Nominations for the third annual Startup Every day Greatest in Tech Awards have been prolonged for an additional 48 hours to midnight on Sunday, July 6.
There are 14 classes within the 2025 Greatest in Tech awards together with startup investor of the 12 months, greatest technical chief, the AI gamechanger, greatest startup occasion, and the GSD Award – for somebody who will get sh*t performed. See beneath for the complete checklist.
Entry is free.
Startup Every day editor Simon Thomsen stated that as tonight’s deadline loomed, he’d had a lot of messages from folks eager to enter however needing a little bit extra time.
“I get it. Everybody’s flat out and it’s one other factor to do earlier than the top of the week. Hopefully they will discover time over the weekend to fill out their entries, which we’ve tried to maintain simple, not too lengthy and extra like a pitch,” he stated.
Greater than 500 entries, had been acquired within the first two years of the awards, and the inaugural Startup of The Yr, Wollongong inexperienced hydrogen startup Hysata went on to lift a file $172 million Sequence B lower than 12 months later.
The judging panels will select 4 finalists for every class, introduced on Monday, August 11.
The winners will probably be introduced at a gala dinner at The Ivy Ballroom in Sydney on Thursday, September 25.
You’ll be able to examine all the 2023 winners right here and the 2024 classic right here
Get your entries for the 2025 Greatest in Tech awards earlier than you soar into mattress on Sunday, July 6.
AWS Startups is as soon as once more the key sponsor.
Nominate an individual, firm or occasion for the 2025 Greatest in Tech awards right here.
The awards are open to Australian and New Zealand tech startups based in both nation in addition to ANZ residents and residents.
Listed here are the classes and standards.
1. Startup of the 12 months
This award recognises an all-round excellent early stage startup that has demonstrated robust progress and management in creating a brand new means of doing enterprise and market class.
The award is open to startups with lower than 100 workers.
2. Scaleup of the 12 months
This award recognises an all-round excellent unlisted scaleup firm that has demonstrated robust progress on a spread of metrics, together with income, prospects and employment, in addition to management in its market.
The class is open to companies having accomplished a Sequence B elevate and past.
3. Most progressive startup
This award recognises a startup that’s altering the world for the higher and rewriting the foundations on innovation with daring concepts that resolve main issues.
The judging will steadiness the intelligent use of expertise with its affect, each present and future, for the startups nominated.
4. Greatest regional startup
This award particularly recognises an excellent startup from a regional space outdoors of Australia’s state capitals. The winner will exhibit robust progress, boldness in execution and categorical a transparent imaginative and prescient for the area they stay and work in and its progress.
5. Business champion
This award is given to a person, starting from traders to founders and different business leaders who has made a big effect on the startup ecosystem to enhance issues for all in a means that goes past a direct ROI for them. It recognises a selfless generosity to serving to everybody succeed.
6. Greatest sustainability startup
This award recognises a enterprise mannequin making a constructive affect on the atmosphere and broader problems with sustainability. It’s sector agnostic, however should exhibit in a measurable means how it’s enhancing life on earth with long-term considering.
7. Greatest new concept
This award recognises a startup that’s lower than 2-years-old that’s making waves in its sector. It may very well be pre-revenue and pre-funding, however should set out a transparent imaginative and prescient on how their concept will change the world for the higher, and/or how it’s already on the trail to reaching that purpose
8. Greatest technical chief
This award recognises a CTO and/or different tech-focused chief as a key accomplice within the success of a startup. The judging appears to be like for an distinctive method to fixing issues with the potential to vary the best way we stay, alongside delivering innovation and worth for the corporate and its prospects.
9. Greatest new founder
This award recognises a first-time founder who’s exhibiting promise and making an affect of their business. The winner will exhibit a dedication to innovation with daring concepts, intelligent execution and a startup with the potential to vary the world for the higher.
10. The AI gamechanger
This award recognises who synthetic intelligence is reworking workflows, enterprise operations, information analytics and the best way we work together.
The winner will exhibit a transparent profit throughout a broad spectrum in serving to rework the world by the applying of AI.
11. Greatest startup occasion
This award celebrates the startup and tech sector coming collectively in a means that’s collaborative, productive and imaginative.
The winner will exhibit how the event has benefited the startup sector throughout a spread of fronts
12. Startup investor of the 12 months
This award recognises the affect of capital on the success of startups.
It’s not concerning the measurement or quantity of investments and will probably be judged with supporting statements from the startups backed about how the investor has assisted them in ways in which transcend funding.
13. Future chief
Simply as traders search for founders with a daring imaginative and prescient for the long run, this award will recognise a person our judges recognise as having the potential to be an essential voice and advocate for the startup sector.
They will come from any a part of tech and will probably be assessed on their early demonstrated management.
14. The GSD award
Get Shit Performed is an business affect award for an organisation and/or particular person honouring their contribution to the general success of the tech ecosystem and observe file in reworking issues for the good thing about many.
It might be an business or group, an accelerator, a startup or founder/s, investor/s or others who has assisted in making the sector thrive in any variety of methods, from lobbying to coverage setting, assist, funding, philanthropy, tradition setting and most significantly, simply getting shit performed (GSD).
Enter award nominations right here.
