Last year\u2019s survey<\/a> founder that nearly half of all Australian startups that took part were based in Sydney, half had been unable to find funding and the number of female founders had increased by 5% to nearly a quarter of all founders.<\/span><\/p>\nThe most important one yet<\/h3>\n
With rapid growth in the ecosystem spurred by recent government focus, Wulff says this is the most important year yet for Startup Muster.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThe ecosystem is flourishing,\u201d she says<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing time to be doing what we\u2019re doing. We\u2019re capturing the evolution of such <\/span> dynamic and important part of Australian culture.”<\/span><\/p>\nThe effectiveness of the survey relies on its independence and sole focus on the ecosystem, Wulff says.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWe are independent, and this is all we do,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s for the ecosystem to use for whatever they need. There are so many stakeholders who can ind value in the statistics that are provided in the report. There\u2019s no bias, no subjectivity and no commentary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThis year the organisation has received government funding for the first time, and is also back by large corporates including Google.<\/span><\/p>\nGoogle Australia engineering director Alan Noble says the tech giant is \u201cproud\u201d to be supporting the survey.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWe believe that better and more open data enables entrepreneurs and policy-makers to make smarter decisions and help startups contribute even more to Australia\u2019s social and economic development,\u201d Noble says in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\nReaching far and wide<\/h3>\n
Wulff is currently touring around the country to visit the various ecosystems, with an especial focus on more regional areas.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s really important to see as many places as possible and really talk to the people that are there leading those ecosystems,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\nIt\u2019s set to be the biggest year yet for Startup Muster, but Wulff says it will only be worthwhile if more members of the community get involved.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re dedicated to our promise of demonstrating and accelerating the impact of our startup ecosystem,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cFor us to do this we need founders, supporters and potential founders to take part.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIf you\u2019re reading this then you\u2019re part of the ecosystem, and we implore you to come on board and take part.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThe Startup Muster survey will be open until August and can be found here.<\/span><\/p>\nFollow StartupSmart on<\/em> Facebook,<\/em> Twitter, <\/em>LinkedIn <\/em>and <\/em>SoundCloud.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s largest and most comprehensive survey of the startup ecosystem has launched for another year, with a more expansive focus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}