{"id":43972,"date":"2023-10-20T15:32:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/first-intake-of-telstras-muru-d-accelerator-has-their-first-investor-pitch-night-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:32:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:32:30","slug":"first-intake-of-telstras-muru-d-accelerator-has-their-first-investor-pitch-night-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/first-intake-of-telstras-muru-d-accelerator-has-their-first-investor-pitch-night-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"First intake of Telstra\u2019s Muru-D accelerator has their first investor pitch night &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"352\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/l_muru-d-445.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_muru-d-445\"><\/div>\n<p>Most of the startups midway through the Muru-d program pitched to a room of investors at the Telstra-backed accelerator\u2019s first investor day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The selected companies accepted a place in the six-month accelerator program and $40,000 in exchange for 6% equity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nine of the 10 companies pitched. Accelerator director Ann Parker told <i>StartupSmart<\/i> the tenth startup, online platform for casual teacher coordination Class Cover, pulled out of the program but there were no hard feelings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love those guys and we\u2019re rooting for them still,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Muru-d team has <a href=\"financing-a-business\/venture-capital\/how-new-accelerator-muru-d-is-making-its-relationship-with-investor-telstra-work\/2013112111214.html\">previously told<\/a> <i>StartupSmart<\/i> they\u2019re hoping at least half of the startups advance after the program, but would consider the program a success if only one or two did thrived in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>{qtube vid:= EqFoeYKMqVE}<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The nine start-ups <a href=\"growth\/business-advice-and-education\/telstra-backed-accelerator-muru-d-announces-first-intake-of-start-ups\/2014020411623.html\">selected for the program<\/a> in early February who pitched were video chat platform for global families Chatty Kids; farm monitoring system Farmbot; social games network Limerocket; cloud-based reporting software for schools and childcare centre Momentum Cloud; e-learning platform OpenLearning; image editing for e-commerce service Pixc; safety management system software Safesite; financial software Vistr; and radiology department efficiency software Zed Technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the startups midway through the Muru-d program pitched to a room of investors at the Telstra-backed accelerator\u2019s first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59506,"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\/43972"}],"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=43972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}