Nominations for the third annual Startup Day by day Greatest in Tech Awards have been prolonged for one more 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, finest technical chief, the AI gamechanger, finest startup occasion, and the GSD Award – for somebody who will get sh*t achieved. See under for the complete record.
Entry is free.
Startup Day by day editor Simon Thomsen mentioned that as tonight’s deadline loomed, he’d had numerous messages from folks eager to enter however needing just a little extra time.
“I get it. Everybody’s flat out and it’s one other factor to do earlier than the tip of the week. Hopefully they’ll 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 mentioned.
Greater than 500 entries, have been acquired within the first two years of the awards, and the inaugural Startup of The 12 months, Wollongong inexperienced hydrogen startup Hysata went on to lift a document $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 might be introduced at a gala dinner at The Ivy Ballroom in Sydney on Thursday, September 25.
You may examine all of the 2023 winners right here and the 2024 classic right here
Get your entries for the 2025 Greatest in Tech awards earlier than you bounce 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 sturdy development and management in creating a brand new means of doing enterprise and market class.
The award is open to startups with lower than 100 staff.
2. Scaleup of the 12 months
This award recognises an all-round excellent unlisted scaleup firm that has demonstrated sturdy development on a variety 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 increase and past.
3. Most revolutionary startup
This award recognises a startup that’s altering the world for the higher and rewriting the principles on innovation with daring concepts that resolve main issues.
The judging will stability the intelligent use of expertise with its influence, each present and future, for the startups nominated.
4. Greatest regional startup
This award particularly recognises an excellent startup from a regional space exterior of Australia’s state capitals. The winner will exhibit sturdy development, boldness in execution and specific a transparent imaginative and prescient for the area they stay and work in and its development.
5. Trade champion
This award is given to a person, starting from traders to founders and different business leaders who has made a huge impact 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 influence on the setting 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 thought
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 thought will change the world for the higher, and/or how it’s already on the trail to attaining that objective
8. Greatest technical chief
This award recognises a CTO and/or different tech-focused chief as a key associate within the success of a startup. The judging seems for an distinctive strategy to fixing issues with the potential to vary the way in which 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 influence 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 remodeling workflows, enterprise operations, knowledge analytics and the way in which we work together.
The winner will exhibit a transparent profit throughout a broad spectrum in serving to remodel 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 variety of fronts
12. Startup investor of the 12 months
This award recognises the influence of capital on the success of startups.
It’s not in regards to the measurement or quantity of investments and might 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 longer term, 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 might be assessed on their early demonstrated management.
14. The GSD award
Get Shit Accomplished is an business influence award for an organisation and/or particular person honouring their contribution to the general success of the tech ecosystem and monitor document in remodeling issues for the advantage of many.
It could 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, help, funding, philanthropy, tradition setting and most significantly, simply getting shit achieved (GSD).
Enter award nominations right here.