Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP)
AcceleratorMelbourne · Pre-Seed–Seed · 4 people tracked
Also known as Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) Cyber
Investment thesis
MAP is a Melbourne-based startup accelerator run by the Melbourne Entrepreneurial Centre, aiming to help founders build momentum faster and turn ambitious ideas into reality. Over more than a decade it has developed a community of industry leaders, connecting founders with dedicated staff, mentors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, and the broader Melbourne Entrepreneurial Centre ecosystem to provide support at every stage of the founder journey.
Source: firm website, verified Jul 31, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 74 of 117 portfolio companiesSaaS ×23Consumer ×18AI & Machine Learning ×17Direct to Consumer ×13Healthtech ×11Digital Health ×10Hardware ×10EdTech ×9
HQs:Australia×39United States×1Vietnam×1
Portfolio companies · 117 tracked
alumni founders can tell you what the program is really likeAelo sells consumer eye care products, including a sting-free daily eyelid and eyelash wash and self-heating eye masks aimed at supporting eye comfort and hygiene.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerWellness & Fitness
After operates a textile recycling service that collects unwearable clothing and bedding from customers, transports the items to recycling partners, and turns them into raw materials such as recycled yarn.
Circular EconomyClimate TechLogistics & Supply Chain
AI-NC offers a browser-based tool that reviews mechanical product designs for manufacturability, flagging issues such as unmachinable features, tolerance problems, and changes between revisions before parts reach production.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningSaaS
Co-investorsFlying Fox Ventures
Allume Energy makes SolShare, hardware that lets a single rooftop solar system be shared across all apartments and common areas in a multi-unit building, distributing the energy fairly among residents.
CleantechEnergyHardware
Atticus provides document verification and audit trail capabilities for various document types including annual reports, presentations, and prospectuses.
Enterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaS
Co-investorsBlackbird VenturesSkip Capital
Bajaboard designs and builds electric skateboards featuring suspension technology, offering various models to consumers.
ConsumerHardwareMobility & Transportation
Bardee uses insects to convert commercial food waste into insect protein ingredients and fertilisers, sold in bulk and retail.
AgTechCircular EconomyFoodTech
Black.ai provides AI-powered retail intelligence by analyzing CCTV footage to track customer journeys across multiple cameras.
AI & Machine LearningRetail TechCollingwood, AU
Sebastien Collier(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlackbird VenturesIn-Q-TelRight Click Capital
Co-investorsAirTree Ventures
Brunswick Aces is a distillery that produces gin and matching non-alcoholic gin (sapiir) with the same botanical flavour profile, described as Australia's first such paired range.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerBrunswick East, AU
Co-investorsTractor Ventures
Cadmus is a university-partnered assessment platform for higher education that supports secure exams, collaborative tasks, academic integrity insights, and assisted marking.
EdTechSaaS
Co-investorsBreakthrough VictoriaCardinia VenturesEmerge Education
Carbar offers an all-inclusive car subscription service that bundles the variable costs of car ownership into a single weekly payment, with the ability to start, stop, or swap vehicles on two weeks' notice.
ConsumerMarketplacesMobility & Transportation
Co-investors77 Partners
CliniScribe is an AI clinical documentation platform for allied health clinics that transcribes consults and drafts structured clinical notes, letters, reports, and treatment plans.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthSaaS
Co-investorsTMC Venture Fund
The page presents a "4K Cinema" service offering online movies, TV series, and documentaries in 4K quality, with daily updates.
Media & Entertainment
Deliciou makes plant-based seasoning and cooking products designed to make plant-based cooking simple, using natural, GMO-free, 100% plant-based ingredients.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFoodTech
Co-investorsStray Dog Capital
DiaperRecycle operates a subscription-based collection service for used disposable nappies and continence aids, separating the plastic and fibre so the plastic can be recycled and the fibre turned into a lightweight, flushable cat litter.
Circular EconomyClimate TechImpact & Social GoodLilydale, AU
Dr Glitter makes edible "nutrient crystals" that encapsulate active ingredients such as probiotics and iron in a prebiotic soluble fibre, designed to be tasteless and sprinkled onto food and drinks.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerWellness & Fitness
Elliephant is a corporate gifting platform that lets companies browse curated gifts, personalise them with company branding, and send and track deliveries in one place.
Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Enabler Interactive builds gamified, interactive training modules for the disability support workforce, allowing care workers to practice realistic scenarios and learn from mistakes without risking client well-being.
EdTechHealthtech
EnAccess Maps is a platform and app for finding and reviewing accessible venues such as restaurants, cafes, and entertainment and public spaces, serving people with disability and diverse accessibility needs.
ConsumerImpact & Social GoodMarketplacesMelbourne, AU
Co-investorsCivVic Labs
Exergenics is a cloud-based software tool for building owners and service providers that integrates with building infrastructure such as metering, sensors, and building management systems to derive optimization insights from existing building data.
CleantechEnergySaaS
Ferguson's Treatos makes air-dried, single-ingredient dog treats and chews using meat offcuts from the Australian meat and seafood supply chain that would otherwise go to waste.
Circular EconomyDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Co-investorsArchangel Ventures
Furnishd is an interior design studio offering furniture curation, fixed-fee interior decoration, custom joinery, and full-scope interior design for homeowners.
ConsumerPropTechMelbourne, AU
Gather Group provides an enterprise platform that identifies care needs, screens risks, delivers customised clinical guidance, and coordinates care networks to help patients self-manage their care at home.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS
George Robotics is a developer of embedded software and robotics, and is the creator of MicroPython.
Developer ToolsHardwareRobotics
Get It Fast provides same-day parcel delivery, handling last-mile pickup and delivery bookings placed through customers' platforms, with real-time tracking and delivery notifications.
Logistics & Supply Chain
I Am Mindful provides a school-based mental health program and the I.A.M Mental Health First-Aid Toolkit, teaching young people, teachers, and parents evidence-based coping skills drawn from therapies such as DBT and ACT.
EdTechMental HealthWellness & FitnessMelbourne, AU
Intellischool provides a governed data platform for schools that unifies data from school systems (SIS, LMS, assessment, attendance, HR, wellbeing) into a secure data warehouse, with pre-designed and bespoke dashboards.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEdTech
Kepler provides in-store customer analytics for retailers, tracking the customer journey from outside the store through to purchase to improve conversion, satisfaction, and resource allocation.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureRetail Tech
Co-investorsReinventure Group
Kinetics builds Kepler, a tool that captures links, pages, videos, and references from the web along with their context, turning them into reusable memory for individuals, teams, and AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS
Mark My Words is an AI-powered platform that gives teachers instant formative feedback on student writing—handwritten or typed—using a school's own rubrics and frameworks, and tracks writing progress from draft to portfolio with analytics.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS
Mingle makes seasonings and spice blends made without added refined sugar, high sodium, cheap fillers, refined vegetable oils, or preservatives.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFoodTech
Jordyn(Founder)
Minikai provides an AI advocate platform designed for healthcare providers in Australia and New Zealand to handle administrative tasks and patient intake conversations while clinicians retain decision-making authority.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechSaaS
Co-investorsTidal Ventures
Moneybob operates a financial product comparison website that helps consumers compare credit cards, brokerage/investment accounts, loans, and savings accounts.
FintechMarketplaces
MoreGoodDays offers a digital chronic pain management and recovery program combining a mobile/browser app with 1-to-1 telehealth sessions with psychologists and physiotherapists, based on the biopsychosocial approach to pain.
Digital HealthMental HealthWellness & Fitness
Berkeley, US
Co-investorsAutodesk FoundationAVA AngelsBerkeley SkyDeck FundCRV (Charles River Ventures)Mission Bay CapitalMoonhill Capital+1 more
My Dementia Companion is a practical, evidence-based digital tool that guides carers, people living with dementia, and professionals on managing challenges at home and navigating the dementia care journey.
Digital HealthHealthtechLongevity
Nebula Health provides marketing services and a proprietary video delivery platform (HealiumR) to help medical clinics attract new patients and educate existing ones with personalised videos across the patient journey.
Digital HealthHealthtechMarketing Tech
Newsie is an AI tool that clips live TV broadcasts into shareable video, including vertical formats, and automatically adds metadata such as captions, categories, and tags.
AI & Machine LearningMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Next Level Collaboration runs a neurodiversity-affirming social skills program for neurodivergent children, using their interest in gaming and gamer culture to help them build friendships and a sense of belonging.
EdTechMental HealthWellness & Fitness
Nudie Glow is a retailer of Korean beauty (K-beauty) products, including skincare and hair treatments.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Nuraphone's technology now appears under the Denon PerL brand of true wireless earbuds, which create a personalized sound profile using Masimo Adaptive Acoustic Technology.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerHardware
Co-investorsBlackbird VenturesCardinia VenturesQualgro
Omny Studio is an audio and video management and publishing platform for podcast and radio networks, offering content management, podcast hosting, monetization, transcription, analytics, and AI-driven post-production tools.
AI & Machine LearningMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Outcoach is class management software for coaching businesses such as music schools, dance studios, swim schools, tennis clubs and tutoring centres, combining scheduling, bookings, payments, messaging and student progress tracking in one platform.
EdTechSaaSSports Tech
Pathobin sells microscope imaging accessories, including C-mount phototube adapters for Olympus microscopes, USB C-mount cameras with real-time image stitching, and universal smartphone microscope adapters.
HardwareMedical Devices
Mira (originally Pest Register) is an all-in-one job management software for tradespeople and field service or inspection businesses, covering scheduling, quoting, reporting, invoicing, client management, and online payments.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaS
Arron Vilinskis(Founder)
Pride Cup works with sporting organisations to promote inclusion and acceptance of LGBTIQ+ people in sport, running events ("Pride Cups") and initiatives to make sport safer and more welcoming.
Impact & Social GoodSocialSports Tech
Project Flock makes the FLOCK LIGHT, a USB-C rechargeable bicycle tail light that uses patent-pending Biomotion Lighting to illuminate a rider's moving legs so drivers recognize them as human sooner.
ConsumerHardwareMobility & Transportation
Rebotify provides managed "AI employee" services that handle intake, replies, follow-ups, document chasing, and handoffs inside a company's existing tools (inbox, CRM, calendar, Slack/Teams), with human sign-off required before any customer-facing output is sent.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Recovawear designs adaptive clothing that resembles everyday activewear to help patients dress more comfortably and independently, supporting recovery and rehabilitation.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerHealthtech
Relectrify develops battery energy storage systems and cell-level management software to reduce the cost of renewable energy.
CleantechDeep TechEnergyHardware
Co-investorsAt One VenturesCreative VenturesVirescent VenturesEnergy & Environment InvestmentToyota Ventures
Reswitch provides digital infrastructure for delivering community benefit programs tied to renewable energy and transmission projects, handling eligibility, recipient onboarding, payments and program reporting.
Climate TechEnergyGovTech
Sapyen offers an at-home male fertility test kit that uses mail-to-lab semen analysis to measure sperm count, motility, morphology, and volume, with clinician-reviewed results.
Digital HealthFemTechHealthtech
Scratch makes dog food, including fresher-made kibble using human-grade Australian animal protein, along with small-batch natural treats, accessories and toys sold direct to consumers online.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Doug(Co-founder)
Scriibi is a curriculum-aligned platform for writing instruction, assessment, and teacher professional development.
EdTechSaaS
Co-investorsSwinburne Elevate Accelerator
Skedyul builds and runs custom AI agents that manage customer relationships for appointment-driven service businesses, handling enquiries, follow-ups, and bookings across SMS, WhatsApp, and web chat.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Sleigh Group provides content distribution, localization, cultural naturalization, production management, and talent services aimed at the international market.
Media & Entertainment
Smileyscope offers virtual reality-based digital therapeutics that help clinicians reduce procedural pain and anxiety without drugs, using guided VR experiences during medical procedures such as needle sticks and MRIs.
Digital HealthHealthtechMedical Devices
Solstice AI builds AI-based solar generation forecasting using satellite imagery and cloud motion vectors, providing site-, postcode-, and region-specific insights for solar farm operators, virtual power plant operators, and energy traders.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergy
Speckles sells children's eye patches (including adhesive "hide & see" patches) and protective sunglasses designed for kids with eye conditions.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
SpendAble is a financial management and budgeting app for people living with a disability, their families, and NDIS service providers, letting trusted support workers pay on a participant's behalf with spending controls, real-time transaction tracking, and receipt capture.
FintechHealthtechImpact & Social Good
StatDoctor is a mobile marketplace that connects locum doctors directly with hospitals to find, book, and get paid for shifts without a recruitment agency in the middle.
Digital HealthHealthtechMarketplaces
Co-investorsInterValley Ventures
Swiff Spray offers a personal hygiene and body care product line, publishing content comparing deodorants and antiperspirants.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerWellness & Fitness
Syncio is an app for Shopify and WooCommerce merchants that provides real-time, two-way inventory, product, and order syncing across multiple stores using SKUs.
E-commerceRetail TechSaaS
Co-investorsTractor Ventures
Talked is an online therapy platform connecting people across Australia with AHPRA-registered psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists via chat, phone or video sessions.
Digital HealthMarketplacesMental Health
Timbuktu makes weatherproof outerwear and apparel designed for women, offered in an inclusive size range of XS-5XL.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Umps offers Australian-designed personal alarms and medical alert devices — worn as a pendant or watch with built-in 4G, automatic fall detection, and GPS — connecting users to a 24/7 monitoring centre or family contacts.
Digital HealthHardwareHealthtech
Co-investorsVenture Catalyst Space
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesAtticus · techfundingnews.com · Jul 16, 2026
Black Ai · yahoo.com · Jul 13, 2026
Nura · finsmes.com · Jun 22, 2026
Cadmus · cadmusgroup.com · Mar 17, 2026
Relectrify · investingnews.com · Nov 4, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) made?
- Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) has 117 tracked investments.
- What stage does Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) invest at?
- Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) focus on?
- Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) located?
- Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) is headquartered in Melbourne, AU.
- Who does Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) co-invest with?
- Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) most often shares deals with Blackbird Ventures, Cardinia Ventures, Tractor Ventures, among 29 tracked co-investors.
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