What is The Melt ENGAGE Program?
The Melt ENGAGE is an exclusive 3-day immersion event for high-potential founders, startups and scaleups that are creating products. The Melt will introduce you to our network of tier one industry partners and proven processes to set you up for success, and attract customers and investment. This event will also showcase the incredible opportunities for you to utilise our world-class Modern Manufacturing Centre in the Hunter region – NSW’s energy heartland. It is FREE for selected participants to attend.
What to expect
This is a 3-day program with invaluable workshops, coaching, structured networking and tours of highly innovative industries including energy, resources and agriculture. Throughout the program you’ll:
- Potential to access up to $300k of early-stage investment from Melt Ventures (if you meet the investment criteria), with the opportunity for a potential follow-on of up to $1m as the product scales.
- Gain unprecedented access to our networks of industry partners to understand their net zero priorities and strategies, what they look for when working with startups and opportunities to get involved.
- Learn the strategies employed by The Melt’s alumni startups to successfully create world-class products that are being exported globally.
- Get unrivalled exposure to leading clean energy precincts and behind the scenes access to multi-million dollar net zero projects to understand the opportunities available for your startup.
- Receive coaching to improve your credibility and conversion of customers and structured feedback from potential customers, investors and industry partners.
- See the world-class Modern Manufacturing Centre in action and learn how you can use it for prototyping, proving, piloting and producing your product/ technology.
- Connect with fellow hardware founders, build your community, and share and leverage each others networks and connections.
