Cicada Improvements and deep tech competition Tech23 are on the hunt for 23 game-changing startups to pitch their concepts to resolve a number of the world’s largest issues.

Cicada took cost of Tech23 earlier this yr, seeing the shared imaginative and prescient of championing and celebrating Australia’s younger deep tech corporations. 

Cicada x Tech23 will join 23 innovators with a cohort of downside solvers, traders and large thinkers, on July 26 in Sydney. The nationwide platform is trying to present systematic options to broader points, corresponding to “rebuilding the setting” or “placing an finish to waste”.

Tech 23 has highlighted greater than 300 deep tech corporations during the last 14 years. Annually on the convention, the 23 startups are invited to ship 5-minute pitches.

Cicada CEO Sally-Ann Williams mentioned advanced challenges require advanced options that come from the intersection of expertise and trade.

From discussions in regards to the future to discovering the subsequent funding, CxT23 is the place to attach with the deep tech neighborhood from throughout Australia; it’s the ecosystem that uplifts the tech startup sector.

Williams mentioned 2023 is the yr of deep tech.

“Lastly persons are waking as much as the chance it presents for Australia and in our capacity to resolve world challenges,” she mentioned. 

“It represents a brand new industrial revolution, the place new platform applied sciences and infrastructures will change the methods we dwell and work, and our relationship with the planet.”

Williams mentioned Australia has a multi-billion greenback alternative to achieve the subsequent era of deep expertise, nevertheless, these ventures require important assist, connections, and funding to beat important challenges.

“So with Cicada x Tech23 we need to have fun and highlight the usually missed courageous, maverick, and daring visionaries of Australian deep tech,” she mentioned. 

“And join them with the individuals who have the means and affect to rally behind them.”

Functions for Tech23 shut on April 12, with the profitable startups notified on Could 3. It’s free to use.

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