ABOUT WEVE: WEVE Acceleration (formerly NUMA New York) is NYC’s most hands-on, custom-tailored accelerator for international startups expanding to the US market. Our mission at WEVE is to enable global market access and business growth by providing world class knowledge, connections, and resources for innovators exploring new markets. Our Flagship program is a 10-week US Soft Landing accelerator for growth-stage international startups entering and scaling in the US. In addition, we build and execute customized acceleration programs for government entities and other international partners.

ABOUT AUSTRADE: The Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) is the Australian Government’s international trade promotion and investment attraction agency. AUSTRADE delivers quality trade and investment services to businesses to grow Australia’s prosperity. This is achieved by generating and providing market information and insights, promoting Australian capability, and facilitating connections through our extensive global network

At the event, you'll hear pitches from:

1. Simply Wall Street

Location: Sydney, Australia

In one sentence: Simply Wall Street empowers every retail investor in the world to make the best investment decisions possible.

A bit more: Simply Wall Street is a B2C software company, founded in 2014, and headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Our mission is to democratize investing and transform the way everyday people around the world invest, by empowering them to understand complicated financial data and make better, non-emotional decisions. We reach more than 4 million users across 180 countries, and provide access to information on almost every listed stock in the world.

2. OpenSparkz

Location: Elizabeth Bay, Australia

In one sentence: OpenSparkz is a highly automated, scheme agnostic, API-driven, low cost, loyalty and offers enablement platform.

A bit more: OpenSparkz re-imagines the world of loyalty and offers by harnessing nascent card linking technology. Using payment scheme integration, OpenSparkz is a global enablement platform that can power any rewards or offers program without the need for separate loyalty cards, offer codes or coupons - creating better experiences for consumers and merchants.

3. Evari

Location: Australia

In one sentence: Evari is a full end to end, flexible core system and digital enablement platform for insurance, with no / low code configuration, making insurance easy to buy, easy to manage, and flexible to changing needs.

A bit more: Evari is a flexible core system and digital enablement platform for insurance businesses, enabling no code/low code configuration and licensed on a SaaS basis. Evari’s platform provides the full end to end insurance process, making insurance easy to buy, easy to manage, and flexible to changing needs. Evari's platform enables easy data integrations, integration with other systems and operates across any distribution channel (direct, intermediated and third parties). Insurance businesses are using Evari’s platform in the USA and Australia, and Evari’s team of over 30 staff are based mainly in the UK and Australia, with aspirations to expand in the USA, UK and Australia.

4. Skyjed

Location: Redfern, Australia

In one sentence: Skyjed is a SaaS based product lifecycle and governance platform that makes product growth and ESG compliance easier.

A bit more: Skyjed's AI-powered end-to-end product platform brings together every data point across the entire product portfolio and lifecycle into a single source of product truth. It gives product teams a new perspective on their portfolio and a shortcut to discovering their best next move.

5. Cake Equity

Location: Brisbane, Australia

In one sentence: We’re on a mission to simplify the way startups and scaleups raise capital, manage shareholders, and grow their business.

A bit more: We’re setting the global standard for startup ESOP and capital-raising workflows. Our cloud-based cap table takes care of everything from signing to calculations, and comes with built-in legal agreements to keep track of your equity transactions.

6. Zetaris

Location: Victoria, Australia

In one sentence: Zetaris has developed and validated a new way of processing data for analytics and BI in the cloud.

A bit more: Rather than moving data to a central place to analyze it, Zetaris brings the analysis to the data. It means you can connect multiple databases and analyze them together in real-time, without the time and cost (and fail rate) associated with moving the data to a central location.

Zetaris sees the future of cloud becoming a pure set of services offering different price and processing outcomes; where customers use “Cloud Director” software to direct their processing requirements in real-time to the best cost/performance outcome.

Zetaris is set to become the leading Cloud Director technology in the world.

7. Protecht

Location: Sydney, Australia

In one sentence: Protecht is more than a software company, we guide you through your risk management journey.

A bit more: The Protecht Group is a leader in Enterprise Risk Management Software and Services that enables organisations to achieve their strategic objectives through efficient, effective, and agile Risk Management.

Since 1999, we have delivered training, advisory and software solutions that intensify the Risk Management focus and discipline of corporations and government departments alike.

Protecht.ERM™, Protecht’s flagship product, has been deployed in a SaaS model since development commenced in 2002 and remains ahead of the curve on innovation and functionality.

Used by government agencies, regulators, commercial, and not-for-profit organizations of all sizes and risk maturity, Protecht.ERM™ allows companies to seamlessly integrate risk management into their day-to-day activities and gain operating efficiencies through its flexible web-based forms, workflow engine, and highly adaptable reports and dashboards.

8. Novatti

Location: Melbourne, Australia

In one sentence: Novatti (ASX:NOV) is a leading digital banking and payments company that enables fast, simple, and secure payments.

A bit more: Novatti enables businesses to pay and be paid, from any device, anywhere. From corner stores and startups to global organisations, our solutions will unlock your ambitions.

Novatti is a leading digital banking and payments company. We make payments fast, simple, and secure.

9. Zemble

Location: Surry Hills, Australia

In one sentence: Zemble is a web-based SaaS platform for mapping and executing complex processes involving many stakeholders, steps and materials.

A bit more: With configurable workflows and real-time collaboration, Zemble acts as a single source of truth for every case.

Zemble is built for SMEs in early stages of digital transformation, but powerful enough to integrate with large enterprise tech stacks. With a security-first approach, ISO 27001 certification, comprehensive reporting, and case and material-level permissioning, Zemble meets the requirements of highly regulated industries.

10. Paytron

Location: NSW, Australia

In one sentence: We offer a borderless business account that helps you improve your cash flow. Get paid faster, batch pay in any currency, set multi user approvals, and automate your bookkeeping from one simple to use platform

A bit more: Paytron is a cloud platform to send and receive payments and automate back office and open multi currency business accounts. We enable businesses to scale their finance, payments and operations by building simple, intelligent systems to send payments faster, with less hassle and more security than using existing processes.