We’re finalising our sponsor list for Launch48 Melbourne. Stay tuned.

Who’s generously supporting us for this event:

Australia Post

For more than 200 years, Australia Post has met the changing needs of Australians. We continue to be a trusted part of everyday life for people and businesses across the nation.

Australia Post is a government business enterprise which operates under the Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989 and we provide an accessible, affordable and reliable letters service for all Australians, wherever they reside.

Our vision is to be a trusted services provider for the real and digital economy. With Australia’s largest retail and distribution network and the second most trusted brand in Australia (2011 AMR Reptrak brand reputation study), we are in a good position to achieve this.

We are developing new capabilities and a product and service offering that will enable us to meet the changing needs of Australians, compete in the digital world, grow our share of the e-commerce market and provide greater customer convenience and choice for delivery.

For more information, visit us at www.auspost.com.au

Flippa

Flippa is the number one marketplace for buying and selling websites.

Website buyers love Flippa due to the extensive inventory of websites and domains to suit a range of website investors. We’re dedicated to websites, so the entire buying experience is tailored to make it as easy and secure as possible.

Website sellers come to Flippa due to it having the highest sales rate in the industry—largely due to the massive size and quality of the Flippa website buyer audience.

A few stats for the left-brainers among us:

• Over 200,000 users have registered to buy or sell websites on Flippa.
• A bid is placed on a Flippa auction every minute.
• More than 2,500 buyers and sellers are online every minute of the day.
• Over 290,000 bids were placed and nearly 26,000 websites were sold on Flippa in 2011 — valued at almost $31M!
• Alexa puts Flippa in the top 1,000 sites worldwide (currently 827).
• Despite our name, fewer than 5% of Flippa’s website buyers and sellers are actively “flipping” websites. Fine by us!

For more information, visit us at www.flippa.com

Encoo

Encoo is an easy to use online telephony provider, offering a number of services including calling cards; home and business grade VOIP (voice over IP) solutions & business grade hosted and onsite phone systems. Based in Melbourne, Victoria, we are proudly Australian owned and operated; we understand the importance of good, reliable service.

As a technology company ran by highly skilled individuals, Encoo offers flexibility and result driven outcomes, allowing you to concentrate on running your business. We take away the complexity of business technology, providing seamless turn-key solutions.

For more information, visit us at www.encoo.com.au

The Wallee

The seamless wall mountable hard case + modular accessories system made specially for the iPad, Galaxy Tab and many more!

What started as a seamless case + wall mount solution for the iPad in 2010, has grown into a complete range of seamless, precision crafted cases and an ever expanding range of modular accessories for many devices including smartphones, sold in over 50 countries.

With a focus on high design, superior materials and an exceptional customer experience, our products expand the utility of supported devices, and enhance the experience our customers have with their tablet or smartphone.

For more information, visit us at www.thewallee.com & www.StudioProper.com

Deloitte Digital

Deloitte Digital™ is the online business of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in Australia. We aim to provide easy access to a range of products designed to help you manage and grow your business.

Through Deloitte Digital™, Deloitte in Australia is pioneering the delivery of professional services online, a natural extension of being innovative about our business and that of our clients.

Making services available online means clients of all types and kinds can select the products and services they want when they want them. They can choose from a range of financial tools, online training, compliance and HR solutions.

We are always expanding the range of products available on Deloitte Digital™. In addition to our own products and services, we work with businesses and organisations – both new and established – to bring you new products and distribution channels. We also make extensive use of the Deloitte Innovation program to explore new product ideas that we can bring to our clients.

For more information, visit us at www.deloittedigital.com.au

Amazon Web Services

Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them.

With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you’re trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS the most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients. And, with AWS, you can take advantage of Amazon.com’s global computing infrastructure that is the backbone of Amazon.com’s multi-billion retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over a decade.

For more information, visit us at aws.amazon.com

Dynamic Strategies

We are a boutique practice, dedicated to assisting executives and their organisations to align their culture, systems and operation to well articulated strategies, managing the many challenges inherent in the successful implementation of change. As well as commercial enterprises, we have a special interest in Not for Profits.

For more information, visit us at www.dynamicstrategies.com.au

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Partners

Thanks to our partners who are helping us plan and deliver Launch48 Melbourne:

York Butter Factory

The York Butter Factory is the co-working space for Melbourne’s high-potential digital media and web 2.0 entrepreneurs.

Opening its doors in October 2011, it has established itself at the center of a rapidly growing startup ecosystem in Melbourne. York Butter Factory was co-founded by the partners of Adventure Capital, who run their VC fund out of the space.

YBF already hosts over 30 startups largely in the Consumer Internet space. Opportunities to access funding is through its owners’ tech-focused VC fund as well as seed funding provided directly to deserving startups and via the Aurelius Digital angel investment network. There is a culture of collaboration, resource sharing and tough love. Tenants are curated with a view to fill the space with high-potential digital media and web 2.0 startups with a global ambition.

The vision is to become the central hub of the Australian tech startup ecosystem.

For more information, visit us at yorkbutterfactory.com