Our mission is to help create Australia’s industries of the future, and we’re doing that one startup, one scaleup, and one innovation partner at a time.
Core to our Impact Network is our partnerships. We partner with corporates, governments, academia, investors networks, community associations, foundations and causes worldwide.
Our innovation partners have the option to either collaborate directly with startups or lead their own innovation programs with support from us.
As Australia's most successful innovation platform, we bring the best innovators and corporate innovation partners together to successfully scale ideas while raising the bar on corporate innovation success.
Our expertise and experience in nurturing startups, scaling nationally and internationally, brings you closer to the people and products, opportunities and outcomes that matter most to your organisation - now and in the future.
As a Partner you can access a number of our exclusive innovation programs that prepare you for collaboration with pioneering startups. Our partner engagement plan involves 5 key pillars.
Become startup ready and ensure the market recognises you as a go-to partner for innovation. Gain exclusive access to communications, meetings and game-changing innovation insights
Curated access and introductions to the latest innovations, business models and technologies employed by startups
Upskill managers and executive teams through the Stone & Chalk Academy
Gain the skills and knowledge to transform your organisation's culture of innovation and build your internal innovation capability.
Co-create and procure from startups and scaleups. Go to market with customer driven innovation - faster, cheaper and better.
The speed of disruption is becoming more rapid, startups are changing the world. Are you keeping pace?
Through Stone & Chalk Academy, we offer innovation education to upskill internal teams, executives and boards - enabling corporate culture transformation to outside in innovation. Gain the skills and knowledge to transform your organisation's culture of innovation, become startup ready or gain the skills to think like one.
In a world of infinite “information”, we understand that real learning requires an immersive and interactive experience.
Bootcamps are interactive sessions designed to provide a comprehensive overview of hot or compelling topics
Bootcamps are delivered face-to-face, by high profile professionals: industry experts, experienced startup founders, and thought leaders
The program is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of core topics in a simple and easy-to-understand fashion
We leverage our extensive network of experienced experts to speak and teach at the bootcamps, to ensure students get access to a diverse and quality range of expertise.
Teaching is supplemented with panel sessions, workshops and practical activities to provide a diverse range of learning experiences