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🚀 Meet the Summer'26 Accelerator Cohort 🚀 19 companies. 42 founders. Our biggest cohort yet. The Summer ’26 cohort isn't building shiny ideas for hypothetical futures. 💫 🌏 It's made up of founders building the infrastructure behind the world we actually live in and the tools that remove friction from the systems we rely on every day. What unites this cohort is an obsession with fundamentals: time saved, costs reduced, risk removed, outcomes improved. Many are already in market, running pilots, signing customers, and building in complex, regulated, or overlooked industries because that’s where real impact compounds. The result is a cohort proving that world-class, category-defining companies can be built in Australia, by founders willing to take on the hardest problems first. Welcome to Summer'26 ❤️‍🔥🔥 https://lnkd.in/giRRPgrY Zander Schweitzer, Cielo Nicolosi, Nathan Challen, Hamada Els, Jamie Brownlee, Ben Crawford, Tom McKenzie, Chirag Babu, Will O'Brien, Maria Faleeva, Sai Naicker, James Oliver, Randula Ariyawanse, Elena Tsalanidis, Justin Hansky, Ivy Fan, Yi Zhang, Bodhi Hawken, Naveed Nekoo, Mathew Heywood, Son Duong, Anish Deenadayalan, Cordelia King, Kai Bloomfield, Sam Hung, Dexter Todd, Oliver Bagin, Ben Abbatangelo, Jason Cai, Nick Zeniou, Linda Zeniou, Matthew E., Storm Drury, Hailey Mason, Cibby Pulikkaseril, Nathan Kirchner, Evangeline Sturges