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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 Sydney 2026
FoundersHack Sydney 2026
FoundersHack is a uni-agnostic, two-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.
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, two-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.
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. Infra for Real World Data
01. Infra for Real World Data
01. Infra for Real World Data
Sam Rogers
Sam Rogers
Sam Rogers
GrazeMate
GrazeMate
GrazeMate
GrazeMate is building robot cowboys to help ranchers move and monitor their cattle.
GrazeMate is building robot cowboys to help ranchers move and monitor their cattle.
GrazeMate is building robot cowboys to help ranchers move and monitor their cattle.
What Sam wants you to build
What Sam wants you to build
What Sam wants you to build
Build AI that goes beyond text and chatbots to interpret, understand, and act on what's actually happening in the physical and digital world.
Build AI that goes beyond text and chatbots to interpret, understand, and act on what's actually happening in the physical and digital world.
Build AI that goes beyond text and chatbots to interpret, understand, and act on what's actually happening in the physical and digital world.
Create systems that observe real-world activity and generate meaningful insight, whether that's how people work, how spaces operate, or how time is spent.
Create systems that observe real-world activity and generate meaningful insight, whether that's how people work, how spaces operate, or how time is spent.
Create systems that observe real-world activity and generate meaningful insight, whether that's how people work, how spaces operate, or how time is spent.
Bridge the gap between AI capability and real-world complexity by building products that integrate deeply with how life and work actually unfold.
Bridge the gap between AI capability and real-world complexity by building products that integrate deeply with how life and work actually unfold.
Bridge the gap between AI capability and real-world complexity by building products that integrate deeply with how life and work actually unfold.
02. Software that understands the Real World
02. Software that understands the Real World
02. Software that understands the Real World
Oliver Farnill
Oliver Farnill
Oliver Farnill
Fluency
Fluency
Fluency
Fluency enables Enterprise AI, helping leaders discover, optimize and prove AI transformation.
Fluency enables Enterprise AI, helping leaders discover, optimize and prove AI transformation.
Fluency enables Enterprise AI, helping leaders discover, optimize and prove AI transformation.
What Oliver wants you to build
What Oliver wants you to build
What Oliver wants you to build
Build the foundational infrastructure that turns messy, unstructured physical signals into clean, usable data for AI systems.
Build the foundational infrastructure that turns messy, unstructured physical signals into clean, usable data for AI systems.
Build the foundational infrastructure that turns messy, unstructured physical signals into clean, usable data for AI systems.
Unlock the massive productivity gains knowledge workers got from LLMs for blue-collar and real-world industries by solving the data pipeline problem.
Unlock the massive productivity gains knowledge workers got from LLMs for blue-collar and real-world industries by solving the data pipeline problem.
Unlock the massive productivity gains knowledge workers got from LLMs for blue-collar and real-world industries by solving the data pipeline problem.
Create tools that make it possible to train, evaluate, and improve AI agents that operate in physical environments at scale.
Create tools that make it possible to train, evaluate, and improve AI agents that operate in physical environments at scale.
Create tools that make it possible to train, evaluate, and improve AI agents that operate in physical environments at scale.
03. Memory Layer for AI
Jeremy Cabral
Finder
Finder is the world’s go-to destination for comparing – helping people to find better deals.
What Jeremy wants you to build
Build a persistent, searchable memory layer that gives AI genuine context from everything you produce: notes, emails, meetings, documents, and conversations.
Create AI that truly knows your history, decisions, and thinking, so it can assist with the depth and nuance of a great chief of staff.
Solve the context problem that holds back every AI assistant today by making personal and organizational knowledge natively accessible.
03. Memory Layer for AI
Jeremy Cabral
Finder
Finder is the world’s go-to destination for comparing – helping people to find better deals.
What Jeremy wants you to build
Build a persistent, searchable memory layer that gives AI genuine context from everything you produce: notes, emails, meetings, documents, and conversations.
Create AI that truly knows your history, decisions, and thinking, so it can assist with the depth and nuance of a great chief of staff.
Solve the context problem that holds back every AI assistant today by making personal and organizational knowledge natively accessible.
03. Memory Layer for AI
Jeremy Cabral
Finder
Finder is the world’s go-to destination for comparing – helping people to find better deals.
What Jeremy wants you to build
Build a persistent, searchable memory layer that gives AI genuine context from everything you produce: notes, emails, meetings, documents, and conversations.
Create AI that truly knows your history, decisions, and thinking, so it can assist with the depth and nuance of a great chief of staff.
Solve the context problem that holds back every AI assistant today by making personal and organizational knowledge natively accessible.
04. Finding Inefficiencies in Workflows
04. Fix Government & Public Trust with Transparent Tech
04. Finding Inefficiencies in Workflows
Mina Na
Mina Na
Mina Na
Blunge
Blunge
Blunge
Blunge is building an AI design agent that produces fully layered, editable designs for marketers
Blunge is building an AI design agent that produces fully layered, editable designs for marketers
What Mina wants you to build
What Mina wants you to build
What Mina wants you to build
Build AI that identifies bottlenecks, redundancies, and wasted effort hiding inside everyday workflows that teams have grown blind to.
Build AI that identifies bottlenecks, redundancies, and wasted effort hiding inside everyday workflows that teams have grown blind to.
Build AI that identifies bottlenecks, redundancies, and wasted effort hiding inside everyday workflows that teams have grown blind to.
Create systems that observe how work actually gets done and surface the inefficiencies that cost organizations time, money, and energy at scale.
Create systems that observe how work actually gets done and surface the inefficiencies that cost organizations time, money, and energy at scale.
Create systems that observe how work actually gets done and surface the inefficiencies that cost organizations time, money, and energy at scale.
Turn workflow intelligence into actionable recommendations that help teams eliminate friction and focus on the work that actually matters.
Turn workflow intelligence into actionable recommendations that help teams eliminate friction and focus on the work that actually matters.
Turn workflow intelligence into actionable recommendations that help teams eliminate friction and focus on the work that actually matters.
05. Proactive AI to Solve Problems Hidden in Plain Sight
05. Finding Purpose in a World of AGI
05. Proactive AI to Solve Problems Hidden in Plain Sight
Cielo Nicolosi
Alloovium
Alloovium
Alloovium
Alloovium is building collaborative AI workspace for construction and heavy industry.
Alloovium is building collaborative AI workspace for construction and heavy industry.
Alloovium is building collaborative AI workspace for construction and heavy industry.
What Cielo wants you to build
What Cielo wants you to build
What Cielo 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. Putting Critical Infrastructure Data to work
Shyeon Delnawaz
Puralink
Puralink is building an autonomous robotics platform for pipe inspection, mapping, and repair.
What Shyeon wants you to build
Build systems that fuse visual, sensor, and spatial data from physical infrastructure networks to predict failures before they happen.
Unlock the massive trove of data sitting unused inside critical infrastructure and turn it into actionable intelligence for the people who maintain it.
Reduce waste, pollution, and costly emergency repairs by giving utilities and contractors the foresight to act before things break.
06. Putting Critical Infrastructure Data to work
06. Putting Critical Infrastructure Data to work
Shyeon Delnawaz
Shyeon Delnawaz
Puralink
Puralink
Puralink is building an autonomous robotics platform for pipe inspection, mapping, and repair.
Puralink is building an autonomous robotics platform for pipe inspection, mapping, and repair.
What Shyeon wants you to build
What Shyeon wants you to build
Build systems that fuse visual, sensor, and spatial data from physical infrastructure networks to predict failures before they happen.
Build systems that fuse visual, sensor, and spatial data from physical infrastructure networks to predict failures before they happen.
Unlock the massive trove of data sitting unused inside critical infrastructure and turn it into actionable intelligence for the people who maintain it.
Unlock the massive trove of data sitting unused inside critical infrastructure and turn it into actionable intelligence for the people who maintain it.
Reduce waste, pollution, and costly emergency repairs by giving utilities and contractors the foresight to act before things break.
Reduce waste, pollution, and costly emergency repairs by giving utilities and contractors the foresight to act before things break.