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Startup Explore for Colleges

Make your students ready for the innovation economy. A 24-week action-learning cohort that builds entrepreneurial thinking and a working view of six high-growth sectors — delivered for your institution.

  • 24-week cohortRun as an institutional batch around your calendar.
  • Six future industriesAI, FinTech, E-commerce, MedTech, Cybersecurity, Social & Gaming.
  • Action learningLive projects, pitch days and a 9-step validation process.
Think like an entrepreneur, act like an innovator.

The Startup Explore method

These are critical skills across every industry — proven to distinguish people in the workplace and accelerate their careers.

To raise students’ prospects in the innovation economy, Startup Explore sharpens them on three fronts: new and upcoming sectors, the new-age companies redefining them, and the startup thinking founders use to build.

What your students gain

More employable, more entrepreneurial.

Six live sector webinars

From global experts on the industries shaping the next decade.

Startup skills

A 9-step validation process, 18 startup ideas and core founder skills.

A sharper résumé

Reinforce personal brand, creativity and innovation quotient.

Live projects

Build a startup through the cohort and present it on pitch day.

500-plus startups to study

A working knowledge of high-growth companies in each sector.

Behavioural skills

The mindset and habits behind startup success.

The six industries

A working view of the sectors that matter.

Artificial Intelligence

How AI is reshaping products, work and entire industries.

FinTech

The technologies rewiring money, payments and access to capital.

E-Commerce & Marketplaces

How commerce and platforms connect buyers and sellers at scale.

MedTech

Technology transforming diagnosis, treatment and care.

Cybersecurity

Protecting a digital world — and the opportunity that creates.

Social, Entertainment & Gaming

How attention, content and play are becoming major industries.

How we run it with your college

From scope to showcase.

Scope

We shape the cohort around your students, calendar and goals.

Enrol

Your students register through the institutional batch.

Deliver

24 weeks of webinars, action learning and live projects.

Showcase

A pitch day and recognition for standout students.

Register your college for Startup Explore

We deliver Startup Explore as a custom institutional cohort with colleges, foundations and government skilling programs. Tell us about your students and we’ll shape it around them.