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Join the Macquarie Incubator community

Putting you on the fast track to success — connect with an endless supply of invaluable expertise and research to help your startup take flight.

The Incubator is a wonderful, supportive environment to guide founders through the confusing opening stages of their ventures. The sessions provided act as an accelerated mini-MBA for your own business with bespoke advice from seasoned professionals, all while being surrounded by other inspiring founders eager to share knowledge and build networks.

Advice, community and support

When you join our connected and supportive innovation community you will benefit from:

  • practical and applied education program to accelerate your startup journey
  • access to powerful mentor, advisor and investor networks
  • experts in residence working alongside with you to build your business
  • high-value cohort model that enhances active learning in a peer to peer environment
  • supportive and engage community to help navigate your path to market and growth
  • events to connect you with entrepreneurs, researchers, students, investors, industry and community
  • Intellectual property and commercialisation support to bring your ideas to light
  • access to professional services support
  • acceleration opportunities through our corporate partnerships.

Resident members also enjoy the following Incubator perks:

  • affordable rates
  • business printers and superfast internet
  • clean and COVIDsafe space
  • cloud storage and infrastructure
  • common areas and outdoor barbeque
  • coworking areas
  • ergonomic desks and seating
  • laboratory access
  • Macquarie University Library access
  • meeting and conference rooms
  • secure office with swipe card access
  • shower, change room and lockers.

Applications

We accept applications from founders and startups — from the validation stage onwards. We don't take equity in our startups.

We're seeking residents that:

  • aim to address a sizeable market
  • demonstrate a scalable business model enabled by technology
  • have a clear understanding of the pain point and how to solve it
  • have a plan on how to be sustainable
  • know who their market is and demonstrate potential to make an impact.

We also welcome applications from social impact enterprises that may not meet all of the above criteria.

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Rates

Memberships start at $400 + GST per membership, per month for an initial duration of six months with the opportunity to extend for 6 or 12 month durations at a time upon review.