Entrepreneurial opportunities

If you have passion, drive and big ideas, we’re here to help make them a reality. That’s why we give you countless opportunities to fine-tune your skills, make the right connections and take your ideas to the next level. We offer the facilities, courses, mentors and support you need to succeed. Sign up for one of our innovation or entrepreneurship courses, get guidance on your startup through our Integrated Innovation Network (I2N), or use your major project to build a robot that can help save lives. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination.

Borne Clothing

“ Fundamentally we started with a problem, which is that malaria is a massive burden of disease around the world, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia,”

Student start-up Borne Clothing has developed a mosquitorepelling clothing line that is contributing to the fight against malaria. The clothing is treated with the active ingredient permethrin, a World Health Organisationapproved deterrent to flies, ticks, midges and mosquitoes.

The Borne four direct half of their profits to Nothing But Nets, a UN initiative that provides insecticidal bed nets and other aid to people in countries riddled with mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria. So far, that is an amount in the thousands of dollars. With the help of the university’s Integrated Innovation Network (I2N), the four have concentrated their label’s formative years on advocating for the campaign, but hope to increase the amount they donate.

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Integrated Innovation Network (I2N) I2N is the University's epicentre of entrepreneurship.

Its headquarters, located at Honeysuckle, is purposebuilt to drive enterprise skill development and startup success with state-of-the-art facilities including a makerspace and free coworking for pre-startups. Connect to a community of change-makers, and their supporters, by engaging in a range of free networking events, hackathons, mentoring, and pre-accelerator programs.

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SAPHI Engineering

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“We are a team of young founders, we felt we needed some experienced wisdom from leaders who have been in our shoes, when we came across I2N's Venture Mentor Service and saw the mentor panel we could have access to, it was a no-brainer for us.”

Software and electronics development company, SAPHI Engineering, delivers technical solutions to their customers. Passionate to start a community-minded tech company, Cameron, Eric and Liam are a team of young founders who want to be renowned for their ability to innovate.

Seeking guidance and advice, they came across I2N’s Venture Mentor Service program, and it was an opportunity too good to pass up. The program has enabled the young founders to; uncover potential they never knew existed, provided a guiding light when they needed to focus, helped them mature as founders and develop a strong frame of reference related to structuring and growing a business.