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Get challenged from successful, proven Australian founders to build solutions to real problems. This isn't just another hackathon, it's your launchpad to entrepreneurship.
Get challenged from successful, proven Australian founders to build solutions to real problems. This isn't just another hackathon, it's your launchpad to entrepreneurship.
Get challenged from successful, proven Australian founders to build solutions to real problems. This isn't just another hackathon, it's your launchpad to entrepreneurship.
FoundersHack Melbourne 2025
FoundersHack Melbourne 2025
FoundersHack is a uni-agnostic, three-week startup hackathon designed to get student builders to think longer-term, and more like a founder, through solving painful problems through real customer insight.
This semester, we're partnering with successful Australian founders to give you direct themes or problem spaces they believe are important and under-explored. We want you move beyond safe or incremental ideas. It's time to build real solutions to some of the world's most interesting and challenging problems.
FoundersHack is a uni-agnostic, three-week startup hackathon designed to get student builders to think longer-term, and more like a founder, through solving painful problems through real customer insight.
This semester, we're partnering with successful Australian founders to give you direct themes or problem spaces they believe are important and under-explored. We want you move beyond safe or incremental ideas. It's time to build real solutions to some of the world's most interesting and challenging problems.
FoundersHack is a uni-agnostic, three-week startup hackathon designed to get student builders to think longer-term, and more like a founder, through solving painful problems through real customer insight.
This semester, we're partnering with successful Australian founders to give you direct themes or problem spaces they believe are important and under-explored. We want you move beyond safe or incremental ideas. It's time to build real solutions to some of the world's most interesting and challenging problems.
01. The Future of Parenting and Child Development
01. The Future of Parenting and Child Development
01. The Future of Parenting and Child Development
Duncan Anderson
Duncan Anderson
Duncan Anderson
Edsemble and Edrolo
Edsemble and Edrolo
Edsemble and Edrolo
Edsemble is building personalised early childhood development - one storybook at a time.
Edsemble is building personalised early childhood development - one storybook at a time.
Edsemble is building personalised early childhood development - one storybook at a time.
What Duncan wants you to build
What Duncan wants you to build
What Duncan wants you to build
Build tools, products, and services that reinvent parenting for the modern age, making it more rewarding, effective, and less stressful.
Build tools, products, and services that reinvent parenting for the modern age, making it more rewarding, effective, and less stressful.
Build tools, products, and services that reinvent parenting for the modern age, making it more rewarding, effective, and less stressful.
Create innovations that strengthen the parent–child relationship, give parents more time, and improve overall outcomes for children.
Create innovations that strengthen the parent–child relationship, give parents more time, and improve overall outcomes for children.
Create innovations that strengthen the parent–child relationship, give parents more time, and improve overall outcomes for children.
Address the societal gap in parenting by applying the same research, technology, and creative energy that drives progress in other fields.
Address the societal gap in parenting by applying the same research, technology, and creative energy that drives progress in other fields.
Address the societal gap in parenting by applying the same research, technology, and creative energy that drives progress in other fields.
02. Challenges of Patient Interaction With Health Data and LLMs
02. Challenges of Patient Interaction With Health Data and LLMs
02. Challenges of Patient Interaction With Health Data and LLMs
Tim Doyle
Tim Doyle
Tim Doyle
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus runs digital healthcare clinics including Pilot (men’s health), Kin (fertility), Software (dermatology) and Juniper (weight loss and menopause).
Eucalyptus runs digital healthcare clinics including Pilot (men’s health), Kin (fertility), Software (dermatology) and Juniper (weight loss and menopause).
Eucalyptus runs digital healthcare clinics including Pilot (men’s health), Kin (fertility), Software (dermatology) and Juniper (weight loss and menopause).
What Tim wants you to build
What Tim wants you to build
What Tim wants you to build
Tools that guide how patients share health data with large language models and ensure they get accurate, useful responses.
Tools that guide how patients share health data with large language models and ensure they get accurate, useful responses.
Tools that guide how patients share health data with large language models and ensure they get accurate, useful responses.
Ways to structure or filter patient-provided information so LLM outputs are more reliable and clinically relevant.
Ways to structure or filter patient-provided information so LLM outputs are more reliable and clinically relevant.
Ways to structure or filter patient-provided information so LLM outputs are more reliable and clinically relevant.
Solutions that help patients turn AI insights into concrete health actions, improving outcomes while reducing harmful variance.
Solutions that help patients turn AI insights into concrete health actions, improving outcomes while reducing harmful variance.
Solutions that help patients turn AI insights into concrete health actions, improving outcomes while reducing harmful variance.
03. Building Tooling for the AI Workforce of the Future
Annie Liao
Build Club
Build Club is an AI e-learning platform empowering builders through hands-on, gamified AI education.
What Annie wants you to build
AI-native tooling for the workforce of the future, especially for startups and smaller teams
An example use case could be AI product management, where you integrate a tech stack (e.g. Slack, Notion, Gmail) and feed it into what teams are shipping
Other examples could be an effective AI sales tool, which is yet to exist, but are ready to be built thanks to progression in the quality of LLMs
04. Fixing Government and Public Trust with Transparent Tech
04. Fix Government & Public Trust with Transparent Tech
04. Fixing Government and Public Trust with Transparent Tech
Charlie Gearside
Charlie Gearside
Charlie Gearside
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus runs digital healthcare clinics including Pilot (men’s health), Kin (fertility), Software (dermatology) and Juniper (weight loss and menopause).
Eucalyptus runs digital healthcare clinics including Pilot (men’s health), Kin (fertility), Software (dermatology) and Juniper (weight loss and menopause).
Eucalyptus runs digital healthcare clinics including Pilot (men’s health), Kin (fertility), Software (dermatology) and Juniper (weight loss and menopause).
What Charlie wants you to build
What Charlie wants you to build
What Charlie wants you to build
Platforms that make government processes clearer, decisions more understandable, and public information more accessible.
Platforms that make government processes clearer, decisions more understandable, and public information more accessible.
Platforms that make government processes clearer, decisions more understandable, and public information more accessible.
Technology that gets people more involved in decision-making, speeds up progress on major projects, and drives political participation.
Technology that gets people more involved in decision-making, speeds up progress on major projects, and drives political participation.
Technology that gets people more involved in decision-making, speeds up progress on major projects, and drives political participation.
Leveraging AI to analyse government data, improve public discourse, and help fix the inefficiencies technology has contributed to.
Leveraging AI to analyse government data, improve public discourse, and help fix the inefficiencies technology has contributed to.
Leveraging AI to analyse government data, improve public discourse, and help fix the inefficiencies technology has contributed to.
05. Finding Purpose in an AGI World
05. Finding Purpose in a World of AGI
05. Finding Purpose in an AGI World
Chris Naoumidis
Chris Naoumidis
Chris Naoumidis
Mindset Health
Mindset Health
Mindset Health
Mindset Health is building the future of healthcare with hypnosis-based digital therapy apps for underserved health conditions like IBS.
Mindset Health is building the future of healthcare with hypnosis-based digital therapy apps for underserved health conditions like IBS.
Mindset Health is building the future of healthcare with hypnosis-based digital therapy apps for underserved health conditions like IBS.
What Chris wants you to build
What Chris wants you to build
What Chris wants you to build
Platforms that help people identify what they truly want to spend their time on, fostering meaning and direction in a world of AGI.
Platforms that help people identify what they truly want to spend their time on, fostering meaning and direction in a world of AGI.
Platforms that help people identify what they truly want to spend their time on, fostering meaning and direction in a world of AGI.
Solutions that bring people together in meaningful ways, such as pairing individuals to learn from and connect with each other.
Solutions that bring people together in meaningful ways, such as pairing individuals to learn from and connect with each other.
Solutions that bring people together in meaningful ways, such as pairing individuals to learn from and connect with each other.
Tools that help people build purposeful projects or businesses, lowering barriers to turning ideas into reality.
Tools that help people build purposeful projects or businesses, lowering barriers to turning ideas into reality.
Tools that help people build purposeful projects or businesses, lowering barriers to turning ideas into reality.
06. Software That Predicts Intent
Oliver Farnill
Fluency
Fluency makes enterprise process documentation 50x faster through automation.
What Oliver wants you to build
Systems that anticipate user needs and deliver relevant information or actions before they are requested.
Tools that detect decisions mid-conversation and automatically create tasks, assign owners, and prepare follow-ups.
Adaptive environments (e.g., browsers or dashboards) that surface the right resources or generate new ones based on what the user is about to do.
07. Building Tooling for the AI Workforce of the Future
Mina Na
Blunge
Blunge helps creatives make style-consistent images and motion, either with ready-made styles or by training their own.
What Mina wants you to build
Systems that create stories across text, visuals, audio, and video while adapting to specific cultural contexts (geographic, professional, or community-based).
AI that can translate creative ideas smoothly between formats, accelerating content creation without losing style or tone.
Tools that can adapt campaigns or narratives to different styles, tones, and formats for diverse audiences.
06. Proactive Software That Predicts Intent
06. Proactive Software That Predicts Intent
Oliver Farnill
Oliver Farnill
Fluency
Fluency
Fluency makes enterprise process documentation 50x faster through automation.
Fluency makes enterprise process documentation 50x faster through automation.
What Oliver wants you to build
What Oliver wants you to build
Systems that anticipate user needs and deliver relevant information or actions before they are requested.
Systems that anticipate user needs and deliver relevant information or actions before they are requested.
Tools that detect decisions mid-conversation and automatically create tasks, assign owners, and prepare follow-ups.
Tools that detect decisions mid-conversation and automatically create tasks, assign owners, and prepare follow-ups.
Adaptive environments (e.g., browsers or dashboards) that surface the right resources or generate new ones based on what the user is about to do.
Adaptive environments (e.g., browsers or dashboards) that surface the right resources or generate new ones based on what the user is about to do.
07. Culturally-Aware Creative Multi-Modal Storytelling
03. Building Tooling for the AI Workforce of the Future
03. Building Tooling for the AI Workforce of the Future
Mina Na
Annia Liao
Annie Liao
Blunge
Build Club
Build Club
Blunge helps creatives make style-consistent images and motion, either with ready-made styles or by training their own.
Build Club is an AI e-learning platform empowering builders through hands-on, gamified AI education.
Build Club is an AI e-learning platform empowering builders through hands-on, gamified AI education.
What Mina wants you to build
What Annie wants you to build
What Annie wants you to build
Systems that create stories across text, visuals, audio, and video while adapting to specific cultural contexts (geographic, professional, or community-based).
AI-native tooling for the workforce of the future, especially for startups and smaller teams
AI-native tooling for the workforce of the future, especially for startups and smaller teams
AI that can translate creative ideas smoothly between formats, accelerating content creation without losing style or tone.
An example use case could be AI product management, where you integrate a tech stack (e.g. Slack, Notion, Gmail) and feed it into what teams are shipping
An example use case could be AI product management, where you integrate a tech stack (e.g. Slack, Notion, Gmail) and feed it into what teams are shipping
Tools that can adapt campaigns or narratives to different styles, tones, and formats for diverse audiences.
Other examples could be an effective AI sales tool, which is yet to exist, but are ready to be built thanks to progression in the quality of LLMs
Other examples could be an effective AI sales tool, which is yet to exist, but are ready to be built thanks to progression in the quality of LLMs
07. Building Tooling for the AI Workforce of the Future
Mina Na
Blunge
Blunge helps creatives make style-consistent images and motion, either with ready-made styles or by training their own.
What Mina wants you to build
Systems that create stories across text, visuals, audio, and video while adapting to specific cultural contexts (geographic, professional, or community-based).
AI that can translate creative ideas smoothly between formats, accelerating content creation without losing style or tone.
Tools that can adapt campaigns or narratives to different styles, tones, and formats for diverse audiences.