. Agalytics is absolutely playing to Australias strengths in agricultural innovation.Adding to this will be the social / legal impacts by Reinventing Divorce, the pet tech meets client service from Vet Suite and the collaborative music hub delivered through 50DMC.