StartSpace Business Fundamentals Program Sponsorship

Published: 14 July 2026
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Study Melbourne is proud to sponsor five start-ups founded by international students and alumni to participate in the 2026 StartSpace Business Fundamentals Program.

Delivered by Startspace, State Library of Victoria, the StartSpace Business Fundamentals Program is an 8-week, in-person program designed for early-stage startup and SME founders who want to strengthen the core foundations of their business.


May Horan
Director, Kids Play Therapy

Kids Play Therapy is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary paediatric allied health and early childhood intervention practice.

We provide personalised, play-based therapeutic support for children with developmental delays and disabilities. Our services are delivered across a variety of settings, including educational, in-home and community-based environments.

Our team brings together occupational therapists, speech pathologists, early childhood teachers and creative art counsellors, working collaboratively to build everyday skills through play. We partner with families, educators, and other early childhood professionals to support in achieving meaningful developmental outcomes.

Through an individualised and holistic approach, we nurture communication, emotional wellbeing, sensory and motor development, helping children build confidence, independence and active participation in everyday life. We inspire children and families to unlock their potential, creating a future where every child's uniqueness shines brightly.


Chirag Agarwal
Founder, MyMor

MyMor is the all-in-one platform built for university life, starting where students actually live.

Designed first for residential colleges and student accommodation, MyMor brings everything a student needs into a single app: announcements, events, dining schedules, room bookings, academic groups, and answers to the questions every new resident has but never knows who to ask.

For colleges and accommodation providers, MyMor replaces scattered emails, noticeboards, and group chats with one clean channel that students actually open. Staff save hours every week on coordination, events fill faster, and residents feel connected from day one. But MyMor goes beyond the front door. It connects students across colleges and clubs, making it easy to discover what’s happening on campus, join societies, and stay in the loop on the social side of university that matters just as much as the academic one.

The platform also links students to local vendors and deals, with points, leaderboards, and cashback that reward everyday spending around campus. From moving in to graduating out, MyMor becomes the essential toolkit students rely on. One app for where they live, who they meet, what they do, and how they save. Built for students, by someone who lived it.

Anuj Urchil
Anuj Urchil
Founder, Super Degree

Creating software training videos and help documentation is a massive chore for product and engineering teams, taking hours to record, edit, and annotate.

Super Degree turns a simple screen recording into polished product videos and step-by-step help guides in minutes.

Our vision is to become the ultimate customer education automation platform — not only automating content creation, but also delivering personalised onboarding and training to every software user at scale.


Lynn Chan
Co-founder, Strategy & Legal Lead, Kellon

Kellon is a Melbourne-based legaltech startup working to make it possible to sign and witness a will from home - with the same legal weight as signing it in a lawyer's office.

Most of us know we should have a will, and most of us keep putting it off - booking the appointment, getting to the lawyer's office, lining up witnesses. Remote signing has been legal in Victoria since COVID, but very few firms actually offer it, because the tools to do it safely and defensibly haven't existed.

That gap surfaces at the worst possible time. When someone passes away, a grieving family can find an estate held up for months - sometimes years - by basic questions: where the original is kept, which version of the will is the final one, and whether it was signed and witnessed properly. If any of it is challenged, someone has to prove exactly how the will was made.

Kellon gives law firms that missing piece: a reliable way to run remote signings and capture a complete, court-ready record of each one. It works behind the scenes with the firms themselves - with the goal of making wills easier to make and harder to lose.

Harindu Weerasinghe
Founder and CEO, Eccium

Eccium Technologies is an Australian startup developing adaptive multimodal AI that provides real-time contextual assistance for people who are blind or have low vision.

By combining vision, audio, and contextual intelligence, Eccium aims to help users better understand and navigate the physical world with greater independence and confidence. Unlike traditional assistive technologies that rely on reactive interactions, Eccium is designed to deliver proactive, context-aware support that adapts to the user's environment and needs in real time.

The platform is being developed to work across a range of devices and wearables, making accessibility more seamless, intuitive, and accessible. Founded in Melbourne, Eccium is working closely with the blind and low vision community through a co-design approach to ensure the technology addresses real-world challenges and delivers meaningful impact.

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