Accelerating Commercialisation helps Australian Startups with matched funding of up to $1m to go from prototype to first commercial sale.

Join the team from i4 Connect for a Fireside Chat with some of Accelerating Commercialisation's successful grantees. Register for this free session to learn more about how AusIndustry and the team at i4 Connect can help you commercialise your novel product, process or service.

Our Panellists

Dr Olga Oleinikova, Co-Founder and CEO, Persollo | Analytics and Instant Checkout Platform for Influencer Marketing
Prof Patrick Brennan, Co-Founder and CEO, DetectedX | Improving Cancer Detection Worldwide
Frances Atkins, Co-Founder and CEO, Givvable | Managing Supplier Sustainability & ESG
Richard Fifita, Co-Founder and CEO, Veyor | Live Collaborative Scheduling for Construction and Logistics

What is Accelerating Commercialisation?

Accelerating Commercialisation provides expert guidance and support to help you commercialise novel products, processes and services and find a commercialisation solution that is right for you. Accelerating Commercialisation includes:

Commercialisation Guidance – guidance and assistance to develop the commercialisation potential of your novel product, process or service

Accelerating Commercialisation Grants – matched grant funding of up to $1m to help commercialise your novel product, process and service.

For more information, visit: https://business.gov.au/grants-and-programs/accelerating-commercialisation

Who are we?

i4 Connect is the Delivery Partner for Accelerating Commercialisation. Our team works with the Australian Government to deliver the service to Aussie businesses.

Our Panellists:

Dr Olga Oleinikova is CEO of Persollo and HeyLink.me, a new generation link-management platform offering social media monetisation tools: instant checkout, AI-powered analytics, advertising feature, NFTs and crypto links. With a user base of 750k+ and 90M+ monthly website traffic. The world’s biggest influencers and creators, as well as big brands like Radisson Hotels and Jo Malone London, are using Heylink.me to connect to and monetise their audience. Olga is also a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. She holds numerous awards, including Forbes 30 Under 30, Forbes Top 40 Global Ukrainians, Anthill Hot Young Australian Entrepreneurs and is the face of VISA’s global female empowerment campaign.

Prof Patrick Brennan is the world’s most productive Medical Radiation Scientist, having a total impact 4x higher than the second placed individual1; To date, he is one of only 14 professors awarded the Payne-Scott Professorial Distinction by the University of Sydney. He is recognized as a leader in clinical translation of medical imaging optimization and radiological perception, his research has been disseminated through 50 keynote/plenary talks across 5 continents and he is the recipient of over 20 highly prestigious awards. In total, he has published 500 original papers and generated $40m in funding. Brennan has successfully supervised 50 higher degree research (HDR) students, with a 100% record in successful completions and received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision in 2018. He serves on National Advisory bodies and is Co-Founder and CEO of DetectED-X a company aiming to improve cancer detection world-wide.

Frances Atkins is the Co-Founder and CEO of givvable, an award-winning AI-powered supplier sustainability and ESG platform for companies to identify and track credentials, attributes and actions of suppliers against their targets. The platform automates mapping of millions of data points to sustainability and ESG frameworks and global reporting standards. givvable is a partner of SAP.iO for sustainability, Microsoft for sustainability and social impact and EY Foundry for sustainability. She is a former finance lawyer at Ashurst and investment banker at JPMorgan. She holds an MBA (with excellence), LLM, BCom and LLB, with transactional experience across over $25 billion in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets deals.

Richard Fifita is a construction project management professional with over 10 years’ experience working with top tier construction firms including John Holland and Lendlease. As a Civil Engineer working in construction, Richard saw an industry that was in need of new ways of operating, and believed 'digital' was the way forward. In early 2018, Richard redirected his passion for construction and engineering towards building software applications for the construction industry, founding Veyor. Since then, Veyor has assembled a high calibre team of software industry professionals and built a reputation for delivering quality products that clients love. In doing so, Veyor has earned the trust of some of the largest engineering, construction and property firms in the world and has continued to grow from its humble beginnings as a small startup from Sydney, Australia.

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