Seven weeks of life-changing business support.
Launch Y(E)P’s Incubate program is all about driving your business from idea to sales.
NEW IN 2024!
Register for our next seven week program today!
Be quick! Applications close 14th January 2024.
GROW YOUR IDEA WITH US
Ten teams graduated from our last program, with more customers, bigger revenues, and new go-to-market strategies.
Launch Y(E)P Incubate is a seven week program, that's run once per year. Want to be in the next intake?
Applications close 14th January 2024. Apply now.
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WHAT IS IT?
Incubate is purely entrepreneur-centred!
The perfect program to do in combination with a curriculum-based incubator or pre-accelerator program such as Y Combinator's Startup School or Startup Onramp Founder’s Course.
It’ll help you galvanise your ideas and put them into action.
WHO IS IT FOR?
The program is most suited to early-stage startups.
We accept businesses that are just an idea, through to those who feel a little stuck and need some assistance, accountability, or support to get to the next stage of growth.
Run over seven intensive weeks, it’s a powerful way for founders to launch their businesses or to create a new strategy, product or project.
The program includes:
Seven weeks of intensive education.
Weekly accountability sessions with your cohort.
Weekly group mentoring from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence.
Exclusive guest presentations and ask-me-anything session from experienced founders, subject matter experts and investors
Final showcase pitch to investors and customers.
Plus, participants also get these benefits:
Education that’s targeted towards your needs.
Referrals and networks to take you to the next step.
Access to partner bonuses including AWS credits.
Access to our founder wellbeing and mental health program.
An opportunity to pitch to investors and potential customers.
Exclusive discounts to attend Tropical Innovation Festival.
Program swag pack.
Ready to apply for the next round?
If you think you’re a good fit for our next Incubate program then go ahead and apply now!
Applications close 14th January 2024!
WHO ARE WE?
Meet the Entrepreneurs-In-Residence here to guide you through the program.
Peter Laurie
Peter Laurie is the founder of Junta through which he participates heavily in the innovation ecosystem. A major role that he performs is interfacing between corporates and new ventures.
Peter has coached and advised hundreds of startups and new ventures on how to innovate, implement, and deliver to both consumers and businesses.
Peter is a technologist by trade, being educated as an electrical engineer, and moving to software engineering which kicked off his passion and expertise in tech startups. His passion for commercialising software products was supported by the completion of his MBA to combine his development knowledge with business application.
After almost two decades of software development, Peter was approached by Steve Baxter to join his new venture – River City Labs as the first Entrepreneur-In-Residence. Rumours of his skill in helping others through expert advisory roles, mentoring and presenting moved quickly through the startup community, and at last count Peter has been involved with helping over 1000 startups through program and individual mentoring. Peter has added value to some of Queensland’s most successful startups and startup programs.
Peter is an active investor in early stage startups and developer of programs that utilise the methods that he promotes that all startups should do – agility, responsive to customer need and flexible to ensure training and mentoring meets individual needs. Peter’s role within the Launch Y(E)P incubate program is supporting tech-entrepreneurs who want to go from idea to MVP.
Tara Diversi
Tara Diversi is a passionate advocate for regional health and regional innovation. She started her working life as a dietitian and after being unable to get a traditional job, she started her first business at 22 becoming an accidental entrepreneur. She realised that although nutrition was her first love, innovation was her soulmate that allowed her to get her work out to more people.
Since this first business, Tara has gone on to start multiple businesses taking them from idea through to exit. Currently she is the CEO of Launch Y(E)P and co-founder of a digital health business, Sophus. Tara is an active investor in early-stage startups and contributes to boards in the health sector.
Tara is the author/co-author of seven books, numerous peer-reviewed publications and reports on behalf of organisations. Tara holds several tertiary qualifications including a MBA (Marketing), Post graduate Diploma of Psychology, Graduate Diploma of Psychology, Master of Nutrition and Dietetics, Graduate Certificate in Education and Bachelor of Health Science. She is a Graduate of AICD and Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia.
Tara believes in creating a life and business by design and is an advocate for multiple income streams, while aligning work and lifestyle with your unique values, enjoyment and strengths. Her philosophy focusses on being strategic and tough to achieve outcomes that you thought you could not reach. She is a skilled presenter and coach.
Her role within the Launch Y(E)P incubate program is supporting business owners or successful individuals to develop an innovative product or service that is scalable.
DONT JUST TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT
Wondering if it’s right for you? Here’s what some of our previous participants said:
“SkyStock was very privileged to be part of the Launch YEP Incubator in 2020. We found the content provided by [EIR] Peter Laurie to be educational and informative, especially during this growth stage of the business.”
Tom Watson
SkyStock
“The Launch YEP Incubate Program has been transformational for me, and my business Ponder Careers. Tara, Peter, and the team have been instrumental in helping us get Ponder off the ground and find our focus, so we can go on to do more and hire more people in FNQ. Peter’s insights came at just the right time, and he always knew when to ask a question or challenge me further. ”
Lucy Sattler
Ponder Careers
“Sharing the startup journey with fellow early-stage entrepreneurs provides many benefits, such as realising many of the challenges are common in the cohort. Having a mentor such as Peter Laurie not only places context across our challenges, it helps us help each other. Peter is particularly adept at smoothing out the wrinkles in our pitches while keeping our messaging on point. ”
Johanna Kloot
GreenKPI
”I highly recommend the Launch YEP Incubate Program. Peter Laurie is fantastic to work with, inspires creativity, provides thought provoking content, and ensures you remain accountable. Having been in business already for 25 years, the program was what I needed to give a new concept with a completely different market source, the wings to fly. ”
Janine Bowmaker
GBR Academy
WE’RE SUPPORTED TO SUPPORT YOU
Launch Y(E)P’s entrepreneurial programs are made possible, thanks to the support from:
Keen to be a part of Incubate?
If you think you’re a good fit for our next Incubate program then go ahead and apply now!
Applications close 14th January 2024!